My 2006
2006...i look back and...it's pretty much a mess of a lot of events..ahhahaa...
Starting of the year, I decided to go for Orthonagthic Surgery after having a few consultations with a few dentists,orthodontists,my doctor cousins and surgeons of coz. Had the biggest row with my parents and almost a cold war of 6 months. That was probably the harder part of my 2006, which was the 1st half. The pressure from school, having to part time work 4 days a week so as to earn my allowance and the fees for surgery and braces, plus helping out with Grand Opening (not that I had a huge role..haha..but tt's when I noe Wanida and how I was being brought back to SMUBE again :P) and landing the role of being in Sound Console for Patron's Day 2006 upon joining SMUBE. All within the 1st 4 months of 2006. Grades turned out suckish and I remembered how depressed I was at that point. Having your parents turned against you without giving you the chance to explain your situation, the pressure to save every penny in the u-can-spend-$10-easily-in-a-day-just-on-food SMU city campus, the stress of having suckish grades spoiling your already-like-a-pile-of-shit GPA. That period of time I realised how easily I could break down without the support of my family. But it was also at that period of time when I saw many true friends who lent me their helping hands. My elder sister was really sweet too coz she stood on my side and gave me allowances so my earnings could go straight to my surgery fund.
May 2006 I started my internship at Avant Garde Richfields, a small accounting firm where I part timed. The reason I din go to any other banks for internships was coz if I dropped off the part time, I would have no job to come back to after other internships. So I stuck on with the accounting firm. I gotta know a wonderful new friend there. She is a Philippino MBA holder, Angelica Diloy. She was an extremely valuable friend as she told me all about her trading career and of coz her investment banking career back in Philippines. She was like a mother at that period of time la, listening to all my worries about my future, my burden of having to raise money all by myself for the surgery and blah blah blah...And of coz I gotta noe Reka (another colleague in the office) better through the internship. Mr Larry Lai was also a very valuable friend :) Though old but always very helpful and definitely full of stories.
Boss's wife passed away in late May 2006, and Reka, being his most capable worker there was on vacation to London. Surprisingly, Boss actually left the entire office to my care. Although the firm is small, the no. of calls to answer to, clients to take care of, and of coz functioning of office operations that were left under my care was actually a little too much for me to handle at first. But I was glad I did not run away from it. I did not know every secretary and lawyer, but I was glad I had the courage to pick up all phone calls and was able to answer any queries asked by any law firm, pub or trading firm. It was a stressful period at that too as I had no one to turn to as in comparison to other staffs dere, I actually happen to be the one working the longest. Angelica was a great help but she did not noe the details of every accounts. All the hard work was worth it of course. The biggest pat on my back was probably when my boss returned to office about 3 weeks later telling me :"I am thankful I left it in your care. You have done a good job."
And June and July 2006 was all about work work work and more work of coz...hahaha..Oh ya! My parents finally gave in after seeing my x-rays and sorta agreed to the surgery in July 2006. Man was I glad. No more cold wars and silent cryings in the toilet.
August 2006 was more of clearing SMUBE claims..(ahhaha..actually the whole summer was that la..lol..) and of coz being the Backstage crew for Convocation 2006! Convocation 2004 i was the freshie sitting down amongst the audience. In 2005, I was facilitator. Finally in 2006, I can be part of the Backstage team. That was when I really bonded with SMUBE pple like Keris, Jeremy, Terence,Wanida, Melwyn,LN, Gayle, Daryl, Kok Leong, Alex.....and also kinda marked my official entry in SMUBE..hahaha
>Sept to Nov 2006 was of coz the lousy sch term...being 3rd yr..haiz..i can only say i can feel AGE is catching up on me...but the highlight of the school term was of coz participating in Arts and Cultural Festival 2006. The great show put up by SMUBE! The BEginning: The Sketch of the Standing Rhythmic Stickman that Cooks! Where it started off with funny skits by Jonny, Louis, Dod and Chloe. And then it was Heyuan's Stand-up Comedy. After which was the Stickman segment with Xiaoping, Jiahui, Gayle, Jansen, Evelyn and some freshie i dunno..Of coz the final part Rhythmic Cooking, thru those late nite practices, I gotta noe more pple like Jeremy Soh, Jeremy Tay, Paik, Deeraj, Jaclyn,Keris, Feb, Emily...and Shane for guest appearing...hahaa..Man it was so much hard work but so much fun.
Of coz we also had our series of ITPs, which was the effort of....all SMUBEings! We also had our mid term Frisbee Challenge, which Terence pulled us all lack-of-exercise BEings into..haha..thru those frisbee clinics provided by Terence, of coz I gotta noe Huiying, Jiahui, Xiaoping,LN, Shah,Shane,Mel, Kok Leong....we had the Dodgecall event during Sports Fiesta oso...ahhh..fond memories of 2006.
All those stuff can check on Aug, Sept and Oct 2006 Archives :)
I can only say 2006 was a yr filled with new friends, new experiences but extremely shitty grades la. Hey, I swear, i worked my ass off liao. Honest.
郑元畅 (my new found idol! The one in It Started With A Kiss!!! Actually he's my idol since 2003 la..hahaha..just that I had another RAIN during 2006..hahah) 常常说：有福份的话，请选择你所爱的 I think it makes a lot of sense. Why? Coz.....每一个选择都有它自己的代价选择前要深思熟虑，要想得清清楚楚。选择后就不要花时间和精力去后悔，去埋怨与其抱怨，不如坦然面对。
不是要你对命运屈服，是要你不要浪费时间去埋怨自己已经选择的。
把每一件事情做好，可能就是下一个幸运的转捩点。因为人生总是会带给努力不懈的人，美妙的惊喜。
Maybe choosing Economics and Finance wasn't exactly what I had in mind (I actually had Chinese in mind), it's not even my forte. I worked vv hard, tried my best, but always to hang ard the B range and even the C range. But I haf already chose it and I am already in my 3rd year. Why did I choose Economics back then? Becoz I had asked myself this: Do I want to be an Econ student who's good in chinese or a Chinese student who's good in chinese? I chose the former and that's my choice. I noe I get judged by my grades by some of my fellow classmates, I noe I will get judged by my grades when I step out of university. But hey, choosing this path was my choice.
I spent my entire yr 2 regretting my choice and beating myself up emotionally coz the lousy grades started to show in Year 2. Looking back, it was utterly time consuming. The later half of 2006 was spent trying to correct my mentality. My sis always tell me :" Don't tie your value as a person to the grades you are getting. You are more than that, really." I hope to internalise that in 2007 :)
I remembered my EDA prof told me :" You are too young to let a B+ affect your life. Step out of it, trust me, you can see the world better."
Year 3, and I can say I dun tink I haf the chance of securing a Cum Laude liao la..
I was TA for CT before and I rem the prof told me :" You haf a good attitude. Just that you get affected by other people's expectations of you. Carry on with your original attitude, you will definitely go very far." I hope to be able to convince myself to believe that in the coming year.
Alamaz..too long liao the entry..Ahh..YuHui tend to get a little naggy sometimes..buahaha
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