One More Step...

"One more step..."

No. No! I'm not engaged. This is not a marriage announcement or whatsoever. Well, I might use the same title for my blog post when I'm getting married (if ever will, lol) but for now let's not talk about it. It's about 'one more step' before 'real adulthood'.

I can't believe that I turned 23 this year. I felt like 20 was just yesterday. 23 also means that I'm approaching the end of my bachelor degree journey. The next 3-4 months are gonna be my last semester as a university student, and then bye byeee. Of course I'm excited because no more exams *yahooo*, but deep down I'm still not ready to leap into a new chapter as a working adult. More responsibilities, commitments, challenges, and other things that's gonna make me go "ahhh I miss my childhood. I miss school life. I miss university life." 

For me, degree life was a hell of roller coaster rides. But it didn't mean no fun. I HAD A BLAST! During my first year as a university student, I joined many club activities as committee and active member. I met new people and made new acquaintances. Through these participations, I learned a lot of values that I can implement in life. It motivated me to be more active in the future. Just as I was about to do so, covid pandemic happened. Great. So that's when online learnings and classes were implemented. The pandemic stole 2 years worth of my campus life and...it's so sad whenever I rethink about it. I lost the chance to be active in university, to meet classmates (that time I don't even remember half of my classmates' names lol), to make friends, to experience the optimum campus life, and also lost the chance to check out cute boys. EH.

After almost 2 years of virtual classes, the university went back to normal face-to-face classes. That's when I had the chance to experience many things with classmates and friends. We went for lunch, dinner, lepak-ing, shopping malls, café dates, farewell party, and played secret santa. There was this one semester when we would ate breakfast EVERY Friday at this one mamak restaurant. I think that tightened our bond as classmates even more. It was so so much fun. 

Kimpure 19/20

Starting March 2022 was when we started our final year project. It's like a research project. We had to do this fyp for two semesters. Some did theirs in wet lab, while some did in dry lab. I did mine in a dry lab, which is computational-based research. After that, we had to present our results in the form of viva presentation and thesis. I still remember the time when I didn't sleep for 24 hours straight while writing a thesis. Like legit 24 hours of no sleep. And in the midst of writing the thesis, my laptop went pitch black...yoooooooooo it just had to be dead when I was almost finish with the thesis. Great. Then, I remembered that I had drafted the thesis in Microsoft Office. So I checked using my iPad...THANK GOD it saved the latest thesis that I've edited. So boys and girls, please use Microsoft Office. Life saver!

Me and my bachelor thesis <3

My FYP-mates. Love these girls <3

With our FYP supervisor, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bimo

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"No need to find boyfriend in school. You can find one later when you enter university." Well....WHERE'S HIM?! I dah nak habis degree dah ni tapi batang hidung pun tak nampak. "It's okay nanti cari boyfriend masa kerja." Eh eh tengok-tengok lelaki yang kita suka tu dah bertunang or dah jadi suami orang lain or dah jadi bapa orang dah. Sudah lah! Ini semua dusta!

Ah! Talking about boys. Throughout my degree years, I have never liked or find any boys cute or attractive to the point that I'm very interested to know them. None. Until the last semester at campus, I enrolled in this one language class and saw a guy who's cute and attractive (at least to me). I was interested to know him, like at least be friends with him lah kan. But that didn't happen at all cuz he dropped the class after only attending it for two weeks. I...was...sad. Okay like imagine, I had never liked any guys during my degree years but when I liked one, he decided to drop the class and I didn't even get the chance to say 'hello'... Stay single la kau sampai ke sudah. Ini semua dusta!

Ok continue... Weeeeks had passed, I didn't cross path with him at all. We're in different faculties so the chance to encounter with each other is low. One day as I was getting ready to go to library, I don't know why but this instinct came like "eh what if we suddenly meet each other at the library?" But then I crossed it out as I thought it's impossible to happen. Then, I arrived at the library and was searching for seats when suddenly I saw a familiar guy. IT'S HIM! IT'S THAT GUY! We were walking towards each other in the opposite direction and made a quite long eye contacts. It's as if he recognized who I was, but I wasn't so sure because both of us wore face masks. I was taken aback as I didn't expect my instinct would come real. I mean, I was just about to forget about him but then he appeared in front of me again. Few weeks later I saw him again during a language fair, in fact, twice on that day. And, that's our last encounter ever...  To him: goodluck wherever you are. Thanks to you, I got to experience some of that degree-life fantasy which every girls longed for from when they're in high school. 

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3 years and a half passed, I'm now in my last semester in the university and it's for internship. I'm doing my internship at Malaysian Palm Oil Board. I'm expected to finish my internship towards the end of July 2023, insya Allah. After that, job-hunting begins! Actually, I'm contemplating between continuing Master's degree or starting a job, but as far as I'm concerned, PhD is not for me :(

Here's a little note for juniors;

- As what other seniors say, cherish your study life as 

you're gonna yearn for it once working life gives you hard time -

Love,

Aida.