Easter break

Easter break, should be a period of resting ourselves,

but unfortunately,

we didn't have the rights to do this as a postgraduate student,

instead our days and nights are spent in front of the computer or either with the books.

Or perhaps,

it's a week for us to catch up our studies so that we don't fall behind academically.

And yeah,

I'm the typical postgraduate student who spent 7 days in paperwork and 2 days in leisure :)

My assignment - feasibility report,

took me 2 days to digested the "technical system" that we need to learn to operate the figures,

and took me another 5 days to complete the whole report,

the last day before submission, I was awake till 4:30 a.m to make sure everything was flawless.

The biggest pain is not sitting still for the whole day (since I woke up till to the bed),

but the unbearable spinal pain. LOL!

Because my spine remain the constant position for the whole day;

excludes the time I went to toilet, bathed and cooked.

And finally,

I get my things right at the end.

I am so proud of my own report that I'm able to conduct a financial feasibility.

I wished I could flee the assignment as earlier as I could,

but due to the extreme pressure (80% as passing rate),

I really become obsessive in doing the perfect piece of thing.

Now, I knew that undergraduate is totally different from postgraduate,

it's 10 times harder for its workload,

for example, in our undergraduate degree, 

our presentation only carried out 15% or 20% among 100%,

but in postgraduate degree,

it only carried out 5% !

And the most ridiculous thing is we need to done a whole report to present it,

and in our undergraduate,

it's like a few persons find a few key points and present it.

LOL!

I heard from other classmates (two ladies) whom have graduated from other master - Master of Architecture.

Both of them even said all masters have the same difficulty,

just different scope of contents.

One said when she studied master of architecture,

as daily average, she practiced and drew her architectural model till 2-3 a.m

And another lady, who also graduated from RMIT Master of Architecture, 

she even told me
"From what your friend told you, that is consider a sanguine situation, last time when I rushing for my final year project for my master of architecture, I didn't slept for a week. Seriously!"

I said

'How can you never slept for a week? Wont you pass away?'

she said 

'Seriously, I only slept for one to two hours a day as a break, then wake up and work, because we have to drew the whole complex building, imagine some building have few tenth floors, and you got to calculate the floor area, costing all those"

I asked

'So master of property harder or master of architecture?'

She said

'I can tell you its both the same, just have different kind of difficulty, even now, I only take one subject per semester, I also slept at two to three o'clock in the morning. Master of Property is more towards financial, and master of architecture, is more towards drawing, but somehow they are interrelated. Just that Master of Property, we dont need to draw as specific as Master of Architecture, but we need to calculate very accurately, as study all aspect of things into details.'

I laughed and said

'Haha! So I consider sanguine situation already? I slept at 1 to 2 o clock"

She said

'Yeah, because I have two kids, 3 years old and 1 year old, so I have to wait them till they sleep first only I can start studying and do my things, that is why I only take one subject per semester, and I already feel overwhelming.'

However,

after the submission of this assignment,

I tried to applied as more eye masks as possible to recover my sleepless nights!

LOL!

I realized that this 24k eye mask from Etude House really worked !

Or perhaps,

if it dont work, it wouldn't call a mask? 

Besides than that,

these days, before uni reopened,

I tried to relaxed for a few days, 

my extent to relax refers to having brunch in the late morning, having shopping in the afternoon, playing games at night, read some fashion catalogs and blogging before I slept.

And, by doing so, I really find life is so beautiful.

It has its up and down;

tough and easy part.

I have decided that I want my career like this kind of life,

busy for a certain period and relax for a short period,

so that I can lead a comfortable life with my own children.

I wanna get the best things for my children by not letting them to suffer,

just like how my parents raised me up and gave me this well-rounded upbringing. 

Sometimes, comparatively to others,

unwittingly I felt that I am so much luckier,

in terms of every aspect of life - financially, socially and intellectually.

Once upon a midnight,

a friend sent me multi quizzes to test my personality and knowledge about animals, planets, arts, language literacy, science and psychology (observation skill).

I even got all the results flawlessly even I just tried to answered what I knew,

I always have a sense that "I havent know everything in the world",

but these quizzes were like telling me "I already knew everything in the world".

And all these bits and pieces of knowledge, it came from my daily lives,

like the time we explored Melbourne Sea Aquarium or went to whatsoever countries,

I didn't know that all these city names, animal breeds, unimportant topics in the planet books, what I have learn in my secondary school science syllabus,  grammar skills, and the drawing class that I been attended, are so important to my life.

Previously,

I thought that as saying goes

 "rich kids attend more talent classes because they have more money to do so",

but now,

I realized that all these resources that my parents gave me have tremendously impacted my life,

includes the every single vacation that I went,

this real life experience have contributed so much knowledge to my life that I don't even realized that.

I suddenly told my friend that she makes me feel like I need to thanks my parents,

if she didn't sent me all those quizzes, I also didn't realized how much my parents have contributed.

Sociologically,

now I really believes the logic that "wealth contributes knowledge".