Another Life Chapter is Coming to an End

060511, 0900, the time I sat for the last paper of my degree life.

1100, the time I passed up the last paper of my degree life.

Provided that I passed all of my papers (should know the result in three weeks time? I think I could make the cut), submit final corrected copy of thesis in PDF form to the faculty....And then, there was it. The end of my university life, for now.

Words alone can't express my feelings. There's one though: I'm glad.

One thing is for sure, I'll miss going to classes. I'll miss going to lab. I'll miss all the times we burned the midnight oil just to finish up our reports or to study for exams. I'll miss the times I cycle to campus. I'll miss our beautiful campus. I'll miss the nice scenery in Kampar. I'll miss the many times we gather around to celebrate birthdays, for assignments and reports, to have meals, to fool around, to relax, etc. Friends! I'll miss all of you and all the good times we had together. Thanks for the memories may it good or bad. Thanks for accepting me for who I am, and for making me who I am right now.

There has been a lot of ups and downs in 3 years. Not a long period of time, nor a short one either. Of course there has been doubts and regrets looking back right now. But all the questions will remain as 'What if?', right? Let bygones be bygone.

Ok, this post sounds downright emo. Yup, it 's proven. Packing up does make a person emo!

Three years worth of notes and books, all packed into two large boxes.

Where am I going store these in my hometown? @@

FYP vs Pregnancy

Pure joy! That's how I felt when I was printing out my thesis. I couldn't even control my smile when we were having our lunch moments before the 'big moment'. Suddenly, there's a thinking, this is it! After so many months, this is it!

Ohya, we called our thesis as Baby, and it's a twin! (cause we need to submit two copies to the Faculty, one copy for each assessor.)

~My babies~

Seriously, Final Year Project was just like a pregnancy. We started our FYP bench work during early October last year, which lasted for 3 months till mid January this year. Then has been writing our thesis for the past few months. Reading journals, writing, correcting, rewrite, correct again..bla bla bla..took us 7 months! Similarities between FYP and pregnancy? Here goes!

1. Choosing FYP title was just like choosing your partner. FYP - Find Your Partner -->, Finalised Your Partment->, Forever Your Partner, there's no turning back (Yuen, 2010). Except for our case, it's our partner for few months only. However, it's an experience that last forever, right?

2. Bench work: It's like the first trimester of pregnancy, where we always heard from elders it's the most important stage, have to becareful etc. Same applies to FYP. By hook or by crook, you'll have to complete your bench work in three month's time, no matter how much you have to do, you'll have to finish it.

Oh, I miss my bench~

3. Supervisor: During pregnancy, the pregnant lady has to go for check-ups right? And who did the check-ups? Doctors. As for our FYP supervisor, most of them have the designation 'Dr." in front of their name too! Hahaha!

My supervisor Dr. Kho..shh, don't tell her we got this pic ^^

Strict but is a very very caring supervisor!

4. Pain-stalking journal hunting and reading. Just like pregnancy, parents nowadays, young parents especially, will read a lot of articles on pregnancy. What to do, what not to do, which will be the best for your child etc. FYP? There's only one word to describe it: Argh! (Is argh a word? lol!). There are so many articles out there, but so many of them (that I wanted) has to be subscribed. I have to ask help from friends whose Uni has larger database than UTAR. Special thanks to HUI LI and JULIE!!

Thesis writing. This is considered a quite organised table. You haven't see the worst~

5. Spent countless sleepless night just because of it. I think it is applicable to both cases? Haha!

6. The feeling of pure joy when it's finally done. All the hard work months before was worth it. Like a mother after delivering her baby (from what I saw in movies, and from my mom's stories), you'll forget all the hardship you faced when you see your baby. Yeah, the moment I saw my thesis coming out piece by piece from the printing machine, I' m just speechless~

It's here, it's here!!

Difference between pregnancy with FYP is: you have to take care of the child for your whole life. FYP? Maybe it'll affect the life of some of us, who knows?

Me and Pei Sin, carrying our babies, hahaha!

All DONE! Hope we'll all get great marks for that~

P/S: THANK YOU DR. KHO and my postgrad senior RACHEL! LOVE YOU GUYS!!! Oops, GIRLS!

Gathering. Chats. Picture-taking

Yup, the title pretty much sums up the 'must-do-list' in most gathering.

The meaning of gatherings: we gather; we eat, talk and listen, update on each other; and most important, we take pictures, lots of them! By the end of the day, we look at the pictures, and think:' Oh my, how time flies!'.

Just had my form 5 class gathering yesterday. This is the first time we held it before Chinese New Year since 2008 (due to short Chinese New Year break and exams that kills the mood). Wow, 4th year already. Clap! Clap! Clap! Keep up the tradition guys! One suggestion (shall not mention who made it) though, can we change location next year?

As usual, few of us hanged out after class gathering, few hours is simply not enough for us talkative girls! Hence, we changed location to Secret Recipe at Marina Island. A slice of cake and a cup of tea was sufficient to make us sit there for 3 hours, and chat non-stop. Yup, girls.

Cam-whoring session! Okay, nicer term...photo-taking session. Did not take much picture with my camera though, since there were so many cameras around. However, I did take these~

It might be few months later, or one year later, it will still feels like we just chat not long ago for me. Till then friends! Am already looking forward meeting u girls again~