Jumbled up weeks

Yesterday Wei Chong introduced me to two of his friends from the clique he claimed "cooler" than us- Jacky and Jason- and for once I was completely certain that I was more of a JC girl than the polytechnic(s) I'm in/not in. The JC culture, alike Dunman's, is easily and more inevitably lucid, earthly... boring, if you may. But I'm comfortable in the bore, and even though amidst it, oils a varying layer of studiousness, which is not me, not me entirely, I like being surrounded by it rather than crazy, forgotten nights that is a poly- no, my course. I think I've never really felt like I fit in whilst in school. This is spoken not in that cliche, miserable way, but with zest. I don't fit in, that is what it is and actually, with that, I am assured constantly of myself and I like that.

I don't feel like I want to ramble about this anymore in this post because I have pictures and I always think that, notwithstanding them conveying so much more meaning to me than to a stranger who has no idea [who I am, what I look like in real life, what my friends/family look like in real life, how we interact with one another, how I speak usually (because: I most certainly don't speak as I write for that will be just insane, wouldn't it), how the place around me/us looks like in accuracy], they (the photos) are intrinsically, a magical cover-up. With them, a little tête-à-tête spent reminiscing is assembled with psychedelic words.

We (hardly) worked yesterday for two community sharing events and then had ice-cream at Ice Cream Chefs. Jason rented a car and drove us around. They made me feel very embraced as a newcomer on their own. Wei Chong also passed me a series of really pretty earrings and a "pretentious" hand-held fan he bought for me from his trip to Bali with that same bunch of friends.

1) 29th January 2012: Alex and I at Wild Honey for an evening of intense conversation and pretentiousness. I had tea in a legit set.

2) 2nd February 2012: successful Leadership presentation day with my mates, (left to right) Emilyn, Rushan, Marcus and SK.

3) 4th February 2012: out to ION Orchard for 4Fingers chicken, Plaza Singapura for fried mushrooms, and lots of walking.

4) 5th February 2012: steamboat with Kamini, Leon and Kenneth, after which I hurled salty water more than nine times. Leon also gave me wonderful Christmas presents. I refuse to post up ones of them pretending they could play the guitar.

5) 10th February 2012: Ikea and Giant shopping with Jing Zhi and Leon for Multi-camera demonstration recording. Of course we stopped for food; it was part of our plan.

6) 12th February 2012: when Ivan drove me to Bugis so that I could edit Basic Sub-editing articles at the Coffee Bean by Plaza by the Park;

7) practising make-up for the demonstration recording the following day to failure.

8) 16th February 2012: satisfying, satisfying dimsum with Leon. It's just like biting into a 4Fingers chicken after a long time.

9) latest additions to my life. My childhood swing at the corner of my room, books mentioned before, On Love by Alain de Botton, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. The pink book is hardly fluffly and is quite the philosophical rapture.

Why are cafes I have been meaning to visit all closed on Mondays?