Lent Season is here

Lent
~repentance, reflection, and renewal~

Last Tuesday was the ever interesting Pancake Day, which is also known as Shrove Tuesday.

Both chaplaincies on Oxford Road were either having a Pancake Sale or Pancake Party! :D And of course, I got myself a pancake too and drowned it in caramel syrup.

You are probably wondering.. What is Pancake Day? Who celebrates it? Well... go Google it lah! :P For those pemalas, I asked a girl I met at church while eating pancake what the whole event was about. She told me that Pancake Day is traditionally celebrated by the Christians before Lent in the UK to use up all the ingredients (like butter, sugar, egg) which people in the olden days were not allowed to indulge in during Lent. If you want to know more, click here. So there you go! Pancake Day~

Also, our results for Semester 1 are out.

Engineering Design 93
Transport Phenomena 80
Engineering Chemistry 76
Engineering Mathematics 76

I got the 8th rank.

I am happy with my results :) But I could have scored better, considering the craziness of studying before exams :S I've never had a full-day-non-stop study schedule (with only meals, sleep, and toilet breaks) before and it was driving me nuts for 2 weeks! *Though I admit I spent a fair amount of time day-dreaming, reading Twilight, and watching Bleach. Hoho!* Gonna try harder for Semester 2!

But of course, I don't aim to be the smartest person in my year or beat people in class rankings. I don't wish I scored a higher average than the next person above me. My aim is to get the best I can out of this studying abroad experience. :) To learn & understand well, to think, to improve, to work with people, to get the best out of people and myself, to do what I want to do, to enjoy and to experience.

At the end of this course, I want to leave UK with a good degree summing up all my best efforts, with lots of great friends from around the world, and lots of experiences that you will be jealous of. Wahahaha!