im so excited! school starts tomorrow and this time round i wld be formally and properly inducted into e system. wld no longer be the pseudo-freshie that had the luxury of attending only some lectures and having a lighter timetable. and i cant wait to explore e campus and meet new people. okay, actually im not that excited. its very daunting and scary having to make new friends all over again while grappling with schwork. and philo. gdness, i hope i can crap out something decent for those abominable essays. still, its fun knowing that i dunno whats in store, haha, and then handling them the best i can. i wish myself lotsa luck.

its fun to be back, though the initial pangs of 'adjustment syndrome' set in on the first day while unpacking. but all was well once i went to sch to photocopy some stuff before going out to meet friends. have been going out everyday and spending too much, oops. but i reasoned that once sch starts, i wldnt be going out so often heh.

flight back was uneventful. krisworld sucked this time round, i only watched ~3 movies, compared to e 6 on my return trip to spore earlier in jun. and so i slept for about 5-6 hours, which was good as it was actually much needed. had planned to take a taxi back to my place, but T wanted to take e train instead; which was ok, considering that i would save about 40 to 50 euros, even after splitting e fare. but the luggage was soooooo heavy i nearly died dragging them around and up to my room. my profs had better appreciate the mooncakes i bought for them. TEN SILLY INTRICATELY CRAFTED MOONCAKES WITH PRETTY BOXES TO HOUSE THEM IN. so damn heavy. ok i exaggerate.

i noticed that all the trains are spruced up over summer, which is good. they even managed to remove all the graffiti and introduced several new trains. i just hope they stay that way. paris looked much cleaner to me too on the first day, which was surprising as tourists were everywhere. however, i changed my mind when i went to chatelet les-halles, the central interchange in zone 1, where the black people seem to like to congregate. i certainly dun mean to be racist, but seeing scores of blacks congregating together and talking so loudly in their loud clothing and dreadlocks just dun make me feel good. and some of them love to stare or shout out 'ni hao' or 'konichiwa'. i felt like shouting 'mandela!!' or 'kumbaya' back at them. irritating trouble-makers..

bah, im turning in now. hopefully i can blog soon.