The Old NUSBS

You can call me boliao for my previous entry, but I dun write things without a reason. Just like some are dreams I had before, this one was really vivid in mind, even long after I have woken up from my sleep. Ven Yuan Fan said that there are 2 possibilities of having dreams. One is think too much, while the other is a prediction of something thats gonna happen. Anyway, my 'ESP' of predicting bad things to happen has never grown any weaker each day.

My entire morning was filled with negative emotions, because of my family matters. I dun like to take nap, but to escape from the intense sufferings I was feeling, I decided to hit the sack and force myself to sleep, from 12 noon all the way to 4pm.

Had a meeting with the BS alumni at The Buddhist Library. As usual, there were lots of laughters and fun sharing of past memories (by them). The fact is that I was never in their era (except for shiongwei), with most of them about 4-5 batches before me. However, from the way they relate their past experiences and memories, I could feel that the NUSBS culture and atmosphere during their era were still very much similar to that I experienced in yr 2000 when I first joined NUSBS. Rapid changes in the nusbs culture seems to have taken place from yr2001 onwards.

In fact, when Hwee San shared her NUSBS memories (1990/1) during DC last semester, I could feel a sense of closeness to her era. I am not resisting the law of impermanance, but its kinda strange to imagine that the 'air' in NUSBS in yr 2000 was still pretty much closer to that in the early 1990s, than it is to the present one.

Probably its due reasons like titles used for certain posts like 'DAC' and 'ADAC' were no longer heard after they have been officially changed in yr 2001. And the phyiscal environment of NUS has started to change a great deal in yr 2001, with heavy upgrading works taking place throughout the campus. The old YIH function room and old LTs which I was still able to see in yr 2000 were no longer having the same looks. Inevitably, the feelings experienced will be different.