Yes I forgot about having to have titles for each post, what a hassle!

Hey, I'm back. With a new banner too, if you realize (if anyone's still here) the Sick of tea proclamation. I'm thinking of changing the URL to reflect this change of heart, but as of yet I haven't figured out to what, which is not very encouraging because new links usually make blogging much more exciting (for a few months at least before I get bored again and go on a long unannounced hiatus).

I'm blogging to test whether I can still write. I've written a total of six essays this year (four because I have to for exams, one for homework, and one for the India trip) as opposed to the countless role-plays and daily blogposts and devoted diary entries I used to write.. It's pretty sad really, how much lazier I am, how I'm just taking everything in passively and not doing anything but read. Then again, I'm reading Harry Potter (and the Order of the Phoenix) so it goes without saying, considering how thick it is, or how addictive the series is (I got the whole box set and it came in a potato sack in the post, no surprise there) that my sloth can't be blamed entirely on my...well, sloth.

I'm going to start with a short recount of what I did with my day.

I had McDonald's Chocotop for dessert after lunch in Hakkatree. It was a bit weird; the moment the dessert man handed it over to me, you can feel its weight, like it's about half heavier than it should be. When the chocolate bit came off, it had a very dense yellowish tinge to it, and it doesn't feel light like normal McDonald's ice cream should. Using an analogy in baking, the ice cream I had was like this moist heavy chocolate cake, and not the light airy sponge cake it should be. It was the first time I threw a McDonald's ice cream away half-eaten! Normally I'm much more appreciative of food in general.

(just testing out descriptions)

We went to the Popular Book Fair in Straits Quay. I was prepared to be disappointed after hearing from a friend of mine who went a few days ago and came out bearing only new pens, but you just have this curiousity to see for yourself. It wasn't that bad really, though the place was packed with people, and the things weren't much cheaper than usual, and there wasn't much to buy. I bought some correction tapes, erasers, a file-box, and a book I've been wanting for ages since reading the first quarter of it from the coffee table of someone's house: Kafka on the Shore. I'll attack it once I finish Harry Potter.

Is it just me, or are personal blogs becoming a thing of the past? Everyone seems to be decreasing blog posts into Facebook-sized sentences and preferring to reblog photos in Tumblr.

Or it is just me. Was me.

On a side note (for record), other edits to the blog include the expansion of the text body to facilitate bigger photos, the disposal of the ridiculous long labels (seriously, metaphorical metaphors? tangible triumphs) and the replacement of them with proper, universally understood labels and finally, the edits to the names of fellow affiliates.