The End

Doubt I'll ever be posting again, so here's the short and quick goodbye. The blog will still be around because,

a) I like reading the older posts every now and then just to laugh.

b) The tagboard is still a good way to stay in touch.

But as something ends, another begins. To those who know and care, I'm going to be writing more at the other place. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're not supposed to.

So cheerios for the last time!

HERE'S JOHNNY!

Blogger seems so alien now.

What's cool now is that hardly anyone even visits this page anymore so I can be a little more personal in what I write. That makes me quite happy. :)

So its been 3 months now, give or take, and in exactly one month, December the 26th, I'll be back in Singapore. 3 months mostly filled with never ending work, insane deadlines, and sleepless night but also filled with good laughs, quiet times spent with new found friends, and just a new sense of purpose and direction. Maybe it's because it's USA. The way success is perceived seems to be highly different around here. I am what I am, and I know what I want to do in life now. And I don't believe that I'll shrink from it now.

I'm also amazingly blessed to having been put in a great hall. 6th Lewis really makes the homesickness, the sad days, and the stressed out wtf-I-am-going-to-DIE days disappear. So many different people, all in one hall. It's funny thinking about how fast this term has gone because it comes to my realization that by next year, 6th Lewis would split, going different ways. But I doubt I'd ever forget the memories. Late night studying/cramming, floor wars, soccer, FIFA(!!), MK vs DC, parties, everything.

Thanksgiving break right now, and tomorrow I'm heading to A-Ro's place for a real Thanksgiving celebration. Should be fun. Right now, going back to watch The Watchmen. I really like Rorschach's monologues. His outlook on society, harsh and dark as it seems, does have some grain of truth embedded in it.

Maybe I'm so random tonight because I'm all alone in this hall. haha.

Cheers.

All-Nighter!

I just pulled my first all-nighter!

Finishing up my engineering project took that long, but damn did it feel good when I was done.

Sorry for the lack of blog posts. I didn't do too good in the last set of mid-terms and they've kindda been worrying me. Add that to the insane project that I completed at about 5+ am today morning, time has been a little short.

So updates updates!

Halloween was amazingly fun. Went to the haunted house in Yipsilanti with the Singaporean people. I'll admit, it was pretty scary at some points. After coming back to UofM, it was party time! haha. Too bad I didn't get a proper costume. Next year then! :D

Floor wars in Bursley have begun! haha. I really love my hall. They're all so supportive and fun to be around. Can't wait for the dodge ball and ultimate Frisbee tournaments for floor wars! And I also can't wait for SEA games Indoor Soccer tournament. Yea you read that right, I said SEA games!




TGIF. It always puts me in a good mood.

CHEERS.

Grateful

After finishing what was probably the worst exam I've done in my life, I realized its time I stop being frustrated with everything and start counting everything I've been blessed with. I'll admit. The last week has been a bad week. I can't wait for this weekend to pick myself back up and get back to smiling. Its funny when people notice that you've been smiling and talking less since they first met you.

So some random things to be grateful for:

1) I'm in Michigan. Duh.
2) A great hall filled with amazingly diverse people who make my life here so much more amazing.
3) Friends who sit and do ME hw with you till 3.30am in the morning and provide you with some welcome laughs.
4) Friends who email just to keep in touch.
5) AMAZINGLY supportive parents and sister.

6) You. :D

Its just about 4am Friday morning here and I just got back as mentioned above. Been listening to way too much soft and mellow rock and all it does is make me a miss home like crazy. I miss those times after and before As, where we'd go to Jons house for stayovers and chill there for the whole night, just guys talking about everything guys normally talk about. I miss going to school and enjoying the awesome-ness that was 1A, 2C, 3A and 4A. I MISS CRICKET. I MISS FOOD. haha. But at the same time I've come to realize that there's so much more here for me to experience. I came here with one set dream. Maybe its now time for me to expand my horizons and explore different things. I have the time, I have the resources.

Being sleep deprived helps you think clearly about life and where exactly it is you want to go.

Smile peeps, because it a new day.

Cheerios.

Fall Break

Heyo peeps.

It's fall break! Not really a break for me because I have two mid-terms this thursday, but heck, I have taken the time to unwind and relax. Lets start from Friday shall we?

Friday night, after finishing up my stupid Engineering 101 project, my hall went down to party! haha. It was pretty enjoyable just unwinding and not worrying about any kind of homework for one night.

Woke up at past 12pm on Saturday, missed the game, but once again just plain relaxed in my room, studying a bit for the two exams that I have coming up. Went out with Dan to eat at No Thai, where I finally got some spicy food after a long long time! Just hung out in the hall and went to bed on Saturday.

Sunday was CEDAR POINT day! hahaha. CEDAR POINT IS AWESOME. I have never done so many roller coasters in one day. Epic fun. Escape theme park is for three-year old kids. Really.

Monday was a really lazy day, just sleeping, studying, and playing egyptian rat screw! hahaha. Its a really really retarded game.

I guess I'm beginning to really enjoy myself here.

Cheerios.

Back live

Man has it been a while since I've seen the blogger compose page. I promise to keep posting more often because I've come to realize that I need some kind of vent for all the emotions that I keep pent up inside me each and every day. Sometimes its frustration, sometimes its happiness, etc. And maybe blogging more frequently might help me feel better.

So it was a pretty good week as far as weeks in college go. I got through my first mid-term pretty well (95/100 :P) and I managed to get through all the HW and studying without a lot of staying up and stressing out. Sleep has been pretty easy to get so I've been happy and relaxed over the week. The weekend so far? It hasn't been great. I've got another mid-term next Friday for ME211 (mecheng). It's a really fun class and probably the one that I enjoy the most. The content is really interesting, I understand equilibrium for the first time in 3 years and the people in my pseudo study/hw group are really awesome. But the questions are tedious and take time to do. A 50 minutes 6-7 question paper is quite a challenge for this subject. And time to study seems very hard to come by. There's still Engr101 project 3 to do by Friday, and Math215 written hw due on Thursday. NEED TO MANAGE TIME BETTER.

ICMD concert next Saturday. I may only be playing one song, but it still looks and sounds pretty awesome. The enthusiasm all these people here seem to have really blows me away. I wish rehearsals didn't take so long though. Nyeh.




Talking puts me in a good mood. Thank you.

Cheers

Apologies

Here's my apology to everyone who's emailed me and everyone who's visited this blog recently looking for a new post.

I've been really sick for the past one week or so, fever and the works. When I went down to the university health services, they happily told me I had suspect swine flu and sent me back to my dorm with absolutely NO medication. Two things were/are wrong with that statement. One, I never had swine flu. Two, I definitely need medicine for my cough and phlegm. Three cheers for bloody UHS. Never going back there again. Thanks to them I missed a couple of days of classes and am now having to work pretty hard.

To Jon, Varun, Shreya, Raghu and my Sister, I'll reply soon. To everyone else. Don't give up on this blog yet!

Cheers.