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.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
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.
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.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
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
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
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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.
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.
Friday, September 11, 2009
It's been a while
Classes have started and you can already see people going crazy with study groups popping up and people complaining about the work load.
I'm one of them too.
I've got a good bit of homework up for Mecheng 211 and Math 215, and a ton of reading that needs to be done for Engin 101. Thank god my last class won't be that insane. I was up till 2 yesterday doing my ME reading and almost missed my Math lab class. I've got programming for Math. Wtf. But I'd be lying if I said that I thought my classes are boring. The 2 engineering classes are amazingly interesting and the Math one is kindda fun. Tamil is going to be absolutely side-splitting if what Hari, Bharat and Haines say is true.
As far as other activities go, I've got Ultimate Frisbee tryouts on Monday. Went for a long run today to check my fitness level because the Americans are insanely fit. My ankle is still giving me trouble though. I'd really like to get into the team. I've also signed up for ICMD, Autonomous Vehicles Engineering, and SSA. Don't know how taxing its going to be. But I think I'll be fine.
There's this funny emotion I experience every morning. I wake up, and expect to be back in my own room. And I grope around for my spectacles in the place I'd expect them to be back home, and then it strikes me that I'm not home. And I feel like crap. For just a short while.
And then I get on with my life.
December 26th couldn't get its ass over here fast enough.
Cheerios.
I'm one of them too.
I've got a good bit of homework up for Mecheng 211 and Math 215, and a ton of reading that needs to be done for Engin 101. Thank god my last class won't be that insane. I was up till 2 yesterday doing my ME reading and almost missed my Math lab class. I've got programming for Math. Wtf. But I'd be lying if I said that I thought my classes are boring. The 2 engineering classes are amazingly interesting and the Math one is kindda fun. Tamil is going to be absolutely side-splitting if what Hari, Bharat and Haines say is true.
As far as other activities go, I've got Ultimate Frisbee tryouts on Monday. Went for a long run today to check my fitness level because the Americans are insanely fit. My ankle is still giving me trouble though. I'd really like to get into the team. I've also signed up for ICMD, Autonomous Vehicles Engineering, and SSA. Don't know how taxing its going to be. But I think I'll be fine.
There's this funny emotion I experience every morning. I wake up, and expect to be back in my own room. And I grope around for my spectacles in the place I'd expect them to be back home, and then it strikes me that I'm not home. And I feel like crap. For just a short while.
And then I get on with my life.
December 26th couldn't get its ass over here fast enough.
Cheerios.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Welcome week
Welcome week has been insane!
Hmm, lets list some of the stupid stuff I've done. After all the crazy CTF games, last week we had the Freshman Convocation ceremony which was freaking brilliant. The amount of school pride that they have here is insane. It made me very proud to be a Wolverine that day. After that was Artscapade and Escapade where in true Singaporean fashion, we hit the place looking for free shit. I managed to win myself a shirt and loads of other rubbish.
The next day had an insane number of things to do. Maize craze was crazy and so was the pep talk for the Football game which was to happen the next day. The first chance to see the cheerleaders and dancers. :D Oh and once again, free stuff ahoy!!! After that was, (believe it or not) BUBBLE TEA PARTY. hahaha. Americans love bubble tea! But it's crazily expensive. Like 4-5 bucks a cup. But they were giving out free bubble tea that day so wooooots.
Later that night was MEIJER MADNESS. Meijers is this insanely gigantic shopping market here and that event was where they were giving out free stuff, and also quite atrocious discounts. I bought a 12 pack root beer for 1.50!
The next day was Michigan's first American Football game. The whole place went crazy with the buses to central being retardedly packed. Us Singaporeans went to play soccer from about 2 to 3.30 and after that we camped in one of the lounges in Couzens Hall to watch the game on TV. It was quite awesome to see the crowd and the fanatical support that they have for the Wolverines. OH. MICHIGAN STADIUM (THE BIG HOUSE) IS BIGGER THAN ALL THE EUROPEAN AND ENGLISH SOCCER STADIUMS. The Big House can seat at 110,000 people. Even Nou Camp is smaller.
