Anyway, below is a little piece I wrote in November 2011. I had just finished my first ever finals, and yeah, I was in a reflective mood. Enjoy.
#thingstodoafteryourfinals
So our finals are over, and we're free from the shackles of studying and projects for the time being. It'll be back in full-swing come January, but that's a lifetime away. For now, we've got to just enjoy the time we have. It's easy to simply while your time away; sit at home playing Tetris Battle, or laze in front of the couch, or whatever.
But that's not good. It's like you've got a golden key, and there's a golden door in front of you, but you don't want to go through it because the sofa you're sitting in is so damn comfortable. I say make the best out of what little time you've got, and do the following:
1) Go on dates
People sometimes sit around and whine about being bored, and having nothing to do, and about how no one's asking them out. I say take the fucking initiative and go out with that guy/girl that you thought you clicked with. You know, that person who never really became your friend, but you had a good conversation or two and you think there's a spark, but you never had the chance to develop it, and all the time you're just playing with all this "what ifs" in your head.
Trust me, they're just as bored as you are, and they'll be glad you asked them out. Probably.
It doesn't have to lead to anything serious. In fact, it probably won't. But it might. And in the off-chance that it MIGHT, that he/she is the one, or that he/she will be the one who will lead you to the one, just go do it.
2) Watch Community
There's many sitcoms out there, but none is more streets ahead than this show. Community, unlike other sitcom, is something closer to art. It's about a lawyer, Jeff Winger who goes back to community college to get a degree. There's this girl he wants to bang (Brita Perry), and in order to get closer to her, he creates a Spanish study group consisting of the most diverse and awesome characters ever created for television. (In retrospect, I think it's awesome how this show started because somebody wanted to bang somebody else. It's genius, and it's totally relatable.)
The group slowly grows closer together, and they go on a shitload of crazy situations. The dialogue is dangerously witty, the characters are immensely lovable, and the storylines are insane. It's a show which gives you something new every week, be it a zombie infestation, or a spoof of a mafia movie, or an episode where they explore alternate timelines. They don't always succeed, but you can feel that it's very much aneffort of love from its creators, and not by-the-numbers show like BBT.
It tries to transcend the norms of television, and most of the time, it succeeds. The show's currently in it's third season, but we're hoping for #sixseasonsandamovie. Also, Community is the reason I have a fake goatee on in my profile picture.
3) Visit a museum
Most museums are free if you're a university student. Now that you have the time, I suggest you just go in, and just...have your mind blown. You'll be surprised at what our museums actually have in store. We have world-class exhibits here, which people would pay good money to see. And we can just stroll in for free? It's ludicrous, in a way that's good for us.
I don't really care for the historical museums, but the Art Museums are amazing. I went to Singapore Art Museum the other day. There were two note-worth exhibits: The Burning Gaze, by Hyung Koo Kang, and the Signature Art Prize 2011 Exhibition, a collection of exceptional art pieces from all over Asia. Just pop by when you have the time and you went regret it.
There's this piece called "Needling Whisper, Needle Country/Embroidery Project" by a South Korean artist by the name of Kyungah Ham. He basically sent over patterns to North Korean factories for them to sew. And in this patterns, he inscribed things like "Are You Lonely" and heart-wrenching shit like that.
4)Go to a Post-exam Party
Exams are like the natural disasters of school. It's a collective shit that we all have to go through. And like....all we have is each other, you know what I mean? Unless you're going through it, you don't know how hard it is. Your parents, your friends who aren't in university...they can't really sympathize with the amount of studying that you have to put in. All you have to hold on to is your friends.
And it's your friends who support you through the exams, and help you when you have questions, and buy you food when you're hungry. What better way to celebrate than by going for a party together? And a post-exam party isn't like any other party. It's with people you know. And I guess that's a goodthing/badthing situation, but it's something worth experiencing.
And I think after 14 (or is it 15?) weeks of studying so hard, we're all just dying to shuffle.
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5) Find yourself.
I think that after so many weeks of studying, it's easy to lose track of who you are. I'm not exaggerating on this one. There comes a point where you wake up to study, and you spend the whole day studying, and then you sleep, and then the next day it repeats itself. And it repeats itself and it repeats itself until you don't know who you fucking are anymore.
Why exactly are you studying so hard for? What do you want out of this university education? What kind of person do you want to be? What's the point in all this?
You're like a ship. In the middle of the freaking ocean. And you're going somewhere. What exactly is the exams in this analogy? Exams are a storm which just happens to be in your way. It might set you back, but if you know where you're going, and you know what you're doing, you'll get there eventually.
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