five days since the last post and the first day of the new year is already upon me.

once again, time flies. i cannot say that enough.

usually, on the eve of school reopening i would review the holiday and feel a sense of emptiness for having done absolutely nothing of any importance at all. but then this year, for the 2nd consecutive year, my winter break has been honestly well spent. if i do keep up with this winter-break tradition, wow, then i want to have winter breaks in summer too!

i think i am right now confused as to what exactly i am feeling. its rather like an old scrooge having to melt the age-old ice around his heart once again for christmas. for four years i've been immersed in the same environment, with the same people, the same schedule. and i'm so used to that sense of stagnant security that now i am at a loss as to how to respond with the sudden onslaught of new faces, and the entirely new environment that i will face at approximately 7:10 am tomorrow.

there is no longer that old routine of maintaining a somnambulistic lumber right up to Lindy's car, and plodding to the quadrangle with full confidence of seeing Jieying and Serena sitting at the same old spot, talking animatedly about what on earth happened during the holidays.

it hasn't really hit me yet, but tomorrow it will all sink in.

i wonder what tomorrow has in store for me?