Back to the institution...

August 2010 - December 2010... Imagine a life out of college... well this applies if you are a college student...

Spending 4 months without waking up early in the morning for class, without rushing to the classroom, without chasing the bus because you were 5 minutes late... without writing long assignments, without listening to lecturers talking bout their experience and their grandmother stories...

Though I have to say, I kind of miss college...

But i'm officially back into this placed called the Taylor's University Institution of Higher Education (trying to make it sound more fancy)... I am a sophomore studying or shall I say going through the college experience in the American Degree Program, majoring in International Relations...

With that said, being back in college is just... different... Not shock that I experience some culture shock after the long 4 months break...

Now, I have to rush to college, chase the bus (which i already did in my first week), swipe a ridiculously huge amount of $$$ for my tuition fee (which in this case is paid by both my dad & mom... Thanks dad&mom), going through a hassle on the college registration system and other jazz...

It is also the a huge change when you shift to the new 'Lakeside Campus'! *with grand music background* Yea... the kind of famous Taylor's Lakeside Campus... To most, it is a campus that every student would dream to be in and to some, just a way to waste all the money and increase of fees... but to the public, it is the 21st century University Campus... a luxury... a prestigous campus... Wonder why Taylor's fees shoot up in the last 1 year? Well the answer is where I am sitting down on a kind of expensive chair, typing this out on an apple keyboard, looking at a 27inch Mac Screen with HD quality display and all this in a Mac Lab, in a 4 level high modern library...

Why am I complaining? Not really though, I am amazed by the facilities provided by this campus... I am convinced by the services of this campus, shocked by the technology provided, wowed by the fact that its HUGE campus to start with, slapped by the amazing architecture designs, facinated by the chains of restaurants and shops that are here, impressed by the quality of the lecturers and all other services... It is everything i think a student in a private university deserves... (well definitely there are some flaws into it)

But just asking this question, is this suppose to be the things about colleges this days? To equip itself with everything with a label 'luxury' or 'branded' on it? To have starbucks and baskin robbins as your food chains... to have super luxurious furnitures... To be the best university in terms of making the most $$$ out of students...

It is a stupid question to ask if you ask me... I would be laughed at for even bringing this up... Of coarse it is, isn't it todays world all about that... If you don't have the biggest wallet, how would you want to compete to be no.1 in every industry... The education industry is no exception... The concept of having money spend on improving teaching methods, improving quality of tutors, and most importantly students are now secondary objectives for most universities... and would not shock me if it falls down the list... But hey, who am I to say... I am one of those who are the contributors to these phenomenon anyways...

But nevertheless, say hello to college... Now since I am back, i realized how much i miss my life as a student...

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
-- Anatole France

The pages that have been flipped...

Well, books... From a young age I was not really the person who would love to read... Thus, my grammar as well as my spelling was just awful... Not really a person who spend most my time tiring my eye on words...

Unlike my brother who is a book lover... Though I won't label him as a book worm... You see my brother is a special person... He has the brains for book and memory... Though some will say we are alike, maybe physically... but character... we are just two separate planet... His reading and writing skills are just phenomenon!

Point that I am trying to make? Don't really know... Maybe just want to introduce my little brother a little bit...

Somehow or rather, the past year... I tried taking up reading... Heck, when did I actually started... My first book (well not technically first...but... first book read in college...), To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, that was basically because it was one of the books that I have to read in the US History class... I guess that started the fire? yea... probably...

The came august... When I was heading back to the US for the IVLP program... When you know that you are going to be on the plane for 28 hours as well as hours more in airports ALONE, you kind of have the tendency to plan ahead of how to spend that time... So, figuring that out, yada yada yada... I got the book'The Guardian' by romance author nicholas sparks...

Then pretty much got hooked to it... From there on, got 5 more of his writing... with basically Sparks writings... "Wow, I didn't know you read romance?!"... Well yea... But there is something in Sparks way of writing that make it more than a just another romance novel... Don't really know what it is, but I guess it's just something special...

Anyways, after comparing what I've read and the experience watching romance movies, I dare to say... the expression of feelings, whether it is love, friendship, sorrow, happiness are best expressed in words... When you read a book, generally drama or romance or any other type of writing that emphasize hugely on feelings, it really digest the writing, dissolving the message into our minds... comparing with movies... it just sticks in your head for a little while but later... erased...

It's like actions themes are just best expressed visually (movies)...

Got a 2 new books today... 'Message in a bottle' by Sparks and 'The Tipping Point' by Malcom Gladwell... Looking forward to finishing it...

I just can't believe that I just wrote a whole post crapping about the books I read and ending it with the books I just bought... weird...

But, life is full with unexpected & weird stuff...

(now i just can't believe i ended it with another crappy sentence...)

Chaoz...

A good book has no ending. ~R.D. Cumming

The first time the pen starts writing...

Blogging... Was never a fan of it. Had a blog 2 years ago...that was during the peak of blogging or is it still popular? Heck, I have no idea...

Why start back a new blog? Or why start blogging again for that matter?

Well... I guess it's mainly for fun... Basically asking myself how long would this one last?... Also because I just felt like having a blog again... Unusual?
Not really... (Well, from the first few lines you most probably have realized that I like to ask myself questions as well as answer them at the same time... So yea... I will be doing that a lot... Why telling you this? No particular reasons...)

Anyway, its a new year... Most people would want to try new things... So, blogging is one of the things for me...

What a introduction huh for the first post? But well, we'll see how it goes :) So, nice to blog again, hope you guys find this blog somehow amusingboringsadhappyinterestingnormalwasteofyourtime and the rest of what you can think off.

Current listening - Fix You by Coldplay