Serenity

Living in Singapore equates to being in a rat race where we spend most of our days working and sometimes, we do not even know what we are working/busy for. In school, everyone is just mugging away without any work-life balance and most of them simply give in and accept the way it is. I am so relieved to spend my last year of university life right here in Taiwan, NSYSU. There seems to be serenity in life as the pace is slower here, and I get to appreciate what I've learnt, what I've see... Everything that seems to be less impossible to achieve when I am back into the hectic lifestyle of Singapore.

I don't have to rush for assignments, listen to professors rushing through their lectures, sitting for countless tests and exams or listening to students worrying about their GPA. It is just so sick. It is not because I am on exchange that I feel so comfortable and less up-tight here. The reason is because the atmosphere and environment here is so much friend-lier and breathable. Students are not selfish, they don't compete with one another. True friendships are forged, there are more laughters, professors don't stress the students and we help one another. I don't even feel a sense of distance from the professors because they bother to ask if we are catching up to their lectures, whether we can adapt to taiwan and even openly tell us about their life and family stories during lectures. Why why don't we see this in S'pore??

The people here are so kind-hearted. Even a nurse is happy for me when she gave me my blood test results and told me that everything was normal. And the people who cook for us will ask if its too salty for our liking. And giving us bigger portion of food, discounts when they know we are students. A security guard asking to take care of ourselves esp during the flu period now. TOOOO NICE and there's too many incidents of nice people I have met to name them down one by one...

I am so thankful to be here and so lucky to have the luxury of time to do things in my own pace and to live the life I want!