Primrose Day/Chocolate Fondue Day/Carnival
2005-02-05 @ 10:51 p.m.

Isn't the answer obvious, Daniel? RJC cares more about appearances precisely it has this image to uphold for the public eye, which effectively focuses attention (and potential censure) away from the other JCs. Good or bad, it's there, so we have to learn to deal with it. Besides, I genuinely think the pace of your own life is really dictated by yourself. Just look at our class. It's pretty obvious that not everyone's caught up in the paper chase, at least not to the same extent. May the attendance on Monday prove me right! Oh, and I don't think RJC is particularly cold in comparison to other places. I think it has to do with your environment versue your temperament. You know what Mr Purvis says about Eustacia Vye: If you are the wrong person, born in the wrong time, with the wrong temperament, the consequences are potentially tragic. This is the point where I give the online equivalent of a shrug...

It was nice being on the stage again, but it's not something I want to do again soon. Wasn't very nervous, compared to previous performances, both choral and guitar. Maybe it's because there was no pressure to perform. I think RV has improved a lot, and it's good to know that all the little juniors have grown to be responsible seniors themselves. Left after my performance, because I didn't want to stay until the end. It just feels awkward being among people who know each other, and yourself coming like a blast from the past for some of them. Ah well, you can't feel at home everywhere. The one good thing about the concert, from a purely personal perspective, is that I got a free t-shirt out of it, because Zhi Wei lent me one that didn't fit him anymore, and told me to keep it if I liked it, which I do. Think I'll go to bed now. Need to think of ways to occupy my time before work starts piling up again. I should start on my Latin in earnest, if I want to have any hope of enacting the plot of The Secret History in my own life! Haha...