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Currently listening to: Understand - Christina Aguilera.

Got this retro Christina Aguilera 'Back to Basics' CD today. Actually, my original plan was thrown out the window when I saw this CD. Was planning to get P.Diddy 'Press Play' CD but ended up this mellow but yet stylish & retro kinda music. It's kinda soothing to be listening to these kind of music once in a while...rather than hip hop R&B boom base songs all the time.

Got exam tomorrow, but i think my head is just too stuffed to be cramming anymore details in. Rite now I'm trying to keep all the info inside my head.

I was talking to my friend today and was saying how come we had to do our exams in another part of the city, let alone it wasn't part of the campus... -.-'' Anyhoo, mabbe it's because my uni has no more room for expansion... lol... or rather, keep the inflows & spend it on other more worthwhile projects such as research fundings (so to stay on top of their area/fields of world reknown research).

It is funny how time have just passed you by. I was looking at a photo taken on the last day in Yr 12. It will be exactly 4 yrs on 15 Nov that I've graduated from high school. It's both crazy & amazing to see how the same cohort of my year changed or moved different paths during these 4 years.. some moved to England for a sea change, one got married already, some got way prettier than I've imagined when we were in yr 12. :) This goes to show how people can always improve, learn and change for the better.

But ironically, looking back at my primary school friends from Gold Coast, it's kinda sad to see so many of my friends lead such a separate path, that I can never imagine myself going through. My Yr 7 friends & I went to different high schools, but during those years, one of my good friend dropped out of Yr 9 because her entire cohort & higher grades cohort were bullying her. So she couldn't take it anymore and dropped out. I'm surprised her parents did nothing to put her back into another school.... so i guess in that sense, i'm shocked at her parent's viewpoint on education. But i'm sure they did ask her to go back to school, but since she didn't want to, they just left her to be. In this 21st century society, I believe kids have more power in controlling what they want to do, but sometimes it can ruin their whole life. I don't know what happened to that friend. Another friend from the same primary school was seen working at the local supermarket for a number of years. But amazingly, one of my friends also managed to get into a top high school in the state in Qld & she excelled in violin and academically. While here I am, leading such a different life to those of my primary school friends that I've met in Gold Coast...

There are so many facets in my life that I'm thankful for. W/o those experiences, would i have never opened my eyes. There will be many more challenges heading my way, no doubt about that, but hopefully with each small paddle up against the stream, i'll be able to learn from those experiences and grow from it :)

lol...i feel very soul-ful atm... just from listening to "Back to Basics" CD.. :)