Isabelle Neo

Near lack of sleep.

I got tickled by a very silly thing in class today and exploded with laughter. But it's really quite funny what...

During my Arts of SEA lecture, I was sitting with the usual gang and we had a guest lecturer in the place of the usual Dr Johnson. Today's topic was about The origins of modern Malayan Art (Paintings). Sad to say, it was super boring and we were all dozing off though I did try my best to stay awake. Halfway through, the lecturer touched upon this artist by the name of Yong Mun Sen who was dubbed the "Father of Malayan Painting". She went on with the usual stuff of giving a 'brief' introduction of his background yada yada...Then suddenly she said,

"He came to Singapore in a bookshop, and move to Penang in a bookshop"

Somehow I manage to find that very funny, and I kept laughing uncontrollably. The notion of sojourning and migration a la Harry POtter did sound so ludicrous...no meh?
Anyway it was cheap thrill on my part, because she obviously meant that he came to Singapore and set up a book shop, and 2 years later moved to Penang, and also worked in a bookshop.

After class, i went to look for Farrell for our long due chat. He hasn't reply my emails after the last "greetings" email he sent me. It was a hot day, so by the time I climbed up the stairs to the History Department, I was rather peeved to find that Farrell's not in his office. Right, it was about lunch time. Hence I've decided to troop over to the engine canteen to tabao some food.

Just as I was ascending up the stairs, I was mildly horrified to see the girl in front of me wearing the same oh-i'm-so-happy rainbow keyhole t-shirt that I have recently bought from Wetseal. Oh well, it just proves that people do outsource for clothes and my shirt is nice hence it appeals to other people too. But what really cheesed me off was this group of guys, presumably from Engine, started pointing at us, LIKE WE ARE NOT THERE, and started echoing and shouting to each other that "hey those 2 girls are wearing the same shirt". Please la, it's just the same shirt lo, I'm not even making a bif fuss outta this minor accident, I really don't see why they should. It's not as if we had identical broccolis sprouting out of our heads. WTF man...They really should just grow up. Great, now the whole canteen knows that there are 2 girls wearing the same shirt. And it didn't help that our shirts are so bright and colourful, and distinctively recognizable.

Ah well, that's from a faculty, whose people finds Management modules interesting...Gee.