First Day Back to University

February 18, 2008 | Filed Under Life in Uni 

My mobile phone alarm set off as per normal at 4.45am. The Way I Are by Timbaland was the song that disrupted my ever peaceful sleep as its volume ascended to a point I could not comprehend. Without hesitation, the snooze button was pressed to shut it up for another five minutes. The process went on from 4.45am to 5.20am. That is, seven times of pressing the snooze button and one time of pressing the stop button to shut it up for good.

Dragging my own feet from the cozy, air-conditioned room into the bathroom was not an easy feat, nor was the feeling of the warm water splashing onto my body, especially when I know that it is the first day back to uni and I would have spent the last three months’ worth of holiday doing nothing but working my ass off to pay bills. The only consolation was trying out the new shampoo that I had gotten from Spencer Village’s Chemist for a mere AUD2.45 the day before, which was reduced to clear but was reallly nothing to shout about.

With only thirty minutes left to get to work on time, I could not fully savour the congee with salted fish and omelette that my sister-in-law had prepared nor the extra black coffee that I had made to keep myself awake for the rest of the morning.

Rushing through the traffic in the morning to work is not an uncommon thing. With only less than twenty minutes to prevent facing the music of the supervisors and team leader, driving 90-100km/h on a 70 road on South St. is often the only choice.

At work, doing the mundane work every morning could hardly bring out the best in me. There would be times when I would pretend that I am in my fantasy world, where the job I do would be thought of as something that I really enjoy doing, when in actual fact I detest it with my whole heart. Often, the simplest way to pass time would be to talk to the colleague I work with, like the new guy from Italy today, Martino.

Leaving work at 10am, the rushing starts again, but this time, only to go to campus to attend my first lecture of the semester, Media Audiences and the Public at 10.30am. Although uni is located a mere 5 minutes from work, finding a decent parking space often take a longer time than to get to the place itself. With less than thirty minutes in my hand, all I could do was to grab myself a can of Coke and to have a change of top. The last thing to do would be to attend my first lecture late.

First day of uni always suck and it will continue to suck for the rest of the semester. Now that my large Mocha and Florentine cookie from Cafe Kadjininy are both happily swimming in my stomach, it is high time that I get home and catch up with my readings.

Have a great week.

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