my monthly post?
it's about a month or so to the exams, and time has really really flown. i've had a very meaningful semester, for which i'm very thankful. there have been many ups and downs, perhaps more downs. but God strengthens and perfects through trials and adversities, and "what does not kill you only makes you stronger" (:
(i should actually be doing my equity and trusts tutorial, but i feel rather pensive)
in all my years of education (okay, maybe just sec school and jc), i've always regretted my choice of ccas.
in sec school, i regretted not joining artistic gym. had been told by zhang zhen lao shi to just put artistic gym as my only choice in the cca option form, after going for the tryouts. but being the lazy person that i am, i decided to V gym and go for track instead, because track trains twice a week while gym trains thrice a week. and i was still foolishly under the impression that track is fun (because in primary school track we played a lot of games haha). due to the lack of passion for running, and the knee injury which i sustained in sec 2, coupled with ms k's leaving at the end of sec 2, i was a really (ashamedly) slack tracker, especially at the end of sec 3 and throughout the whole of year 4. i even remember having to go around trying to scramble for cca points in sec 4 so that i could get a c5 instead of a dismal f. sigh.
in jc, i remember being tempted to join touch rug, cos i was craving for a team sport after 4 years of an individual sport. but again, the laziness, and a fear of not being able to cope with studies, plus a bit of peer pressure i think, caused me to just join HnF. i was tempted again at the end of j1 to just join touch rug because i felt so sports-deprived, but i was afraid that cliques would all have been formed and the team would be so tight that i won't be able to fit in. so i joined harmoc instead in a bid to make my cca experience in jc a little more fun than it was in sec school. not that my cca experience in jc was bad; it was fulfilling in other ways - i'mech camp, perak, harmoc with garbie was fun, HnF was fun cos of all the 75 people and friends in it, TIP - i really did quite enjoy myself. oh and the random cip things we did, and the random sports we had as 75 (including sentosa outings!).
but having come to law school, i feel as if my cca-life has been crazily enriched, and my craving for a school life outside of studies has been very meaningful and very very fun. have been sufficiently involved in cip activities like christmas charity and kidzplay. have learnt a lot being a part of the MDC exco, through all the shit that we go through organising the moots and debates, coordinating and corresponding with the law firms, dealing with members of the club/competitors, i've learnt quite a bit, and i'm very thankful that my dear friends and beloved exco have been so patient with me despite all my failings and weaknesses. and then, there is ultimate frisbee, my love. have had so many opportunities to play in law school; it all began with inter-year law games last year, crystallised during ifg last sem, resulted in captaincy for law-med games and for inter-year law games (the latter having just concluded today). frisbee has taught me a lot too - teamwork, communication, determination, focus, humility... it has also greatly widened my social circle, and cemented friendships. and this sat, i revisit my days in track - am going to run for the 10x400m relay in the law fratenity games. am rather terrified, because i really think my timing is quite cui. and i haven't run in ages, and i cannot find my spikes. but this abundance of sports in my life (at least once-a-week 4km jogging sessions, frisbees jios etc.) has really left me fulfilled (: and i am thankful for friends (and a boyfriend) who share my love for sports.
and there are so many things i could go on about, but i guess the bottomline really is this: God has been good and faithful. He has kept me through many storms this past semester, and has also given me unspeakable joy and happiness, even when i fail Him time and again, and am so unworthy.
and while i think my grades might suffer this semester (what with the numerous outside-studies activities and my lack of interest in the subjects), i shall still strive to do my best. when all the outside-school hype subsides after saturday (law frat games), i will really concentrate on my studies and really seek to do my best, for His glory. because it is the least i can do, after so much He has blessed me with.
(i should actually be doing my equity and trusts tutorial, but i feel rather pensive)
in all my years of education (okay, maybe just sec school and jc), i've always regretted my choice of ccas.
in sec school, i regretted not joining artistic gym. had been told by zhang zhen lao shi to just put artistic gym as my only choice in the cca option form, after going for the tryouts. but being the lazy person that i am, i decided to V gym and go for track instead, because track trains twice a week while gym trains thrice a week. and i was still foolishly under the impression that track is fun (because in primary school track we played a lot of games haha). due to the lack of passion for running, and the knee injury which i sustained in sec 2, coupled with ms k's leaving at the end of sec 2, i was a really (ashamedly) slack tracker, especially at the end of sec 3 and throughout the whole of year 4. i even remember having to go around trying to scramble for cca points in sec 4 so that i could get a c5 instead of a dismal f. sigh.
in jc, i remember being tempted to join touch rug, cos i was craving for a team sport after 4 years of an individual sport. but again, the laziness, and a fear of not being able to cope with studies, plus a bit of peer pressure i think, caused me to just join HnF. i was tempted again at the end of j1 to just join touch rug because i felt so sports-deprived, but i was afraid that cliques would all have been formed and the team would be so tight that i won't be able to fit in. so i joined harmoc instead in a bid to make my cca experience in jc a little more fun than it was in sec school. not that my cca experience in jc was bad; it was fulfilling in other ways - i'mech camp, perak, harmoc with garbie was fun, HnF was fun cos of all the 75 people and friends in it, TIP - i really did quite enjoy myself. oh and the random cip things we did, and the random sports we had as 75 (including sentosa outings!).
but having come to law school, i feel as if my cca-life has been crazily enriched, and my craving for a school life outside of studies has been very meaningful and very very fun. have been sufficiently involved in cip activities like christmas charity and kidzplay. have learnt a lot being a part of the MDC exco, through all the shit that we go through organising the moots and debates, coordinating and corresponding with the law firms, dealing with members of the club/competitors, i've learnt quite a bit, and i'm very thankful that my dear friends and beloved exco have been so patient with me despite all my failings and weaknesses. and then, there is ultimate frisbee, my love. have had so many opportunities to play in law school; it all began with inter-year law games last year, crystallised during ifg last sem, resulted in captaincy for law-med games and for inter-year law games (the latter having just concluded today). frisbee has taught me a lot too - teamwork, communication, determination, focus, humility... it has also greatly widened my social circle, and cemented friendships. and this sat, i revisit my days in track - am going to run for the 10x400m relay in the law fratenity games. am rather terrified, because i really think my timing is quite cui. and i haven't run in ages, and i cannot find my spikes. but this abundance of sports in my life (at least once-a-week 4km jogging sessions, frisbees jios etc.) has really left me fulfilled (: and i am thankful for friends (and a boyfriend) who share my love for sports.
and there are so many things i could go on about, but i guess the bottomline really is this: God has been good and faithful. He has kept me through many storms this past semester, and has also given me unspeakable joy and happiness, even when i fail Him time and again, and am so unworthy.
and while i think my grades might suffer this semester (what with the numerous outside-studies activities and my lack of interest in the subjects), i shall still strive to do my best. when all the outside-school hype subsides after saturday (law frat games), i will really concentrate on my studies and really seek to do my best, for His glory. because it is the least i can do, after so much He has blessed me with.