Thanks For The Memories.

That's what I was doing a moment ago. Looking back at my older posts, I have noticed the following phenomena:

1) the number of blog posts made by me has increased over the years.

2) my general mood over the 3+ years since my blog was set up kinda takes on the shape of a cosine graph: from the happy-go-lucky days in TKGS when I wrote about lighthearted topics (cos(0)=1) to the frustrating days in HCI, when I strove to meet a never-ending list of deadlines, questioned if I was becoming a worse person (cos(pi)=-1), and had fun with my team mates while making Ambi (cos(pi+some real positive integer)=some number >-1), and finally to the recent posts about my happiness with NUS (cos(2pi)=1). (or should I say, happi-NUS!)

3) The older posts were more happy-looking because they were so colourful. Are monotone blog posts a sign of old age? :P

That's the nice(?) thing about having a blog. You can go back in time to experience the emotions you felt years ago. Good or bad, happy or sad, they allow me to understand how I have become the person I am today. Self doubts have been clarified: Now I know that my tendency towards introversion is not a bad thing, because it doesn't mean that I'm antisocial. It just means that I need a little more 'me-time' than everyone else in order to keep my sanity intact. I think I've matured a little.

Today, I decided to go brisk walking for an hour three times a week to prevent myself from becoming a 'slackademic'. (in the physical way) The treadmill prompted me to choose a program at the beginning, and then told me to enter my age for it to determine the level of intensity of my workout. I pressed and held down the minus sign button on the treadmill until the number dropped to 19. As I looked at the number to confirm my age, a thought just struck me.

"I'm going to be 20 soon."

20. That's like a symbol of adulthood to me.

I don't know about you, but I still feel pretty much like a teenager. I'm not in a relationship like many people of my age, and in the past, I chose not to be in one; so now, I can do almost whatever I want, whenever I want. (and that freedom is nice :D) I've got no kids, no job, no loans on hand, and almost nothing to worry about... except my studies, of course. If I still looked like a kid, and if NUS is a primary school, I would be no different from any primary school kid.

My personality has changed a little, but my life doesn't seem to have changed at all.

Weird!

Going to finish off my programming tutorial 2, programming lab exercise, discrete maths Karnaugh diagram question for the group project, the second mathematics tutorial, AND the Mastering Physics online exercise. (Plus re-work the questions in the insanely difficult physics tutorial 1 again, if there's time to spare.)

Whew. The programming tutorials may be relatively easy, but they're getting rather lengthy. :P Now, I feel thankful to my JC for drowning us in homework... I've turned into a fish ever since. Bring on the pacific ocean!