28 June 2008
10:21 PM
Today was surety signing; my uncle tried booking breakfast at Rochester (he says it's really decent) but they don't open saturday breakfasts, so my mum happily suggested borders bistro! Second time in a month and I'm not bored yet, because there's Paperchase right outside (:
Because it was shopping day (which is practically every day), I grabbed adorable leather-bound lined journals in pink, because I could. Well, more because I don't own anything exorbitantly pink, and according to Vogue, one must keep up with colours of spring. It left a little hole in the wallet (or the card), so I hope I don't regret it when I wake up tomorrow.
For the lesser-informed (myself included), Zara finally has their sale. I went to 2 outlets, in the flaming sun and with minimal sun protection, just to find the S for the brown leather jacket I desired. Unfortunately, others were quicker than me, and all that was left were the Ms, which technically saved me $229. But at an extremely high opp cost, because retail price before was $400++, so that's a half-price bargain I missed out. I intensely dislike missing out good sales to save good money.
I was going to lie to myself and just buy the M, which my sis could pull off, but I just looked sad, because of the height. People not tall have specific needs, which include tailored clothing. This is also why when leisure pools are 'drown-safe', where the deepest end is about 1.6m, I will still drown even while standing straight. Or maybe they just didn't measure the depth well enough.
Sis and myself just went forever21 crazy, where I met rachel e with her mum, and my ex-students valerie and cheryl. Small world, this.
The above mental (a trivial) excursion has a purpose, and I've actually reached the point.
While tripping around I had a phone call. And although I talked for only about 10 minutes while walking aimlessly around, I realised that they were thinking of offering me a US education, when they usually limited people to the UK. This came as a shock because I had just signed the agreement to a UK destination, and so had promptly withdrew my pending Columbia application 2 weeks back, even though I apparently was "getting there". Also, they don't encourage US degrees for certain reasons, so I did give up a little dream I had about the fantastic Core Curriculum that only Columbia offers. I was a little dismayed after the call, not because I wasn't / am not happy with where I'm going, but because columbia was my secret wish, and you know how people are. The secret wish is something that doesn't have to come true to make you happy, but if / when it does, it goes far beyond the boundary of a mere pipe dream. Fantasy does become reality.
So here I am, just thinking and thinking about things, and I guess I want to wrap up the thought and move on now. Literature is to London, like adventure is to columbia. One is a dream, the other a crazy chimera that is now over.
