Good Sort of Distraction
September 28th, 2006 | Published in general
When one is faced with a paper and presentation in 10 hours, 2 papers and 2 exams in a few days, and a mounting back log of other non-school work-work, what’s the best approach to have?
Why, buy a new-old camera (Konica C35), watch Liverpool thrash Galatasaray (sorry, Alp), read Michael Palin’s engaging epic on China, then of course, subsequently plan for your own trip. After this past summer’s 40 hour train rides through Indian plains, suddenly the thought “hey! I can take a bus to Laos!” (Singapore, Hat Yai, Bangkok, Pakse, Don Khon, Vang Vieng, Luang Prabang, Chiang Khong, Bangkok, Butterworth, Singapore; never flying at all) doesn’t sound as far out as it used to. It’s perfectly rational behaviour for anyone collapsing under the weight of words. Alas, I am aware the objectives of “graduate ASAP, perform rescue operation of GPA” and “loiter alone around South and Southeast Asia on $2 a day”, at present, are mutually exclusive, so I think I will shut up now. (Cue arthouse cut of frenzied character in need of caffeine and haircut, tape over mouth, head buried in books, while looking longingly at the map of Southeast Asia instead of studying its ‘contemporary history and politics’ or anything you could put into essays of 2500 words and above)
