i miss full time studying

i took a walk down memory lane just now. went to SP's new convention centre to collect a bursary awarded to my sister and cousin. they are both away studying in australia at the moment.

well while walking around the revamped side of SP and bringing mother up to block 14 for her to perform her solat brought back the memories of the time when i was still a student there.

lunchtime was always spend at the musollah of blk 14 with my friends. most were from the dept of electronics, computer and communication engrg and a few of us were from the dept of electrical engrg and mechanical engrg. there were not much malay girls taking electrical and mechanical but quite a number were taking electronics during my time so we always hang around the electronics side of the campus. that was where we really bonded during lunchtime and when it was fasting time we will sit and recite the quran together. for those of us who can't recite during the red flag we just read the translation...heheh..

i still remember when i first stepped into the poly as a freshie. that was July 1994, 10 yrs ago. and, well had a bit of a hiccup in the middle when i flunked one of my subjects and had to repeat one module. but after that i managed to pull myself through and finally graduated in July 1998. there was quite a lot of changes around there but some things still remain the same. i remember when i was performing my solat, the wind will blow away the mat. it's still the same now :)

life as a student was really simple and worry free. well i still have to worry but it was just over schoolwork and exams. after exams are over you feel this relief and then you can really relax during the school holidays. what i normally do after school is hang around in the library and finish up all the tutorials till it's closing time. then i'll head home and take my shower and dinner and hit the bed.

my generation experienced the best of both worlds. we knew of life without computers (what!!!), no MRT (how did you travel??), no handphones/pagers (can't imagine that). i had the pleasure (if you can call it that) of experiencing a classroom without aircons but only fans, no such thing as e-mails. those came about only when i was in my final year of poly so that's why i say i experienced both worlds. my friends and me didn't have the privelege of having an MRT stop right outside the poly when we were students. we had to either take the bus or simply walk from buona vista stn to campus. a 15 mins walk will take only 5 mins when you are late...heheh...

life as a student was really fitting me fine till the day i took my final exams and got my results. what was i going to do? what does life has in store for me now? those were the questions i asked myself back then. i thought i was ready for the real world. but the world had something in store for me. it was hard looking for a job when you are thrown into an economic crisis. it took me almost a year to land my first real job. in the meantime i did some temporary work here and there. did menial labour like data entry (where i learnt my typing skills), filing (literally filing - take files in and out the shelves for whoever asks for them) and even tutoring.

now i'm in my second job and in the blink of an eye (to me) i'm already working for 4 years there. where did all the time fly? after all these years of working, i still miss the simple life of studying. i miss all the friends i made there. most of them have started their own families and are also busy with work. i'm busy with my work and the part time degree i'm taking that i have no time to socialise let alone think of starting my own family.

now i wonder what life has in store for me the next 10 yrs. what will i end up by then? will i still be in the same job? i guess i'll just have to wait for my fate. we can only plan but the real action will be decided by the Almighty Allah. Amin.