25 years old

Dayum I'm 25. Take a deep breath, take one step back, DAYUM I'm 25.

No accomplishments, no job, no money but a $300k HDB loan and a girlfriend looking forward to getting married. DAYUM.

It has been a long long long time since I bothered to write anything here since I only do so if something significant happened such as game maintenance or during exam time where anything else seems 100000x more fun. But I guess there are some things for me to remember as a joke in the future.

I graduated. That itself has to be the greatest joke of the Singapore education system. I got carried so so so so hard and I can daresay I learnt close to absolutely nothing in the 4 years except the fact that I am not suited to be a computer engineer. Therefore I shall dedicate an entire paragraph to my beloved carry: Lets call him R.

I was destined to graduate from NUS by doing nothing the day SAF posted me to 30 SCE. Reason being if I did not know my NS buddy, he would not have introduced me to R in the first day of school. So how did he carry? Basically, for the 8 semesters in NUS, I did not have to plan for any of my core modules and electives at all. He single handedly planned the perfect timetable for our clique that involves the most efficient "bid points to free day to easiness" ratio. I would sleep until 4pm on close bidding day, he would wake me up and tell me how many points to bid for which mod and I would just follow suit. G-motherfking-G. He even taught me some CORS mechanics that involved dropping a core mod and bidding it in round 3 to refund half the points or sth, till today I have no idea whats happening, I just listened to him. The catchphrase in the 4 years was "Dun doubt R".

To put things into perspective, I would wake up, check my whatsapp, R would tell me today got lecture, I would go empty handed, walk into the LT and notes would be printed for me on the table already. Sometimes I would take electives and would briefly mention my project deadlines to R and 2 days before the deadline holyfk R would remind me that I had a deadline for a mod that he never even take. LOL.

In year 4, we had to choose our FYPs, we tried to look for the same prof and do the same FYP together. Sadly our cap discrepancy was too big and for once my guilty conscience SCREAMED at me when R wanted to reject a FYP that he wanted to do because the prof didnt want to take me in as well. Therefore I decided to man up, and told him I would be fine doing another FYP on my own.

My FYP was a joke. But thats another story for another time.

One of the most memorable getting carried experience was CS4243, R literally SOLO-ED the whole project, we never met up even ONCE for this project. On the presentation day itself, R told me and H to go school early, and he showed us the PPT slides and explained to us what he did and taught us what to say. Ultimate carry. Not to mention we got extra marks because apparently the work R did was so good that it even beat all the name long name short people. Holy fuuck I think saying I got carried is definitely an understatement at this point. Up till today I still have no idea what CS4243 stands for.

TBC.
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$220 谭鱼头 bday treat.
Inverse law of game luck.