The First Day

My hopes of having a hot girl sit beside me were completely dashed when i saw the bald old guy sitting at the seat adjacent to mine. However, the plane ride was not completely bad... There was this amish guy who stubbornly refused to remove his hat for the first few hours of the flight... he also was carrying a ridiculous amount of banned foods in his luggage which were being contained in mainly plastic containers but also sometimes in just aluminium foil... i dunno what customs did to him...

Anyway.. on arrival... i met josh chong again... his parents were quite nice and offered me a lift to college square... but nick and i took a cab instead... upon reaching college square, the taxi driver for some reason hurriedly dumped our stuff on the ground in disarray and sped off as soon as the bill was settled. After checking in, nick and i went walking around the uni and doing various admin stuff.. once we were tired out, we went back to college square for a short rest but both ended up sleeping... forunately we got up in time to go to do some shopping... i bought among other things, a kettle, a vacuum cleaner and some plates... they are being delivered to my place tomorrow since they were too heavy to carry over... after that, i joined josh, his family and mark huang for dinner, while nick went to visit his aunt... that is pretty much how i spent valentines... i hope that not everyone who writes in this blog was dateless as well... cause being dateless sucks.. overall it has been a really tiring day.. and it has all been very surreal... and doing unusual things like buying kettles isnt making anything feel anymore normal... tomorrow is when i really have to start doing some work... i have to unpack my things and start cleaning the room.

On a more philosophical note, i have been wondering whether this is really what i am supposed to be doing...i dont know whether i will really find a career in medicine fufilling, because regardless of whatever intangible benefits it may bring by the nature of the job, one can never get enough of the tangible benefits, which may be more easily procured in other career paths. I am of course referring to a career in law.. which is why i am still holding my place in nus. however much i think about it, i cannot reach a conclusion as to which is the right path for myself. i have to make sure that i dont just choose this path because on a whim at some point of time, i decided that it might be cool to become a doctor and followed that whim all the way through. Anyway, i think that at the moment i am just not wise enough to make this choice which is much larger than myself and can only hope that things will be different in a few months time, when my thoughts will be translated into actions that will have life changing effects. I have to go catch up with sleep now before i just faint in front of my computer, which would be far too jonathon-like for my liking... I will put up some pictures as soon as i have the time... cya ppl...

*P.S. Thanks for all the help packing, melia. i would be damn hopeless if u hadnt been there to assist me...

-Luke