Yay.
Been having lots of fun in Paris and now, Morocco. The trip's only just begun; but aching so badly from walking practically everywhere. Think it was probably the 4.5 hour long walking tour on the first day which did it, hah. Immensely fun and interesting though, and met some new people too :)
In a little cellar in a little budget hotel in Casablanca now - the ancient medina and marketplace here is so awesome. And people are so friendly! Haha.
Anyway, this keyboard is ridiculously hard to type with (it's constructed some other way...?) and I am very tired (totally wish I had deep heat with me), that's about it for now. Pictures and more updates later!
For now, I will leave you with an example of what that keyboard is like -
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:5:02 AM: :sugah~plum
Conflicting emotions.
Strange how this day was something I looked forward to all throughout my internship and the summer, and I was counting down by the weeks. Now that it's finally arrived, my excitement seems to have dissipated somewhat, and all I feel now is tiredness and unpreparedness, from all the running around trying to get stuff done. But oh well, I'm sure I'll be excited once again when I get there - legwork and constant paying of bills is rather dull, but I keep telling myself, it'll all be worth it in the end.
And hopefully it will be - tonight I fly to France; my first time flying somewhere alone, and my first time staying in a foreign city alone as well.
Wish me luck!
:12:29 PM: :sugah~plum
Busybusybee.
Whoa. Realising that I've hardly prepared anything for exchange at all during the 3.5 months of my internship and having one week to go before flying into a foreign country for 4 months is kinda stressful. But after a few days and much help from some people (thank you Alvin and Crystal LOADS) - especially Alvin, who helped me to realise that there was something crucial I missed out and proceeded to help me look up bus and train schedules and that luckily I hadn't made a wrong booking yet. But yeah okay nevermind this all sounds too cryptic.
Bottom line, not so prepared yet. One week to go! And lots of people to meet and a lot of pictures in my computer waiting to be uploaded. Facebook has been neglected, sadly.
Anyway. More later!
:2:50 PM: :sugah~plum
In the interim.
It was the first time in a long time since there was such a strong breeze in Singapore. Refreshing. And enjoyable - complemented with a nice slow stroll along Shenton Way.
Been reading The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami - find it rather well paced, and written in an ethereal, removed-from-reality sort of way. I quite like his style.
I've also attempted to start a food blog, but haven't added many posts yet. Will be adding more soon. Here it is, if you want to have a look - The ingredients of happiness.
Two more weeks to what might possibly be the greatest adventure of my life.
Shall leave you with a quote my colleague sent me, from one of Murakami's works:
"Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of. One you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling."
- HARUKI MURAKAMI, Kafka on the Shore
:8:46 AM: :sugah~plum
Wow. Meeting up with everyone like that, feels like home. Coming back to work after feels... somewhat alien and foreign. I feel blindsided, all of a sudden.
:2:19 PM: :sugah~plum
Good speech.
http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/2008/08/life-and-how-to-survive-it.html
Any thoughts on this?
:12:00 PM: :sugah~plum
I need some perspective.
I really need to think about what I say before I say it, because it's really starting to get out of hand. I never really thought of myself as being bad at expressing myself, but when I think hard about it, I think I actually am - due to bad phrasing and the use of convoluted ways and superfluous words to get to the point.
Like the difference between steaming and boiling. I do know the difference. But while I meant to say that it's the same to me because food cooked by either method has a similar, water soaked, non-oily/greasy taste, it somehow came out wrong, and was taken to mean that I didn't know the difference between steaming and boiling.
I think some perceptions of people, once identified and assumed, never really change unless you do something drastic to prove it wrong. Unfortunately, I just don't think before I say or do certain things, and well, that is the truth. I'm just tired of being viewed in a certain way. And I'm tired of this place, and life here.
But okay, I have a holiday coming up in... 3 weeks or so. Hopefully, it'll be a good breather. Recently I've been thinking about the future, and how school and work is so vastly different and how in a year's time I'd really have to work for real. Students are such a sheltered lot, we are. Internships let us brush the surface of what working is like, but we only do it for a couple of months - for the rest of the world, it's their life. It's time to grow up. But maybe wait til after exchange.
And a random observation - a good number of my friends have turned into canoodling couples, which result in me inevitably catching a glimpse of people giving love-soaked glances, kisses, and hugs wherever I look. Don't get me wrong, I'm terribly happy for all of them. It's just so very.... third wheel cat. But fine, whatever, deal with it. It's getting sliiiightly annoying though, because well, because. And also because the demographics of friendships are all somewhat different now. Maybe it's a student thing - all of them are still studying.
So sleepy. The early morning and late nights are starting to take a toll.
:8:34 AM: :sugah~plum