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LETTERS FROM THE LIVING

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

School has officially started for almost 2 weeks. Gosh! Everything is zipping by so fast that I hardly have time to blog. Ok, i must confess i'm blessed this sem with a lighter timetable and a manageable FYP. I'm still taking a lot of things for granted and really guilty for that! So, I'm gonna settle down and be more focus for the tasks at hand. Got to make new friends despite being in my final yr and also got lost searching for a particular classroom for one of my lessons. Darn!

Apart from sch, lotsa things are happening in my life too! New challenges, new plans, new hopes and new lessons to be learnt!! I'm both excited and apprehensive for that tho'. I pray that God will see me thru every moment of my 2008!

Rayzor's Rock-amendation:
Gotta get fired up for the new sem huh? Here's the solution all the way from another Welsh band, another one with a long name, Bullet For My Valentine that is! This is a very old track but it's the one that got me sold to them! Haha... Fantastic vid to go along with the irresistable riffs!! Look out for their new album out end of this month!!

Bullet For My Valentine - Hand Of Blood

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Thursday, January 03, 2008

Oh, how could I forget to do it in 2007?!!! To redeem myself, I gotta begin my first post in 2008 by thanking and praising God for my exam results! No, dun assume that I’m on the dean’s list or did fantastically well ya. I just managed to clear all my tough-ass modules in what has been my most difficult semester in NTU (I really really hope it is…)!

Difficult is still an understatement if u see the list of challenges I face this semester:
- Came back to NTU after a year of slacking (1 sem IA, 1 sem in USA)
- Adapting to NTU’s schedule again
- Temptation to skip sch as my days are quite light and lectures are all recorded
- Year 4 is damn competitive, everyone seems to attend lectures and do tutorials
- FYP, ‘nuff said
- Recurrence of my scalp skin condition, disappearance of my ego
- Falling sick for a record number of times this semester
- Evangelistic soccer bridging event that took 3 months of planning and executing
- Cell and its changes
On top of those, I still have spiritual, mental and emotional battles to face throughout the period.

For one of my papers, it was a one-hour paper with two 25-marks questions. I suffered a mini panick-attack as I can’t seem to recall a derivation. This carried one for almost half an hour and it was only part of the first question! In the end, I only had less than 10 minutes for the second one and it is indeed a miracle I passed!! Amen!!!
Another is a killer paper where I would be satisfied with a D, as most people who took it got borderline results, but what I got was beyond belief!! Thank God!!!
Oh, did I remember to say the above-mentioned papers were one after the other in the space of 24 hours?
Sure, my results can’t be compared to a lot of people and my papers are shamefully less difficult than a lot of my peers from other faculties. But without Jesus, what is on my degree audit will never ever materialized (Sharp if u spot the pun, haha)! Really grateful for His grace, mercy and favour all this while! I hope to experience even more of it for the coming semester and do my very best for Him even as I know He has the best for me.

Rayzor’s Rock-amendation:
Was so excited when I read in Kerrang! (a British rock mag) that FFAF mentioned Singapore & Thailand as the most memorable places that they have played at this year!! Well, I was there when they played at Far East Square in September!!! Rawk-a-licious track...
Funeral For A Friend – Great Wide Open

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