Sometimes, things do not go as planned.

Initially, the plan was to have another “more interesting” topic as the “premiere” post in this blog, but things didn’t work out. Blame it on procrastination. This “premiere” post will be centered on the first day of my college life – today (9^th of January 2007).

But first of all, it seems rather surreal that I am now studying in college. And yes, college is really cool!

So here goes my typical college day. 6.30 am – that was the time I rummage around trying to reach my cell phone to click the “Snooze” button. After about half an hour of procrastination, I am all set for the jogging track. Well, maybe not jogging track, just around the neighbourhood. Sweating out in the morning is something I’ve always love to do. Just that the previous schooling period started way too early.

At about 8am, the journey to campus has to begin, or else I will be late for my first lecture, which is at 10am SHARP. The lecturer will be mad at you if you interrupt the class by being late! And I was rather exasperated by the state of traffic. Every single day, I have to face massive traffic congestion. But thank god, on the first day, the traffic fared just fine.

With that, I reached the campus at about 8.45am, way too early for my first lecture. Oh, by the way, I am now studying at Sunway University College doing Ontario Secondary School Diploma. I headed to the Computer Lab Center (CLC) without much delay. Each incoming student is given an internet username and password. This is to enable students to gain access to all computers at the campus. Besides that, having the username and password means having the privilege to access the internet from anywhere in the campus (the campus is wi-fi enabled).

Upon completion of the registration at CLC, I went to the library. Tun Hussein Onn Library (THOL), as it is fondly known, has a vast collection of books. I’ve been hanging out at the library since the orientation day on the 4^th and 5^th of January 2007.

And here comes the alarm from my very own watch. It was 9.45 am. I packed and left the library. Room 318 is where the Geometry and Discrete Mathematics lecture was held. It was my very first lecture. I was pretty nervous, and here comes my mild Obsessive Compulsive Disorder again. Will I be sitting alone? Or will I sit at the back of the class?

I took my seat at the front spot. And sat alone. Minutes later, I saw a familiar face. He was a new-found-friend whom I met during the orientation day. Jeremy Gan is his name. We became course partner as he is doing the exact same course as mine, and we have the very same timetable. Basically, we will meet each other most of the time for the first semester.

Mr. Leon Varga is my Geometry and Discrete Mathematics teacher, oh, lecturer (Still sinking the fact that I am now in college). Hailing all the way from Canada, he greeted us with a riddle about himself. He claimed that he had fly 49 times, but never landed in any airport. Only on the 50^th time he landed in KLIA in Malaysia. So his question was, how that is possible.

It turns out that the 49 times of flying and not landing are actually from his skydiving adventure.

Then, there is an ice breaking session. All students are required to share some information about themselves. Here is something noteworthy. 80% of my classmates at the Geometry and Discrete Mathematics are foreigners, of which a large number of them are Indonesian Chinese. Gosh, only 3 (including myself) are locals, if I am not wrong.

Mr. Varga gave us two mathematical puzzles, and I am so darn proud that I am the only one who got the answer for one of them, and I was so excited for the whole day. Anyway, I’ll tell more about it in the next post.

But another mathematical puzzle remained out of my hands. It was way too intellectually demanding, that I needed more time to think about it. It is great that Mathematics class is so fun right here. Unlike what was done in high school, doing all sorts of questions and stuffs like that.

Next is the Physics class. Jeremy and I have to run all the way to the highest floor at Monash University block in less than 10 minutes. And yes, we were late as we had a hard time searching for the lecture room.

Thank God, the Physics teacher Mr. Anton Gillich did not get mad. He taught stuffs like significant digits, etc.

And after that, it was a free period for me. Jeremy and I had our lunch in the canteen, and then head straight to the library to complete a math assignment given by Mr. Varga, as it is to be hand up tomorrow at 10 am.

At 2.30am, we went to the Ground Floor for English class. Oh, there’s this guy from Bangladesh asking me where to hang out in that area. I told him to hang out at Sunway Pyramid…

English lecture ends at 4pm. Met Justin, Grace, and another Korean guy (forget his name) at the canteen. All are new found friends.

Went home shortly, and do my assignment for the rest of the day before retiring to bed.

-Aaron-

completed in a mad rush. (wish I had more time)