the limbo between essays...

Surreal moment of nothing-to-do-ness.
I've spent most of the day unnaturally awake. Chose to finish reading my book, The Harmony Silk Factory, rather than catch precious moments of sleep. Choose the wrong times to get addicted to books, and contemplating whether to start reading a new one. Anyway, I quite enjoyed the book. It was a quick and easy read. Written by Tash Aw, the first Malaysian to win the Whitbread award, and not bad for his first novel. Based in the Kinta Valley, it was nice to read the familiar sights and objects, but sometimes a little annoying in that it tries to squeeze in too much local flavour. Felt a bit forced. And also i'm biased because i read somewhere he moved from Malaysia when he was really young, so it's sort of an outsider's take on locality. Still, I was impressed by how the book was presented, and, either my storyline guessing is really bad or he just knew where to put the unexpected turn. I don't read enough to do star ratings, so I won't. But if you want to read about Malaysia in a non-sastera context, try this one out for size.in other news, i'm halfway done with my subjects. 2 down and 1 to go i say! Chose to celebrate by taking a 5 hour nap and missing dinner. But homemade pasta and a nice cold Corona were good too.... with lemon of course. Now i have this urge to bake but nothing to bake and am really feeling like i don't want to do anything. Kinda wanna watch a movie too, but i shouldn't distract izy by reminding him the latest Prisonbreak is out today...
The apartment allocations are out too. anticlimax of it all i haven't seen it myself because i was sleeping like a pig.. (jeannie pig!) anyway, i got my AV8... just above pat, same layout, not complaining, and i think i'm neighbours with aaron, kenny and eddie. i guess taboo's just a door away. But cc and ken didn't get their apartment, which is really quite saddening. The legacy of 301 will be taken over by 'yucky boys' and only i am staying behind. Feels kind of lonely. Especially in the last week, i've been such an anti-social person because it's been essays, go down for food, no mood to talk, back up for essays, and the cycle repeats itself. Been kept sane by the only exposure to civilisation from my apartment and the Greycourt non-kalou kalous. And they're all leaving. *sigh*
As always, at the end of the year, I speculate how it's the end of an era. But i guess everyone feels that way when you're in 3rd year. So now i'm scared that i'm going to be even more distanced than ever from these people. But only time will tell, and i'm sure some things can't ever change. Please?