humbling

what have i been up to?

what have i been up to. after my last paper at 11am, the initial plan was to loiter around till dinner time and meet F.M. my final paper, the final lap of my education (as far as i see it now).... i was left alone craving for mcdonald's hotcakes. and that didn't come true either because i then realize it was pass the breakfast time and i found myself wandering in the little streets of bugis.

i have a penchant for such streets, streets that reminds you of the old and the new, surviving together. it almost feels like i'm in an exploration, soaking up what i see and hoping i'd find something interesting, hidden away in this unflattering street.

i found and settled on this beef noodle shop which reminds me of the pho place in Vietnam ( i forgot if its in Hanoi or HCMC) just that instead of pho it was kway teow. its funny how memory works, how u remember some and forget some. like how i cannot even recall what city it was in but i recall the auntie who spoke chinese and the dog whom fi claims that it ate up a croakroach which was there and then was gone. Link: Hock Lam Beef Noodles - Purvis St (where Ms Clarity is)

and then i found myself in the library. after all those years of studying, i would have think books would be the last thing i'd touch for awhile. i didn't expect myself to end up in a library but i did. i gave up the thought of loitering as i was tired from the lack of sleep from the night before and went home with books.

and the rest of it, its history. in a literal sense really, because i spent it on The Kite Runner which was almost like going through Afgan history which made me ashamed of myself really. because all this while, i've never bothered with current affairs and to know it from fiction, riveting as it is, is merely scratching the surface. we will never know, God forbid that we ever know, how things really are like.

p/s: do let me know if you have any good reads to recommend/lend me.