It's a strange feeling,considering the fact that I was extremely hesitant to go there in the first place.Hey,don't get me wrong,I love being in Help!It's been a fantastic 7 months,albeit with a few tough moments here and there.

Well,if I was being perfectly honest,I wouldn't have gone to Help if not for my family members who stepped in and advised me that going to Help was a better option than rotting in KL for 9 bloody months before I start my first year in UK.

Haha,I can somewhat picture myself remaining inanimate for 9 months!I've seen Nadia do that for 3 months before she started AUSMAT at Sunway in March this year.Not a pretty sight.

In any case,my decision to continue my law degree has been one of the best decisions I have made so far.Sure,it's not easy and heck,hardly a walk in the park.But it's given me a challenge which I quite relish. (Although I really hate to admit it,I tend to get scared shitless when I face challenges).

To be honest,it's not so much the subject matter that has been hard,but it can be a task to keep up in a class full of notoriously intelligent people.Bless my friends and their exceptional mental capabilities.

The fact that I have a *slight* competitive streak doesn't help either.I recall my friends in A Levels saying "Naj,you don't have to be so competitive!It won't do you any good!".I really know it's not very healthy for me,but I can't help it!Consider it an effect of conditioning from my secondary school days.

Competitive in this sense is not that I want to be better than my classmates (which can be quite the difficult task seeing that my classmates in my Help law degree programme are pretty darn smart with a capital S-ototally!)but,I don't know.I guess I've been surrounded by so many intelligent people in my life (not that I am saying I'm the female version of Homer Simpson or anything), that I yearn to keep up with them and well,fit in,basically.

As cheesy as peer pressure stories can sound,back in high school I was never part of the "Top 10 Smart-A**es" crowd so I ended up working really hard to try to be as good as them.Well obviously being the woman (that's right,WOMEN) that I am today,I know for a fact now that the sole reason that one should work hard is for the betterment of oneself,and not to impress other people.

Thank god for maturity!

My dad has always said to me: "Naj,talents and intelligence alone will not get you anywhere in life.You have to work hard to be where you want to be.I'm not the brightest light bulb around,but damn it,working hard has gotten me where I am today."

And currently being a successful property developer and wonderful father of three,I'm pretty dang proud of my dad.I guess some of his work habits have rubbed off on me.I can't count the number of times my friends have told me that I'm like some kind of businesswomen,always busy doing work and whatnot.