Assured

You know your efforts were worth it when you get really honest feedback from your group mates, and realised that you're being recognised for all the slogging. Mr. Chua (I feel bad about calling him that because he's supposed to have a Prof. designation but requested for us to call him Mr.) had collated the anonymous group feedback and generated an individual report for us. The results were priceless. :) To receive the thumbs-up from all my group members made my day. At least I know the sacrifices were worth it.

And talking to Christine after NM3220 focus group facilitation was equally rewarding; though we're leagues apart in terms of academic achievements, she felt that everyone in the group was giving an equal amount of effort to the project, unlike some other freeloaders she's met in her other modules. I think it isn't about throwing yourself entirely into the module; it's about negotiating a place in the group by contributing in reasonable amounts of which you feel justify that of the other group members. School may suck, but it made me age intellectually, in a good and mellow way.

Plans took a change for the good today, nevertheless. Just when I thought I'll have to live another day without you, time and distance just wasn't enough of a deterrence. To be able to have dinner with your parents, to window shop with my hand in yours and pacing behind your parents, is likened to a dream come true. No matter how many inner demons we'll have to fight before time will bind us forever, rest assured that I'll be there when you need the strength to resist.