Recap? Yes, I think.

Its officially over.

This semester has rolled to an end, and with it, more fun, more spats, more drama in our eternally tumultous lives. Lol. So dramatic, no?

But from the beginning of the semester, stuff from internship has rolled over into the months that followed, and somehow, eyes have been opened. Stories were told. Behaviour otherwise hidden came into light: not all were pleasant, I reckon.

So here begins a chapter in Remisnescent Schme-nescent. Told from the POV of one who has had some revelations and some not-so-nice encounters but generally had a good, good semester.


Chapter One: The Academic


The merry month of May, the beginning of the first semester of our third year in our Journalistic education. (aka WTH are we doing here???!!)

Fresh from Industrial Training and slightly frayed around the edges from our experiences we stumbled into this semester with anecdotes a-plenty and many battle stories.

For some, it was a good experience, for some it was terrible, for many it was a drudgery, and for ONE person (we all know who) it was a triumph for her and a nightmare for us. Lol. (SY, thats who I mean.)

Oh well. We can choose our classmates no more than we can choose our families. ^^,

Nonetheless, armed with stories and remnants of Goodie-bag Past, we faced our heaviest semester to date, with SIX nastily exhausting subjects:

1. Media Ethics, which had the consistency of treacle and about as much colour as a puddle of gooey mud. Add to that a perpetual confusion between similiarly named philosophers who died when meteorites hit the Earth (sometime 900 millions years ago) and a lecturer who challenges you to think of ONE topic in SIXTEEN MILLION different ways, and you have the best subject this semester. XP Forgive me for liking this subject.


2. Media Planning, for which if we ever were to buy advertisement slots to advertise our smiling, perky faces it would come most useful. That, and if we were advertising toothpaste to the residents of an old folks' home.


3. Business and E-Commerce. A subject that has as much appeal as the naked body of SY even to a man starved of sex for 30 years (which is none at all). A subject that is taught by a lecturer so crazy, we reckon she's on something banned in 64 countries. A subject with so much work, it costs us six pints of blood for each 0.00000000000000000000000000001 point.


4. Newspaper Management. I honestly have no idea what this subject is about. I remember cow-glue being involved somewhere.....


5. Cultural Communication. Its about simblings. Its about the barances of Five Gleens and Five Leds. Its about the leal communications. Abouts the closs cultulal communications.


6. Creative Strategy for Advertising. I think there is something in this subject, but I don't know what it is. Its quite funny, but I don't know why. Its okay la, but somehow it lacks something. I don't know what, but it does. Its okay la. I don't know. Maybe. Decide yourself la. Okay. Next! Thank you!

Assignments this semester were fun and mind-blowingly horrible in turns, with our Durex stint being both fun and horrible and the work for BEC being just plain horrible. Media Ethics were a relative breeze, but Media Planning was an absolute nightmare.

To say the least, this semester is heavy-duty alright, but somehow, after 3 months of scary editors and bosses, I say I prefer classes, non?


Chapter Two: The Relationships


While each semester sees some hook-ups (KH and JL, K and V, for eg) and break-ups (YX and whoever she was dating, the Blob and the rest of the class... hehehe) this semester had ONE shining couple-star: new student JC and YX.


From wearing matching attire to playing footsie under the table, their relationship has been met with mixed reactions: some good, some bad, some with raised eyebrows. But hey, who are we to judge? ^^,

K and V also celebrated their first year anniversary (YAY to you guys!), which is like WHOA since I just realised that its been a year! Since, well, they got together and, well, other stuff which I'd rather not mention. Heh. Its nice when they're BOTH my good friends and I like seing them together. Its really sweet.

Its also nice to see scruffy, cave-manly, unkempt, jock-ish K stick to sweet, nice, pretty V. ^^ And even nicer to see her stick to him. ^^, x 2

(Perhaps you can convince him to do something about his cave-manliness, V dearest? XD)

As for me, my relationship with Christian has blossomed from the first time we met and laid eyes on each other in December of 2007, and though he has troubles performing (tee hee) he still loves me very much and I him. Maya is also very much in love with me, and we still spend hours just walking on the hill, she silently listening, me talking away. ^^,

Yes, this semester also saw some friendships take dives and some deep-rooted dislike surface. A few blow-ups, and many emo tripping moments (mostly by me, lol) and some ruffling of feathers. Mostly due to assignments, which have taken a toll on even the most unruff-able of us.

And yes, a lot of emo-tripping. Mostly due to things I can't control, and have given up controlling, because well, as K puts it so well, 'what will be, will be.'

Heh.

Relationships between certain parties have frayed, while other have improved tremendously.

Still, in terms of relationships, I think we soldiered on. ^^



Chapter 3: To be continued.....


Watch out for this space for more reminescing. Lol.

Nites, ya'll.