Rendezvous
24 January 10 : 02.59 PM
The past two weeks I've been killing myself over my exchange program to Japan. My modules weren't confirmed and I wasn't getting a reply from the Uni over there and the wait was just tremendous. It doesn't sound like much to anybody else, but in my position of having a 2 week deadline to try to solve everything or face the consequence of missing a semester of school (and having to spend another 6 months in school for nothing) was truly terrifying.
I could be reckless and go to Japan, or I could stay in Singapore feeling absolutely sorry for myself.
Then I started making preparations for staying here. I wasn't getting help from anybody and nobody was budging, so I guess I had to. I just have to find a way out of paying the penalty for dropping out.
And I manged to get amazing modules this semester. I was going to study the representations of women as virgins and vixens in Enlightenment English in a module aptly titled 'Virgins and Vixens'. I got another module on Photography in literature where we were going to examine the notions of writing about photography and writing photographically. I also got a history module on the survey of the Islamic world, its events and broad patterns of the Islamic human activity and also its relation to the West. I got a module on contemporary South-East Asian art. I also got a module on Marketing and another on Business Law.
But today, after reading the reply from Japan, I have come to accept that there are more than administrative restrictions holding me back. I wish I weren't so weak.