Chronicle 52 - Jobless!

As I shared my students' joy and celebrated the end of their exams, my heart sank when the reality of being jobless sank in. I told myself that I wouldn't continue tutoring after this year. While I still do not have a clear direction on what I would like to do, I've lost the passion and drive to continue tutoring. I did send some job applications in the past few days. In the meantime, looks like some financial discipline and planning is in order.

However, this break actually came at an appropriate time. I'll have an assignment deadline followed by a presentation and again followed up with another assignment deadline the week after next. In short, EVERYTHING'S DUE BUT SO LITTLE TIME! Academically, I am still considered safe where grades are concerned thus far. However, the effort to hold them all together is draining. A cruel mid-term test just came and passed me by as well, effectively rendering all revision useless.

Still, as the tuition assignments were easing off, I managed to allocate some time for myself and fellow buddies. As a rather belated birthday celebration, C, F and me had a "whiskey appreciation session" near the Singapore River. It was significant since it was the very 1st time in almost 10 years that we have ever consumed alcohol together although F the spoilsport didn't drink much. I had a rather long chat with C though. The topic - "love".

Recently, I tried my hand (entire body actually) at some parkour stunts. If anything, doing these "stunts" is a good way to destress and serves as a good memento of the abilities of youth. Of course, that's valid only if I don't get hurt (too much or too bad).


[Quotes]
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder but presence makes the heart covetous." - Self