Events calendar
My first post here. Again this has become quiet, too quiet, so I'll just update everyone on projected class events for this year as discussed (somewhat) during Duane's birthday.
1) Trip to Malaysia. Date: late Feb to March. IC: Jack, Duane
2) Chalet at Ubin. Date: May or June, probably 3-day. IC: Peter (?)
Meanwhile, it's exams this couple of weeks for the girls, right? So good luck to you gals. And half the guys are enjoying ORD leave, lucky us! Try to post a bit more here lah everyone.
Seriously Stressed (oooh, alliteration!)
Yes I'm almost on the brink of insanity. I've never been so bogged down mountains of work before in my life!
For a usually organised planner, I'm super stressed man. I've never had problems in the past with dealing with workloads or having many committments because I always take care of it by writing down everything I need to do and plan on what day to do what thing. But this plan is totally not working now, coz in midst of carrying out my "plans", new work just keep piling itself up and up and up and up...
First of all, schoolwork. Even though I have only 3 modules this sem compared to the usual 4 in the past 3 sems, each module is humugous! For 2 of the modules, the readings are stacked sky-high, and they never seem to stop comming! Then the third one requires a hell lot of research too. For one of the two heavy-reading modules, Public Law, I don't quite get the entire syllabus. Sure it's interesting learning about the constitution, the political rift between the present ruling party versus the opposition, etc but oh man, those readings are insanity. On top of that, after I read, I'm not sure how to tie everything together to make coherent, comprehensive notes, which I've always been doing. Argh, and it's killing me.
Then I've got CCA and church committments too. Although being a treasurer in Political Association (PA) is considerably easier than organising events, the depleting funds never fail to stress me out, esp when MC don't keep to their budget. Churchwise, I've got to plan for lessons, unlike in the past when my role was merely facilitative (Sunday school teacher for the uninitiated).
Oh well. CNY's coming and perhaps my only respite in this jungle of ravenous competition. Hopefully I can stay on top of it. Sigh.
Well, thanks everyone for having the patience to read my ranting all the way here. Good luck to anyone experiencing the same as me. Happy Chinese New Year! Hongbao, goodies, relatives, nice clothes...
I'm back
Yeah NZ is a very beautiful place, Peter--everything, everywhere, just looks so different from Singapore--the rolling hills, green pastures, shimmering lakes, clear blue skies, bright sunshine, desert roads, mountains, volcanoes, snow-capped peaks--some parts look like they came right out of LOTR (because they did haha)--it was breathtaking--at least on the first day on our 6-hour coach ride to the camp.
The weather was nice--at least while we were in the camp--it's cold at night, the temperature dips to as low as one or two degrees celsius below zero, and in the day it gets as hot as 30+ degrees celsius, though on most days the temperatures stayed around the low twenties at midday. With 16 hours of sunshine a day (it's summer there), your bio-clock gets screwed because even after you're done with dinner the skies are still so bright, that it's alarming.
I took quite a lot of photos--go see! They're
here. Maybe I'll say more later. Still jet-lagged, feels like 9pm though it's 4pm here now--getting sleepy already. Grrr.
So how was the class birthday party and the gathering at Peter's house? Any photos? Share with me leh...haha.
