~The Road Less Taken~

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

the only thing of note in today's talks (which i understand are in general universally deemed as, while not completely useless, a rather inefficient use of time) was the lit talk.

which sort of rekindled that flame in me which wants to do lit.

i was more or less sold on mrs perry's (hope i spelled it right) talk, not because of that quote at the end (which will be referenced later, worry not), but more because she really seemed to sum up everything which is beautiful about literature.

so now it's back to that internal debate. BCME or BCML? it's hard to decide, and i really wish i could take both, but an overhaul of my subject combo is unlikely, seeing as i already accepted an RA offer.

grrrr. it's so tempting to be pragmatic when it comes to this kind of thing.

to make matters worse today, i had almost 6 hours in between the last talk and my interact interview (which went fine i guess. shot myself slightly in the foot a few times, but hopefully it wasn't too bad). and so the time was spent in where else but ri.

along the way a few interesting things happened. got bombarded by EXTREMELY weird questions about JC life (all you dirty little fellows), got some uninterrupted sleep in (15 minutes?), walked around the school as i always do and chased a certain someone all over the cca block for an hour.

now you know how productive i can be.

and now, two of the most random quotes of the day.

"literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having babies. life is the other way around." - someone i forgot. if you look past the rather obscene bit, it actually makes quite a bit of sense.

"aiyah go molest women." - someone i shall not mention, lest you change your impression of him. but it's safe to say he went slightly crazy after that. needed a spray of that women's deodoriser in the PB room to calm him down, but we had to take great care to escape from the web he spun which "few men can escape".

chinese new year is a prime time to go out with friends. so zongyi you'd better not let me down this time.

obama's inauguration coming up really soon! somehow i'm looking forward to it more than the last one (ok the last new one was 8 years ago, and i was incredibly apathetic then, but i think it's fair to say i didn't miss much). whee. =)

I stopped to rest at 10:34 PM

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...