The Small Little Things...

Sometime I feel like I am an immature child and feeling happy over small little things around me. Those small little insignificant things where no one would even feel anything about.

This morning I got back 2 of my lab report and I got 9/10 for both of them. And later in the day I went to check out my CA grade for EE2010. I was expecting myself to fail the paper as I had not enough time to finish the paper, but it turned out that I did rather well. Most people when they wouldn't probably care what grade they get since it is like only 10% and all you have to do is to answer one question correct in the finals to get back that 10%. It is rather unexplainable and until this point of time I am not sure why I felt this way. Small material things can this make me happy and smile for like a week?

Of course there are non-materials things that make me happy as well. Earlier tonight, Johnny and I set up the audio system for the room bidding exercise. I had spend quite a number of events with him teaching him about the art and technique of setting up the sound system. Progress was slow as setting up a good sound system can be rather difficult and there are lots of fundamentals that must be observed. But tonight, I saw him drawing up the set up plan by himself. Although it is a rather simple plan for experienced people, but for someone who has no background at all, it was indeed a feat to be able to master the art so quickly. I was smiling the whole night because I am glad that all the time I spend on teaching and nurturing the future of Audioworks had finally paid off. I am not sure why, but such small little things make me very very happy. =D

After room bidding, there is photo taking for committee. I was rather angry at the way things was arrange for the photo taking. It was like no one except Eusoffworks cared. Joshua, I really have to give him lots of credits for helping me build Eusoffworks to what it is today. I remembered we started off with junk and today when I open the doors to the editing room, we know things have changed, for the better. I have to admit I very often ask Joshua to help me with Eusoffworks related things as he is one of the most reliable person I have around me. And today, I "made" him go down to set up the camera and everything just to take photo for ONE committee. It is a waste of his time and I know very well what a horrible schedule he runs on. But everytime when I needed help, he is always there to help. Like last minute ultra urgent event evaluation forms and all that. And everytime he helped me, it made me very happy and gald; not that I have something less to do, but it showed me that there are people around me who cared and will be there even in the toughest of times.

There are many other things. Like Jie Jing offered to help me haul the monitor and the CPU out of hall while it was raining heavily for repairs despite how tired he is. Wenlin making a cup of green tea for me when I am couging and the smile on her face when she takes a beautiful picture. Xinyu despite taking 8 modules coming down to help me take pictures for the student leaders and edit videos. Jitvern coming over to remind me about my signals test which I have totally forgotten. Receiving SMSes from my loved ones. Getting a pat on the back. Watching Andrew and Shaunie bicker outside my door. The "If A Nerd" IHG Opening Video. All the hundreds and thousands of small little things that happened. And each and every single one of them made me happy.

Call me naive, stupid, dumb, immature or simplistic. But that is just me. I smiled when everyone in C1 manage to get a room in B4 and that we can stay together. The small things people take for granted fuels and motivates me. I can still remember how I was like when I go around C1 telling everyone that I finally got my circuit working like some small boy with 50cents in his pocket.

I have to agree this entry was a little random and unstructured. I just felt a sudden urge that it was necessary to record things down in my life before I forget them. Things just move too quickly in my dimension.

Going to visit Alvin this Saturday. Ah Nae told me that we should not visit him too often else he would not be able move on. It kind of reminded me of the tough and sometimes evil decisions I have to make sometimes. And I can still remember that day... when Ah Nae called me...

Looks like there is more mugging to do tomorrow. I am not complaining as it is my JOB. I am a student by profession after all. Professional Student? Probably not the most popular of jobs especially in NUS. =p