More Dreams

On a 1.5h break from studying now, and I have fifteen minutes to spare before I go off for my daily dose of dinner and Spongebob =) After all, RJ students especially need to indulge in something brainless...

Been having strange dreams nowadays. I don't know what's sparked them off. There was one about flying a spaceship and shooting down asteroids, and another one...well, it's too risky to post it publicly, because the cast of that dream is quite sensitive. And anyway, I guess to some extent it is better off forgotten. But these dreams are so vivid, and they seem to have something to do with real life (spaceship notwithstanding). I wonder where they come from. Can dreams be sparked off spontaneously? Is it a slippage in neurons that uncovers unseen connections? Who's trying to talk to me in my sleep?

Anyway, we're past the halfway mark for the common tests. It's not too bad, from this perspective. Lit yesterday was good, I think...was consciously forcing myself to go through the three step process of finding interesting language, explaining how it causes an emotional effect and then showing how that effect illuminates the central artistic purpose. But then by the time I got to Frost I was rather worn out. And today's Econs and Maths wasn't spectacularly good. Didn't finish the Econs essay, and I identified an MCQ error seconds after the order to stop writing came. And I didn't get any nice numbers for Maths. All rather dissatisfying, I must say, the taunting tang of knowing that you could have done better had you had the time. Which idiot decided that 45min was enough to write an essay anyway?

Heh, and the hall isn't really a good place to take exams. It's freezing cold! They don't seem to have any means of controlling the temperature, so it's either stuffy Singapore, or the Arctic Circle. I mean, I can be quite comfortable in winter Taiwan gear. And in preparation for th 5 essays tomorrow, I'm going to bring gloves...I just can't stand it anymore.

But it hasn't been too overwhelming. I've had nice help from lots of people...the notes coming out for this common test are more proliferant than usual, and I must say that some are spectacular. Especially Kelly's EHist notes! They're immensely useful, and fill in all the blanks that I had forgotten were there. Super Duper notes are actually quite holey - you need to know what's supposed to be there beforehand. Heh, and the added incentive of looking forward also helps tide over the times. Got Grace's DS on Thu, and then the Holy Week pilgrimages, and then Good Friday as a day of rest, and then off to the Kelong on Saturday! All in all quite an enticing combination of events, and well deserved too, after all that we've gone through for the common tests.

Was walking back from Suntec today through Citylink after studying USSR's collapse and New Imperialism, and walking past the glass wall of Nooch, it was intriguing...to see the shadowy reflections, my fingers running along the cool glass, and then this woman coming the other way with the same intent as me, to walk along the glass. So much reflection...and then I thought of the road paved with cloaks and leaves.

Heh, with such random allusions and disordered thoughts, perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that I dream...

pondered by phoenican @ 22.3.05