absolutum dominium

ah yes. school has officialy started, and we're now based at the bukit timah campus.

it's still under construction; and it's amusing to give cab drivers the location: "nus - the bukit timah campus".

the first response tt you get usually sounds like this: "HAR?"

anyway the campus is lovely, or will be lovely when it is completed. it feels the most unlike nus; with a real overseas-type university feel. the 4 blocks of law school surround each other with a giant grass patch in the middle in this slightly colonial architecture thingy from the old buildings. but inside it's all new.

unfortunately, construction is still ongoing and there are a lot of things tt aren't settled yet. the wireless isn't up at every place; seminar rooms don't have tt many power points; we have only 1 cafeteria tt is almost perpetually filled with people, thus making it somewhat difficult to get lunch sometimes...

you get what i mean.

but tt being said, i don't have the same adverse reaction to the new campus tt many people have. i do understand tt it is incomplete and tt construction is ongoing, but for the most part i have no major complaints. i can see the charm and the beauty of the place; it reminds me a little of ubc coz of the grass. and besides, compared to the curtis law fac building and tt old gray lib in vancouver, this campus is beautiful already; construction and saw dust aside.

even things like the long walk from the bus stop; i do agree tt it is a bother, but 20 min walks from your hostel to class in ubc prepares you for walking almost anywhere. granted, ubc doesn't have tt heat and humidity tt makes people ask me if i have a medical condition coz i sweat so much in this goddamn heat, but i guess my only problem then wouldn't be with the walk per se, but just the weather. which you can't change, here or in kent ridge.

i guess the only thing tt i am uncomfortable with; is proximity. walking from the entrance of block b past the cafeteria; and i say hi at least 6 times to 6 different people. law fac is so small tt you know literally, everyone. and you have to say hi to, everyone. which is nice because it's nice to have familiar faces; but the proximity makes it uncomfortable. it isn't like kent ridge where i can just disappear into the annals of yih without knowing a single person; here you just can't hide anywhere. hahaha.

and it's official in law school; EVERYONE knows tt ben and i are a couple. if it hadn't already spread by word of mouth, our holding hands in the cafeteria made it pretty much so.

interestingly enough, people comment tt ben is a "changed man"; whatever tt means. wahaha.

i was talking to joanna during my islamic law class this evening, and she was asking me how he was like. seeing tt we seemed so diff; he was so 'bad boy' (yes, she said exactly tt) and i was, well... me. and oh, she'd never talked to him before coz he always looked so unapproachable. the first time she'd ever seen him smile... was when she saw him with me.

and in any case; ben has gotten his fair share of ribbing. 2 people have told him tt he has gotten 'soft' and 'weak' respectively; someone deleted him from her msn on the basis tt his nicknames were too mushy for her to take. wahahahaha.

and ben himself admits tt he seems to have lost tt (hostile) 'energy' tt he once had in year one. he was telling me tt he also had to keep saying hi to people here all the time; he didn't remember having to do tt so much in year one. in year one he could just sit himself at a bench, put on his perpetual scowl, and everyone would steer clear of him. now... he has to say hi to everyone.

i told him tt it's because now he seems to be so smiley and friendly; a complete change from last time.

last time, even *i* wouldn't go say hi to him. wahahaha.

it seems tt love can really change a person. i hope (and i would like to believe) tt it is for the better, tho. hee hee.

interestingly enough, ben's presence makes everything about school bearable. :)

joanna asked if we were still in our honeymoon period. i suppose 4 months does count as the honeymoon period, doesn't it?

but within the space of these 4 months, i find being without you almost unbearable.