8:49 PM
Finals of B div debate preliminary rounds tomorrow evening- in the midst of contemplating whether I should go or not. Bi can't anymore, she's got drama. DARN. Will think about it. Talking about school related issues, that horrifying memory has struck me again.
I seriously SCREWED my Chinese orals yesterday. It was so bad I can't even talk about it. But I will anyway.
First I saw the passage and realized I couldn't read a quarter of the words there ( which my band 1 acquaintances actually found easy- just so you know, I'm in band 3.) and to top it all off like the icing on a cake, I flat out DID NOT understand the conversation topic at ALL and was compelled to stare blankly at the wall while trying to look intelligently inclined in Chinese at the same time. Go ahead, LAUGH.
HA!
It was funny actually, I had to ask her to jie shi for me and get this: throughout the whole oral, china teacher did'nt even LOOK at me. Maybe she thought my chinese speaking skills were too good. Beats last year though. I could'nt say plastic bag in china so I said...
" bu yao yong... plastic bag. ying gai dai zhi zi de...shopping.. oh er... gou wu dai."
and I actually got a 14 out of 20. Amazing. ( time to applause)
So back to today's events. A extremely amusing and laughable thing happened: this fellow acquaintance of mine who really had nothing to do but to take part in this online competition thing got the most number of votes and... she won. Won what?
A ROMAN GUY.
The prize is that this dude from overseas will fly over and spend two days with you.
Bloody hell.
He even came INTO our school to look for her.
What the hell kind of competition was that?
Sometimes, I really queation my sad existance in this twisted world.
Love thy neighbour.
Or not.
9:15 PM
NOT.
It'll be just as quiet when I leave,...
As it was, when I first got here.
11:00 PM
It's kinda really funny actually. Nobody has time to let their hair down and go crazy anymore. We have all come to accept that and so have I.
That's just great.
On a more positive note, I will be metal mouth no more in 8 weeks! It's pretty damn awesome cos I've had braces on for two and 1/4 years now so 8 weeks of waiting should'nt be much of a problem I suppose. Ha! Oh the joy.
Um uh... have fun with your life.
Oh yes, there will be blood but..
who's afraid?
8:10 PM
SYF. short for singapore youth festival. Its even funnier how we are focusing all our attention on something that was created by the human brain. So we train and wail and bawl all for like a couple of minutes on stage that will determine whether we are Gold-worthy or not. Anything below that and there will be more wailing and MORE sobbing over...
what?
And two years later, the exact same events repeat itself once more. Strange how we hold this competition in such high regard. It acts like a catalyst, causing schools across the island to regard each other as " arch enemies" , a more professional ways to say " I hate you" as so it seems. And yet again, arch enemies is a term coined by the human brain as well. Then there are the judges. Sure, they are self aclaimed professionals, extremely experienced, equipped with years of training in gosh knows what, who position themeselves in the spectator stands to determine our fate. In what way are they worthy enough to judge us?
No way they are worthy enough to judge us.
No way.
If only I had a little humility,I'D BE PERFECT.
11:20 AM
Those who have command of language in which event and concrete perception jump into palable metaphor, and images from the daily world act like spiritual agents, indeed have that unquestioned talent and ability.
2:02 PM
Finally went to catch Dreamgirls with Bi on Thursday as it was canossian saints day thus it being a half day. ( see the benefits of being in a convent school!) Any-ho, it was raining- no it was POURING and so we were stuck in school for quite a while, contemplating on whether we should just run out and flag a cab, with the risk of getting flat hair then going to town which is basically not an option but anyways. Option two was to get cheong to walk us out with her umbrella and wait for us to flag a cab which would have been possible if there wasn't that whole pack of people waiting for a cab too. Sratch that. option number three was to call a cab. It would have worked if we were'nt put on hold for ten minutes so... there was only one option left.
We run out in the rain to the bus stop .
Bloody hell.
but we found that taking the bus would be inevitable thus we did what we had to and turned up in town, wet , in our school uniform AND with the bonus flat hair. popped ourselves in the theatre right on time and then Bi provoked me by chuking popcorn down my SHIRT. It was hilarious I tell you. Dudes sitting next to us got scared i think. HA! More popcorn flew. movie began.
Then there was this scene when this girl was being really evil to her friend ( Beyonce_) and without thinking or considering that we were all in the midst of an intense, no nonsense scene where the whole cinema is plunged into silence, I said
" bitch!" really really loud and then... The scene became solemn no more. Bi drowned in laughter and basically, everyone else present found it as funny as she did.
I said I was sorry!
Oh.
Um uh... Have fun with your life.
Listen before I speak.
6:40 PM