good afternoon everyone! i’m back again. it has been a number of months since May and i have a few updates to make. i finished my third year of university studies officially. i had signed up for two courses in the first summer term and now i’m done! the marks came out the other day and i got an A- in both classes, which i’m quite content with. as long as the mark is 80% or higher, i am happy. in other news, my father has completed changing the carpet flooring in our bedrooms into vinyl flooring and we have repainted two of the bedrooms (mine and my brother’s). my room has been painted into a light pink from its previous lavender-ish purple shade while my brother’s room is now a robin-bluish colour (his room was light yellow before). i also bought a new chair from IKEA and will be taking my old leather office chair apart because the seating is cracking. fun!
the weather these days is quite hot. i think it is a heat wave and it is only simmering down tomorrow. i’ve been meaning to go out to run an errand but it has been too hot to leave the house. i also have not taken my old chair apart because it is way too hot in my room. we have air conditioning in the living room now (since a major weather event a few years ago) and i refuse to leave the house if it is above 30 degrees outside. i’m truly spoiled by technology. the other day, my siblings and i got tired of playing mahjong because we had to shuffle and set up the game physically. we have been playing mahjong online these days and now we are pampered by the game technology’s ability to shuffle and organize our hands for us. to be honest, we weren’t actually tired–we were more bored because we were playing mahjong with only the three of us and it can get repetitive when we are the only ones playing. as we like to say, the more the merrier…
to switch the topic suddenly, i am having to plan for my future in more concrete terms these days. i am graduating next year and i need to figure some short-term career moves. “moves” as in Actions. i need to start taking some physical steps in order to get some real work experience and i also need to budget properly. i’ve been meaning to budget properly from the start of my degree, but as i am entering my final year i realize that that really hasn’t happened. i need to start getting my thoughts together. i feel a need to sort myself out and find my place in this world, even if it’s a small part.
for the rest of the summer, i will be looking at some part-time work to do in the next year or more, planning a visit to my grandfather, and preparing for my final year of university. great fun! well then, here’s to actually finding a part-time job and getting good grades next school term.