irregret

exams are finally over; year 2 semester 2 has come to a close.
so you could more or less call me a year 3 student now sigh :|

it's slightly surreal to be hitting this milestone; you know, you never really think about being a senior year student during the earlier years.. and yet now, here we are, in the same situation as the year 3s whom we looked upon as old birds when we moved into sheares in 2010.

it's insane how next year when the freshies come in i'd be like a jason lau or a zhen lin or a liamzai - so uncool. even when i came into sheares i thought nakok and jon looked like pretty old peeps to me already haha.
oh well, i know next year will be a whole new ball-game... just like how year 2 was so different from year 1; i think we all mellowed down (or at least i did).

thinking back, C415 sure held some great memories, the crazy year 1 days at the haps short-wing.
and as much as we may miss those good times, in a way we should be happy that we are able to think back and reminisce about those things... because they really did happen once.

i will always remember and hold dear to my heart, that the things which we will regret most at the end of our lifetimes, aren't things that we did, but the things which we didn't do.

it may seem trivial, how i told myself i just had to leave the exam hall for GEM1536 at the 60-minute mark... not because i wanted to walk out of the hall in front of all the rows of people and smirk at them like a smart-aleck, but because i knew i would regret it for many years to come if i passed up on such an opportunity.
and now i can say that my university life is complete, because out of all the final exams i've taken in NUS, this one time, i was the first guy to walk out of the exam hall.

okay i think that the story i used above isn't that good an example, but you get my point... we should never regret.
never regret not doing something, because in time to come you will always rue the opportunity that you missed, and forever tell yourself "aiya wasted..."

therefore, here's "irregret", a new word coined to sum up what i've just said into three syllables. i guess you could call it a kind of attitude, or a philosophy... it could be an approach to life, or perhaps even a way of life.
the feeling of having not done something which you should have done, truly is horrible. and besides, you wouldn't want to risk passing up on something good would you? ;o)