dev:iate

today’s technically my last day of summer, so i ought to wrap things up. during the previous term, lots of abstract ideas were floating around for summer plans, and most of them remained ideas. some were tragically killed, like the ambitious ocip project, and others just.. well.. never materialised. at the end of the day, at least i managed to strike some items off that list.

my gaffe at starringSMU’s initial interview denied me a position on the orgcomm, and the next immediate item was to get my nsf liability off my shoulders; ord in peace.

spending the last term watching how i met your mother had made “Suit Up!” a phrase that was legen… dary! so that had to be done, well besides it being preparation for FT and the corporate world beyond.

then came the choice between working and uh.. not working. the choice was clear. (hey, working wasn’t feasible either due to the intermittent disruptions in my availability). so learning to trade stocks occupied a couple of weeks, and that’s my stack of experience, although it hasn’t made me very much richer.

when starringSMU kicked off, the first thought was there goes summer. but it was a fun experience (it had to be, since i wasn’t there for the csp hours) and kinda nostalgic since it was my very first smu event last year. it has become rather cliché to say i have an awesome group, but we had a great time nonetheless.

and today, my last day of summer (day two of school for many others), i checked the last do-able item off the list: get scjp certifed. been trying to revise on and off, but distractions are aplenty, and i’m glad it’s done and over with. another line on my résumé. someone commented it was sad to take an exam on my last holiday, but well, it would have been even sadder if i had failed. so yeah. cheers!

time to attempt getting some rest to prepare for day one.

one hand. that’s enough fingers to count the remaining days of summer. i think everyone has a love/hate relationship with super long vacations, with slightly more love than hate. some things we set forth to do are left unaccomplished, other things we just can’t get enough of.

post-ndp. pre-term. a quiet day for quiet tea.

a good run to destress. shooting this panoramic stitch shot with my touch pro2 killed the endomondo app though, resulting in the one-way journey above. and my hands were obviously unstable, so a bit of ghosting is evident in the stitching.

quite far from the ideal timetable i set forth in the first window, but desperate times call for desperate measures. apparently everyone in smu took introductory economics and failed to realise that bidding on a lower scale is a win-win situation for everyone. oh well, five more seasons of bidding before i escape from this ever-escalating irrational consumer mindset.

time melts into oblivion just as you begin to savour the aroma of freedom.

someday, when my life has passed me by..

ever since summer started, i’ve felt lazier than i’ve ever been in a long, long while. maybe starting summer with nsf resumption made it worse. i believe i’ll be completing only half of what i had set out to do on my summer checklist. coupled with bearish stock markets, my inability to focus on scjp revision, and my nocturnal bioclock, i’m not really in the mood to do anything. and that’s pretty bad for an unemployed summer break. which might mean i have a subconscious desire to constantly have an external responsibility on hand. a requisite for personal productivity. which kinda sucks actually. in other news, my random blog entries are incomplete without a picture of food. that’s supper, which resembles breakfast.

like finally. and a nine-month hiatus proves to erode not only physical fitness, but entire histories as well. ungrateful would be an understatement, but some organisations should just die with the memories. ’nuff said.

now that i’m free and not intending to work for the foreseeable future, learning trading and revising for scjp would be my primary concerns before starringSMU kicks off in a while. well, besides my recurring DIY supper appetite. cheers!

getting older each day. and hit with another of my bi-annual cough/cold packages. not my ideal birthday weekend, but there’s nothing much i can do.

thanks for the wishes: clement tay, justyne, weichao, wanhui, weimin, saywei, hanmei, yongtai, adam, joel, cindy, zhengwei, tianshun, cunyang, jianchuan, joshua, jinkai, luck, steph, zhenru, wenzheng, shaun, bihui, billie, wanching, victoria, darren, cherene, denise, edmund, dawn, zixin, ryanna, amy, ivan, huiting, jestyn, zihui, derrick, joseph, joe qh, clement ho, kelvin, boonhwee, dallas, vanessa, cheeyae, alvin, aloysious, gerry, joe lk, jasper, sabby, eewen, wanjia, fueifong, and stradford.