After not blogging here in the past 4 months, I'm starting off with a not-so-happy post because I need to get it off my chest.
Two of my books were stolen today. We have 《论语》class every Wednesday during blocks 5-6, and on alternate weeks there would be a class during blocks 3-4. What most people do is they leave post-it notes on the tables to chope seats before the third block (because this class is too popular for its own good and sometimes people have to stand), and sometimes with a book. So today, that was what I did. I left 4 books on the long table and went to another classroom to read. When we came back after lunch, two of my books were gone, and those were my 《论语》 books. The others are two notebooks that I use. I was freaking pissed. I went to the Lost and Found area to check if they were there, but obviously not. Someone had evidently taken them. I was pretty angry with myself for being so careless, and also felt unfair that why BOTH my books were stolen when others do the same thing. I can always buy the books again. The money is not the issue. The issue is that I was using one of the books last semester and I wrote notes in it. Now it's gone. Argh.
About two weeks ago, my fruits and my roommate's pineapple tarts were stolen from our fridge. Like, what the hell? Those are just apples and pears dammit, do you have to resort to stealing? I don't think the other international students in the hostel are poor lah. Bah.
I was irritated about the fruits but I'm angry about my books. Angry at whoever took it and angry at myself. And then I recalled an incident in P6 when someone broke the lock on my locker, stole my PSLE practice books (or whatever they were called) and threw mashed up oreos and eggs at the locker door. I really have forgotten about this incident, but it suddenly came back to mind today. What I hate is this feeling of mistrust. It's really awful and it makes me lose trust in people. It doesn't help that we're studying the literature during the 五四运动 period and the works are about 人性的丑恶、麻木 etc. Lit makes me emo.
Don't mess with my books, it makes me mad.
Anyway, I joined 精武会 and will be learning 散打 and 双节棍 this sem. Wish me luck. If I find out who took my books, the person will need some luck too.
Snow pics are up on FB if you haven't seen them =)
3/11/2009 09:29:00 pm
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