Experiencing Autumn

Aahhhh . . . Halloween . . . What other time do you get to see little Chewbaccas and Abraham Lincolns walking around the streets? We, in Singapore, don’t celebrate Halloween, so when I got here, I really wanted to try my pick at “trick-or-treating.” So when I tried to get a couple of girls and guys to do it with me, I got the same answer all the time, “Dude! We’re already in college man!” Darn it. I guess I came here a little too late.

Way up here on the sixth floor of my dormitory, Forest, outside my window is but a hue of orange. It is the prettiest sight. Again, this is another new for me because Singapore is just two degrees below the equator, so you don’t get much cool weather there. I’ve read about it in books of how autumn is the prettiest season and, finally, I get to experience it myself.

This reminds me of my favorite poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost.

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

—Robert Frost