i'm commenced

This may sound a bit weird, but
I'm commenced!
(sounds so WTF, like I'm done or I'm screwed)
They don't call it graduation, they call it commencement. It's like telling you now is the time your life starts and the craps start rolling.

Actually I didn't feel much emotional at first. The preparation, wearing the academic dress in the robing room, going up onto the stage and receiving the thin-walled structure (aka degree scroll), oh and someone owned up for screaming "chillycraps". I just felt amused that I haven't seen so many faces in my cohort of 288, not even during examinations (since I wasn't the invigilator, how could I see every face?) It was only when the balloons started to fall from the ceiling and almost drowned me then I had some emotions oozing out from the oil well.

Like finally, I'm officially unemployed :P Finally, I can't use student concession. Finally, I can't buy student meal.


Looking back, I have one of the most boring lives you can get from an undergraduate. I didn't go for orientation camps, I didn't stay in campus in hostels, I didn't go for oversea exchange, I didn't take up positions in any clubs and societies, I didn't skip that many lectures, I didn't buy a laptop, I almost didn't borrow a book from the library until upper years, I didn't stay overnight to mug in campus near the exam, I didn't play computer games in the lab, I didn't copy any lab reports (loser!), I didn't use any S/U option.

I do know this B.Eng (Hons) costs me many cups of thick aromatic coffee from the engineering canteen.

To the class of 2009, congratulations for your commencement!