I watched harry potter though I don’t usually watch such shows. I am not a non-fiction person so I don’t really enjoy watching those shows where there is “fake” stuff like those ancient shows whereby the heros in the show can fly around and have power coming out of their palms when they are fighting, so I don’t enjoy harry potter. Anyway, during the show, my mind was filled with lots of things, worries for the lab reports that needs to be submitted the next day, presentation at 8 the next day, test which will cost me 20% of my module on the Tuesday to come and the following week’s test which I badly need to score or at least pass reasonably well. I wasn’t really focusing on the show when all these things were floating in my mind throughout the show, nevertheless, I did not sleep! Haha.

Test, test and more tests is the routine of an education life. Work, stress and human relations are the things one will face in the working society. Which is better? Studying is a process in which some will enjoy while others will just want to get it done and over with as soon as possible. Work is for the money that is essential for a living. It is still up to one to decide which is a better period of time for that person to enjoy.

If given a choice to start over again, I wouldn’t have chosen the course I am in now, but it’s too late and nothing can be done to turn the situation around. Yeah lots of people are saying I have a good job prospect in future but the fact is it is not as easy as it seems. True enough that even with a diploma, I can easily get a 2k odd starting salary when I go out to work in most established petrochemical companies in Singapore, however with a poor GPA of 1.8, which company will accept me? And after so many things happening and so many incidences that my lecturers have been telling us, I feel that it is not worth it. Take for example me taking a business course, I will only earn 1.7k starting salary with a diploma while I can get around 2.4k starting salary, however, business is a better choice. Why? Cos of all the risk I have to take. There is no physical risk involved in a business world but mine is risk bound everywhere and anywhere. Even with the full protective gear on, one student on attachment got his 2 fingers lost because the acid he was dealing with got through the tiny pores of the gloves he was wearing and dissolved his bones, and that was the end of it, 2 fingers gone with only the flesh left swollen like sausages. A chill went down my spine when I heard of this incident and it happened, to a student like me, studying to get a diploma. I am really having the urge to just stop it now, I have no doubts that I regretted.

I really need to get my thinking straight and back to a normal student trying to score well as soon as possible. 2 major tests to go and I got to get back on track to the fullest gear in the shortest possible time. Wish me luck.