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2008-06-20 @ 11:25 p.m.

Went down to MOE in the morning for the meet-up session, where I bumped into Tim Ng. I didn't know he was on a teaching scholarship too. He's doing Literature at Cambridge. It's funny how that's what I would have wanted two years ago, but now I'm glad that I'm going to Warwick, which somehow feels like a less stressful path to take. Saw a lot of new faces, which I will be seeing again soon. Didn't really talk much to anyone because I wasn't in the mood to be actively sociable. Just polite conversation for today! Then I went home, thinking that I'd get a few hours of sleep. Didn't work out though, and I ended up in library@esplanade, borrowing Alan Ayckbourn plays. I really like him! The last time I read something by him was Intimate Exchanges, a play in four scenes with 16 possible variations depending on choices made by the characters. Think I'll go back next week and borrow more using my mum's library card. Caught Class Enemy with Eugene and Patrick, who arrived almost on the dot at 8 pm. Eugene didn't like the play, but I thought it was interesting. The violent physicality of the actors initially seemed rather pointless, perhaps even tasteless, but as time wore on, I began to appreciate the desperation that lay just beneath the surface of all the characters. I guess the ending, where the actors onstage made as if to break the fourth wall by attacking the audience, didn't shock me so much because I'd already read about it in the newspaper review of the performance. It felt a little forced to me, but overall, the play made its point. When it comes to war, no one can ever escape being scarred, and this is especially sad when the ones affected are the younger generation, with the greater part of their lives still ahead of them.