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Friday, May 9, 2008

First post-exam day

I shall start blogging again, since it's my hols and yeah, I love writing though I may be lazy. As some famed writer once said, "I love writing, it's only all the paperwork which I have to get through." Or something like that. I had a postcard with that quote, stuck to my room's wadrobe door for the longest time and it's now somewhere buried in my new room, which I have just switched with my brother's. Speaking of my 'new' room, we'll come to that later, in time to come. Right now, I wanna talk about my Friday! :D Oh yeah! It was TGIF for me in many ways. First, I felt totally totally....different from the past 3 weeks. Whether I was feeling an inner calm, a sense of peace, freedom, elation, I was still trying to get used to the fact that my exams were FINALLY OVER. No more being so restricted, paranoid, fustrated from doing nothing but hitting the books and eating and taking short breaks. It was a necessary evil to discipline yourself from doing anything other than studying for your papers and catching up on your academic content which you hadn't been doing throughout the semester....you get my drift.

For my exams this time round, there were 2 days where I had to do 2 papers in one day, and on my last day (Thursday), I had only a 2-hour break in between. Anyway, enough about those evils. Let's move on with the relatively good stuff.

Omg, in the morning my mom had woken me up early at 6.30am to make us take the train with my dad, on the way to the Immigration building at Lavender to update my passport photo. I thought I could sleep in and give some excuse, but no such luck. She had her reasons as we shall see. The train was so packed, there was even this really horribly smelly Indian man who walked past me. He literally smelled like garbage, thank god he chose to stand somewhere quite far away. I happened to take up a free seat at one of the stops and there was this guy who was dual-tasking, listening to music and busy working on his PSP. Playing games? No, everytime I kept peeking over at his screen, I saw that he was reading lines and lines of words, so I think he was probably reading an electronic book. Pretty cool. He was really absorbed and if one didn't know better, you would probably have thought he was a gaming nerd from afar. But he wasn't. haha
I was listening in to my Marie songs, her soothing songs really woke me up gently. And I read Mypaper newspaper and was pleasantly surprised by the mini boxes they had for every articles which translated difficult words to the other language (Eng-Chi or Chi-Eng). If only they could deliver the free paper to my doorstep, I'm sure I could improve my Chinese quite fast :D Hmmm, which reminds me, maybe they DO have online versions up on a website?? If I recall, they DO (I visted it once before for a school project), check them out: http://mypaper.sg/ awesome, awesome. The electronic versions save the earth too....in a way.

Finally arrived at Lavender station and crossed the road to the ICA building and as I walked closer and closer, I saw barricades and a long line of people queueing up....................not only that, that were MANY MORE people behind as you walked past, one had to walk on for about 3 minutes to get to join the end of the line. "Who are all these people who would do something like that?", I wondered. And now I was one of them.

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