JYSim for jobless-yokel Sim

My enjoyable and relaxing Year One is two weeks from ending now, and a long and a-little packed summer holiday is waiting for me once I defeat the evil evil final exams. Come to think of it, I think the only education worth having while you’re in college or university is to learn to resist temptations and pursue what you really wanted. Temptations are bad, though you’d sometimes get the message ‘temptations are good, so give up to it’ in a paper wrapped in chocolate or something similar. You plan to study the entire morning, and just because your roommate who is beside you is so successful with his Sim City 4 (I bankrupted it a dozen times) you’re so tempted to study how he managed his city so well, you end up turning on your computer and downloading 5 movies and 3 soundtrack CDs. To make things sweeter, you continuously reassure yourself you can eventually get your studies done in the afternoon and head out to a 2-hour lunch.
Summer holidays is the period of lust, of unimaginable idleness and totally relaxed pace of life. It is angelic when you’re in it, but before you step into the cubicle you see it as a demon - it distracts everything. You have 3 papers to be submitted, a total of 10000 words, and there you are, checking airfares to Phuket and Langkawi, and though you know the probability of you actually going to Phuket is like 0.5%, you still go on WikiTravel and took notes even more precise than for O. Chem what you should buy when you’re there.
Nevertheless, Sim Jun Yi being a person who easily gives up to temptations, has find his summer holidays almost packed (even though it’s like one month before he’s actually home). It will kickstart with attending Mum’s Convocation Ceremony in PWTC, it would be a really touching and memorable moment - even grandma is invited. Then, as August looms ahead, the triad (or quartet - Soon Khen, Jieyang, me, Jiong Kit) would probably go paintballing. And as Jieyang says he’d like to spend more time with us, I emptied the first 10 days of August for him and his friends. Around 11 - 15 of August I will have the chance to travel to KL in style as an ambassador of Tzu Chi University for an education fair in KLCC. As transportation and accommodation is provided by the school, I’m drawing plans to fly Malaysia Airlines First Class and charge the school for that.
Next, my friend and his sister would do a short visit here, around the school holidays, and as I’m still in a daze of where to bring them, I cannot yet churn out words for this paragraph.
After the certainly-glamorous National Day Celebration of Malaysia I’d start doing the usual ’see you next January’ procession with everybody I asked out. This time back, I’ll be certain I stocked enough CLHS notebooks and exercise books, and I’ll bring my Italian glass-painting here - I just realized it had become my life, symbols are my life. Before the summer ends I’ll be making plans for the NEXT summer already, and just as Dad’s paintings, it is boundless, it is powerful, it calms you and makes you happy, but realizing it or not is another matter. I guess life is what we are now - to plan perfectly but to realize it unexpectedly interesting and enriching.
Guess this post is completely babel all the way.

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