I was sitting in the kitchen cutting papaya. It is wonderful to stay in a place that is within walking distance to a wet market.
Seow came in, collecting boiled cooled water for her trip to Universiti Malaya for an one hour lecture. I mused that my youngest spent 5 years of her college life there. She loved that campus. Had she the opportunity, she won't mind living on campus for the rest of her mortal life. But the catch is she didn't want to continue onto a PhD, academic career is out. Still, if she could find a job as a dormitory warden, she could work and live on campus. No, she said the fact that the warden's apartment was built to accommodate a good size family preclude that. Those slots were hard to get. Usually way before a family moved on, many others would vie for the post.
Seow was a little taken aback. I guess she just saw the campus as any collection of buildings of learning. Now that she is in her last semester, any learning period is less hectic than a working life. She had a tough time during her internship previously. As a modern educated female, working is inevitable unless she chose to marry a man of substance and decide to stay at home. That too brings along its own set of challenges.
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