dinner

now that this is over i can confess that it was some trepidation that i agreed to the whole affair, mostly because of previously-received advice that getting friends from different social circles in your life to mix is a uniquely bad idea. it was good, though, so perhaps the advice was not well given after all. or maybe some people just tend to have more schizophrenic lives than others whereas almost everyone i know can spell and punctuate and tell that the plural of vol-au-vent is not vol-au-vents.

since minz has neglected to mention it, i shall report that a lot of the conversation centered around her imminent foray into the world of grad school in english - booklists, theory, etc. - and it's funny how some people become grad school students, so readily immersing themselves in the role, while others just kind of go 'oh, yes, and by the way, i'm writing a thesis'. i mean, i almost never talk to shaun about chem, even though he's going to caltech to do 6 more years of it - although perhaps that is a bad example because i couldn't tell you what a van der waal's force was if it slapped me in the face. but you know what i mean.

i think that if i had decided to go to minnesota that's what would have happened to me - i would have become a walking encyclopedia of everything there is to know about schizophrenia (because that's what i do, i tend to drown in information once i have access to it). and when you're in the humanities and that happens, you become learned; when you're a science student, you just turn into a crashing bore. so, well, there's another post hoc reason as to why it was a good idea to turn down grad school. still going on about it after all these months.

anyway, the tea at brown box was really nice - i do like serangoon gardens even though it's so impossible for me to get to - and yes, we must go to pow sing because i'm all excited about nonya food now, even though i am broke.