화요일, 1월 20, 2004
trotted over to renu's place yesterday just for the fun of it, which was just as well, seeing that we received the joyous news that the tutorial sheets were up again. nice. not too good though, was the fact that both of us were equally jetlagged, meaning that we both felt ready to fall into death-like slumber at 10pm, but woke up throughout the night at the weirdest times, all the while thinking: why the heck is it still so early?

as usual, life here in durham seems to rush past like a bullet train, even though it's only been maybe three days max. the light bulb in my room is still busted, so that means the good people of reception might have to endure a visit from me if i want to see, nay do anything of productive use in my room again. apparently, the person before me had been deaf, judging by the various facilities that point towards such a conclusion. with a busted light, they would have to be deaf and blind as well, because the nights in durham are black as pitch. so unlike singapore nights, which always have points of light punctuating the night sky somewhere.

it rained sometime during the night. that explains why my dreams were so cold.

i often wonder just what will happen in the next two years of my life here in good ol' durham. as a child, i was told that it was unlucky to get your fortune told, because it would shave precious years off one's lifetime. i think it was more because it was just a great pack of lies more than anything else, on the simple basis that no one is able to see into another's future. i suppose if God meant our lives to be a glass panel, He would have made it one. the clues in life are only held because they hold the key to what lies ahead, and whatever happens is mostly of one's own doing more than anything else.

house-viewing later today. lots of things have changed, but that's the way life goes, gotta roll with it.