The Preface

This time, it's not so much for expression or free speech, but rather for posterity and nostalgia - two things which I uphold very highly haha.

I used to journal a lot when I was younger, in the primitive, analog way: I had a diary (which could only be opened with a secret code, how cool is that) where I wrote down most of my feelings. I suppose I was very angst-y then, and was filled with a lot of misplaced anger and many many school crushes. I also had horrible writing.

When I evolved into online journalling, at first I kept at it pretty well because the whole 'blogger' thing started to get really popular but as the trend died down and exams came round (that rhymed), my blogging mojo died along with it. Tried to resurrect it a couple of times but people kept getting the wrong ideas about me from my writing so I decided that there was no point in blogging.

But now, I'm not doing it for the sake of catharsis but in a couple of weeks, I am about to leave home for a not-so-distant land. It sounds pretty lame actually, compared to moving away to Europe or Australia or the US, but I suppose it is as distant as I will ever be from home on a permanent basis - for now. And although the primary purpose of Milo Panas Please is to track the journey I've made in Singapore, but MPP would also serve as an avenue for communication - I wouldn't have to send mass emails to unwilling recipients of what life is like as a student in Singapore. Instead, if friends and family wanted to find out how I was doing, they could always refer to MPP (:

As of now, I am almost exactly two weeks away from leaving my home, my family, my friends, my church and my country for a semester. It will be 4.5 months of living, eating, sleeping Singaporean while completing a credit transfer at National University of Singapore. It is slightly daunting, but it's a privilege to be able to study in one of the best schools in the region and the world. I've always wanted to know what it was like to experience university life away from the staunch, traditional and conservative institution that is University of Malaya and though NUS may not be that much of a deviation from UM, it will be interesting to see how things happen down there.

Til then (: