Change...hmm...Are things so different now?

Can say that I haven't technically returned to NUS even though I am just taking one evening class module. It's been a great first 6 months overseas, and a fairly busy yet fulfilling internship thereafter. Yet somehow can't help but feel that by being absent for a year, things have changed quite a bit. Suffice to say, the world goes on without you, and the winds of change hit so hard that you can't even recognise some things le.

When I talk about change, it's stuff in the news that all look bleak nowadays. If it isn't something about stocks and shares plunging, it's about the recession (read: less likely to hire fresh grads), job retrenchment, pay cuts, or maybe some natural disaster or scandal happening. And I thought news in the UK already bleak enough with definitely some article related to youth crime / stabbing or just how screwy the weather is. How would one ever expect all the shit that has happened, or will probably happen, to hit so hard 6 months ago?

Regardless, change is always inevitable and all we can do is to adapt to it and pine for the best. Hope the situation will not be so awkward into the next year...