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September 01, 2006
Change
Its common knowledge that, there comes a point in life when the train on the fast track arrives at a station. Fellow passengers on the train alight, while others accompany you to the next station, till you arrive at your terminal. Some passengers who have left eventually board again, and all are rejoined in rejoice.
I'm there now. At the interchange.
I've come to forget if i've actually posted an article of the same emotions gushing through my nerves. Either way, life has just smacked me hard on the face once again today, so much so, I've found it hard not to blog it down at this late hour.
With the end of the previous semester (as you would come to realise, milestones in the life of a student is measured pretty much in semesters, rather than years), I've endured several changes in life. Some major, some not worth a mention.
The relocation of my significant other, the graduation of seniors who have been immensely dear to me, the promotion of a close friend to grad school, working life, Post grad applications prep ... so on and so forth. Just while i've come to adapt to these changes with my usual hectic-ist therapy ( the burrowing into workload to avoid emotional disorder), another significant change just struck this evening. *Wham*
My cousin -- A brother, a friend, a confidante, a comrade in arms.
Hes suddenly decided to pursue his education in Medicine in Czech, and will be leaving next week. Its all been decided just this evening. After several sharp turns and u turns in the story, hes forsaken the original plans to go to Poland or Japan, for Czech. This sudden turn in events has really been a shock. When we visited Czech three years ago, not once did we expect he would be spending the next 6 years in Olomouc, East of Prague, speaking a foreign tongue, almost as incomprehensible as German.
And hence, we spent the past 5 hours going through his personal statement and resume.
The details of how he got to this decision, we shall skip, and fast forward to the present.
So, he'll be leaving next week. For 6 years. In Czech. Its just too much for me to digest for the moment...
Another revelation struck me this morning while i was checking my results for the previous sem. The grades for that final class is finally out. And it was only then, that it hammered in the notion that i was only a month away from the application deadlines for US MBAs. Coupled with the end of my 2 month long internship at Publicis Taiwan, which suggests the beginning of a month long of mugging for TOEFL and GMAT, I've been harshly reminded of the next station in my life. The fruits of the past 3 years of mugging and perseverance will soon come to show in the next 3 months.
Back to the train metaphor.
There are some people on the same train, which wouldn't matter if they alighted. But others, you just wished they never will.
Cheers Bro. I wish you all the best for your subsequent 6 years, and may you excel both in studies and hitting on East European hotties.
:: Yan Lee confessed at 5:02 AM
