My Grey World

Found this brilliant comic by Stuart McMillen that portrays exactly how I feel to finally finish an education. Though reluctant, I realize that to challenge myself, rather than overcoming challenges in education, is definitely my next step. I can’t believe I cried while reading the comic. Below is only the thumbnail of the comic (original [...]

Before I even stepped in SMU, I had already prepared a post in my mind to release when I’m about to graduate. It would talk about my feelings. About my takeaways. About how I treasure the opportunities I have managed to attain. About how all my previous struggles had been worth it. But seriously? I [...]

So if you guys follow me on Twitter/@sylvdoanx, you should have seen my public breakdown over my then impending grade 8 piano exam. I know it’s not a school exam or something, but let me tell you, piano exam is much much worse than school exam. Because unlike in written exam when you can try [...]

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish that I had gone to a “specific” school. If you go to a medicine school, you become a doctor. You go to a nursing academy, you become a nurse. Go to a teacher’s institute and you become a teacher. And yet I go to SMU and soon enough I’ll hold [...]

Haha. Yes. This is the mandatory “exams are over” blog post. Plus reviews and reflections if any. Surprisingly, I don’t feel that ecstatic. Perhaps because I’m down with flu. I ALWAYS get down with flu around exam time. Sigh. According to the Psychology textbook, it’s called something like somatoform disorder. Your body becomes sick because [...]

Classes have ended. Projects have ended. I just handed in the beautiful 30-page report today, and that would be my last submission of the term. As always, as the cliche saying goes, time flies. And as always, I always review a term. This term has not been my most tiring term ever. I guess the [...]