Roller Skating Day/Make Your Mark Day/Rubber Band Veteran Day/Feast Of Fabulous Wild Men
2008-01-12 @ 11:53 p.m.

Back from Ka Tsai's place, where we played some card games with Ben Woon and Ming Yong. It's nice, you know, to have this freedom to just arrange to meet up with old friends. Before you know it, we'll be working adults, arranging to meet over dinner and drinks at chic restaurants. Confessed my extravagant expenditure on G-Points to my mum, so at least she knows what to expect in my SingTel bill at the end of the month. Borrowed a stack of books from the Woodlands library today before going to wait for Ben Woon in Clementi, because the number of items you can borrow is doubled until the end of the month. Got four volumes of poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke, whom I read a fair bit of when I was younger and suddenly felt like revisiting when his name caught my eye in the library. I find it very hard to find books that I enjoy in libraries, partly because I have very particular tastes, partly because nowadays I have an astoundingly short attention span. It's not that I'm incapable of concentrating on something; it's just that it doesn't come naturally to me. So I'm basically even more of a book slut than before. I remember a journalist wrote a column about her experience as a book slut, which resonated with me. You know how it is, different books are just suited to different moments, even within the space of a day. It's rare for me to find a book that can accompany me 24/7. I am really enjoying this short novel I picked up though, Sin, by Josephine Hart. It's almost pitch-perfect writing really. Shall stay up to finish reading it...