Graduating Thoughts: Utown

Utown. One of the little things that make my uni life awesome.

Countdown to graduation: 1.5 more weeks.

Utown gave me hope that my university wasn't as ugly as it seemed. It was rather representative of my university life as a whole.

There were days where I didn't want to leave my bed for school. Then there were the days where I didn't want to go home from school. People like Reynold, Regina, Edwin, Biscuit, Shiyun, Shing, Jason, they were my "Utown". They beautified my university life. Sometimes I feel like I was made to go through the tough road of the first 3 years of university to truly appreciate and cherish these people.

Utown boasts many of my favourite memories. From mugging with Nicholas and Sheila in the PC commons to doing up the AR mockup for Weiquan with Yi Wei and Ha, also in the same room, I had such a wide variety of memories there. The time where I ate my first buah keluak made skillfully by Reynold's mum in Koufu, to bio-ing all the chio-bus that congregate in utown; the CNM Homecoming dinner where I had free NUS lion soft-toys (to be later taken away by my good friend and now successful actor Jaspers Lai :p ), to the "painful" memory of my best university friends celebrating their graduation right before my eyes at the meticulously maintained grass patch, all vividly play in my mind every time I step in the boundaries of Utown. But that is not all. When I thought that my last semester would be a boring one, new memories were forged with the young (really young) and spunky ladies in my location-based experiences project group. Tongwei, Shermaine, Vanessa and Eehwee are like blessing showers. We most probably would not meet after the end of the module, but all the tutorials in Utown were most probably the easiest 10am timeslot to wake up to. 

I never once thought much about this place, but layer by layer, the sense of place grew and festered quietly like a shy little boy in the corner of a room. I can't say that the sense of place in Utown is as emotional or close-to-heart as say, my faculty's building or even Arts building, but as a whole, it brought me much joy and happiness and I really appreciate this place and everyone that I interacted with in there.