Onam/Just Because Day/Banana Lovers Day/Compassion Day
2007-08-27 @ 11:00 p.m.

Was feeling a bit lazy, so I almost didn't go back to RJC. I was just going to bum around Junction 8 with Ben Woon until Thong was done, but the latter called sometime just before 11 am, so we figured we might as well go down. I'm glad I did, as I got to see every single tutor that taught me during my two years in JC! Hearing them talk about things, it seems like a lot has changed since our batch, and not all of it for the better. Education, like almost everything else, is turning into a commodity. I used to bemoan the fact that I missed out on the Raffles Programme, but now after hearing what my tutors have to say, I'm kind of glad that I went through the traditional route. It's not to say that there aren't merits to the new system, just that it'll probably take another batch or two to sort things out properly, and meanwhile, it's the students who have to handle being the guinea pigs. Stopped by the library because I remembered this branch had the fifth volume of the Tales Of The City series, so I'm going to finish reading that before I go to bed. I already finished Chess by Stefan Zweig, which is a slim novella that I didn't find that remarkable, although the blurbs suggested otherwise. It's getting harder and harder for the written word to impress me. If I want to be impressed, I always turn back to the classics. It's probably literary snobbishness, but I do feel and think that they just don't create literature like they used to a century or more ago.