The beginning of the end.

Today marked the start of my last academic year in NTU.

It was a very pleasant experience saying hello to old classmates that I had not seen in almost one year.
In my final year in NTU, I have listed down the following to achieve:

1. Maintain my weight of 77 kgs (Yes, I lost a total of 8 kgs in the Netherlands!)
2. Stay happy and maintain a healthy relationship with Miss Ge
3. Spend a healthy amount of time with my family, be it cooking or mopping the floor.
4. Enjoy my last year in NTU!

When I first started out in university, I had that obsessive mentality to put in 100% for everything that I could lay my hands on:
Lifesaving training, school work, project work, and et cetera.
After my attachment, I was taught the very important lesson of expectations.
The higher one's expectations, the bigger one's disappointments.
It was a very humbling lesson but perhaps it was best it was a lesson I learnt when I was just an intern rather than a working personnel.

On exchange I learnt a lot about myself with regards to my personality thanks to people like Mau, Gunkiat, Kianshing, Miss Ge and Venu.
Simple things that my close friends that have always given me leeway for like my burst of emotions and my tendency to jump to the wrong conclusion before making a more accurate judge of the situation was very apparently exposed to me by the friends I made in Delft.
Thanks to these people, I now make a more decent attempt (although by Gunkiat's observations it's not decent enough..) to not jump to the wrong conclusions nor to mouth out whatever I think without further processing in my brain.

Hopefully I will keep in mind all these lessons I have learnt in the past one year and apply them for the rest of my life.

Perhaps I forgot to add a last and final objective of what I wished to attained in my last year in NTU:
5. Not to spend a ridiculous amount of time on school work or on my FYP.

I admit I should work hard to try and claw my way up into First Class since I am only 0.08 off, but then I figure I should do what I always did and not put in additional effort, because it's frankly not worth getting 4.5 and then end up looking like Humpy Dumpy with 90 kilos of excess weight.

So having said that, I should also try to get my healthy amount of sleep which began from yesterday. 7-8 hours a day would be perfect, and time to put that in practice.