Animated Cartoon Day/California Poppy Day/Caramel Popcorn Day/Ram Navami/International Fun At Work Day/Tartan Day/International Special Librarian's Day
2006-04-06 @ 5:29 p.m.

Have started on a new poem and I'm quite pleased with it thus far. I've got no concrete ideas for this piece, so I'm just coupling images and words for aesthetic effect. Coherence will doubtless emerge when I've edited and excised the bits that are just vanity. The days are starting to pass faster and the tedium has mostly faded away. Starting to grow closer to my bunkmates, though it's still not the same as being around my buddies from Tekong. Well, I suppose we'll have plenty of time to get acquainted, seeing as how we're liable to be posted out as a whole platoon. No news from any of the scholarship providers I've applied to, which is disconcerting, but possibly also God's way of telling me to stay in Singapore. A lesson in humility. I still harbour dreams of flying to the UK, but I can adjust my expectations. What is life but the unceasing attempt to escape unhappiness? Even if we don't find the opposite, a tranquil indifference is still preferable.