Familiar Route..

It just occured to me that my days in NUS are finally over. While driving to somewhere near NUS today, I realised it would be the last time that I would be travelling on this 25 minute drive familiar route. I'll miss cruising down the ECP, decelerating near the speed camera, road-racing with strangers, performing dangerous overtaking manoeuvres, speeding, crawling during peak hours, forcing my way in changing lanes, flashing headlights at road hoggers, overshooting my expressway exit and many others. I'll also miss rushing from one place to another within the Arts faculty, but I certainly won't miss shuttling from one faculty to another. After all, most of the cross-faculty modules hurt me badly and the worst part was taking them as graded. Anyway, I hate squeezing the damn shuttle bus.

It seems not long ago that I just started my undergraduate studies. 4 years zoomed by so quickly. The first 3 years were rather uneventful. Due to my rather mediocre grades, I was unsure whether to continue pursuing my honours degree or just graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In the end, I chose the former. I still wanted to study and enjoy life rather than slog it out in the working world. Anyway, I wasn't prepared to enter the workforce as yet. But the real juvenile reason why I didn't want to graduate back then was because I wanted to graduate together with my brother and my 3 other cousins. I'm glad I made that choice. The 4th year has been very rewarding, not only academically. Due to Wanpei's wide social network, I made many new friends from the econs honours class, some of whom I've not even seen in my past 3 years in NUS. They consist of jokers, extremely helpful study companions, 'kiasu' people, promising singers, Murtabak companion, fellow Rog and soccer fans, tennis buddies, mahjong kahkis etc. Not surprisingly, due to my rather anti-social nature, the number of friends I made last year is more than the number of friends I made in my previous 21 years of existence.

While disposing all my econs notes, a tinge of sadness hit me. No more stuggling with tutorial assignments, no more tests and exams, and most importantly, no more studying and trying to attain high grades. Truthfully, I think I'll miss the familiarity and routine of being an undergraduate rather than the actual studying itself. Whatever it is, I'll be joining the labour force in slightly less than 2 months time. At the meantime, I'll just enjoy as much as I can. The first 2 things I would have to do is to clear up my room and do up my Finland photos. I can hear Barbara nagging at me from a distance already. Sigh.