We are FIRST BATCH.

No I'm still alive and not drowned in the lonely and 'abandoned' feeling. In fact, life has been quite busy after my last post in my blog. I dun know whether I define 'Busy' correctly or not -- it's more like a feeling of 'Time is running out'..

Yeah, time is running out. That's the right word to describe my feeling recently. As the MSc programme I'm in now is approaching the final few months, everything I do in this campus is sort of having some sentimental touch attached, and ..I am naming every corner of this campus where I used to spend my time at: Monkey Bar, Suicide Garden, Doraemon Park, Chromatography Lap, Moist Trail, and the number of new names are growing fast recently..

Well maybe some of my coursemates wouldn't agree with my sentimental feeling at all. *smile*.. yeah, no doubt, there were some disappointments or maybe ugly things happened during the time we spend together.. but, we lost faith on something but on the other hand we found firmer belief towards something else -- this is how I see the hardest moment happened around.

This is an unconventional MSc. Programme. A senior in my office pointed out this before he agreed me to enter the door of this non-conventional study. Now his word proved. How 'unconventional' this MSc. Programme is, now I realized, and I learnt.

... and the 'unconventionality' becomes more critical when it's the first batch. The first batch, the specimens, the guinea pigs, the white mice -- these are all the complaints we had early this course, oh well maybe the complaints are still going on; but I started to see the privilege of being first batch, as I started to see how the unconventionality has changed my view toward so many things in my life.

Oh yeah the two pictures shown in this post are the designs for the T-shirt of the first batch of UTP-IFP MSc. Petroleum Geoscience Programme.

I decided firmly to have a T-shirt for this special batch, despite of all the ups and downs during the duration of our study and the not-so-up-to-basic-standard 'art-work' design. The Gothics concept of the design is actualy my direct appreciation to the unconventionality of this MSc. programme, and this first batch, and adaptation to the latest trend of design nowadays; while the tag-line "To become master or monster.. we decide" is my direct shout-back to the management that expects us -- the 'chosen' 1st batch student of this programme -- to be excelling.

I don't expect others to appreciate the meaning behind the design, likewise, I don't expect everyone of 1st batch to bear the same passion I have especially after some crash-boom-bang happened around. I'm glad that many of us like the design, and I hope that, whether each of the 1st-batch choose to wear or not to wear this T, they will still be proud of being the very first batch of the programme.