Tuesday, May 22, 2012
This morning:
The process of preparing for school starts off with choosing what to wear. And what a dreadful process it is indeed, having to sit on my bed before my closet, surveying the articles of clothing, picking pieces out only to place them back because they somehow don't seem wearable for the day, trying clothes on only to change out of them in the end. It's a tiresome process and when I go through it the air seems to take on a sluggish, mundane quality.
Recap for the day:
MBM lecture – attention span 65%.
Bought tomyam banmian thereafter and tried desperately to finish it outside the lecture hall. Realized how dumb I was to buy banmian I don't even know why I didn't care at first what people thought if I ate something like that in the lecture hall, I didn't give a damn about how the pungent smell of the soup would diffuse. Acted cute disgusting with Fibi during Commiss lecture and we kept laughing.
Commiss lecture – attention span 15%.
Did I mention I really dislike Commiss? I remarked to Fibi about how Ms Illydea seems a little like Dolores Umbridge, only not as genuinely evil. Ms Illydea always stands and gives us this sickly, somewhat patronizing smile... I really don't like it.
Went with various people from T206 to Canteen 4 for lunch although I didn't eat. Had a cup of barley – the one at Makanplace is better.
Ben and I accompanied Alicia for her interview at Sogurt. The whole shop seemed really whimsical and girly, it wasn't really any surprise to me that most, if not all, of the customers there were female. Asked the interviewee (co-founder of Sogurt, Lee Liping, ACJC alumnus) if she knew Gayle Ong (oops it's really Gayle Goh, I got the surname wrong!) and Jiang Lai, and she said she didn't know them. I was rather surprised because Gayle and JL were somewhat famous/infamous figures from ACJC. It kind of made me think Ms Lee was entrapped in her own little bubble when she was off studying at the States, I really hope I do not become like that. I don't want to be out of touch with things in Singapore while I'm gone, but just this morning I was thinking about how amazed my sister was with JCube. By the time of my first return for a holiday, lots of new malls would probably have popped up all over, particularly in Jurong East, where they are currently building two new malls. Perhaps, by then, I'll be feeling all foreign to something that has already been around for some time. I hope I don't become foreigner to my own country.
Strolled into lecture hall for Radio – late. Feature Writing involved lots of stories from Ramani's part, and also the news of a student from our cohort who has been debarred. We were also cautioned against signing our attendance and leaving lecture. Couldn't quite concentrate because I was having such a splitting headache.
Had dinner at Makanplace with Fibi, Lindsay and Van. They drew on eyeliner for Van and it actually looked quite good on her! Last night I dreamt I drew on eyeliner (with a pen eyeliner that was dry, do they even have that?) and it fit me perfectly and accentuated my eyes instead of making me look trashy – the way I usually would when I put on eyeliner. Dinner was spent laughing like mad with Fibi cos we were doing so many different accents, and really loudly. We were so loud, random people looked over at us and shot us looks HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA there was this auntie who shot us a look of disgust when we were doing a Chinese accent!!!!!! I cannot stop laughing whenever Fibi puts on her Chinese accent I even feel like laughing now. “哪个 Danial 和他的前女友 ... ”
Random thoughts at 3.30 AM:
If only I could pack my friends into a suitcase and bring them along with me to college. I feel that college is going to be such an awesome experience (save for the fact that I'd have to make friends again and get re-accustomed to a new place and culture... Quite looking forward to these things actually, although I'm a little apprehensive) and the thought of them not being there to spend it with me is a little difficult to stomach. If I were filthy rich (by this, I mean with my own fortune of course, not inherited or anything) and if my friends didn't mind I would totally pay for their college tuition.
Sadly, that is all but a wishful dream.
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