Rethinking of a new year — Chapter 1 of a look back at 2015
Finally the year 2015, is here. A step closer to graduation, a long step more nevertheless but still a step ahead.
Thinking back on what I had in mind for 2015 definitely didn’t entail to what really happened. It has surely been one year that I definitely look upon and say to myself “What a year that was!”.
The first quarter of the year was the get-through-it months, it was let’s get-through-it and finish off the semester , get-through-it and finish off my events (more on that later), get-through-it and think about the future (well not so much yet). It was a semester of wanting to finish whatever was in store for me.
“When you are overwhelmed by your feelings, tell them how you feel”
— the one whom I call the lil one.
As this progresses, I think I am going to divide my months into the semesters of my university’s. It’s easier that way. So the first semester is from January to about midway in April. Next would be May to September and finally from October to December.
This particular time of the year was probably the most pleasant of all. Not to mention the dawning stress that is approaching. You see, the largest burden of this semester would be not being able to finish my course as soon as my coursemates were finishing — yes the past does come to haunt you; this may be 1 of the three times that would happen this year (more on that in the latter chapters).
So what made this time of year special?
The momentous times were probably saying farewell to my closest of friends, seeing the firsthand of those whom I called brothers graduate. It was good to see them finally close a chapter of their lives and move on; it gave some hopes and aspirations to also accomplish what we started here.
Another thing would be finally spending more time with my 14 other coursemates — I have to admit, I was never as close to them save for this final semester. We had our first yee sang together.
“I will always be your brother, don’t worry about it”
— a brother who was
In late 2014, a milestone of sorts would be when Father Aloysius of our Sacred Heart Church called me on a dark rainy afternoon and said “Leon, we’re soon going to be your neighbours”, and I was immediately overcome with joy because that was one of my personal goals whilst in university — to have the first Catholic Students Society community home be bought and established — and for the first time ever, a Mass was said on the evening of 5th February. To many this house seems like a grandeur of sorts for the Catholic students community, yet what was not known that the idea came along 2 years prior and the seed of idea was planted as part of my personal aim for the community.
What else? What else?
Avengers: Age of Ultron came out, and not to be shy of it, I watched it 3 times! First I was alone, second with two of my best friends, and third turned out to be a 4 couples outing, one of which was with a good friend and I — a sort of bromance couple but it ended up me ditching him and I went out with a female friend. This is what we call abandoning a bro.
“You need to understand where your priorities lie”
— the one woman who brought me up
Speaking of movies, this was the first time I watched two movies alone in the cinema, not as significant as you think but on both sides of the coin — it makes you focus more on the movie and start to critically think about it; and the other side is, sometimes it’s hard to find friends to come along with you.
I got a car to drive in Kampar, which is nice. Thanks to my god-sister who gave loan it to me. Somehow I feel more attached to this old car than to the other car I drive back home.
The was also the semester where it came to me, that I will be missing three significant friends for the rest of the year; who knew that after not seeing them for so long, so much would have changed in the future. Then again another entered and changed (for some parts) the way I look at life.
That’s about it for the first quarter of 2015.