a flurry of assignments, social life and personal time
Saturday 7 October 2017
Hey guys - I'm back again. I had originally wanted to write a short little passage of sorts from r/WritingPrompts, but none of them struck me as particularly interesting so I just ditched the idea and decided to just write about my life instead. I mean, that's kind of precisely the main point of a blog, right?
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I wrote the above a couple of weeks back, but didn't know how else to continue the post since I was basically going to talk about nothing (lol). But hey, something exciting happened today and I can't wait to document it!
Basically, I organised a small primary school class gathering over at Just Acia with Stanford a month ago and it finally came to fruition. Stanford casually brought up the idea about having a class reunion and urged me to organise one and I thought it was a great idea - I mean, we haven't seen each other in years (like... 8 years) and I would love to have everyone meet up and chat and just catch up. But I got him to kinda organise it with me, so we started adding people into our once-dead whatsapp chat and I started the usual chain message.
Soon enough, there were 28 people in our group and 11 people were attending - hooray! It was such a success :) We were honestly just catching up with each other's life, like "oh what are you studying now? / which unit are you in? / what are you going to study in uni?" etc and of course reminisce about the old days when we were all stupid young kids, "remember that time when we threw rocks at our teacher's car and the police came down / water babies / canteen food stalls". It was such a huge throwback and I really believe that everyone had such a great time :) It's honestly insane how far we've come? From 12 year olds to 20 year olds and just the extent that we have matured.
Also, since most of them are pretty damn successful, they just felt like they came from an entire class above me. We were talking about Kazakhstan and how their overall education system, political system and whatnot are misaligned and it was just so, so eyeopening because I would never have such a conversation with my other friends. It honestly felt like I was in a whole new world with people who are just so freaking smart and talented, who takes the SATs for fun, who studied H3 subjects and what not. It was so... unreal. Like, wow. These were my classmates? Then what happened to me?
lol okay I swear I wasn't going to turn this into a pity party or whatever but I really felt so inspired after the short meet up. If they could do so much with their lives over the span of 8 years, then why can't I do the same since we started off on the same foot, at the same starting point? It spurred me on to do even better in life and to really make myself the best version I can be. Time to start stepping out of my comfort zone and read up more. Expand on my knowledge and skills and be the best that I can be.
a flurry of assignments, social life and personal time
Saturday 7 October 2017
Hey guys - I'm back again. I had originally wanted to write a short little passage of sorts from r/WritingPrompts, but none of them struck me as particularly interesting so I just ditched the idea and decided to just write about my life instead. I mean, that's kind of precisely the main point of a blog, right?
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I wrote the above a couple of weeks back, but didn't know how else to continue the post since I was basically going to talk about nothing (lol). But hey, something exciting happened today and I can't wait to document it!
Basically, I organised a small primary school class gathering over at Just Acia with Stanford a month ago and it finally came to fruition. Stanford casually brought up the idea about having a class reunion and urged me to organise one and I thought it was a great idea - I mean, we haven't seen each other in years (like... 8 years) and I would love to have everyone meet up and chat and just catch up. But I got him to kinda organise it with me, so we started adding people into our once-dead whatsapp chat and I started the usual chain message.
Soon enough, there were 28 people in our group and 11 people were attending - hooray! It was such a success :) We were honestly just catching up with each other's life, like "oh what are you studying now? / which unit are you in? / what are you going to study in uni?" etc and of course reminisce about the old days when we were all stupid young kids, "remember that time when we threw rocks at our teacher's car and the police came down / water babies / canteen food stalls". It was such a huge throwback and I really believe that everyone had such a great time :) It's honestly insane how far we've come? From 12 year olds to 20 year olds and just the extent that we have matured.
Also, since most of them are pretty damn successful, they just felt like they came from an entire class above me. We were talking about Kazakhstan and how their overall education system, political system and whatnot are misaligned and it was just so, so eyeopening because I would never have such a conversation with my other friends. It honestly felt like I was in a whole new world with people who are just so freaking smart and talented, who takes the SATs for fun, who studied H3 subjects and what not. It was so... unreal. Like, wow. These were my classmates? Then what happened to me?
lol okay I swear I wasn't going to turn this into a pity party or whatever but I really felt so inspired after the short meet up. If they could do so much with their lives over the span of 8 years, then why can't I do the same since we started off on the same foot, at the same starting point? It spurred me on to do even better in life and to really make myself the best version I can be. Time to start stepping out of my comfort zone and read up more. Expand on my knowledge and skills and be the best that I can be.
Situated in the sunny island of Singapore, Jolene recently (is 2 years considered recent?) graduated from university and is now working in a job she never expected herself to hold. Besides having frequent quarter-life crises, she also indulges in video games, anime, and aesthetic korean girls documenting their life in vlogs.
Although not as eloquent with words, she still aims to try her best to bring across her thoughts to the Internet.
