One think off my mind.

I went back to PJC today as an ambassador for Camp Idealpolis, the presentation was short, sweet, simple. And we were particularly grateful that the 2 teaching staff who are to be our contact person in PJC for the event are genuinely interested. They made reasonable enquiries and also told us their concern and what they require from us in the meantime.

Sometimes, the best way to tell if people are interested in the things you tell them is not through their replies, but through their enquiries.

Whee. That's one thing off my mind! Although I wish I can continue to be involved in the Idealpolis thingie. Still many loose ends left untied as it is.

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To know how far you have traveled, just look behind your shoulder.

I went back to PJC today, but the PJC campus at Teck Whye Walk never felt like the home it was for me when PJ was at Science Centre Road.

Even the uniform is different.

We used to joke that our uniforms made us look like factory workers. But not anymore. Nowadays, it's more fashionable to look like a waiter or waitress.

Five years ago, when I first enrolled in colleage, I was sure I would graduate with Physics and then go on to study engineering in the university.

I hated business schools and thought the corporate world is phony, dark and inevitibly sinister.

But there was another reason for my extreme apprehension - Shirts, no matter long sleeves or short, coupled with dark long pants was to me the worst fashion statment in the world.

Never would I know that five years on, I'll be making presentations after presentations, telling others of the value of a sound business mind and promoting the business school (NBS only) in the meantime. All the time dressed in the shirt and pants combination that I hated to the core.

Even as I write now, I still find it remarkable how life has a way of laying out your destiny in a manner that you can never predict.

Speaking of which, I will share a little story here as well.

Five years ago, I met a girl for the first time. A classmate. Everyone in the room met everyone else for the first time too. It was the first day of school.

In the days that followed shortly, the class is to meet frequently for lunches and other whatnots in a bid to get to know one another better. And my impression of the girl took shape too during this period of time - I concluded that she's ugly and utterly weird.

Four months later she would become my first girlfriend and mean more than the world to me. Well, until the world collasped, that is.

In that same period of time, I knew of another person, and for some reason that i don't care to explain here, she hated my guts.

Well maybe she never hated me THAT much, but she found me repulsive and told me that herself too.

In the years since.... Ah, but I don't wanna talk about that.

Hehehehe.

Nowadays, I feel a strange sense of obligation to warn others when they are about to scold or scream at me, cause you never know...

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Meeting XH for breakfast tomorrow morning. Hope Alif is on form to make power pratas tomorrow!

Finally managed to fish her out of her busy schedule after so long. I almost started to think that I may have to beg on my knees before she'll hand me an application form that will be subjected to further deliberation for approval before I can be granted an audience with her.

Think we've got lots of catching up to do. And I've got something I promised to show her...