First day of school for me, and I’m in a mess.

Sasi and I meet at Harbourfront at 9:40am, intending to take SBS Service 10 to Kent Ridge Terminal, which is just below our faculty building. We have a lecture – Communications and New Media – at 10:00am.

We wait for the bus.

And the bus has to arrive at 10:00am.

We contemplate to go to lecture or not. It’s not nice being late, because the lecture theatre fills up from the back to the front – everybody seems to presume that those sitting in the front will be noticed more easily by the lecturers – and the last thing we want is to be blacklisted by the professors for being late for our first lecture. Even if that doesn’t occur, we don’t want to give them a bad first impression. And it is damn embarrassing to be the only two walking down the steps in front of something like 400-plus people to our seats at the front of the theatre?!

Anyway first lectures aren’t as important as the subsequent ones – we admonish our guilt.

And to make ourselves feel better, we decide to stake out at the Central Library and do our own readings for New Media.

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I didn’t go for History lecture in the afternoon too.