Pondering on Texprog

Heh Kueh, was supposed to go in the week just before Christmas, but it doesn't seem to be likely now. Must find some other way to escape apparently.

Arh...and the desire to go somewhere deepened today. Got letters from Taipei...it was a nice surprise, just when I was thinking about the kids over there. Hmm apparently one of my letters over there got lost in the mail...that was the package containing one of the National Day shirts. Bleah that was a stroke of bad luck, for starters because it was so expensive. And it would have been cool...the shirts were coordinated, and if both of them got it it would have been something to behold. A fragment of Singaporean nationalism in Taiwan =P

Ah well, all the same it's really good to hear from the kids again. There really is something about having a physical letter that adds an indefinable significance to the message. At the Nat Lib now they have an exhibition of strange and wonderful books that fold out to fantastic shapes such that the physical form of the pages actually adds to the meaning of the poems that are printed on them. That's the same feeling as the letters...having physical paper and ink makes it feel more substantial. If only because it takes more trouble to write a letter by hand =P

Arh I want to see them again! Pining for those days back last year this time. For Texprog didn't write so many stories as for Frexprog One, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't anything to write. I guess besides the lack of time there's also a feeling that Texprog was...more precious, in a way. In a way that defies my powers of expression. There's a feeling that if I write it out I'll be cheapening it, soiling it with my tendency to pitch for the sentimental.

I will always have my pictures, I guess.

And now that the exams are coming to an end I'll really have the time to construct a Christmas present for the kids in Taiwan =) Want to compile a photo album of Singapore in Christmastime for them...and luckily enough there seems to be no shortage of Christmas spectaculars to photograph downtown this year! Heh speaking of photos I'd also like to update lumière with the RJGE pictures. Got quite a backlog to clear.

Ah well we'll get started on that on Tue. But for now, still need to hunker down for the S papers. And to try not to think too much about Taiwan.

pondered by phoenican @ 24.11.05