The setting of the story is present day, 2005 as I write this, or whatever era is it when you read this, Singapore. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The main character of this story is a girl, 165cm, shoulder length hair, looks a bit bookish with her specs but otherwise not bad looking. An ordinary girl in all aspects.
Her name is Goh Lan Yu, 吴蓝羽.
Currently her 'occupation' is student. NTU business year 1 student to be exact. She graduated from HwaChong and St Nicolas Secondary. Being the last batch of students to graduate from HwaChong Junior College, she was both glad and sad. Glad because she graduated just in time to be considered a 高中生. Sad because her beloved school has changed its name to something unbelievably stupid - 华侨中学. But no matter what, she is still extremely proud of her school. Anyway, it has been more than a year, she has long since put this issue out of her mind. She has more important things to worry about than this.
(Did I say the setting of this story is whatever time you read this? You must be wondering that if you read this in 2006, or 2007, or 2008 etc, how can there be anyone who graduated from HC just before it change name in 2004 and still be in year 1 in, say, 2008?? Did she da bao? The answer is no. Her IQ is 149, and that means she's extrordinarily smart. Why then? Well as I said, it doesn't matter. There's no answer to every questions in the universe. Please read on.)
Lan Yu has just finished her special sem exam on HP101: An Introduction to Psychology. By right she should be going out with friends and enjoying herself. Yet recently she feels that there's something wrong with her brain. Sometimes she feels that time has suddenly fast forward a great deal or just paused suddenly.
Take for example, just a minute ago, while she was typing her blog, she felt that world has paused for about 3 seconds. She messages her friends on msn (some in China), but none of them say they feel anything different.
Then it seems to her that she's suffering from dissociative amnesia. A term she learnt from her psychology lessons, meaning memory loss caused be extensive psychological stress. She doesn't remember anything from her St Nicks or Hwa Chong days other than the fact that she graduated from there. In fact, she can't really remember anything before yesterday. She just knows that she had taken a psychology exam a few days ago and she felt strange. It is as if she is jus... there, recently. But then she doesn't really care about it. Maybe her illness is better termed as dissociative fugue.
However, what worries her most is that, for most of the nights these days, she keep dreaming of a boy, about the same age as her, maybe slightly older, trying desparately to tell her something. Although in her dreams she tried very hard to understand what he's saying, she just can't. What he says is all rubbish.
And wierdest thing is, sometimes, when she's chatting on msn, she receives messages from the boy. The boy whose msn is not in her address book. The boy in her dreams!
(How did she know the msg is from the boy in her dreams? I've no idea, although the boy only put the picture of Kakashi as his display picture, she just knows.)
And in this very moment, just a few minutes after she finished asking her friends about the world stopping phenomenon, she hears the familiar tone of a new incoming message:
"Hello Block Rain!"
(To be continued...)
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