Geography and Recess week!

Yesterday's field trip to the Singapore River was definitely very informative, interesting and enlightening. Everything seems so amazing after that small trip. It's like I've been to Singapore river many times and yet I didn't know much about it till yesterday. Many things which we don't normally take note of were pointed out yesterday and I just feel very enlightened after that. A cosmopolitan city like Singapore actually do have asian values tied to many things which we don't actually take notice of. So cool! After our field trip, Alex, Ouyang and I decided to extend our trip by going to China town to do some field work. At the same time, we went to search for the restaurant which our lecturer recommended us for our project. It was a very fun experience, walking around and exploring the place. We definitely learn to appreciate Singapore even more as we chanced upon many areas which we have never seen in our lives. Very interesting day it had been indeed. I will post up photos tomorrow since it's so late now and I am very tired from all the numbers in my lab report (3 hours to fill up a table and plot 2 graphs... how disgusting) and editing my project essay.

Tomorrow will be the start of recess week which means I have to start mugging from day to night because term tests are immediately after it. I seriously need to start planning a study timetable because I am once again packed from monday to sunday with many activities which will take up my study time. Woohoo........ May God bless me! haa... Alright, time to sleep...

PS: I'm beginning to love Geography more and more... woohoo!

Of School and Exhaustion

Yes... I've said it before and I'll say it again... I'm exhausted. I've reached this level where I can really be physically present in lectures/tutorials but not mentally. This is very very bad. What's worse is that I have no time to clear my sleep debt. So the lost sleep hours have been accumulating. This period of my life seriously tests my faith and passion to want to serve God. Now that I'm being put up to serve for Miracle Service every saturday, school work seems to be piling and i don't seem to have the time to clear them. There are concepts which I seriously need to clear, lab reports which I have to finish, tutorials which I need to complete, tests that I have to study for, pre-lab videos to watch, geography readings to clear (which have been accumulating), 2 geography projects which I need to do research and start interviewing people about, prepare materials for my tuition class, memorise songs for choir performances coming up in october and november and finally, memorise lyrics for Miracle service songs. And how many days do I have to do all these things? Effectively, I have 2 and a half days per week. How cool... I'm quite burnt out actually. But looking at all these, I guess it all goes back to having faith in God. No matter what, I still believe that if I make time for God, God will make time for me. This is seriously very very true. Take for example my statistics test that is coming this wednesday. I was so worried that I didn't have time to study for it. But God has blessed me with mysteriously good memory yesterday. So much so that whatever I've studied yesterday/learnt in previous lectures, I can actually remember. How cool is that? haa... But still, I think it's time for me to work out a way to clear all the outstanding stuff. This cannot do. I'm thinking of giving up my tuition. That I will, very soon... Jun Jie has been reminding me about how much I've been complaining about me having no time to do stuff but not doing anything about giving non-important stuff a miss... Sigh... Oh well... I don't want to quit choir because that's my only source of stress relief... Faith I shall have, Faith I will exercise!

On the bright side, school has been great nonetheless! Surprisingly, I'm very much closer to my secondary school friends in uni. Jun Jie, Alex, etc. We've never met up/talked to each other for 2 years and now... We are so much closer. How great is that! Praise God!!

Also, I'm going for a holiday in december!! I'll be going to USA with my family on 11 December. That is surely one thing I'm looking forward too! But the downside is I have to give quite a number of caroling sessions a miss. I want to carol!!! Sigh... Have to see how things go. Oh well... it's back to studying mode for me now =)

O Magnum Mysterium

O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen is so so so beautiful!!! The flow of the music and the chords just makes you feel peaceful and calm. It feels great singing it!! =)