After a haircut in the morning, I went down to the National Library for my once a week full-day reading of a book for my Historiography module. Today's book "Denying the Holocaust" was quite interesting, it's about about how people try to distort history by denying that Hitler deliberately killed millions of Jews in his occupation of Europe. It's quite similar to how some Japanese historians are denying that the Nanjing Massacre took place.
Then I interrupted my reading and went to Bugis to have lunch with (Mr) Benedict Tan, my close ex-colleague who left BSS at the end of 2004. We were going to meet up with Belinda Chandra 4E1 (2003), an Indonesian Chinese former student of ours who returned to Singapore after a short visit. Benedict was her form teacher while I taught her Combined Humanities then. We were real glad to see her after a long while. After going back to Jakarta, she had studied Medicine and is now at the attachment phase! The three of us inevitably talked about the "good old days" again. Seems like so many of us really had fond memories of the days in BSS.
Benedict proved to be someone who really understood me well. After hearing my normal routine of library and books nowadays, he correctly identified part of the problem of my low morale to the fact that I was not interacting with people as I did daily last time. He saw in me a "talkative" person who just simply could not be reading the whole day without talking to anyone! He accurately recognised the point that few people were doing what i was doing and that made me feel isolated and lost. He suggested arranging with people for lunch whenever I am doing a full-day reading. Very insightful analysis from a most treasured friend of mine whom I do not get to see often nowadays as he has two children already! Thanks, Benedict, I shall try to follow your advice!
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