I

THE REVELATION

I guess this comes sooner or later to everyone. The process may be delayed or warped but it is always seen to fruition by unseen forces of painful inevitability. It is not a question of whether, it is a question of when. It could come one perverse night where a 5000-word essay is due the very following day and yet the mental locomotive of thought is hopelessly derailed, thesis statement is ripped from President Bush's congressional speech and chances of contracting dengue is at its zenith at this humid stifling deadening graveyard hour. It could come one torrid afternoon in the silent morgue of a library when the given research topic requires fifteen different readings, thirteen of them have been loaned out long-term and seriously overdue, and so much time is spent by the photocopying machine that your Geiger counter registers levels bordering on radiation sickness. It could come one dreary morning when en-route to political science lecture which is starting in negative fifteen minutes' time, dark brown cheap imitation of coffee spills all over thigh of jeans and lecture notes are subsequently mistaken as serviettes to hurriedly mop down gradual spreading stain of fabric death. It could come anytime. But when the realization finally hits you there and then that you are now a university student together with all the trappings of hellish homework, remote research, pernicious papers, murderous mid-terms, lascivious lovers, broken hearts, award-winning novels, late nights, rabid rumours and cranky (not to mention fucking loud) hostel neighbours, you will have all of three seconds to fully reconcile this thought with your rainsoaked peanut of a brain and your battered trainwreck of a soul before you go utterly insane.

I missed this crucial reconciliation by a fraction of a millisecond.

II

MY MUSE

III

SPOTTED: NUS CENTRAL FORUM

Park your van properly, please. Don't destroy school property.

IV

SPOTTED: FONG SENG PRATA STALL

A lovely pair. Teh tarik and kopi tarik, side by side.

V

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