I guess one of the things that surprised me after all these years of education is that I have only realized the importance of it after I have graduated, ironic…I know. While many would argue that getting a degree is more of a necessity more than anything else, I would beg to differ. Studying in UB has opened up my narrow-mindedness and changed my perspectives, making me glad to say that with, I hope I can be a better person.
Apart from the education aside, which by the way I think is awesome (honestly!), I think what I would like to remember and take away from my undergraduate life are my experiences and friends which I have come to treasure…the good……and the bad~ Being in a university is just like being anywhere else, because you’ll get to meet all sorts of people. I would like to think that my life in UB was simply a less dramatic version of any high school movie.
While people generally form their cliques pretty early from the get go, I strangely never really got to being permanently be streamed into any of those cliques, though I would like to think that I was on pretty good terms with many of these cliques, if not most. While I think I got to know most of the people I wished to know and be friends with, there are people whom I wished I had the pleasure to know better, and some people whom I wished I didn’t know them as well as I do. Heh.
To the “6 and a half women” gang, which includes my close guy buddy with the gift of being a real charmer, along with his blessed girlfriend, my cricket buddy who sometimes seems more manly than mi, the otaku girl, the angel with hands of a chef, the headphone girl, the ice queen, the k-queen, and the ang-moh power gal who taught me the word “siesta” in my first semester…you gals alone seem happening enough to keep me entertained :P
Then the gang of guys who only led me astray by teaching me how to gamble, and gamble, and gamble! There is the all-assured big-mouthed ringleader, the summer boys, the play boy, the everything-also-side-bet poker king, and finally THE MAN, who goes by many nicks, who shamelessly pisses me off all the time, but we still have supper…if I was out on a weeknite either having supper or gambling at soccer or mahjong, it’s with these guys…
Then there is the Malay, who technically isn’t even malay, there is also Barney who happens to be my neighbour, the wayang kia with his floppy hair, the aspiring zookeeper whom I seem to be able to talk to naturally, the sexually overcharged gamer who has humped me from behind many times in public, the gentle gaint who struggled Chinese, and the gal whom I can only talk to abt her eyebags :P I wish I knew you guys better, even if I already know some of u pretty well, I guess that’s where keeping in contact matters :)
Then there are these 2 gals who shared the unfortunate fate with me of having to have classes on a Saturday during our 2nd semester, and we have been buddies every since, the girl who seems to be perennially drunk and the girl whom I’d like to call “jui tang”, and likes to bring her BOB everywhere she goes…Then there is my buddy from Barker and lurves his camera and apple products, and the horny buddy who shares all his darkest “hum sap” secrets, the lilone who is also a fellow Taurus and more than once been on the same wavelength, the flower girl and his bf, whom I like to call the bull, and the many other people in uni who have one way or another made my UB journey complete. Thank you.
While there are regrets about who some events have turned out, there is no use crying over spilled milk (hint: scratched car?), and I hope that all these will only make all of us stronger. With this, I have come to the end of my journey as an undergrad, and finally face the real world. Lets go.
