In love with Love.

I was charging my old phone - Nokia E65, to get all my calendar events into my new phone. Not all of them got transferred when I did a mass transfer.

Such a whiff of nostalgia when it came on and I saw that old display screen with the Inbox and calendar on the front screen, and the way the phone can Lock whenever/wherever I slide it down. Unlike most other phones, that only Lock when you slide it down on the front screen. I was using it just before the prelims last year, and a torrent of memories flooded in. The messages I received, the studying, the music, the things friends said. The way we fought to keep up, the way we laughed, the way we loved. The way we said we can do this.

I'm not exaggerating.

I almost felt like switching back, despite some of the problems it gave. It's such an elegant phone. Although it doesn't have a Radio function.

It's nice the way we can associate so many feelings to an object.

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On another note, I've found more I-don't-wanna-join-Facebook friends!

Long day tomorrow, I think.

I felt like writing, but I don't have much to say about any one particular thing. So I won't write just about one particular thing.

I'm not moody, but I have my moods.

I started composing a post on music, and what I think of when I hear particular songs. It got dreary just one paragraph into the post, so I deleted it.

I'm not the kind of person who maintains a personal diary. At the start of this year, I tried making it a habit to keep a diary. The last entry was on the ninth of February. I want to start writing again, but what do I do with the empty space in between? Fill it in from memory?

It just rained and the weather is wonderful. Sometime last year, I wrote a haiku after getting caught in the rain. I don't have a copy of it now but I think it went like this:

You smile like the rain.
Sudden, unexpected, but
Enough to drench me.

Two weeks into school, lotsa new friends! Literature students are the coolest. And most interesting. Though I still miss VJ and Victorians terribly.

I collect notebooks. Last year, I bought two notebooks (at the same time, because I couldn't resist) from the school bookshop. I haven't used them yet. The middle step of the bunk-bed, which is also storage space, is full of (mostly unused) notebooks I've collected over the years. The oldest one is a tiny notebook I bought for 5cents when my kindergarten took us to a nearby shop to learn about money. They gave each of us 5cents to buy either coloured paper or a notebook. That must have been my first purchase ever, alone.

Will I ever be able to write anything worth reading?

Such a pity there's no rehearsal today, I was looking forward to it the whole week. Now it's another whole week away.

I'm an extensive daydreamer. Always have been. I can't get my mind to stop. I daydream on the way to places. On the way home. When I'm bathing. When I brush my teeth. When I lie down to sleep. (sometimes I dream so much that I can't get sleep. Sounds ironic doesn't it.) When I walk around the house. I daydream whenever I'm not talking, not reading seriously, not watching anything seriously. And it's almost always dramatic daydreaming.

The mood is passing and I'm starting to feel a little silly about this post too. I better stop now or I may delete the whole thing.


Oh! To ICS people: Remember the way Reuban always used to ask why the sky is so high? I think I have an (act-cool) answer now. It's to make sure we reach for the stars.

=D

In the afternoon, I received this SMS from a friend:


"Ok so ten minutes ago the phone rings when i'm in the middle of doing dishes (which annoys me) so i rush irritably to go pick it up, and the line gets cut off. I go back to the dishes and this happens a second time. The third time it rings i'm already suspecting it's some random prankster, and he didn't catch me at the right moment so i pick it up and go, "HELLO. WHO ARE YOU.WHAT DO YOU WANT. ANSWER ME!" and i'm pretty mad so the fierceness is reflective. And after a few seconds, someone goes "ennammaa - yaa.. Yaar ithu paesu..rathu?" O_O *facepalm* terrified paatti. Argh -expletive- dad's -expletive- mum. Awkward moment then. "ennamaa kural maari pochu.." *epic facepalm* "illai paatti, uh... Sorethroat." "


HAHAHAHA!

I have homework to do, but there's a song stuck in my head.

Wednesdays are my 'go to school only in the afternoon' days. For now, at least. I hope I don't mess my timetable up.

I saw a couple of familiar, comfortable faces yesterday. Met Sakthi in school on the way to lesson, went to Dhevy's house after school, and met Archana on the bus home. Course registration is killing me! Looks like I'll have to meet Lichee and Amu next week.

But I like Uni, I really do. It's going good.


Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the median that separates our house from the middle of the street~


EDIT: 19th Aug. Today I met Aaron on the MRT home! And Suriya, on the way to school. And also met friends' friends. And Ajit (cousin brother) is in Singapore for a day!!!

And I have yet to enter an NTU washroom. Apart from the day of the medical examination. Strange.

Just a quick one.

First day of lessons went well. Except that we got lost and were 10 minutes late for lecture -_- But oh well. We'll get used to the place.


I think my blogging style is blogging for myself, to read in the future.


Last Tuesday or Wednesday, I met Shalini for lunch. She can drive, so she took their car. In 13 years of knowing her and her family, that was the first time I sat in the front seat (because usually, Shylu, Shal, Sowmya and I squeeze in the back and my mum sits in front). We bought food at Tampines, and wanted to go to the beach, but it started to rain, so we went to her house to watch a movie. And made a quick trip to the beach before she dropped me home.


Looking forward to a good semester. Though I'm so gonna miss people going overseas. (DHEVY. RAGHAV. YOU TWO OF ALL PEOPLE.)


Remember me as the one without Facebook.

Moments contained in one glance.

On Thursday night/Friday morning, I learnt what Indie music is. And where the word 'Indie' actually comes from.

I feel disillusioned.

Indie used to sound so cool .



Oh, we found an insect's nest on the Master Bedroom window grilles. I wanted to leave it there but it was abandoned so my parents said it can and should be removed. =(

"Cool breeze and autumn leaves/Slow motion daylight"

I matriculated online on Saturday, and received my timetable. Very excited, and a little nervous too (when I read the description of the courses and wonder if I'll be able to do all that). I need to go on all days from Monday to Friday, but I almost always end by 3.30pm, and I don't have to go earlier than 11am except on one day. Have yet to buy the books I'll need from the campus bookstore - will probably get them when I go this Thursday. Laura, if you're reading this, can I please borrow your Waiting for Godot notes? I'm gonna be doing it too =]


And I finally applied for my tertiary concession card today. Though I wasted $8 on passport-sized photos because the TransitLink website told me to bring one. And it wasn't necessary after all. I'll be glad to stop paying the adult fare soon..


PA rehearsals are taking up a lot of time this week, including the long weekend, but no complaints. It's fun. Especially with the professionals. And friends. The only trouble is trying not to be late for the SIFAS rehearsals.


I need to return my library books and clear my table and stock up on clothes and clear my phone of messages dating back to last November before the A-levels ended. And meet Olivia and Shakura after settling down, and Laura and Lichee and so many others, and Sundar before he leaves, probably at the airport itself, though, and Raghav before he leaves, though maybe not, since we hardly talk face-to-face (haha), so I guess it's the airport for you too, R, unless the problem I told you about surfaces, in which case we'll meet earlier. What a long sentence. Sorry, I can't help it. Most of my Literature/Knowledge and Inquiry/Language Arts teachers have commented on it but I can't help it =S


Most people seem to be getting laptops, now that they're about to go to University.

I don't think I want to get a laptop.