poke and prod, school or not

It's time I gave this place a poke, a shove and a little update.

It's now one week into May, which means that I haven't been to updating this for more than a month now. Five weeks of dead blog later, an itsy bitsy update.

Do I actually need to bow and ask for forgiveness? Or was that supposed to be done a long time ago?

I've nothing much to say about life as it currently is. I've been on a bad luck streak again ever since Wednesday, but I'll certainly live through it.

One thing though, I can't believe that it's already been two weeks since the Hong Kong trip.

Conference-mates say that that one week went by so fast, but I don't really think so. In my opinion, that one week seemed a long time. I'm convinced that it has to do with the fact that we did so many constructive things everyday for one whole week, even though our schedule wasn't that tight or rushed.

So what does this show?

I think time flies faster when I'm in school because I concentrate on one day at a time, and nothing much ever happens in one day. My short term major goal is always "survive til Friday!", and a longer term goal would be "Can't wait til June/December holidays!". And then nothing much ever happens in between. Or at least, I don't feel very constructive. So time flies.

On the other hand, I felt somewhat accomplished at the end of every day at the Student Science Conference trip. It's because I've learnt something new during the day, travelled to a new place, seen some beautiful things. We had fun shopping, we overcame obstacles that came our way, we rehearsed our presentation during all those nights. We even had mass revision sessions during the evenings when we had free time, and grabbed the opportunity and the nice warm water over at the boys' domitory.

The best part is, I came back to find out that nothing much had changed back in school.

Mrs See had only progressed through one of the minor chapters (and had not completed yet), Chinese teacher wasn't around for lessons for most of the week, and there was mostly revision for bio, and not many new topics/sub-topics were covered for bio and chem. And Week 6 was exactly the same. It just didn't feel like the two weeks, 5 and 6, were of the exact same length, because they felt so different.

So school doesn't leave people feeling accomplished.

Perhaps feeling accomplished isn't the what school is about. That sure explains some things.