Hey everyone

what can i say suddenly. been ages since i last said anything here. and heaps and heaps have happened. lets just skip it all till random times i feel like blogging then i will.

feel like saying something about a really special luncheon i had yesterday. got a random call one afernoon inviting me to attend an informal lunch session with the associate deans of the business school. they never mentioned what it was about and what i was to expect. of cos everyone speculated and drew random conclusions, what did something horribly wrong, deans list, kicked out of school, all came out haha but none of them were true of cos!

e moment i stepped into e room and took a look around, i realised that this was no random selection of students. everyone here was somebody. it was then i felt like a total nobody. around me i see loads of familiar faces. RJ students, nanyang scholars, GPA 5.0 friends, ABC members, club presidents, etc. left me wondering what e hell i was doing there with the elite. whoops! then again, e fact that i AM there must mean something right? later on, i also found out that everyone there had a pretty respectable GPA. now we know who e smarties are in school. now its no wonder i felt outta place huh. im not extremely smart, nor am i a big part of any club or commitee like those people! im just mel really.

in that session, we discussed school policies and semester 1 stuff. especially then intership and attachment we'll be doing after yr 2. after e session, i felt different. up till now, i still feel different. being there gave me this confidence in my future. hearing stories of success of fellow nbs undergrads reminded me how likely i was to make it one day. it also reminded me that i have to take the initiative to go out there and grab what i want. before it gets taken by fellow uni undergrads around e world and in singapore. its inspired me to apply for and read up on stuff i normally would simply delete frm my ntu email.

all along i felt that being a sports person was kinda useless. sure it granted me a very respectable 2.4km PB, and it made me make many new friends and such. but it was only until yesterday i learnt how useful it actually is on a CV. sports people are tough. our mental strength endures days and days of intense competition in the playing field. a basketballer has the ability to work under stress with a team, and as the controller, ive learnt to read the movements of others and predict their next move, then make the call to bring e team forward.

i thought i was nobody. but prof ___ told me that to be standing in that room speaking to him, i am somebody :)