Dream Day/Frankenstein's Birthday
2005-03-11 @ 11:45 p.m.

Just got back from my cousin's wedding dinner. Had to travel there and back in a taxi, because my dad's car has a flat tire. I hope it gets repaired by Sunday. I just hate coming home from church by MRT. As always, I met a whole bunch of relatives I never knew I had. Like my first cousin once removed, who insists that I call him by his first name instead of appending "Uncle". I've got to find out what song was playing when they served the first course, because I loved it! Meant to ask my cousin when she came to take photographs with our table, but I forgot. Incidentally, the Justice of Peace had a really strange way of speaking English. It was like a combination of a Chinese-educated Singaporean accent with an American twang. The 'S' Paper session today was very interesting, talking about the development of the English poetic tradition, and how there's been this swinging back and forth between the language of the court and the language of the common man. I never knew that each of John Donne's lyrics had a unique metrical pattern. Hearing Old English being read out is quite amazing too.