Mil: The Year In Review

How was 2005 for you?
It was a year of many changes. I move on from 2004 and stayed in Kl for the second-half of the year. I learned a lot in my 6-months-job and gained friggin lot in terms of experience. Got a "decent"result in SPM, enough for me to coughed into TARC, and never look backed, i guessed. New friends, new enviroment, new subjects....its fun. But of course, i missed Penang and my friends and family out there.

What was the highlight of 2005 and why?
Basically, there aren't anything very very exciting things I can think of, but getting a good CGPA for the first sem is for one. Good grades had eluded me for years. Gathering with my family and friends back in Penang had also been fun. Staying abroad do makes u think of ur love one back there.

What was the lowest point of 2005 and why?
I think is the day I recieved SPM results. At first, there was nothing, no hapiness and no sadness. But looking at my friends who, most of them, passed with flying colours, I suddenly had a freaky feeling that this was not a year to enjoy. How wrong I am..hah!

What had changed since the start of the year?
Well, there had been a great change this year, as in switching from one enviroment to another. From Penang to KL, from high school to college, from house to hostel, from good Chinese food to to Mamak.....its had been a year of thousand changes, really. My thoughts and perceptions changed a lot. I started to realised, after receiving SPM results, that my life is not going to be somthing to do with science and maths and technology. Screw science(except Social Science tho)...I wonder: why people must struggle to keep up with the myth that science stream student had prosper while art stream students do not. That is not the case really. The important thing in life is of course do what you enjoy most and what you are interested in, not just fulfill people's demand on you. Get a life. People will never get satisfied with expectations.

What you learned and found out in 2005?
Well, I learned a lot, and i seriously meant a lot of things in 2005. Changes brings a lot of new things, and you have to learn to adapt to it. For the first-half of 2005, I was holding to a, what I thought, is an underpaid job. There, was the first time I experience the toughness of society. Prejudice, discrimination, conformity and politics...bla bla bla bla...list goes on. Here I learned to coped with stress, and this ain't some study stress or somthing. Its a pressure and a situation of make-or-break. Get promoted or get fired. Thats when I realised that study stress is nothing compare to it. and, to be frank, I think exam stress is nothing compared to it. In the second-half of 2005, I learned friggin lot of new things, which of course, its my new road to future. Social science, counselling, psychology and sociology, everything is sooo new for an ex-biology, physics, chemistry and maths nerd like me. Apart from that, I learned a lot from my friends about social life and the importance of updates and places you need to know. Take for example, I din take notice of shops like Body Shop, Lovely Lace and even Sub and Padini. Now I know a lot better. Zouk, Orange and Rush? Aint in my dictionary before that. For now, I am still in the process of learning and experimenting and researching a more meaningful life other than study and play football games on my PC.

If you had to make wishes for 2006, what would it be?
Hmm....first of all, I wish I had a better year than 2005, obviously. I wish good health for my friends and family. I wish to achieved more in studies. I wished my friends rock on. I wish that I can find a partner that can share everything with me. I wish a better luck for me next year..I seriously needed it. I wish my dad can find a job. I wish my sister to be sucessful in studies. I wish hapiness for my mom. Last of all, I wish peace for the world.