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Mood: excited Fact of the day: event of the week Leaving for London on Sunday!
Today is a much better day....I passed my driving test! Yippee! Finally...though I don't think I drived significantly different from the last times when I failed, what the heck. =) I passed! And the photo I have on the license is not too bad either. I'm so glad.
I don't have much time left before I leave for London. I still have tonnes of things to do, like pack my stuff, sell my textbooks, clean up the apartment, buy my greyhound ticket, call home, stick my photos into the album. Man, I'm kinda overwhelmed, but not in the bad way. I like how all the things I have to do have some sort of very positive connotations. Like when I pack my clothes, I can think of how fun Spain, Portugal and Morocco will be, and how soon I'll be back in Singapore. When I clean up the apartment and sell my textbooks, I can be amazed at how I managed to survive summer school, studying minimally, cooking my own food and basically be in charge of everything in the apartment. Especially when I do my photo album, I can think about all the wonderful times I had in the past year.
I was just talking to Po Chin last night, about how time seems to fly, compared to our junior college days. Somehow, so many things happened within the past year. Two semesters of school work, one major crush, mindblowing springbreak trip, responsibilities, depression bouts... They all seem so distant, yet I know it's only been a year. Maybe it's things like this that make people grow up. I don't know. But anyhow, sometimes I feel like it's pointless for me to try to grab on to anything, when time flows so quickly. Emotions, friends, impressions - they all just come and go. The only thing that remains is my own identity. Maybe even that changes, but at least I know it wouldn't leave me.
It's kinda interesting, how this summer has been extremely stimulating for me, intellectucally. The course that I took is so unique, and refreshing. I can't say I understand the Bible and archaeaology all that well as yet, but at least I've learnt to be more critical in reading the Bible, and other articles, that make claims about the Bible. After the course, I picked up Sophia's World to read. All the history about the various philosophers - they're quite inspiring and interesting, but I think I'm suffering from mental indigestion right now. Argh. Need to read it slower.
So besides the Bible, I'm also reading this book called Einstein's Dreams, which Po Chin lent me. It's very easy reading, in the sense it doesn't have many words and a complicated plot or what, but it's very poetic, romantic and inspiring. It tells Einsteirn's dreams of different worlds, when time has different properties, like perhaps a world when time is sticky and within the same town, different people get stuck in different time frames..or perhaps a world where time distributed radially from a central point and the closer one gets to the center, the slower time moves, until finally everything is still. These stories are of course fictional, since nobody knows if Einstein ever had these dreams, but the possibilities of how people react to each other in all these different theories make this a very good philosophical and thought provoking read.
I like it when I have time to read, especially books like Einstein's Dreams, that are so inspiring to the mind. Sometimes I read popular novels too, and while I'm read them, they're quite entertaining. But they always fail to leave an impression when I finish, which is such a waste. Oh well...I'm definitely going to the library when I go back to Singapore. Will I have time to read next semester? Maybe, since I'll be working as a librarian. But maybe not, cos I'm working in a Physics library and frankly, I'm quite pessimistic about whether I will be able to even just handle my workload, not to mention have time to read.
Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. Started out this entry talking about all those things I need to do. I still need to do them. Back to reality then, busy busy busy...
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