Just wondered if anyone was in the mood to scale a particularly high mountain after exams.

At 978 metres (3,209 feet), Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England. It is located in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria.
Courtesy of Wikipedia

And just in case you need some help getting there:
Google Maps - Scafell PikeThough, I suspect, ( Read more... )

by the literature of oppression and revolution that, if one trawls hard enough, is available in my university library ( Read more... )

blank post.

by design.

In the 10 minutes between class, here I am attempting to link words together in a blog post that will gladden even the most frozen of hearts ( Read more... )

Tuesday was fun. Attended Iolanthe, also subtitled "The Peer and the Peri." Again, entertaining my addiction to Gilbert and Sullivan has been fun; met Joanna and Fang En there, who, they claim, only went there because I told them so. I am flattered beyond belief; and have found out with their assistance that from now on ALL performances at the ( Read more... )

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My true place in the world, it turned out, was somewhere beyond myself, and if that place was inside me, it was also unlocatable. This was the tiny hole between self and not-self, and for the first time in my life I saw this nowhere as the exact center of the world. -The Locked Room, Paul Auster ( Read more... )

The past week has, again, been activity packed - when WILL I ever get to sit down and rue the missed chances that happened when I got rejected by Cambridge ( Read more... )

and have I reminded everyone I have attended innumerable Raya open houses ever since the season began 1 week ago, with me in a red Batik shirt that reminds one conspicuously of a seedy Chinese political ploy? This week, I wisely opted to go conventional, garbed in a blue Baju Melayu that, let's just say, I am gleefully wearing in a stroll around ( Read more... )

A very long break, on account of ALL of my most ardent readers being a) away on holiday in Pandan Indah; b) away on holiday in Vietnam and Cambodia, last I heard. Oh well, I am secretly hoping for a non-tacky souvenir ( Read more... )