University.

According to Wikipedia,
The original Latin word "universitas" refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc." At the time of the emergence of urban town life and medieval guilds, specialised "associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights usually guaranteed by charters issued by princes, prelates, or the towns in which they were located" came to be denominated by this general term. Like other guilds, they were self-regulating and determined the qualifications of their members^. The original Latin word referred to degree-granting institutions of learning in Western Europe, where this form of legal organisation was prevalent, and from where the institution spread around the world. For non-related educational institutions of antiquity which did not stand in the tradition of the university and to which the term is only loosely and retrospectively applied, see ancient higher-learning institutions.

According to yours truly,
University is the point in life where you have to take it seriously, no more fooling around because this right here is the point in life where you decide what you want out of it. The most important thing is our future and is based on this so little years. If we succeed, we will always be successful. If we fail, it'll only be a pain for us. Even so, I also think that University is a place to rediscover yourself, to find that person you truly are or to even change to a better person you already are. Exactly a month has passed since the first day of my course and I've changed so much compared to who I was back in high school. Looks, mindset, attitude, you name it. I also realized that we have to sacrifice a lot to go through these few years. Money, sweat, time and even some of the people you've grown to know in the past but I'm happy now, to be who and what I am and to meet new people, to experience a totally new beginning.

Everyday is always a beginning, don't ever, ever, forget that.

Signing off,
justlikecheryl.

Diploma of Hotel Management.

After months of procrastinations, it's finally time to pull myself back together again. It is now the end of the second week of my course and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. During orientation, I thought i would be miserable moving on from high school and that I wouldn't make any new friends but turns out it was the total opposite! Orientation was a week long, it was the most boring, most useless, most sleepiest week of my life! I swear, it was a bunch of talks that was wasting my life.

And then the first week of class started, it was quite interesting. Instead of classmates, we have group mates, 15 of them. I am blessed to have this group as mine because compared to all the others, we're the only group that are actually working together in everything and always sticking to one another. They are like family now.

Second week of class and my birthday happens to fall on one of the days, my group mates & two other college mates came up with this thing, sort of like a treasure hunt for me and other two May babies. They made us do silly things and go around our HUGE campus, it was so tiring but fun as well. They even got us a cake, birthday cards and got me a bracelet. Ain't that the sweetest thing?

It's really obvious I'm going to have lots of fun with them for the next two years here. I'm. So. Thankful.

Signing off,
justlikecheryl.

2011

This year has been really interesting and by far one of the most important years of my life because it was my last year in high school. I've really learned a lot this year, experienced a lot too. Words can't describe how great it was! I've met so many people, even people from Germany! Heh. This year, I really made the most of the time in high school. Guess you'll never really know what you have until the time when you're going to lose it huh? That's what I think anyway.

Wouldn't replace all the memories that I had this year, not even the bad ones.

Signing off,
justlikecheryl.

Funny conversations.

Being a waitress, sometimes you get to catch on little conversations the customers have and have funny conversations with customers and also the staff. And sometimes, it's the only thing that makes the job nice and fun.

Situation: Serving a group of customers
Me: Drinks?
Customer (Super cute boy!): Green Tea please.
Me: Okay, hot or cold?
Customer : I'm hot. *gestures at friends to ask if they wanted hot or cold tea*
Friends & Me: *starts chuckling and tries not to laugh*
Customer : *slaps forehead and starts laughing* Oh my gosh, this is so embarrassing. I didn't mean it THAT way!

Situation: Bringing dirty dishes into the kitchen (We usually shout "behind!" when we walk in there so the others would know we're behind them)
Worker A: *walks into kitchen with a bunch of heavy dishes* BEHIND!
Worker B: *walks behind Worker A with a few dishes* CIBAI! *smiles widely*
Everyone in the kitchen: *laughs their ass off*

Note: Maybe that might not have been funny when you're reading it but it was seriously damn hilarious.

There's actually more but I can't really remember so too bad! Heh.

Signing off,
justlikecheryl.

Reminiscing.

Thinking back to all the things that I've been through. I miss everything that has happened. I wish the same things could happen again so that I'd cherish the moment more. I miss how everything was less complicating and carefree. Life was much easier when you were younger, now it's just a big bunch of poo. So much responsibilities, duties and all sorts of nonsense that none of us would want to do but we have to.

Remembering all those times when you had everyone giving you all your wants and needs, it just feels miserable knowing that from now on, you have to do it on your own. Well, not exactly I suppose. We still have friends & family that we come across and hustle along with us. We really gotta appreciate every each one of them.

Life's a war and the people you meet are your soldiers. You don't train just one soldier, you train thousands. You might not remember all of their names but you'll always remember that you've fought in the war with them. Some may have not be strong enough to battle along with you but some will stick till the very end of it.

Thinking of this, I am really grateful for everyone that has been there for me.

Signing off,
justlikecheryl.

Complicated things.

Having boyfriends are complicating. Having a crush is complicating. Having someone who has a crush on you is complicating. Relationships are complicating. Everything is just so complicating. My brain is so cramped up with these emotions and I honestly am trying really hard to take it all out. I am trying to stay positive. I am trying to be strong. I want to move on and feel good.

But I think it's just me, I've never heard of anybody going through the things that I just been through. Seriously, it's so messed up that I don't think anybody would understand what I've went through. Everybody would just think I'm stupid to have done the things that I did and stuff.

I have no idea where to go from here.

Signing off,
justlikecheryl.

Work life.

So today is my second day of work an I'm on my break. This is my first job and I'm working as a waitress at Rakuzen, Empire Shopping Gallery. Working is not easy, it's super tiring and it uses up A LOT of energy. There are so many things to remember like where to get this and that, where to keep this and that, what to do when customers come in, what to do when customers leave and the most important part is to SMILE and be FRIENDLY. Some customers can be a big pain in the ass, they ask for a lot of stuff and they don't have manners at all but we just have to take it all in, smile and do whatever they want.

It's only my second day and I'm ranting so much about it, wow. Gonna memorize the menu now since I still have free time.

Signing off,
justlikecheryl