A perfect start.

I woke up on Thursday, the day after I finished ALL my fucking exams, to this...

A wonderful breakfast prepared by none other than MY Hyeyoung. I don't mean to get all mushy but seriously, nothing beats waking up from your nightmare to a specially made breakfast (complete with croissants from the best French bakery in town). If there was a perfect start to mark the end of undergraduate life and a start of another (whatever fuck life it is), then this HAS to be it!

Finally... It's all over, THE moment that we've been all waiting for. Yet for some reason, I don't feel any sense of liberation (as my Facebook status said so a few days ago). Am I not supposed to feel relaxed and free? Perhaps it's because now that I'm done with exams, I have even bigger problems to deal with.

Seriously, life is just full of challenges. Sometimes, way too many (at the same time) I think. I don't hate life but I just wish that sometimes (especially now), I can have some breeze and let me just sail gently for a while. Let me sail through calm waters with Hyeyoung so that we can enjoy each other's company a little bit more. Maybe that should be my wish for Christmas this year... That we don't have to face any more rough seas and that the storm can be a bit forgiving for now and let us just sail through peacefully for now. Especially since I know there's a bigger storm up ahead next year.

Anyway, had a very pleasant surprise this morning when I checked my mailbox. My ex-lecturer invited me to go with her to 早稲田 for an all expenses-paid workshop in early December. Damn honored and delighted. Spoke to my Summer Research supervisor and he was very encouraging and supportive. However, because it's my first workshop, I have no idea how to prepare and what to expect. Lost. I need to prepare my presentation topic and a 1-page summary by 18th and the actual paper (complete with handouts) by 24th.

*sobs* I'M SUPPOSED TO BE ON HOLIDAY TILL THE 18TH!!!

Time, which I'd just complained about, is again running out... Hopefully I'd be able to discuss about something I'd written before, something I'm familiar with. If not I think I'd have another "take home exam" soon.

Sigh. I think I don't want to be rich when I grow up. I want to have A LOT of time, A LOT OF FUCKING TIME THAT'S IN MY CONTROL.