Its just hard to believe that Im almost done with semester 1 and hopefully after 3 years I would be saying its just hard to believe Im almost done with my degree. LOL! Well reminiscing when I first step into HELP having all these worries and doubts that I will ever make it through after what all the lecturers said to us about the course. Furthermore I used to complain about the class being too quiet with everyone minding their own business...well now its like a night market everyday in class even when there's a lecturer inside but hey I kinda like it.

The lecturers - well I would say I enjoy accounts and stats class as there's no pressure during lectures yet but I dread maths class eventhough the lecturer is very experience but he can be very sarcastic at times which makes you feel stupid. But then again he's kinda funny or maybe more of a joker without realising it himself. Thats the funny part. The worst class is econs partly because of the lecturer and also because I hate that subject. Sadly to say the lecturer can't teach at all despite the fact that she is a fresh graduate and a top student. I'm wondering if her degree was obtained through complete memorisation of books. I hope I'm wrong. She also lacks the confidence in her own teaching. On the first day of class she taught with the book covering her mouth and like how are we possibly going to hear her if she does that. Fortunately she's much better now although we still can't understand a single thing she's teaching. Here I am now condemning my own lecturer's teaching when I'm planning to be one in the future. Hopefully by that time I will have enough confidence when I'm facing my own students. After all there's always a first time to everything.

I've made alot of new friends too although I don't know everyone in my class yet but there's this one thing that I would definitely agreed with is that people who are chinese educated or prefers to speak mandarin are somehow friendlier as compared to those english educated. Actually I've long confirmed this when I went for my NS training and it all seems clearer now. It's not that I'm condemning the english educated here but it somehow seems easier to mingle around those chinese educated people given that I am english educated. I feel that they treat me sincerely as compared to the english educated who seems like they are trying to challenge me or somewhat look down on me if I'm not up to their standard. Seriously doesn't mean that if you are english educated you are way better than alot of people because in the end you will still lose out when it comes to speaking or writing in mandarin unless you are good at both but it still doesn't mean you can show off. No offense here as it is all based on my own opinion.

For me I am always willing to improve both my english and mandarin if given the chance and i am very lucky to have made a few friends who taught me mandarin during NS and now in college as well. It seems like I'm speaking mandarin very often nowadays especially in college and I eventually speak mandarin without realising it but I'm definitely not becoming a lala as how my sister puts it.

And now that sem 1 is going to end I may not be seeing some of my friends in maths and stats class due to our different majors. I'm definitely gonna miss their company.