Hello there dashing, 2008.

I think I’ve given up blogging on New Zealand, due to the fact that blogger takes ages to upload photos! (or just that to resize all the 7.2 megapicxel pictures is just a waste of my life)

Anyhow, no, I’ve not given up on blogging just yet, it’s just that the past few weeks after my return from sheep land has been very very busy. Considering im trying to meet up with everyone and attend everything it leaves me with little or rather no time to write about it. Well I can though sum my December up - fun fun fun.

So, I guess its time for the usual- what has 2007 been like and what’s 2008 going to be like entry. (its going to be super long, so don’t bother, it’s just for my personal benefit)

I think I can absolutely say that from 1989 till 2007, 2007 has to be, hands down the most diverse and unpredictable year ever. On my xanga blog I still have my entry from new year’s day 2007, and I already knew it was going to be an unpredictable year.

Well, for 11 years of my life, every year is pretty much set. You know what you'll roughly be doing in august when it’s only January. Its part and parcel of being in school. The whole transition from high school to doing-what-ever-you-need-to-do-so-that-you'll-get-a-job-in-the-future isn’t something you always know what you're going to do, especially if you're me.

Heck, the first 3 months of 2007 I didn’t even know what I wanted to do - media, finance, politics, medicine? Then comes the thought of what pre-uni to do. Oooohhhhhhhh... pening. As much as some people might call it "wasting time", I think my 3 months off was a well deserved one, I mean if any of you even knew what my 2006 was like... well lets just say I needed the break, badly. During the 3 months, besides the parting and concerts and waking up at noon everyday, more importantly I managed to take the take to go through all my options and also at the same time find out more things about my self that I never knew due to the label you carried around upon yourself while in school.

So once I did my research I finally settled for the London Board A-Levels programme in HELP institute. My time in help, was a ball of fun. Learnt that the world, or rather KL is just one heck of a small world. And by the time you know it everyone knows everyone. Being in HELP and its rather laid back first sem schedule was pretty awesome. Going out in between classes, racing down for nasi lemak at G floor, taking that stuffy bus back and forth from Wisma to Main Block, attempting to play foosball at DSA, stuffing 9 people in a proton saga, student council elections, prom... good times.

At the same time, you ask yourself - how do you identify your self? You’re no longer the label you carried before.. so what are you? You are no longer " The boy from the red house" or " the tall prefect" or " the best chemistry student".

Soon it was time for SPM results and all that shizzz. But then once you start college, you sort of ask your self - what’s the significance of SPM anyways?. Well anyhow, SPM results were a big blow, disappointed? Very. At that point it felt like jkhfljabfjsbfhabfldfi. Yeah not really an adjective I can put in to words. Most people especially my mum at that point kept on telling me that it wasn’t bad, in fact it was pretty good results, but of course everyone has different expectations. But now looking back, I guess I agree with her, after all EST and Agama.. haha.

After that came the process of applying for scholarships, for all the applications I sent out I only got one call back- Bank Negara. Made sure I was ready for the interview, and found out that Malaysia is actually filled with over achievers, just that we don’t know it. So I guess our generation is pretty awesome after all huh? ;)

Anyhow, I guess actually getting the scholarship was something that changed the course of the year for me. I was sooo happy, it felt like everything paid off. I wanted to carry on in HELP, but was advised to switch to another college- KYUEM.

So far I’ve spent 6 months in KYUEM or rather 'the jungle' as I usually refer to it as. I'd say I will thank the college for killing my social life, making me dependant on instant food, making me a tad bit more rebellious, and making me slightly more neurotic than I usually am.

No, it’s not all that bad.

Actually, after going through the initial 'suffering' of the first 3 months, I’ll have to say this college has given me a set of amazing friends. Not that I don’t already have pretty awesome friends, but it’s different when you LIVE with your friends. The crazy zany people I live with are what im most thankful for while in the jungle. Late night gossip sessions, movie nights, sleepovers, drama, birthday bashes, parties, masalah berakhlak (HAHA!), running away from guards, stealing bangku's, wonders of tanjong malim...Living on your own brings out things in you- I never knew I had a thing for cleaning and that sometimes I cant hear my alarm clock ring. Being away from my parents is a great breather for me. Makes me appreciate them more and avoids confrontation at all costs. Well whatever it is, I don’t cringe at the idea of going back there after the holidays, it’s a pretty 'entertaining' place, and hey I do study more :)

Studying with people from seriously different walks of life is eye opening, and im assuming it will continue to do so until I graduate in July 09. Blessing in disguise? Yeah I would say so.

So I guess in a nutshell (a big nutshell) that’s my 2008. Would I have known in January what and where I’d be in July or November? Nope. The most unplanned, unpredictable year so far. Yet, somehow I found it extremely exciting and fun to go through, time just flew by like *poof*

Well 2008 is not going to be like 2007, partly due to the fact that my year is pretty much planned out already, when are exams, when are college events.. yada yada.

So, hey, here is a farewell bid to 2007, which I enjoyed very much and a warm hello to 2008 which im totally looking forward to. :)