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July 16, 2006
Project Moveout
My room is in a mess since day 1 I move in.
1 more week till the 'preordained exodus' from Willowbrookwest and my world is already upside down. For once, i'm going to tidy up my room and pack up my things NEATLY. Which is no fun. I prefer organized mess. Sounds oxymoron to you? Lemme explain. Although my things heap around (read: messy), i know exactly where to find my dictionary, last year's letter from the bursar office, booklet from college of science and last week's Entertainment Weekly (read: organized).
After a full day of cleaning bedsheets (After a year? Ewwwwww!), folding clothes and packing books while listening to all Jay Chou's songs (I have 76), finally my room looked like this:
It looked almost like the day i moved in. Then i realized it's been a year since I came to US. Omg, time doesn't just fly at Mach 3, it practically travels linearly at the speed of light!!
There are tiny changes occurred during this one year, and i just noticed them:
2 out of 3 Edison's creations went kaput, leaving me with dimmer light for a while. I think my both eyes gain another 100P each. I just notice that when i find things blurrer nowadays. Even when i look into my mind, i see blurriness (no pun intended!).
Next i found 3 items unexpectedly. A letter from Grace, a guitar tab-cum-lyric sheet of an Adam Sandler's song "Grow Old with You" presented by Joyce in speech comm class and a drama script written and directed by Joyce. Each with a story that made deep impact (not the movie la!) in my life. When I came upon these 3 items, I smiled. How can i explain this smile? It's a smile that, irregardless of physics impossibility, curves back time and relives every single second of each event. I could really feel what i felt those times. Maybe that's what people call nostalgia. No, it's more than nostalgia. Nostalgic moments come and go. This is eternal memory.
As i looked at the scenery framed by my bedside window, my mind was at peace.
I'm moving in to a senior's place for 3 weeks, and then i'll be staying in dorm for a year. The address is taken out due to personal safety lol..
Posted by peixin at July 16, 2006 09:59 AM