Looking Back (2016)

This is a continuation of my graduation thoughts blog posts

For 2014, click here

For 2015, click here

2016

2016 was the year that had pushed me to the limit. I broke down many times, countless in fact. After announcing my indefinite hiatus from Service Learning Club,  I decided to focus on my academics. It was the year where I felt that I had really dreaded going to school, all because of some people.

In 2016, the girl decided to cut off all friendships and leave her friends in Service Learning Club behind, including Angel. Needless to say, all of us knew how much Angel was hurting deep down in him, and he couldn't show it. That was where I saw his relationships with others started to patch up again, and for once, I knew he was happy cause things were just like the same as before, before all the drama and chaos happened.

Back to academics, I was stuck in a class with a guy called Iss (let's just call him that here). This guy is an absolute pain in the , in the sense that he is all talk, no action kind of person. The worse was every Thursday class, because not only he is in the same team as me, but a girl (let's call her Jo here) and him are absolute enemies. They always quarelled non-stop, whether in class or even in our own Skype meetings. It was frustrating to be their group leader because when both of them fight, the end result is none of them ended up doing work, let along contributing to the team work. My team of 5, is always known as the '3-member team', simply because there was never once where this team is a full strength team. Work given for 5-member team, is always ended up being done by 2 people - me and my best friend Bec. The other 3 would not even contribute to anything, let alone come for meetings.

Well I won't dwell on that unhappy memory. Side note, I enjoyed the rest of my classes (Monday, Wednesday and Friday), mainly because i have friends to support me. These are the people who kept me going strong and because of them, I survived the first semester of Year 3. I'm thankful too because I met friends here, on roleplay republic, who stuck with me throughout, who is willing to listen to me rant all my ooc problems to you. Thank you very much to the people who listened to me when I was feeling down and out, comforting me til I felt all better. You guys here on roleplay republic, I know you guys have personal s happening in your ooc life too, but the feeling that you guys are comforting me more than what my friends in life could say, means so much to me.

Year 3 Semester 2 was a nervewrecking one. This semester was where I had to go out for my internship programme. I was attached to this company managing pre-schools. I was posted to the department of Brand and Communications, where I was the media relations team intern. Considering it is somehow my first job, I was full of jitters for the first few months, I didn't want to make so many mistakes. But thankfully, my colleagues there treated me like a family, and I soon grew to like them. Now, my internship programme started from September and ended in January 2017. I was afraid they wouldn't want to extend me, as they probably will accept my junior as an intern in the upcoming semester. However, they offered me a temp job! And yes, I'm still working there as a temp staff currently.

As this year marks the end of my years in Mass Communications, I could definitely say that there's ups and downs where it felt like a whirlwind ride of emotions and mentality. But in all, I'm glad that rather than saying I just learnt purely academics, I learnt some valuable life skills, like tolerating people who bulls all the time.

To my friends in roleplayrepublic here, who stuck with me since 2014, thank you so much for always being there for me no matter what happens. I'm sorry if this friend *points to myself* is always seeming like I'm always ranting. All of you truly deserved an award for being able to tolerate me. I love you guys so much.

- J