Education VIII

When I started this term, I could still sleep at 10.30pm. Slowly, I slept at 11pm. Then 12 midnight. Then 12.15am. And so on. Due to the sheer amount of homework and in part my laziness, my sleeping time has been pushed back during the term. When school started, not only was my sleeping hours affected, my sleep too, was affected. There is the stress from school which made it hard for me to sleep. Thus, sleep really became a luxury to me. Because I had problems sleeping. BTW, I don't have problems sleeping during the holidays or when I'm working.

At the beginning of this term, I could find the time to finish my readings and do proper revision like a good student should. Subsequently, I skipped readings and then I couldn't find the time to do proper revision for my classes and I skipped class. By Week 6, I was already looking forward to the mid-term break. After the mid-term break, I was looking forward to the end of the term. I started to count down to the holidays. It's ironic because it's not that I don't love school. On the contrary, I love to study. But there's always a limit to everything, I guess. Too much of something will turn you off.

The term is coming to an end. Even though the current global financial crisis will have a turnaround next year, I still worry. Singapore's economy will pick up (hopefully) from the middle of next year. Because if it doesn't, I will have to 吃西北风。I look at the people who are graduating at the end of this term and I am thankful I am still studying. I just want to stay in the shelters of the schooling environment where no financial crises can hit the iron-strong walls of this environment.

Coincidence

In life, there can't be too many coincidences. I always say "If something happens once, it's a coincidence. If something happens twice or more, it's never a coincidence. In other words, it's intentional/there's an external force at work. This external force could be ourselves or the universe.

The other day, I was going home on a train and happened to be talking to Em over the hp at the same time. Just then, I heard an announcement over the loudspeaks in Em's background. From the style of the announcement, I guessed Em was on the same line as me. So I asked her "Where are you?" "I'm on the train". "Which stop are you at?" The reply came "I'm going towards Dhoby Ghaut". At that time, my train was pulling away from Dhoby Ghaut. So in 1 of life's coincidences, in those few seconds, we passed by each other on DIFFERENT trains in the SAME line, she going towards city and I away from city. While talking to each other on the phone.

Here is another so-called "coincidence". Yesterday, I didn't leave immediately when KC called. We'd arranged to meet. When I did, it was a good 15min later. So I SMS-ed KC on the train. KC asked"Which stop are you at?" "Orchard" "Going towards Orchard?" "Yea". Whatever else KC said was lost in the babble of the chatter in my background and the screeching of the train in the tunnel. "I can't hear you. I SMS you!" I told KC. Then I received KC's SMS: "We are in the same train". "Which car are you in? I'm towards the end". "I'm in the middle". But we didn't go searching for each other. After we came out from the train, I saw that KC was actually just 1 or 2 cars away from me when we were in the train.