Nothing much happened after that, apart from the fact that I've signed up to try out for the Ultimate Frisbee club team.
Cheers peeps.
Hmm, lets list some of the stupid stuff I've done. After all the crazy CTF games, last week we had the Freshman Convocation ceremony which was freaking brilliant. The amount of school pride that they have here is insane. It made me very proud to be a Wolverine that day. After that was Artscapade and Escapade where in true Singaporean fashion, we hit the place looking for free shit. I managed to win myself a shirt and loads of other rubbish.
The next day had an insane number of things to do. Maize craze was crazy and so was the pep talk for the Football game which was to happen the next day. The first chance to see the cheerleaders and dancers. :D Oh and once again, free stuff ahoy!!! After that was, (believe it or not) BUBBLE TEA PARTY. hahaha. Americans love bubble tea! But it's crazily expensive. Like 4-5 bucks a cup. But they were giving out free bubble tea that day so wooooots.
Later that night was MEIJER MADNESS. Meijers is this insanely gigantic shopping market here and that event was where they were giving out free stuff, and also quite atrocious discounts. I bought a 12 pack root beer for 1.50!
The next day was Michigan's first American Football game. The whole place went crazy with the buses to central being retardedly packed. Us Singaporeans went to play soccer from about 2 to 3.30 and after that we camped in one of the lounges in Couzens Hall to watch the game on TV. It was quite awesome to see the crowd and the fanatical support that they have for the Wolverines. OH. MICHIGAN STADIUM (THE BIG HOUSE) IS BIGGER THAN ALL THE EUROPEAN AND ENGLISH SOCCER STADIUMS. The Big House can seat at 110,000 people. Even Nou Camp is smaller.
Nothing much happened after that, apart from the fact that I've signed up to try out for the Ultimate Frisbee club team.
Cheers peeps.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Capture the flag!
The list of countries from which I've met people has expanded! It now includes: A Colombian, a South African, a Brazilian, an Iranian, an Israelite and a Turkish girl!
Anyhoo, yesterday was the day where we International engineering students register for classes. It was quite an annoying process because we guys are signing up for classes the latest (the American students have already signed up for classes in Summer) and we had all the last choice classes. So trying to fit them into our time-tables was quite a messy process. Listening to the swearing going on in the room in a multitude of languages was amusing though.
I finally met more people from Bursley hall yesterday! After meeting and talking to them for a while, we ended up going down to the Diag (Diagonal) to play capture the flag. It was INSANE. There were about 100 students there and we split into North Campus vs. Central Campus (North comprises of the Engineering, Music, Theater and Architecture schools while Central is mainly the Arts schools). We then played Capture the flag till 1030pm in the night. Quite a sight to see for everyone walking through the Diag yesterday. And it was about 12 degrees Celsius when we were playing, and everyone was in shorts! WTF! I was in jeans and it was still cold. Need to adjust quickly! Everyone is really nice and its quite easy to fit in. Might be going back to play again today. :D
Cheers!
Anyhoo, yesterday was the day where we International engineering students register for classes. It was quite an annoying process because we guys are signing up for classes the latest (the American students have already signed up for classes in Summer) and we had all the last choice classes. So trying to fit them into our time-tables was quite a messy process. Listening to the swearing going on in the room in a multitude of languages was amusing though.
I finally met more people from Bursley hall yesterday! After meeting and talking to them for a while, we ended up going down to the Diag (Diagonal) to play capture the flag. It was INSANE. There were about 100 students there and we split into North Campus vs. Central Campus (North comprises of the Engineering, Music, Theater and Architecture schools while Central is mainly the Arts schools). We then played Capture the flag till 1030pm in the night. Quite a sight to see for everyone walking through the Diag yesterday. And it was about 12 degrees Celsius when we were playing, and everyone was in shorts! WTF! I was in jeans and it was still cold. Need to adjust quickly! Everyone is really nice and its quite easy to fit in. Might be going back to play again today. :D
Cheers!
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