i guess today officially marks the end.
but in a way i suppose there isn't such a thing as an end. cos once a tjcian, always a tjcian =)
guess today's farewell concert and sports appreciation ceremony were more of for um enjoyment purposes for me. though yes i felt pretty sad having to leave the school... but i promised myself that no matter what i'll leave with a smile.
today i can honestly say, coming to tj was the best mistake i've ever made. for those who don't already know... tj was a mistake. i only got here because i played around with my choices during the pae. honestly tj was never one of my options. like come on i didn't even know where it was, neither did i have an idea of what the school looked like. all i remembered knowing was that tj had this funny green coloured uniform and ummm mass swimming. still remember all the ij pple were so omg-ed by that. haha but today... the green uniform's something i've grown really attached to and mass swimming was the best kind of pe possible. haha =p
looking back... haha i've come a long way man. i've learnt a lot and the experiences i've gotten from tj... invaluable. from the first day... when i came in not knowing anyone and haha getting lost looking for tj- can't believe that happened. hey i was really near tj.. but somehow the pple around didn't seem to know where in the world tj was... and anyhow picking a bus to board-luckly it was the right bus. still remember blaming myself for playing around with my choices after that and being so apprehensive and can't be bothered with orientation and all cos i had the mindset that i made a wrong move and i'm going to get out within three months. but nevertheless, i was in a great scg. all the funny things we did together... like the mass ponning of pw tutorials and all except for five of us mass dropping econs before the second lecture test and then going for breakfast together instead. haha... and my pdp mates... the greatest. by the end of the first three months could barely decide whether to stay or to leave. i'm glad that at the end of the day i chose to stay.
struggles. sure i've had my fair share of them. or maybe even more than that-haha. having to cope with injury-disasterous haha. juggling so many commitments and my studies was really demanding. still remember being super stretched all the time. from the proposals to the planning to the excutions of the various events. not easy especially when events clashed. the one time when i got super stressed was the after getting hospitalised period. right when i got back... was juggling the preparations for the major housefunction, track and field meet, the titans trainings, the orienteering propsals haha especially that food orienteering one and the don't know how many thousand worded science council report for the singapore youth science fair -shrugs- no choice cos i was heading the ntu research project... all within a week. thinking back. that was really crazy. was like wanted here there and everywhere. nuts. totally nuts. but i couldn't say anything. cos i believed that that was a choice i made. academically it's been a nightmare. haha like i don't even have enough time to do my tutorials la. by the time i get home at 10 11 plus. cmi already. haha but luckly i've tutors who never at any point of time stopped believing in me. for that i'm really thankful.
i guess it's this kind of thing that made me a much stronger person that before in some ways. i suppose i've changed a lot since i got to tj. stronger because i've learnt what it is like to fall... what it's like to fail... to struggle... and to get to a point where i could break down at any point of time. something i never experienced back in ij. i never knew what it was like to not get what i want. i guess this inculcated in me resiliance and that never say die attitude- although yeah i still will say it la. just that mentally when the time comes... nah. guess my attitude and outlook to things changed quite a fair bit too. especially being in such a good class... haha fine i admit i kind of the developed that say whatever you want about me it's not going to affect me kind of attitude. if you wanna say then go right ahead lor. i won't be bothered by it. haha that's why even if there's someone. ahem. yup that says right into my face that my grades are horrible and that's a normal thing. i'll always seem indifferent to it. -smiles- i'll never react so that i will never give you the satisifaction of knowing that whatever you say affected me. muahaha... but i suppose i've become a lot more withdrawn and quiet. honestly. all the stupid things i used to do in ij. no more. kind of think it's because of my perpetually failing grades. kind of makes me unsure of whether i'm correct. makes me quite doubtful of myself at times. haha... hmm being in tj made me more confident too -grins- though i'd rather not show it. but if you were to force a mike into my hands and force me to say sth to um the pple around. i guess i've already gotten over that fear. =) haha quieter... oh well. most of the time i choose not to say stuff. but muahaha i do know what's going on k. rarh. haha. after the As after the As. when there's no more struggle with my studies. muahaha... ke yi feng diao le =)
experiences. the people i've met in tj. so so different from ij. learnt a lot a lot during my time here. from the planning and excuting of events... to the bare basics of just working with pple. learnt super a lot. the kind of people i work better with or how to handle pple or situations. great insights. the various sporting events, house functions, expeditions, duathlon, camps and all... haha so many memories that i'll take back with me as i leave the college. yay and the pple i met here are the best. all the oacians, hc pple, my class, the seniors and juniors, the tutors! haha and even the science council and ntu professors. -grins- i couldn't be more thankful to have had all these pple as an integral part of my life from which i've had a smashing time with =) oh yes. i like my class. haha so funky la. the things we've been doing these past few days. haha i think we're the funniest most entertaining class ever. if only everyday was like these few days. haha. i think those pple we pulled into the classroom to take photos for us all rolled out laughing. seriously we do the most unexpected things. lol. crazy. super funny. good training for abs. lol =p
i swear the tutors in tj are amazing. really. i mean like they're so decicated and caring that haha it even surprised me at first. even needed some time to adjust to it la. amazing. haha like mw said today's the start of the mugging days le. and honestly once i start mugging. haha... well honestly it's not so much cos i want to get into a course or anything. i'm just really don't want to dui bu qi my tutors. through thick and thin they've been there for me. even like this year when i failed the jcts so horribly... they never gave up... constantly reassuring me that i should still do my best in my pdps and after i handover they'd always be there to help me get back up. honestly i can't think of a time that they were't there. whether it was for consultation or just to talk about how i feel or how i'm coping... they're really great tutors. and i've been so lucky to be under their care. really really don't want to dui bu qi them for the final exam. want to come back next year smiling away and thinking them and giving them the good news. haha such a short time left. i really don't know if that day'd ever come. sigh. but i have to try =)
sigh i just realised i've spent more than two hours typing all this. going to be midnight soon already. oh well. sigh. oh today's concert was cute. the emcees are good. haha. yimin broke the audi table while trying to hit the balloon. ahahha super entertaining la. i think we're really a crazy class. hahaha... the photo presentation was pretty short but nice. haha i did a stupid thing. i counted the number of photos i got caught in to amuse myself. nine leh. not bad. high proportion lor. lol =p haha really self amusement already. oops. sigh suddenly had a thought. i wonder if i'd ever get to see most of my classmates again after the As. cos most are scholars ma. so will leave s'pore de. sigh. nevermind. treasure the times then i suppose =)
yay i love tj la. i guess if i was given another choice to choose which school i'd want to be in... i'd choose tj again. =) love my classmates, the friends i've made, my pdp mates and yay! my tutors! woo hoo~~ i'm so going to miss this place
for college, for nation
passion, purpose, drive =)=)=)