Summer 2012

Summer break's gonna end soon. That was fast. Long, but fast. In these four months, I think I've spent most of the time looking at my laptop screen (as usual). My brain's a bit too rusty, but I'm ready to reverse the redox reaction during the second year (I think). I heard it's gonna be a killer year. I barely survived the first year (due to my own mistakes), but I'm gonna try really hard to do my best this year.

The summer break was not too bad. I..

1. learned how to swim (barely)
2. burned my skin numerous times (it's still healing)
3. tried various Malaysian food for the first time (notably nasi kandar and char koey teow)
4. attended a summit for the first time and listened to many inspiring speeches
5. learned a bit of cooking (still need to learn how to taste food for salt)
6. shopped till I dropped (or at least till my mom dropped)
7. met up with some old friends
8. went for a picnic with friends for the first time (not gonna go back to the beaches in Penang for a while now that I'm traumatised by the pollution)
9. joined a video competition with a friend (and I'm winning some prizes :D )
10. drove till I got bored and started speeding, though not as fast as my friends (I'm trying to abide by the law for a few weeks now)
11. bullied my sisters, though I'm still not satisfied
12. watched a few movies in the theatre (though I didn't watch any new Tamil movies ever since I came back)
13. watched less TV and more movies and anime either downloaded from Internet or online
14. watched a bit of Olympics
15. finished reading a novel (only), a few magazines and some other books
16. blogged
17. dreamt a lot (most of the dreams are so random, I started to wonder whether I'm still sane or not)
18. played with money a few times while helping my dad and uncle in business (only 3 days, to be specific)
19. didn't do any studying, or learnt anything useful such as programming
20. went to Cameron Highlands and Malacca with family (although I've been there before, the trip was more memorable this time)
21. went for waxing and threading for the first time (all I can say is that it's less painful than my usual headache)
22. realised some stuff about myself, people and life 
23. reverted to being myself, by spending some (not so) quality time with my laptop and nothing else

I guess that's all. That looks like a pretty long list, but I wish I had done something more beneficial than that this summer. Now, I have to start packing to return to my beloved 'human slaughtering university' in Toronto. Hopefully I'll live through the second year and the years after that, if the world is not destroyed first like what Mayans had predicted.