Now and Then

The trip across 4 years in NUS has been one of myriad emotions. Loss, gain, depression, mindless happiness, loneliness and camaderie--i like to think that in the end i got 2 degrees, one in english literature, and another in people. And its kinda cool when you think literature is both the conduit and a method towards reading people and experiences, while people are real life examples of texts, and this interweaving makes life, both fictional and "real", more interesting.

Real-life characters can be just as interesting as book characters as it were, and here goes the photo-journey of people who made my life interesting. Photos grabbed from FB and couple of people's cams (Audrey, Nadia, Shiva, Angel yadda).

The class folks from "Asia and the Victorians".

The Asia(n) and the Victorian. Liz noted the mimicry of the colonial master on the part of the Asian subject. Note the similarities in dressing and stance.Thus essentialism is called into question. This is evidence of how well Dr Forman instructed us in post-colonial theory and the extent to which i read Elleke Boehmer, Foucault, etc. Ha.



In-seminar antics.



There is a love-sick look on Shiva's face.

these are the wo(man) novelists. We are all great creative writers during the finals. From left to right: angel the pseudo-korean, amberley the fit, shiva va-va-voom, and huang yulong (no embellishment)


Angel (right), the pseudo-korean



Things we do outside school.





People often occur as being mysterious to me. Nothing holds constant in our existence, now even the people who flit in and out of my life are sometimes ephemeral. It is a constant struggle to keep people in, keep emotions in, reign in the bad, and hold the good. But with some people the struggle is worth it. With you the struggle is the ultimate means and ends to lifetime's contentment.

And i've learnt to discard bad things and people associated with them. 4years is a long time. I've learnt much. And now the journey goes on...