Monday, January 07, 2008
Barely 2 days after bumping unexpectedly into QH browsing through manga on the opposite side of the shelf in Kino, I bumped into PY looking for Lit texts on the opposite side of the shelf in the Co-op yesterday morning. Wow. 2 coincidental meetings in bookstores within a span of 3 days. But this still does not come close to that time I bumped into Brandon at Shinjuku station and then Shao at the entrance of Sunshine 60 at Ikebukuro on my way back to the hotel during my trip to Tokyo. Now that was simply miraculous.
I've bought most of the books I need for this semester, and while most of them are very thick and filled with tiny font and promise to wake me up at 3am to finish them in time for class, I'm pretty excited to be reading lots of new works by writers I have not read before. I guess I'm a bit tired of looking at Mrs Dalloway, The Years and Orlando for the third or fourth time already.
The Lit modules I'm taking this sem (apart from the HT of course) are Metafictions and Postcolonial Literature. The former is taught by the renowned Dr S A, and this will be the first time in 4 years that I'm taking her modules. Most people are amazed to hear that I've never been taught by Dr A before, but I always seem to miss out her modules every time they were offered for some reason. She's reputed to be very intimidating, but lots of people seem to think I'll like her (one senior even thought I was a Dr A fan??) so I hope it does turn out to be the case.
Apart from the Lit modules, I have to do a Breadth module as part of my graduation requirements. Since Business modules take up a lot of time and effort, it's an open secret amongst final year Arts students that it's better to take a Science GEM as a Breadth module. But I dislike Science subjects and I hate doing lab experiments (that's why I'm an Arts student, right?), so doing a Science module is a real bore. This time I'm just picking the only Science GEM that fits my ideal 3-day week timetable and I'm going to use my final S/U option on it, so I'm not really very concerned about the content matter of the module, which is very unenticingly called "Life as a Complex System". Neither PY nor Minwei are taking this module, so I guess I'll just be floating in and out of class for the whole semester without speaking to anyone. Sometimes it is a relief to be completely anonymous in the LT and to be able to do what you please alone.
Ok, I guess that's all I have to say for now. I had better get back to reading Orlando again...
kaoru said at 5:49 PM
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