Surreal

Ray was saying that travelling is very surreal... you sit in a plane for a few hours, and and step out into somewhere new. I don't know what's up with me... but I think, my entire life feels completely surreal these days. I know this doesn't make any sense, but sometimes, it feels like I'm busy doing so many things, but not really doing anything at the same time. All I do is go out, meet different people, hang about Orchard until I'm sick of all the same old shops, food, sales, pack... day in, day out, and poof, the semester break is ending once again. Except this time, it's not the dread of stepping back into the same old routine of lectures and tutorials... it's the dread of going away. I don't even know why I'm dreading it so much when everyone else tell me how excited they are for me.

Time passes too fast, too fast. I look back at some of my JC photos, and I can't believe how terrible they look now...I'd like to think I look better each year, but I'm pretty sure a few years down the road, I'm going to look back at my current photos and think, 'gosh, I can't believe I used to look like that', haha. Worst still, it depresses me to see how much younger everyone looked just 2 years ago... it's as if entering university makes us age all of a sudden. Awhile ago, I met up with a friend 2 years younger than me and I remember thinking he has really matured so much from the time I first met him. Over our annual New Year Eve's gathering at Es' places, I remember thinking that we've all changed in some way, just that I can't put my finger as to what exactly it is... it just felt very different from our gathering a year ago, when everyone got wasted way before New Year... but as always, somethings don't change. I'm always so thankful that everything seems to fall right into place when I'm with old friends from the Nanyang/Hwachong days... even though we've all moved on.

BAH. I should just stop thinking so much and enjoy my last 4 days in Singapore.

Yesterday was a day of reunions- had lunch at Holland Village with the Beijing gang, so nice that all 6 of us could be there, laughing, photo whoring, and letting dear Ditzy entertain us as usual. Dinner was with f.r.i.e.n.d.s at Ms Claritys... first time I've seen Jingyi/Christine in ages... a pity I couldn't try the food thanks to food poisoning...but as always, it's just nice sitting there with my favourite girls, listening to Jingyi talk at a speed of a bullet train (and telling her to slow down so that I can hear, haha), just catching up on each others lives etcetcetc... ah, I like familiarity.

For the first time in ages, I couldn't sleep last night...but let's not go there.

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