I think something is wrong with my digestive system for the past few days. Sometimes my stomach will just hurt or cramp for no reason at all. It happened on thrusday night, and everything was well again yesterday, so I didn’t care too much about it. But this afternoon the pain came back again, and this time worse than the last. Sigh. I have no idea why this is happening, and I hope that the pain won’t arise again. Because I don’t like to see doctors, and being in pain makes me unable to do anything.

I guess I’m still adjusting to university life. Some tutorials will be starting next week, and I guess I’ll be finding out who my tutorial mates are. I’ve received some of my tutorials already, and even though we’re just at the introductory topics, not everything is easy. Lots of extra reading is needed, and seeing those thick books from the library just make me want to fall asleep. I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually though. 7 subjects this semester, 5 core and econs and French as my elective. I’m still hoping that someone drops Japanese so I can switch to that! Let’s hope that I can cope with the workload.

Driving today was such a pain, simply because there were problems with my car. The car had been sent for service last week, and I think that it was only just returned, because I don’t see why nobody shouldn’t have noticed the problem if they were using that car. I started off doing the caircuit courses for my lesson today, and soon I realised that I had problem turning the steering wheel at certain times. I was telling my instructor that the steering wheel seemed usually diffcult to turn, but he said that it might be because of the servicing, so we just continued, hoping that the turning would be smoother after a while. But it didn’t get better when I was in the circuit, because whenever the car was going slow, half the time the steering wheel was so stiff, and it took so much force just to turn it. I was practically hitting all the kerbs when I was doing my crank course, because there was no way I could turn the steering wheel full-lock in time when it was so stiff. Same for the directional change, and by that time my instructor had to help me turn the steering wheel because I just couldn’t turn it. Sigh. Something was really wrong with the power steering.

Because of that, I really wasn’t in the mood to drive properly. Imagine having to wrestle with the steering wheel half the time just to get it to turn, and I’m sure your mood won’t be very good after the whole thing. At least it’s ok on the road because the car is going at a high speed, or it would have been really dangerous. And since the car works fine on the road, I was stuck with that car for the whole lesson, and it was sent to the workshop only after that. I really wonder how people can survive without power steering, because I believe cars that are much older don’t have this feature. Good luck to the person who’s assigned to car 57 after me, because the car’s in the workshop and I think the computer system won’t be updated in time to show the new car. Beats being in a car where you can’t steer properly though. =/

Tomorrow marks the beginning of my university life. And I don’t feel like going. After having no school for so many months, and settling into this routine of science quiz training, driving, church, going out with friends and doing whatever I want at home, it’s difficult to get into the mood for school. I guess most of those who are going to NTU tomorrow will understand how I feel.

When I was in secondary school, going to university was something that seemed so far away. In JC, I just couldn’t wait to get out of school because – let’s face it – it got really stressful and tiring towards the end. Looking back now, I wonder how I survived the period of time before the A levels. I remember the times where I just wanted to get into university, get out, and get my education over and done with. Yet now that I’m entering university, I just can’t help but think that all these years seemed to have passed by so quickly. In 2 years I’ll turn 21, and in 4 years I’d be graduating. The teenage years have slipped by so quickly…

University life. So many questions and unknowns. Who know’s what this experience is going to be like? Going into the School of Biological Sciences and not knowing anyone in my course. (And hoping that maybe there will be someone I know there, because it’s more comforting than being all alone.) What kind of people will I meet? Will I get used to university life? There are so many things that I’m uncertain of, but I know that God is always with me, even through this transition period (I really dislike transition periods, by the way). That somehow, everything will be wonderful in the end. Just like how JC life turned out to be, despite all it’s ups and downs.

After university starts for everyone in a few weeks, we’ll all be so caught up with school and all that. But I hope that the few of us that are closer can still meet from time to time. For the Fairfield people I know that we’ll find some way to meet up, just like we have done for these 2+ years. For the NJ people, we must try to meet up ok? I haven’t seen some of you in so long!

Went online to print out my university timetable today… I really shouldn’t have gone to print it out so early, because I realised that I have lessons on saturday! Arrgh! And my tutorial group is the only one with that many lessons on saturday. Most of the other groups only need to be back on saturday for the first week, but for my tutorial group it's 4 weeks of lessons on saturdays. Sigh.

I can't add or drop my electives until the 25th though. But I'm tempted to drop econs, which the the elective they have given to all of us. I was thinking of doing psychology as a minor or something, but the lessons clash with what I already have. Same for Japanese. The only thing I can seem to fit in is forensics, but we'll see how it goes on the 25th. Sigh.

Sucky timetable... I'd rather have my saturday free and have lessons on wednesday or friday, since I'm very free on those days.

I noticed this water droplet thing next to the canal when I went home on saturday. I can only see the back view of it from my house though, I wonder what’s on the front? It’s kind of weird that something like this would be put up here, and I have no idea what’s the purpose of doing so. It feels weird seeing this blue thing out of my window, and it bobs up and down when it gets windy outside.

I recieve emails from this tuition agency whenever they have students looking for tutors. Most of the requirements are quite common, though sometimes there may be one or two more special requests, like for only male or female tutors, etc. There was this email that I recieved a few days ago that made me feel that either the student or the parent was really picky. The JC2 student was looking for a biology tutor, and wants the tutor to have just graduated from JC. Fair enough, since those that have just graduated would know what the current syllabus is like, even though they may not be experienced. But in addition, the tutor must be from either Victoria JC, Temasek JC, ACJC, Anderson JC or Hwa Chong JC. First time I’ve seen such a request, and why on earth must the tutors come from these schools only?! Does the school really matter so much?

I have my online matriculation coming up, and I still have no idea about the general electives, minors and all that. Like how many electives do I need to fufill the school’s requirements and all that? I wish that they had bothered to explain it in their letters, because I have no idea what’s going on. =/ Guess I’ll try to figure it out tomorrow, and hope that I get a decent timetable during the matriculation. I’m thinking of the possibility of taking up 1 or 2 tution jobs if my timetable is slack enough and I can manage the workload, because having extra pocket money is always good.