coming up next

it feels so surreal, that before this week is over, we will be in the next year already. another mad flurry of activities, retreats and trips, and i'll be in 2010.

what's to like about the year, what's not to? retrospection will come another time, but i think it has been a year that has been more intense, more painful, and perhaps also more satisfying.

i think as we grow older, the stakes become bigger, and hopefully our sense of responsibility increases proportionally with the stakes.

the blows become harder too, and i think in this single year, i've met with more setbacks than any other, and suffered more disappointments. but it's not a year that will bring me down, 'cause i have learnt to forge on (and whine less.)

and my results for the semester? not very good. disappointing, and i fared far worse than i thought i would. especially for creative strats and imc, but i'm glad that i still hung on to a second upper.

but no, i am not satisfied. simply for the fact that it's a result slips full of B+, and i fervently hate that grade. because to me, B+ = average, and i refuse to concede to being average. i am f-ing stellar.