Uni Life

1030 pm and i'm on swanston street walking home with a foot long meatball sub from subway.

(which is my dinner)

This must be uni life

Essays are due in a month's time

Mid sem test is coming up around the same time.

I am two weeks behind in my work.

And i have to plan a church event.

Somehow.. i know i'll make it through.

=)

NDP

On national the group of us (all sg ppl in our course) decided to arrange a get together to sort of celebrate national day.

haha.. like i said b4 there's ard like 20 plus of us and yea we kinda stick together. the melb uni singapore connection if u like.

so we had a pot luck dinner in which we each brought a kind of local food to the party.

so yea, i brought laska haha..

here are some pics.



The girls



The guys

me frying the keropok


all the yummy food



random shots..

if u wanna see more pics just go to facebook

Home

Due to popular demand i've come up with another version of my national song!!!

Happy National Day 2008!!!

(Sang to the tune of Kit Chan's Home)


Whenever I am feeling low...

I look around me and i know

There will always be ERP

Wherever I may choose to go



I will always recall GST

Always on the rise

Look down my wallet and i can cry

Just one trip in Singapore



This is Home... Really?

Even if i'm not Lee..

Where ERP waits for me..

Where my money always go...



This is Home, surely

Where i know you fine me..

This is where.. i wont be alone

For where i go my cashcard goes



When there are gantries to go through

My IU will cry a tune

There is comfort in the knowledge

That my money, they will use

So they build more roads for no cars

And just for Casino..

Just like the river which brings us life

I feel like jumping in now...



This is home.. cant be...

go orchard tio 2.50

Where TP wait for me...

To give me this month's lottery



This is home.. must be..

Go home also tio ERP

Expressway drive 60

No wonder traffic never flow



This is Home, surely

Where i know you fine me..

This is where.. i wont be alone

For where i go my cashcard goes

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National Day

Dear Singapore,

Its been so long.. 43 years for you and 22 years for me... here's to you..

Onward singapore!!!!

I sincerely hope that all will go well for you....

I do hope you recover your losses that you invested. Some 900million rite?

I do hope the ERP gantries do grow cause that can only be good for you and us rite?

I do hope the standard of public transport can go up, as the price has already...

I do hope the new road rules like the red bus lane can deter drivers and get their money? oh no wait is that the plan?

I do hope you will continue to develop "critical thinking", i think its been on ever since i was in 6 or 7 rite?

I do hope you manage to stop the exodus of local talent overseas. I hope its not a result of policy and the system itself?

I do hope the SAF can find more scholars to protect..

I do hope we will find more white horses ...

I hope you can try to consider the fact that results is not everything and even if you say so, your actions do not show?

I hope that when i graduate, there will be something that will pull me back home...

For you are home..

surely........as my senses tell me..

where erp waits for me...

where the money always flow...

this is home.. sadly...

where i know you fine me......

this is where, i wont be alone.....

for this is where my money goes....

(sang to the tune of "Home" by kit chan)

Yours truly,
Me

To Ao

haha.. thanks man.. it means alot...

hows life been for you? back in UK already??

lately your blogpost quite political haha...

suits me lol

What is sucess..

Sometimes u do wonder what is success?

i guess sucess is rather relative...

growing up, i've never had much success, especially academic.

In primary sch i guess ALL my teachers hated me. success in primary school to me meant that my digimon won someone else's. Or that i would catch all 150 pokemons. and all i was hoping for was to pass PSLE which i barely did.

Succes in secondary school was also another relative matter. success in secondary 1 for me meant that i was the top frag for counter strike...

and as a result i failed my secondary 1...

so in secondary 2 i was transferred to normal and then i had my first glimpse of what success was about and what i could actually do if i put in some effort. i didnt have to work that hard and managed to do well enough to get transferred to express and take double pure science and double math. Though that would have to be attributed to my tuition teachers who made me believe i was not dumb, smth that my school teachers instilled in me..

but in secondary 4 i guess i didnt work as hard as i should have and scraped past O levels...

i guess it was still some success, as after i failed secondary 1 i thought that was it...

JC was the worst time where the only success i felt was on the rugby pitch where i did my job and people looked up to me. The classrooms were totally different, where i would sleep in lectures and tutorials. My teachers gave up on me and how can i blame them when i gave up on myself?

The army... was... successful. Considering the fact that i made it out in one piece, made good friends and had a good batch of people.

In Australia, i didnt know what to expect. i was motivated by something. was it success i didnt know. did i have smth to prove to people? that i was not a failure after all? whatever my motives were, i studied like hell.

Would i say i have found direction now? well, i guess certain aspects of my life has changed and i have made some wholesale changes. Whether that is good or not, that is up to those i know to decide.

why the sudden rambling on success?

well i attended the Trinity College Awards ceremony last night. where awards and scholarships were given out.

and the guest of honour was on and on about how we have succeeded. and he posted us a question. On our funeral, what would you want others to say about you?

rich? busy? hardworking? made a difference?

i guess i do not have such big dreams. i wont find a cure for cancer nor win a nobel prize.

all i want to do now is make an impact on others, one way or another.

seeing so many of my friends getting awards and scholarships. sometimes deep inside i wonder whether i would have the chance. its not vital to me. i do not need that recognition.

somehow i have seen past my materialistic/egoistic needs.

though a cash prize would be nice, considering the ridiculous fees i am paying...

All i got last night, was a certificate of academic excellence.

Though small and insignificant compared to others. I just have to look back and around me to know how blessed i am. and there is nothing more i can ask for.

i left wondering what is success and whether at the end of the road will i have done smth good with my life

i left knowing that dozens of us gave up at least 2 scholarships to study medicine. to reject my first scholarship was really sad as i never thought i would receive one ever in my life.

i left with a new motivation to study even harder, not for recognition or approval. but to use this opportunity i am blessed with to do smth good. and even if no one comes to my funeral. i would leave knowing that i had done smth. While leaving the world a better place would be a strech. Making those around me happy would be a blessing.

Hi my name is...

Ever had to introduce yourself to others?

I mean like say Hi my name is ________ and i'm from ... so on so forth....

In my new tutorial the teacher asked us to introduce ourselves to the class and say 2 interesting things about yourself... i was 2nd in line and didnt have much time to think...

and yea....

I said... my name is Lawrence, i'm from Singapore and erm.... i'm 22...

YES...

i have nth interesting about me.. or at least, nothing that comes to mind...

and another time,

i was playing this game at orientation where u add an adjective in front of your name to introduce yousrself to others...

eg..

Brillant Bryan...

Dashing Daniel...

Charming Charles...

guess what i said...

Lame Lawrence

which is close enough to Lam Lawrence...

sad right my life...

i THINK i used to be interesting....