Beginning of...Something

Of course I should be studying Econs right now. But in a rather strange twist of events, I studied more lit today than econs. Heh, don't know how much of it'll come in useful on Wed, really. Ah well, shall not be fatalistic before the fact itself. Today's papers were all right I guess. Lit PC was strange. There was an extract from King Lear, which when I saw I immediately had a premonition of Kels excelling at it. And then I read the first page of it and gave up, on the premise that it'd have taken too long to work out the meaning. Then did the poetry comparison, which, in hindsight, may have been a bad idea, because if I'm not mistaken, they were two feminist poems, which didn't lend itself at all to my viewpoint unfortunately.

Ah well. The highlight is of course that today is the first day back in school after a really cool June Hols. Don't think I've had so much fun in a mid-year hols before. I realise that I really do enjoy having ultimate control over my time distribution. Anyway, back to school today, and was in quite a trance, really. Partly because I couldn't sleep last night cos of all the late nights in the hols, but mostly I think due to the fact that I'd not yet renormalised my perception of everyone yet. Like Kats and John and Claud, I still see them in the context of Bangkok. And Soph in the context of the rather strange all-female UNIFEM thing that I found myself in last night. That...I shall leave that, and all the girl-power stuff, for a more diplomatic moment.

Anyway yeah. Doesn't feel like school has really started. Or rather, school has undoubtedly restarted, but all my perceptions of others are still out of kilter. But like I said, over the hols so many perceptions have changed, and new things have happened, that I don't know how far some of the relationships can even be renormalised. It is a sort of social dislocation I guess. Trying to fit the extraordinary sides of people that I'd seen over this hols into the framework of everyday life. Heh, maybe it's really fundamentally just a case of my perspective of some (a lot of) people shifting irrevocably.

But we shall see how that goes. This is the first day of the last semester of Singapore schooling. I should train myself to cherish every last second of it.

pondered by phoenican @ 27.6.05