As you can see from my calendar, I was very afraid of August, for it meant the start of a new school semester. Was. After checking out all my mods and stuff, I feel more confident and more prepared. Bring it on, man! Year 2, Sem 1 will be a breeze. I will make sure I do well.

Today I was thinking for a bit and I thought in Year 1, I lost a bit of that drive. Even as I am about to proceed to Year 2, I'm thinking... What for study so hard for First Class Hons right? Then I felt selfish, coz my parents have been, and still is, putting in so much money and hopes on me all these years of education. It is only right that I give back. And make' em proud. No no not making myself sound noble and righteous and all. I've been quite selfish. Thinking about myself too much sometimes. And well, First Class is still the best and highest standard everyone out THERE wants to achieve. Having that, gives you the edge.

I feel like I need to be more competitive. At every step of the way, in the pursuit of furthering my education, I had someone to compete with. Someone to really push me to do well. When I'm in god-mode, my goodness, I can be vicious! In wkw, I don't have that someone. I think.. I need to make enemies.

Apprehensive about school, yet anticipating the challenges that lie ahead.



Anyway, aside from school, I'm REALLY EXCITED ABOUT EXCHANGE!!!!!

Jasmine and I have thought about it and Turkey is really a place we are both super interested to land our asses in?! I've never been to The Middle East. It's seemingly dangerous, but hey, a little excitement in our lives would just make MY world go round. Whatever that means. But omg, I've just been researching today about the 2 Turkish Universities up to offer and I couldn't wait to be in there!? I can IMAGINE myself there. I'm that.... keen. Such a passive word to use for the amount of excitement I can feel in my bones.


One of the Universities is Koc University, and THIS VIDEO JUST MAKES ME WANNA BE IN THERE SO BADLY.




Ahhhh... But unfortunately, there are 2 things that would hinder my smooth and easy application.


1) There are only 2 freakin vacancies for each of the 2 Universities offered in Turkey that NTU has partnerships with

2) I'm not blessed with a GPA score that is to die for


2 vacancies would mean competition with not just wkw but the whole of NTU. I really wonder what are the chances NO ONE ELSE OTHER THAN THE 2 OF US would want to go to Turkey. 1st problem. What's more, it's gonna be tough if we wanna enter the same university. 2nd problem. Turkey is also a country with a population that is 99% Muslim. So... I'm thinking muslims here are likely to choose Turkey over the other parts of the world. Moreover, it's the only Middle Eastern/Muslim-majority country listed. 3rd problem.

GPA, oh wow, really? You mean, they consider your GPA? Huh? Like what? Repeat that? Shut up bitch, you shoulda known. Hahahaha. But well yeah they'd pick the candidate who has the higher GPA over the one who doesn't have that high a GPA when it comes to the ranking of their choices. You'd have to have a minimum score of 3.6 to be qualified for GEM Explorer, the name of the Exchange Programme. But having to compete with the whole school, that's insane. You need way higher than just the minimum.
Should've made sure I got a GPA of 4.94 so that I'd be SOOOOo secured. Like that asshole who went for consultation and asked what his chances were. Wahlauwayyy. Seriously I will stuff a piece of nugget up his..


Anyway, yeah, that's just some of my many concerns. Turkey would be brilliant but if that fails then I guess other countries would be lovely as well. But really, after all that researching done, oooooh, Turkey would be too good to be true :'D

Money is also an issue. You won't feel good spending all that just to have an "experience" overseas and have so much fun and not study so much and merely have to pass exams and the list of terrible sins go on... So privileged to have a gazillion ton of money. No guilt.

But it'd be amazing if I were presented such an opportunity. Ahh... and now is the time. And I just need to know where in the world, literally, I want to go to! I need to do more research. My mind's just filled with Turkey though. Time to re-track. And consult.


Oh and just when school's about to start, The Olympics will draw to a close starting at 4am later. How timely. When I had time to watch, it began and when it is time to get busy, it ends. Feels as if a good friend is going away and back to his hometown. Nothing exciting to watch on tv on a regular basis already. I guess it's good, coz I've to study. Thank you London Olympics 2012, for injecting much needed excitement into my life the past few weeks. I'll see you again when I'm 24.