It took me a while to get to this point, but here I am…

It just hit me that this is my last year in Sydney; many people, despite having featured so prominently, I might never see again.

I am infatuated with a girl.

We go to the same gym. I see her only once a week. I think she is younger than me. She looks Eurasian. She has a mop of short hair. Her skin is pale and her cheeks are naturally flushed. She is perpetually sullen. She seems wholesome, which is totally my type.

She is straight. And for that matter, so am I.

Such are the reasons for late-night activity (sparked by a very similar entry):

• 2 am + 9 am = seven hours of sleep + I’m not a total bum.
• Wet hair.
• Talkative (and extremely audible) neighbours.
• Depression over Roger Federer’s loss – thank goodness it’s still the round-robin stage.
• Mood music.
• The usual midnight contemplation.

I’m bugsy – in Quayspeak, that means ‘bored’. Dad forbids us from using the ‘B’ word on holidays, so we concocted several pseudonyms – ‘bugsy’ and ‘Beckham’ are our favourites.

Now that there is no need for academic researching and writing, my life has lost its purpose! I don’t know what to do with all this free time. Gerard and Tina are going to slap me – I know it. Refrain, please!

So, to make time pass quicker until I go back to Singapore, as well as kill the afternoon, this is my how-to (and to-do) list for making the next three weeks count:

1. Stroll everywhere, which is practically not practised in Australia.
2. Do everything slowly and (more) meticulously.
3. Take my time at the gym.
4. Edit my CV.
5. Look for possible internship openings.
6. Design a poster for Mum, which I have put off for a month.
7. Critically read Naomi and Trash, most likely jinxing my chance of getting into the Honours programme.
8. Complete Life of Pi, Love in the Time of Cholera and The Kite Runner.
9. And borrow the DVDs of the latter two.
10. Blog more often.

The best piece of the graduation pie still eludes me (pending Honours), but at least I have savoured the biggest part – I handed in my last assignment this afternoon, with the feeling of rounding up my university education finally sinking in.

And coincidentally, the day I take my first step towards graduating is the same day Davina puts a ‘been there, done that’ seal on hers.