Spent the last few hours reading One Day, and sadly my favourite quote from the book is from one of my oldest favourites. For itself, One Day only has not-too-inelegant-
prose but otherwise forgettable lines and Jodi Picoult-type parallel timelines/alternating voices. Maybe I'm growing out of this genre, or this style of writing. Somehow the idea of someone's tumultuous love life and journey of self discovery over a period of twenty years is quite unfascinating and uninspiring.

In other matters this tai-tai life is getting quite boring (haha so terribly ungrateful but I can't imagine this as a career). Slacking is really the kind of thing that is a lot better in your head than in real life. Can't wait for tfp to come to London, but in the meantime there's awesome afternoon tea and overdue meetups and mini tasks that I set for myself, like learning how to cook (so so difficult but I must remind myself of my superior cooking gene pool and strive towards better things!!!!). Since I'm going to be stuck here for a while more it's really quite necessary to stop living in such domestic mediocrity.

But whatever it is at least London isn't a bad place for slacking, there's always a good afternoon tea out there to be explored, a new shop in a quaint street to be found, and friends that I'm going to miss once this is all over and they all leave for wherever they're from.

And there's Ibiza in a week, perhaps then it'll be overactivity that kills me rather than inactivity. For now it's time to live up to my new resolution and read some recipes. Yay.

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I still can't sleep properly!!!!! Sounds v ungrateful to be lamenting over not being able to sleep when I have all the time in the world to be able to do so at any time of the day, but seriously my body clock simply can't re-adjust, I'm stuck waking up at 7am every day. Which reminds me of my daily coffee journeys - in the mornings Starbucks opens at 630, costa at 7, and espresso room at 730, and every day I'd try to last till 730 without coffee but give up somewhere in between. The go-to-sleep-at-10pm days are over now but the early mornings are not, and it's so exhausting!!!!!!!

But at least summer is here, the weather is in fact unbearably hot and humid and even this is killing me. The worst thing is... No air-conditioning exists here !!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhh

Okay time to try to sleep again.

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Putting the most sinful espresso room brownie in my mouth now, a thick cake base filled with walnuts and an even thicker layer of chocolate mousse on top of it, the viscous kind that makes all its other chocolate friends feel like losers because they are so fluid and weak.

But these are the last of the sad calories I'll be putting in my mouth (2 chocolate bars and sensation chips yesterday), soon I'll be healthy or just consuming happy calories which will really be so much more worth it.

Because as I dragged myself out of bed this morning I did it knowing that tomorrow's the last of it, my dear Lse career is going to be over in a little more than 24 hours, assuming
I get through tomorrow (sigh). But it is coming, the start and the middle and the end all collapsing into one, final day.

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Caffeine is such a double edged sword it cuts through all the fatigue but turns around and stabs you in the back by making you panic unnecessarily and okay this is too lame sigh sigh sigh helpppppp

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So tired but some breaks are worth the fatigue (I just realized how ironic that statement is, but it really isn't), and it's now time to confront BA which I've been avoiding ever since I fell sick and decided to sacrifice it for the rest sigh reality is now starting to bite.

But whatever it is, it's just five days? To seven months of freedom?!?!?! That's like the amount of time I spent IN university this year hahahaha.

Yawnzzzzzzxzxzxzxzxz.

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Need some motivation ughhhhh + pret has the best Belgium chocolate chunk cookies ever. Best 99p I've spent since.... The last pret chocolate chunk cookie.

Come on come on come on when will this be over.

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Two down, I'm halfway through the last exams of my undergraduate life and this year it just feels different, this year the exam rooms are filled with familiar faces and friendly conversations, I'm going to miss everyone once they leave for hong kong, or malaysia, or wherever they are from in Europe. I honestly didn't expect to make these friends and want to keep in contact with them but I actually do, and there is some sadness in the knowledge that after this we won't be seeing each other in classes anymore, through the driest corporate insolvency classes and the most confusing juris classes.

I write like as if my exams are over, but really they aren't, one day to insolvency, five to company, so, so, close!!!! I feel so drained from juris that all i want to do now is sleep but it's too early for that sigh (!!!!)

Reading all of tfp's plans just makes me so excited about summer, the grad trip we've been talking about since.... Taiwan ... Is finally going to happen!!!! So awesome summer is going to be so awesome I can smell it already.

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One down, three to go. The nightmare has begun but that also means we'll all get to wake up soon! Yay.

Can't wait to go back to singapore, as I lay awake last night at 230am with typical pre-first day nerves I thought of home and arriving at changi and having my dad pick me up and seeing all the flats and overhead bridges from the car window (they don't exist here much, except out of central London) and just being...home, in Singapore, where it is claustrophobic in a way that hugs are - too little breathing space but so much internal peace.

I think I'm homesick for my other home :) which makes me happy, because these moments are the ones that remind me that I am still the same person after all, three years later, with three more to go.

:) come on jurisprudence please be kind to me.

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Suddenly gripped with the fear that all I know is unravelling itself - the biggest fears lie in the what-ifs of exams - what if I'm studying the wrong topics, approaching things the wrong way, understanding things wrongly....

But the thought of post exam bliss holds the mind together and keeps me sane, it is but 13 days away.

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