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Jocelyn A. Monique
is currently an undergraduate student, and coping with her Heavy Heart, No Purse.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:19 PM
A heavy purse makes a light heart. Well, what I obviously found out this week was that a lack of purse makes a heavy heart.
I just had to lose my freaking wallet when we are this close to the As.
I really honestly remember putting it into my bag when I came to school. Before I went to the canteen ex, talked to Kathy, socialised with Fripp Jas and ML at the library, got told off by Bob the Slacker for slacking, then met Cheryl in the library to study and came out for lunch -then
realising it wasn't there.
I was pretty upset over it -I mean I know I'm really careless and irresponsible when it comes to my belongings. My parents always complain that I'm carrying too many things in my hand when I leave the house in a rush in the morning, plus the fact that I did lose my phone in the climax of Finale Evening of Orientation 1 doesn't and misplacing my watch during dragon boating in my first intake doesn't really help my cause.
But I suppose it was a lesson to be learnt, for me -that made me really thankful for my wonderful amazing friends (: Seeing me distraught, whiny, anxious and distracted outside at the foyer, they totally rushed to my rescue:
-Frippiat, who helped me pray to St Anthony (after Mr Yeow's advice "if all else fails, I suppose there's still St Jude) albeit the many interruptions
-ML who was super helpful and kept asking me to retrace my steps
-Toon Jin who had just arrived, and heard from Fripps, and decided to ask the librarians
-Jason who generously loaned me 10 bucks
-Audrey, Jas, Grace, Carmen, Bob, Justin, and the many many canteen ex people who were concerned
-not forgetting my classmates who were having GP consultation when they saw my flustered self walking around the school aimlessly
-Cheryl, for her ez link card
This incident reminded me how I am, contrary to popular belief, actually ruled more by emotions than by reason, how a simple irreponsible act can totally thwart my momentum, that I couldn't even study for that whole day.
I'm actually freaking out now, and not just becuse of the wallet, because we are how close to the As. Oh my tian oh my tian oh MY TIAN ): And I think I might want to pick up conversational Malay/Chinese after my As just so I can eavesdrop on all the heartland aunties and uncles who whisper around. Like today I ordered 4 packets of chicken rice before heading for school (and hello it wasn't JUST for me) and the uncle gave me this I-know-teenagers-have-a-ravenous appetite-but-this-is-ridiculous look before smiling to his collegue the chicken meat chopper > : (
Deepavali is in 10 minutes and I am veh the excited. I don't celebrate but STILL. When you have Indian cable TV plus the new Vasantham blaring programmes that scream watch me!watch me! with all the uber cool new songs and pretty actresses well,
resistance is futile.
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