Looking back at my old entries makes me realise that I tend to update only when I have nothing to do — no places to go to, people to meet, or university to attend. I’ve been running around (sometimes literally) for the past week or so, once even leaving the confines of London to head up north for an overnight visit!
Too much has happened, so much so that one journal entry won’t do justice to the number of things I’ve seen/done/heard/experienced/insert verb here since I arrived in London. I’ve attended nearly two full weeks of lecture and one week of classes, yet I realise I have the slackest timetable for a Law student ever — only NINE contact hours this year, and yes, this takes into account both lectures and seminars for each of my four modules. I have Fridays off, which means a year of long weekends and sleep-ins. I’m also taking History instead of a more conventional module, and realised after today that I’m the token female taking Administrative Law in the whole of LSE.
I’ve celebrated my birthday twice, and there’re still a number of hours to go until I actually turn 21. (See my Facebook profile for pictures from the two celebrations.) York and Leeds also saw an overnight visit from me last week, courtesy of Iman and I putting our thinking caps on and orchestrating a surprise for Suan on her birthday. I did pay 80-odd pounds just to see her for dinner and a sleepover that night, but the look of amazement and her ensuing dazedness (from excitement and shock, no doubt) was worth the hefty sum of money I forked out. Suan also repaid the favour by coming down to see me over the weekend, where we pigged out, shopped and revelled in each other’s company. Laura will also be spending the weekend with me in preparation for the Bruneian Raya celebrations at the Dorchester on Sunday; my brother gets out of boarding school for half term; and my parents will be down for the next three weeks or so.
I was elected the President of the combined Indonesian-Bruneian Society at LSE in a shock victory, and I am handing over my position as the PR Officer of the Singapore Society.
I don’t sleep enough because my flatmates keep me up till the wee hours of the morning with their general banter, crazy antics and their loveableness.
I’m sitting in the computer lab trying to finish up Presidency-type stuff but am failing miserably.
And it’s exactly ten hours till my 21st birthday. I celebrated on Friday with Leonard, Suan and Jiang Yue with dinner at a tapas bar in Soho, followed by drinks at Dirty Martini. And the following night, I hosted a dinner at Belgo with some of my closest friends here in London.
I have the bestest, loveliest, most dependable friends ever — those I trust, truly, madly, deeply — and these past few days have really made me aware of this fact, as well as realise that I’ve taken so many people for granted all this while.
Have a great day, everyone!
