2012, BYE!

Two nights ago, I was at a CNY-cum-old-classmates-gathering at a friend's house. There is just something about old schoolmates as friends; we grow up together.

The other day, an intern gave me her email address (for me to send some teaching resource over to); on which states her year of birth : 1993. I cringed inwardly. WHAT?! Is she, like, a baby or something? Is she even LEGAL? I did a quick mental calculation in my head. GASP! That lass is 19? GASP GASP!! I can't breathe!!!

For the first time ever, I FEEL OLD.

It seems like only yesterday, prancing around in the pearl-white laboratory coat, happily studying immunology, pharmacology, hematology, clinical pathology, drug development and clinical trial, and the likes, and counting red blood cells under microscopic slides and cutting up chick embryos and cultivating their cells (cruel, I know).

It seems like only yesterday, prancing around in the pearl-white laboratory coat again, but this time studying grossly nonsensical stuffs such as organic chemistry, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry and the likes, and dealing with boring chemicals in the laboratories which make totally no sense.

It seems likes only yesterday that I was studying for the post-graduate. Running around and exploring the far far west but ironically, never venturing into the grounds of NTU because of grounds infamiliarity. Tutorials. Field trips. 10-weeks practicum. All these seem like only YESTERDAY.

And it suddenly dawned to me : this is already the 3rd year since graduation! But it seems like only yesterday when I was still a student!

I can't wait for year 2012 to come to an end. I can't wait for the bond to end; to break out of this fixed mould of work. It feels so dead, routine. There are still things I've yet to try. Working in a non-government sector. Traveling. Exploring. Flying. Playing. Experiencing. Living life. 

2012, end quickly!