blog/enigma

Monday, October 23, 2006

7:41 PM

Well. Very long day today. Allow me to drone your brain to eternal slumber.
I woke up and was faced with THREE major crisises. That's quite normal for a Monday. It feels like the enforcers of Monday Blues have returned - those shadowy creatures who are birthed from the anxiety you get when you realise you have 23 pages of Geography work not completed on a Sunday night. In any case, the only good thing that comes out of them are that they vaporise at the break of Tuesday's dawn, leaving rest of the week blissfully happy.
Now enough of my brand of twisted logic.
The first crisis was BAND PRACTICE. It turns out that we have it on today and I forgot about it. You might be thinking what's so bad about that - well, here comes the second issue:
I have an anime screening in MOELC. I don't want to skip it as I've already skipped a lot of Japanese enrichment lessons. Sensei would give me that reproachful look. Which by the way, rips my conscience apart with guilt. THIRD - Singapore Dreaming.
Oh. I just realised there's a fourth crisis. The most terrible of all. I shall touch on that later. AHHHH This is killing me. There's FIFTH CRISIS. Imagine, FIVE troubles in a day. Those enforcers are really too much. There's a camp meeting at 3.00.
When I got to school this morning, the first crisis resolved itself quite conveniently - someone told me band practice today is CANCELLED. Brilliant news. Not that I dislike band practice, but I'm really going through a a rough patch today and I really need a break from all the stuff I've gone through. Which would be mentioned later, I guess. By the way, since there's no flag-raising because of the rain. Therefore, I spent the entire time incorporating the band practice schedule into my phone. Thus, if you access the 'Calender' section, you would see the blue little tabs filling nearly every day of my holidays, bearing evidence of the immense cruelty and mercilessness streak possessed in some of the teachers in the event of a gruesome race to outwin all other CCAs.
Alas, the downfall of education! And I'm pretty sure the Minister of Education is watching some drama soaps now as I type, with his fluffy pink slippers and a bowl of chips in hand.
Anyway, I've given up hope that somehow Hagrid might turn up at my door and say, 'You are special; you are a wizard, Jiasheng. ' Then I can go steal some Time-Turners from the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries. Thus being able to complete so many things I've lagged behind.
Sigh. I had to skip the anime screening. Oh wells. I really do like Japanese.
In any case, the Singapore Dreaming thing wasn't really that bad. In fact, I would give it 4 stars... out of 5. It's about this family who won 2 million and their life suffered a lot. It reminds me of a couple in America who won I think 50 odd million but they weren't happy. The man died of alcohol overdose and the woman killed herself, just 2 years after they has cashed in the first cheque.
I mean, they would be better off without winning 2 million in lottery. Zhenyang and I agreed on a lot of things about the movie, and he even stayed with me with my weird habit of watching a movie till the credits end. The boys there weren't impressed by the movie by the way. It's not suited for their age. However, this 'educational' movie would never sell as movie-goers go to theaters for blockbusters like Mission Impossible and Matrix Revolution - not Singapore Dreaming. It has a philosophical view on the values, but only if you are empathic enough to pick it up. In any case, I would recommend it to you if only your maturity level surpasses that of a typical Sec 3.
Well. Enough of that. Anyway the movie was at Vivo City and we got to shop before and after the movie. So me and Zhenyang was shopping and I really enjoy the comtemporary design and fantastic shops. Someday I shall go there armed with money and go on a mad frenzy shopping spree. And Zhenyang took a lot of pictures of me, although he refuses to take any without my insistment. Seriously, he's just camera-shy - and he really looks nice! He ought to have more confidence... look, I have this disgustingly monstrous pimple that stands out starkly on the middle of my nose. I don't worry myself on such minute things. Things like good friends are more important. Therefore, Zhenyang, be more open. And thanks for being such a great friend for tagging around with me... And we had the chance to play on the playground... even though there's this guy in a purple sweater chided us, 'Hwa Chong students still play in playgrounds ah,' (anyway, the playground's real cool. I'll get some pictures to show you. Definitely not the usual slide and see-saw) and I muttered under my breath, ' What a wanton thwarter trying to rob us of the experience of reliving our childhood...'
I don't think he heard it, but I don't care.
Anyway, I'm going to shop there soon. Tell me if you want to tag along.
Oh, and I had to CIP hours. I found out that Zhenyang had done less CIP than me and yet he made the 10-hour mark. I suspect it has something to do with band so I didn't go for the Gymnastic Hall to do CIP work. As I have the meeting to attend.
And so 2 people called me to tell me I'm late, I better go to the Gym now. Thanks Guo Xin and Jun Jie, but I still think there's a mistake and anyway the meeting's much more important than some stupid half-hearted attempt to clear the ordure left by the Gym members. Ironically, the camp meeting actually contributes towards my CIP hours.
Anyway, I was running late so I had to rush to print the stuff for the camp meeting and meet Jovina, Qiqi, Sylvia and Wenxi at the Teachers' Resource room at PCPS. Oh, by the way, I got past the guard when he had his back on me... hilarious isn't it. Makes you think twice about school security. In any case, I was a little late but the meeting was fabulous.
As usual, we digressed a lot so the progress was more or less hampered, but we did finalise a lot of things. Jovina was acting quite random - she kept quipping up funny quotes. When we brainstormed for the movie we are going to screen, I said 'The History Of Germany' and she voted all out for it.
Everybody else was staring so I said, 'I meant, "Finding Nemo",' and the looks intensified.
Fine. Don't ask me.
Oh, and Sylvia made cookies. And they were great! I ate like 4 (mind you, this is from a boy who didn't eat lunch) and so... never mind.
In the end, I ended up deciding we shall screen a movie called 'The History of Finding Nemo'
The groans were so loud I think Mars changed its orbit a little due to the sound waves.
When I got home, I got a message from my grandma that TeoCM wanted to see me. Regarding CIP I suppose, as I skipped the thing. I'm supposed to meet her in the morning on Wednesday, but as long as I get a satisfying reply from Mrs. Chan, I have nothing to fear.
Besides, I know how to deal with teachers who think they are fierce and commanding but are actually little twits with an inferior complex.
I'm not really in the mood to blog today, so this post doesn't really show much. I'll be better tomorrow, I promise.
Byes.

signed, jiasheng