ABCD... 1234...

ABCD...1234... What do you see?

Kindergarten student: "Letters and numbers."
Piano player: "Notes and finger numberings."
Mathematician: "Sequence. [n(n+2)]/2."
University students: "GRADES and MARKS!"

That's what we call different perspectives. It's really a matter of how we view something and how important we take it. The position that we're in, the things that we encounter and experience will all affect ourselves, of our interpretations and decisions. Thus, as a university student, I hereby acknowledge the other possible perspectives and pronounce that learning is not all about grades and mark but the process. Sigh... If only the university and the society realise this.

Okay, enough craps.

WEEK no. 3.5 at Canada.

Life has been good (definition of "good": still surviving). Things have started to settle down and daily routine is well-cycled by now. Class, Breaks, Class, Breaks. Practically, that's the outline of my life here. I am living on campus. So, literally, I don't leave school at all. How lovely is that, like a bird confined to a cage, only there're no metal bars around me. I'm stuck inside here. Whenever there's class, I head to class, when there's no class, I shut myself in the room and listen to musics that play over and over again while I work on my studies. Well, there are times when we venture out too. That's one of my favourite to-do-s here. Get out of the university compound and go somewhere. Sadly, my sense of direction is almost nil, if anything, I'd most likely get lost. XD Though I like going out alone just to take in whatever is happening outside or simply to indulge in loneliness. It feels rather good sometimes to be all by myself, but not all the time, not especially when people around you are in groups and beaming joyously.

Studies are as usual, easy when you understand it and hard when you don't. The idea remains. Proven to hold by ka yan. >< And yes, one more thing about the calculus course that I am currently enrolled in, it requires loads of proving. Sigh... Simply crazy. Sometimes before I manage to grasp the concept, those notes that I copied off the board look like alien codes. Haha... But I'll make some sense out of them somehow. 'Ask' or 'Sit & Think'! More the latter until I really couldn't figure it out, then the former. The typical ka yan style. =)

On the note that winter is approaching, a couple of us have bought ourselves winter clothes. Part of me is anticipating and excited, part of me is not so looking forward to it, part of me wants it to be over soon, because that will mean it's closer to summer holidays, and hence, to the time when I can go home! I want my bed. And ah ma's home-cooked food and soup.

I'll be good. =) I'll miss home though. XP People back there at Malaysia,
"I'll be back!" haha...

Off to a shower and back to work to obtain ABCD... 1234... Sigh!