where thoughts materialise.

So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

you know you miss my older entries

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

So, the academic year has come to a close.

And finally, I get to sit quite comfortably in my cool but not chilly room (albeit the last 5 days here), pink martini in the background, laptop staring back at me. My contacts are still fused onto my eyes and its making them really dry, the bright screen is not helping much either.

Nevertheless, AY05/06 has come and gone, and 10 modules later, I must say it has been quite a year. I believe I have learnt more things in this academic year than all the other years combined.

The tide is changing and I have, quite fluidly, plunged into another first of my life, summer vacation that is. And sribbled on a crumply piece of used envelope (its gummed flap all torn and mutilated), are a whole list of things I have or want to do. It is an impressive list of people to meet, things to do, errands to run, pleasures to enjoy.

I have given exam much thought over the past weeks. I realised, based on the system that awards grades i.e. the bell curve thingy, that my success is based very much on the incompetency of others. There is no such thing as doing well, only doing better than others. Be in a class of geniuses and its a tough fight for that A, be in a class of idiots and you are blessed. So it boils down to playing mind games - look confident, dress well, smile even when the notes make no sense to you, chat up with the lecturer (and make the class see you are doing so) - do all in your ability to dash their belief that they can, make them believe they are no match to your aptitude and nothing they can do in their little lives can elevate them into your league.

Then you, hopefully, score.

Okay, a bit late considering exams are over already. And just a disclaimer, I did not adopt the abovementioned strategy this semester.

My contacts are killing me and they absolutely have to get out of my eyes now.

So to end off, here's to the premiere of MI:3 we caught just now.
MI3

Thanks for the tickets again, Winston.

Aside: The auntie at the YIH Cheers asked me and vic if we were twins. The hair perhaps.

Time is up, stop writing, pens down, surfs up and time to party summer away!

Happy Birthday Yifang. 12 years of friendship, amazing.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 12:42 AM

2 comments

2 Comments:

At 8:35 AM, Anonymous said...: who is that fat boy standing next to you. he needs to lose all that excess weight on the cheeks. go swimming maybe?
At 12:00 PM, nimgnoy said...: dear nus2008,
shldnt it be nus2006 already? it better be. i want to eat suppers with you, and be driven around in your huge car.

the boy is not fat. he aint heavy, he's my brother. and he's going to europe no less.

he made me fall in love with maggie q. and made me realise that tom cruise has saggy man boobs but huge biceps.

how can i say he is fat?

and pls, dun go cut your hair. give it a chance. and get me some nice presents from milan.

nus2005.