While the rest of the FYs look kind of slack....it's the complete opposite for us civil engineers-to be.

Thanks to Rag Day..we only have 3 weeks and 2 days for the Design Project...mine involved design of a road diversion scheme for construction of an underground MRT station and designing support systems for the diversion of a canal in the way. Both parts are unrelated and the first part is ending on this coming Tuesday..had to present to the most fearsome prof ever. Fearsome because we never know what he is going to ask/shoot and he just had to put on that garang face during presentations. =.=

Been meeting everyday (earlier thought we have 3 hour classes + endless meetings, turns out only have one 3 hour lecture so far and the rest is meeting time), past 3 days have been from 10am-9pm...Thankful for the presence of an awesome teammate who knows AutoCAD well so us noobs dont die a horrible death (even though we pretty much know some stuff already but are still rather slow). Hopefully everything turns out well....by end of Week 4, I shall be a free man again...

FYP and the two other TE mods basically abandoned :P and all other profs understand how intense these period is for us so FYP prof din even contact us/ask us for any submissions. First lectures of TE mods and I already find myself sleepy in classes...Traffic Flow and Control seemed horribly stats-y and prof has managed to scare one of my classmates to consider dropping the mod by the second lecture. ITS is interesting but prof is monotonous though I think I will enjoy. I hope.

Final year and finally got to know more classmates. As in actually talk to them. Yea slow (coz, well, yea you know what i am gonna say). I think the process really started last semester when my regular gang was broken up coz of SEP etc. Then VIP time get to know another bunch, and now roughly the same group of people are doing transport-related modules so that's another bunch. Well. At least not going to graduate knowing a small bunch of ppl...

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Final Year resident in hall! Phantom time (though its partly because of Design Proj). Plus I duno most of the people around anyway other than the old birds who have returned from SEP/IA/whatever...at least wont skip dinner or pack dinner to eat in room coz no dinner buddies anymore. Hall starting to look like the one i entered some three years ago, though people's approach to things feels very much different now. Can sort of understand how FYs last year can do all sorts of funny things like Games Night to Final Year Residents Projects. Sometimes can be really free (or maybe its actually just relatively free).

On a side note....PP, please dont die. :(

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I realize my updates during semester time always seemed to have sort of a format. First, I will update about school stuff, then about hall stuff, then most likely bitch about my skin condition. Oh well. For the sake of keeping to that format...I was rather upset few weeks ago that even without school work to stress me out, the stupid disease conquered new areas without me noticing at all. Sigh.

Sometimes I will fantasize about picking up an old bottle that was washed up a shore and I rub it and a genie appear to give me 3 wishes. And I think I probably rehearsed what I wanted to say to him n times already. (By the way, the third wish was to ask for 3 more hee hee). Coming back to reality...I will probably visit the doctor again, now that I have so much more free time. Maybe even regular visits. Even though I wonder if it will actually help because all they ever say is to tell me that it will stick with me forever.

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Home is good. Even though it's only one short week. :)

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