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I'm home. It's been nearly a week and it feels like I never left. Except the rain keeps pouring (when before it was at the peak of heat) and my luggage lies in my room unpacked, mostly because it makes more sense to simply transfer everything that's been nicely washed, ironed and folded into my bigger luggage for the 27th. Maybe it's easier to be the one coming and going, I don't know; but it's never quite so easy being the only one away from home as well. This time, it will be different from the last, as if my India trip was a prep one for the year ahead. I have mixed feelings, I don't think I'm quite as excited as I was when I first got news that I got in, now that there's something pulling me back to Singapore; but I'll have as much faith as I can, and well, we'll see. :)

On a sidenote, I finally ate carrot cake (white) yesterday, and I'm pleased at how my meals back home are turning out. No need for atas over priced anything, I would like to have as much homemade noodles + kaya toast + half boiled eggs + ...; also because I am quite broke. =x

Oh, and today's the first rest day I've had, if only because of the sad pathetic reason of food poisoning. It seems like the monsoon has followed me home, I felt completely comfortable being (near) Little India yesterday (kinda scary) and I stare at the menu items on Indian stalls to see what I can recognise. My colleagues emailed me updates and random hi's and I am quite touched. 2 weeks left, sigh.

Super random funny.

Song playing in my head as I'm trying to recount and write my dream. :)

I'm still suffering from sleep debt for a proper word post from having only slept approx 9 hours over the weekend in Bombay. So, hopefully captions and photos on FB will suffice for now. :)

#1 & #2.

Do Not Worry

25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life [a]?

28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

One of my favourite videos of a really awesome man.

LOL at :
"Erm... This is just a DBSK fan-video by TNC. The audio is actually Wonder Girls' voices pitched down to make it sound like males are actually singing the song. (: "

Oh damn. So internet + coffee + powerpoints is after check in - am I considered check in or otherwise since I haven't "checked out" yet and am still in transit. But anyway, hi from thailand international airport, row of long benches in front of "visas on arrival" and there are many airport staff walking around in masks, so if I have to put on one, I won't be alone.

It's thundering (crazy!) and the 2nd floor is pretty quiet. There are tons of people sleeping randomly on floors on the 3rd floor, where things are a little more bustling and there's this fruit-smoothie place. I have to finish my 2 documents + report 3 before my 59% of power supply runs out but this isn't too bad at all. We'll have to be up and about by 6am singapore time anyway, thereabouts. The connecting flight is at 750am (thailand time = 850am singapore time), and boarding is about an hour before?

I realise though, that I left my adapter in the check in luggage so boohoo, even if I try to steal power from random square boxes on the floor. I had a great 1:58 flight SG-Thailand, met an interesting sea men, age 42, from Kolkata. We took photos via the phone and he showed me videos of his ship which he's been on for the last 10 months and he's now on the way back home for a 2 months holiday. The amazing thing is that when he left, his baby boy was only 5 days old! So he was really excited and happy to be getting home I think. :) And he gave me this huge chunk of Cadbury chocolate before he left and if I can get to Kolkata somehow, I hope he'll cook the delicious sounding veggie thing with mash potato baked on the top which he described to me on the plane. Really awesome guy I think, and his dad used to be a seamen too! But anyway, there could be more to be said, but I feel I must leave something behind for me to write in my notebook. :)

Am still coughing though, and plane partner thought I was allergic to something so he was very very nice about it. Thai Airways flight also had pretty good food - I finished everything except for the chicken in the rice - chicken's supposed to worsen cough, I think it's probably true - after last night's muratama chicken stock which was really awesome but omg coughcoughcough. Dies.

Anyway, till later in Mumbai! 57% left. Ookie - better start doing work. I feel like sleeping.

I'm not really quite that certain now.

Some congratulations are in order:

Vincee of course, and Isaac! :)

This sounds so mild in comparison but omg woohoo! :D:D:D


Exam's over now, it fails like a gone-through-the-motion thing more than anything. And then everything EVERYTHING begins because I have no travel insurance and I haven't gotten my medications or packed and I am still sick and haven't settled my bank account and. LIFE STARTS now crap.

OK. I am a bit nervous as well. My paper had two questions 4 parts and the front part was on Tata Nano. LOL. And I really want to bring my mac but I will kill myself if something happens to it.

It's 9am. My alarm just rang.

I think I've decided: I won't do this anymore, and I shan't.
Off with the internet! (>.<)

10. With immediate effect, temperature screening and daily temperature reporting will not be required.

Does this mean I don't have to go for my exam an hour earlier? :O

Anyway, wasn't really affected by the travel restrictions but,

4. With immediate effect, the University has lifted the travel suspension (for university programmes) for students to non-affected areas, i.e., places outside Mexico, US, and Canada (as of 6 May 2009, 2130 hours).

This feels like the calm before the storm. For the past couple of days, I've gone through weird sleeping habits (insomnia) to constantly waking up really early in the morning. Those who know me will agree that I am generally not a morning person, so this might just be a change for the better!

How fast things move and happen within such a short period of time, and yet change is the only constant. I'm glad this semester seems to have moved back into a full circle, somehow. How I started the semester thinking it was going to be crazy and hectic, classes turning out to be really enjoyable (save for my 12pm on mondays); starting out the year on a right note and now seemingly on a path closer to it again.

My paper's in the evening, I'm not quite done with my reading or thinking, and it's vital to structure some thoughts before later.

I've been to see the doctor 3 times in the last 8 days, I'm tentative, can't quite see what lies ahead, very prone to want things to go my way and be in control.

But, Lord, I will go where You lead, and I know that there will be peace in my heart at the end of it all.

Presentation today. Still coughing. Not flu though.

APB exam on Thursday, I ought to get started on my ton of readings.

India plans as per normal, I think. So this is it, I guess. Increasing excitement though, + worry cos of cough.