That familiar rambling post-style again...

Today's weather was fab! And it's one of the few rare times when I can finally don something light and more 'girly'...most of the time the weather's so cold that you just cannot imagine going out in anything less than long pants/jeans, a shirt and a sweater at least, but today's weather permitted sleeveless and skirt..woohoo..hope the weather keeps up for tml too...

Had a surprisingly enjoyable time in the city with my hall mate this afternoon. The main purpose for the trip was to purchase our coach tickets for tml, but I thought "why waste a trip to the city centre?" And so I suggested making a trip out of our usual haunts, and be a 'home tourist' for the day...so we did...(good thing my friend was game for that as well..heh..) The trip to the Nottingham castle, with all that photo-takings and silly poses really made me feel as if I was on holiday for a while, in some place way out of notts...and the memories of the trip to Spain came back with full force... must be the sight of the castle that drew it out. Recalled how we were practically living within a castle ground when we went to Avila the other time. That few days in the charismatic town has left a rather deep impact on me I guess. It was like a little romantic escapade, despite language barriers and all (hmm..somehow I suspect maybe the language differences made it seem all the more authentic heh). The little towns outside the big cties are actually the places that are the most alluring..to me at least, that seems to be so. Like here. It's nice when I go down to London to visit, and return to the familiarity of the hustle-bustle pace of city life again, but at the end of the day, nottingham's still the more comfortable place. Same for madrid and avila. (But again, notts is quite moderate...not extremely ulu(remote), nor mega-city-modern..) Maybe it's the commercialisation in the major cities. It's so pervasive, stripping the place of any 'character' that made the outskirts so attractive. Or perhaps it's just a case of 'the grass is always greener on the other side', such that the city citizens often over-romanticise the 'peaceful countryside' even as their village counterparts yearn for the richness (in all sense of the word) of the cities.

Anyway, looking forward to the day trip tml...an 'adventure trip' in search of the grounds J.R.R. Tolkien used to trot on, and hopefully catch a glimpse or two of the dinning hall scene in the Harry Potter movie..and I was told by a friend that there's this patch of ground in the vicinity of the hall where Quidditch matches was supposed to have been 'held'...any guesses as to where I'm going? =p

Yep..but because we wanted to spend as much time as we can there, we have no choice but to book the earlier coach, so got to wake up really early tml..but I dun mind it a bit. Like waking up early anyway...like during camps, it can get quite trying waking up early after a late night sandwiched between one physically draining day and the next...but I feel quite 'alive' waking up at those hours...could be the adrenaline rush that makes these things fun. Challenges are fun...eh..so long as you have them over and done with anyway.=p Hee...coz when u r in the midst of the challenge, it won’t be as easy for u to say "this is so funnn"...but the "I did it, despite..." after will make it all worthwhile.

Been kinda hooked on the meteor garden series the past couple of days. Yu would know heh..*winks*..at some parts one could just cringe at the exaggeration, but overall it's a nice series to watch for light entertainment. And I can see why it's such a draw to teenage girls too...the idealised notion of love that drive the teens giddy...all there. (opps..feels old saying that...can't imagine that in only about 2 months' time, I'll be in the 20s range too. Used to think that once we reach the age of 20, time will just fly by and soon we'll be counting our birthdays in decades..haha..that's pretty scary...have been hearing friends sighing about the 'good old days' when we reminisce about the carefree days spent as kids. Each friend's birthday will reopen the topic of how we're approaching the adult stage of our lives now, and how nice it was when days were simple and free of worries...)

Oh, and just recall this conversation we had in the lib the other time. Over a casual conversation about Singapore guys (heh..coz this guy was complaining about how the girls always accuse them of being ungentlemanly compared to..say, the English)..we ended up debating about what makes a 'Typical Singapore guy'...Not an easy term to define I realised...anyone with a satisfactory definition to that?? Does one actually exist? And if so, would it be a compliment or an insult to be branded as one?

Back to my old long-entry, random rambling style of blogging again I realised. Ah well, feel free to skip it if it's too boring...(kekeke..putting this disclaimer nearing the end so u'd have to go thru it all before reaching here..=p)it's just my way of keeping some memories, significant or not, recorded down...and to share some little updates on my life now. Don't want to be completely cut off from ppl back home in the years I'll be spending here...I'll be real sad if I were to lose the friends I've made just because of the time I'm away... similarly, I hope that the friendships forged with the ppl here will continue long after we exchange our 'bye, good luck, take care" s at the end of this year, and thereafter. Moving to a flat next year might mean less contact with new ppl, and with current hall mates, moreover, in a uni when everything's so independent, one really have to put in quite a bit of effort to make and maintain relationships. Not an easy task...and I'm still learning and trying my best...

Lookingforwardtocominghomebutalsofeelinganxiousaboutitatthesametime.