Registration of subjects for coming year 3 semester...

today is my own self-declared rest day, so alarm clock off-ed, even my mom also auto-off and didnt wake me, so... guess wad time i wake up today? close to 1pm!!! which means i slept close to 11hrs again... wad a luxury during the hols... and i think i'll have serious problems when i need to start waking up early for school soon...

okay, so thankfully i woke up in time to get online to register for next sem's modules... well, at least its not so stressful like NUS where they need to bid for the modules, but still there's a difference in the no. of sch days depending on which lab session i register for. blur me only knew got different slots today. sigh. altho dun need to bid, but today i finally know the theory of "fastest-finger-first" to get the best slots for the timetable. i had long saved up the correct slots for my tutorial group. its the best cuz supposed to be a normal 5 days week, with Wed off cuz the lab session can be fitted in between the lectures on Thurs. but they're alrdy horrible enough to plan a 3hrs lecture on a Sat morning.

So, the registration opens at 1.30pm. At 1.31pm, my friend from the same tutorial grp told me no more vacancy for the thurs lab session and i was so stunned!!! irritating how those pple from other tutorial grps have registered under other people's tutorial groups, leaving me and my frens having to reluctantly register in the other group. so now i got the worst timetable ever! i didnt get the thurs lab session, which means no Wed off, and the Sat lesson is for everyone, so no choice... sigh. so i got a 6day week now, with Mon-Fri starting at 8.30am, Sat at 9.30am. most weekdays end 4.30pm or 5.30pm except Friday. so sucky. i thought gone were the days of 6days week when i leave TCM, but...its just my luck... i should have known the competition for the best timetable, and make more effort to maybe wake up early go school register under school's intranet, everything should be faster and better. hmph.

so then i went to check out the electives i can take... the waiting list made my jaws almost drop. so many pple waiting for the more popular electives, especially those non-examinable ones, or those easy to score. and i realised i somehow die die also must try to take an elective this sem else cant finish clearing them by year 4... sigh. i hope the allocation of electives can be more fair and give priority to the poor me year 3 student with still a total of 5 electives left uncleared... i think most of my frens only left with 1 or 2... sigh. why didnt i try to request to do the intersem this hol altho i wasnt given the elective? oh well... too bad for me then... the switch over to pure Biosciences isnt going to be a nicer pasture to slack, but even tougher competition... i definitely need to strategise better!! but at least i know i should be on a right path.....

looking at the sucky timetable with such early days, how i wish i can get to stay in hall. but i didnt apply for it. furthermore, its not easy to get hall although it the new hall allocation scheme based on distance away from school. i find it really ridiculous if they think having to travel 1.5hrs to school isnt considered far. how i wish i can like borrow someone's car to drive to school. having a driving licence but no car to drive feels worse than not having the licence. or even better to get a lift from someone... or just bunk in at someone's hall... just feels...so unmotivated to think of having to wake up at 6am, rush for school, compete in the long queue for 179 to get to school... haiz..... nvm, lesson learnt. its just another semester and i am sure the next one will be much better.....

kinda disappointed to get such a packed timetable... on top of that, still got tuitions and guitar lesson... plus all the time wasted on traveling... where do i find time to serve in ministry like church and Campus Crusade? maybe i should fully commit to serving God as a student. then my studies wont feel so dreadful... i pray that i'll get extra energy and passion to continue going to cell, DGs and church.... how to find time for dear and family? i foresee more white hair, panda eyes and zombie, haggard look in school....

i wonder... did i take up more things than i can handle? does my poor results and even the lack of time even show that the change of course isnt God's plan? oh well... enough abt the negatives and uncertainties... perhaps i'll never really find the answers...

amidst all uncertainties and anguish, i always remember the verses:

"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward." (Philippians 3:13-14)

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you HOPE and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11)

yes... these are God's promises i'll hold onto... for as long as i can...
please remind me when i forget.....