Chronicles of a Young College Boy

Saturday, August 05, 2006

hey ppl....one more week left for summer classes!!....then time to look forward to 2 musicals!!..hehe...i cant believe im actually going to watch both phantom of the opera and beauty and the beast...although this past week has been kinda boring...the thing tht kept me sort of happy is the fact tht i hav these 2 extraordinary musicals to watch in the most brilliant musical industry in the world...broadway....=)...this is probably gonna define my whole summer holiday....heh....
wa here in ny its scorching man the temperatures....it went up to abt 36plus degrees celsius the last week...when i come back from class and walking in the sun i can almost feel my skin peeling off....lucky my dorm room is air-conditioned....so kinda bcame lazy and stayed in almost 24/7....=P....

I think the saying of "The world is like a mirror to us" can be a very useful line to think about whenever a person is faced with a problem....lets face it...if we don like the world...do we expect the world to like us back?...sometimes we don even realise tht wad we r doing is wrong...or the more even ridiculous one....we act one way but expect the reflection (people arnd us) to appear in another...its the same thing like we frown in front of the mirro but expect to see a person smiling back...sounds ridiculous?...or even familiar?...well i noe it happened to me quite a few times...one example is definitely the first few weeks when i was in the US adapting...i was wad ppl can describe as antisocial....i however always disagreed with them...it takes one guy who said it kinda jokingly but straight to my face..."Daniel,...u r so antisocial..."....although he said it in not tht wanna-fight tone...the message hit me hard...when i had the opportunity to be alone after tht...i asked started to think of all the social events i actually go to...and i can count them wif one hand....and wads worse is tht the first few entries in the blog i mentioned a few times the ppl here is not as easy to get along as the people back in spore...haha...however much i wanna give myself excuse tht i don fit in wif the people...it doesnt help much since there r asians who actually went for social gathering too....so i kinda wanna make a commitment in the coming semester tht whenever the opportunity of social gathering arises...i will go...BUT hav to consider the crowd first of coz....heh...so..."For things to change, you must change first."....=)...quoted from AKLTG...again..haha

a few days ago i saw a video recording of the time when i was leaving spore...as in going into the departure gate..it was taken by my friend max...for those of u who went to see me off u can remember him as the one in spects...he took the video recording of me saying my goodbyes...hugs...and going into the departure gates...when i watched it...for some reason i felt it was a lifetime ago....bcos i felt tht i hav grown so much from this experience..so so much...one thing i definitely learnt from this experience is tht family and friends are our world...without them...even if u r in the same place...it wont feel the same...i kinda learnt tht when i was spending most of my waking hours in the library 'trying' to run away from the pressure having to make friends and seeing ppl in social grps...well the most sucky thing definitely being alone is tht during meals i see everyone...and i mean everyone...having a grp....and me there just sitting like a complete antisocial...not to mention i also kinda stand out bcos im an asian...but then things change...i started to join the tkd association...i started to know my asian friends better and started to spend more time wif them...
then of course there was the job experience...heh..my first job!!....i remembered the first time when i come in for my first day and again 'trying' to figure out how to call my supervisor thru the walkie talkie without sounding stupid..bcos the thing abt walkie talkie is tht when i say something into them..everyone who has a walkie talkie in tht building can hear them....heh so i radioed..and realised my supervisor to help me arnd for tht day is in her office...next to the room where i get the walkie talkie...wahahaha...i was like -_-ll...so much for telecommunication....annnnnddd i also remember the very entertaining time when i get to vacuum a hall size of 4 average school halls ALONE....so i was like...dammnnnnnn.....after i finished vacuuming...i can feel my hands still vibrating from the vibrations of the vacuume cleaner...hahaha....

And then i also learnt the fact tht the people here cares....i noe it may sound stupid..but i was invited to my friend's parent's friend house to stay there for a week...i was like...hmm...wont they mind?...but they welcomed me wif open arms...bcos of the fact tht i was unfortunately brought up with the knowledge of give and take....this situation was a surprise to me...they would not mind at all letting u stay in their house...i was quite touched by the experience...=)....
heh then there was also definitely the time when my name appeared on the university newspaper...it reads, "Yellow belt Daniel Widjaja competed in all 3 events and came in first in forms and board-breaking and second in sparring." wahaha..cool huh?...i cant wait to go for the trainings again when the fall smst starts..been like 3 months since i went for any training...

haiz...8 months...can u believe it....5 more months and im coming back to spore..=)...cannot cannot cannot wait for the moment when i enter the plane back to singapore....

DanieL counted snowflakes at 9:45 PM