Shampoo Day/Karva Chauth
2005-10-20 @ 5:40 p.m.

Meeting at MFA today has pushed me just a little bit further from that ministry. Let me put it this way: My first choice if I had to pick a ministry to be bonded to is now definitely MOE. Working for MFA will entail personal sacrifices that I'm not convinced I'm prepared to make. That's not to say that working for MOE won't require sacrifices, but I'm fairly certain teaching as a career is more compatible with the sort of social life I intend to have after I serve NS and/or finish my (overseas) studies. I've decided that if I can't live in Sentosa Cove when I grow up, I want to live in an apartment at St. Regis Singapore, serviced or otherwise. Here's a random fact I discovered today: Aside from its sister college, Wadham College, Oxford, Christ's College, Cambridge is also affiliated with Branford College, Yale, Adams House, Harvard, and Pforzheimer House, Harvard. Was introduced to Tango Mango in Tanglin Mall today, which carries an interesting selection of local literature, including all four of Cyril Wong's anthologies, which I want to buy, but cannot because I am too broke and I refuse to dip into my savings again. For some reason, the comments that local writers make about other local writers always sound the same. Something along the lines of being a new voice, standing out as part of a new generation, etc. The point isn't whether one agrees or disagrees with the expressed opinion. The question is whether the opinion expressed actually means anything after constant repetition. Shucks. That makes suspiciously less sense than I'd intended it to. Talk about cognitive lapses...