Tears

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Opening lines by Mom from her "spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility". You can only wonder what the rest of the content would be. It is an irresistible feeling to shed tears. In the first half. Followed by the irresistible feeling to stop shedding tears in the ending half. I could not capture the all of it over phone. I can't describe the emotions in my own words. It is impossible. You can only feel it.

Bite

Coming from a background where I simply did not know how do academic failure look like and little on how to handle them. Failure is difficult to handle. Not something that you anticipate mostly. And that is when and why it bites hardest - in your arse. And everywhere else too. But on the brighter side it is good to know your limits because you know where you need to push now. Lesson learnt is be prepared anytime for anything. Taking a fall is okay. Because it is in coming back from it is what defines you. "And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." Master Wayne.

I passed

I passed the PhD qualifying exams this week. Finally. In second attempt at oral exams. Freaking oral exams!