promotional examinations have gotten progressively bad, really, from bad to worse. gp was good, at least i felt good about it.
then lit was alright, a little shaky but still alright. then econs. studied but then wth, lousy time management and a shaky foundation and not-so-good grasp of the subject.
then math today. s u c k e d. came out of the room with firas and daryl. haha when pple say they die for maths i wont believe, because only daryl and firas are in the same league as me. throughout the 3 hours, i could see daryl at the corner of my eye. he seemed like he was quite lost like me. staring at paper more than half the time. my marks+firas+daryl may not even make 80? haha. oh damn funny. while 3 of us walked to the canteen, there were these two guys prob from medfac behind us. one to the other: "yay my first A for my promos!" the three of us immediately issued dagger eyes at them, daryl looked like he wanted to kill him. haha.
ok but ive never studied so little for an examination like these before, thus its an expected result. argh. but its like, i acutally like math. i used to be not bad at math and i know how good it feels to be able to ace a math paper. argh maybe, i'd master enough determination to practice math after promos. h o p e f u l l y.
yay went to ghim moh macs after exam. and psy was there! yay i love psy. haha, it felt good seeing him and talking to him though we disrupted his studying for his othello. yay, and we have decided that right after promos, we're going to hang out at his house to watch soccer. but he can't invite me cos everytime he does that, i end up having something on at the last minute. so i should pretend to crash the gathering. haha
hmm then went to pool. a straight four hour pool session! it feels so good. we got abit tired of pool so started playing assasin/survivor style pool. was quite fun. oh came home and slept awhile before i went to run. yay finally ran properly! like longer than usual. haha cos i decided not to run at my house downstairs track but run along a bus route. hmph but i sprained my left ankle again. arghh old recurring injury.
haha i've lost all dislike for eating rice. and thats a damn good thing. so i just eat dishes for dinner.
Walking Away
for Sean
It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day
A sunny day with the leaves just turning,
The touch-lines newly-ruled - since I watched you play
Your first game of football, then, like a satellite
Wrenched from its orbit, go, drifting away
Behind a scatter of boys. I can see
You walking away from me towards the school
With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free
Into a wilderness, the gait of one
Who finds no path where the path should be.
That hesitant figure, eddying away
Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem,
Has something I never quite grasp to convey
About nature's give-and-take - the small, the scorching
Ordeals, which fire one's irresolute clay.
I have had worse partings but none that so
Gnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly
Saying what God alone could perfectly show -
That selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.
--C. Day Lewis
this poem rocks. it was because of this poem i did the poem question even though the second poem was tough. the last two lines are so apt and sweet.
--that selfhood begins with a walking away.
And love is proved in the letting go.--