Monday, May 19, 2003

how embarrassing!

know what? i've never felt so embarrassed in my whole entire life! it's just a little thing, but it was embarrassing all the same.

you remember the time when the scholars were all "locked up" at our darling eton hall for 6 days? well, a room leader (or room i/c for "in charge"...i tell you...s'poreans abbreviate EVERYTHING) was appointed for every room and, because we were on *ahem* such good behaviour, one of our teacher mentors mr caleb lee bought us some chocs.

yes, you've guessed it. i left the chocs somewhere and totally didn't notice till the last two periods. typical absent minded me. so, i rushed through my practical test (how the hell do you count magnification???) and went to the classes i was at...before realising i left it in the audi.

great.

now, if you were a normal jc student, and you found a paper bag with chocs in it...what would you do? take the loot and snaffle the lot, no?

well, li li told me not to give up hope and we went to the general office...lo and behold, there was the bag. and not only that...there was mr lee!

oh my goodness! the clerk was asking me,"what colour was the bag?" and mr lee came along and answered, "black." i was so terribly embarrassed!!! and to make it worse, this other office staff member came out of her room and said, "oh, so the chocs belong to her, issit?" and mr lee went, "yeah...i bought it for her!"

wah...i tell you, if i had a habit of blushing (which i don't), my face would have gone all crimson! oh my goodness! i felt so bad...!

yes, i know it's some stupid reason to get all worked up over, but not my fault right??? i don't commit stupid mistakes...oh, wait, i do...but anyway, my point is, usually when i commit stupid mistakes, i get away with them. but this time...caught in the act!

geez, that reminds me of the cheesy boyband that has since seen its demise. heh.

anyway, i can't go home in june. and know what? s'pore was a few hrs away from being declared sars-free after the new cluster at imh scare turned out to be flu, when some idiot went ahead and got sars. so yeah, no more sars-free status from who. and, like my principal mrs lim said this morning, we were ready to pop the champagne in celebration too!

which reminds me. we have to take temp EVERY DAY at precisely 7:40am and 11:25am. in school. together. i'm serious! it's like...this morning the principal just went..."okay everyone, put ur thermometers into ur mouths, at the count of three! one...two...three!" and there you had it, the entire student body and staff with thermometers in their mouths. what a right sight we must have been. it was even funnier at 11:25am. my class was at the cafeteria cuz it was during our break...and all of a sudden a new "catchy" (according to the principal) tune that many of us would recognise as "the music box" started playing instead of our normal "big ben" chimes and the discipline master came along with a loud hailer, signalling for us all to take our temperature simultaneously.

heh. really. it was super comical.

i can totally appreciate the government's attempts at preventing further spreading of sars, but i wish they didn't make it so hard on us poor homesick foreigners. know what we have to do if our application to go home is even approved? we have to deposit $1000 with the MOE, then, upon return, be quarantined at some other venue, with the cost of the quarantine deducted from that $1000, they'll take away our student pass and we'll have to apply for a new one. sigh.

i suddenly miss my home. my dog. my friends. it's different when you know you have a choice whether you want to go home for the hols or not. now, i don't have a choice at all. i'm stuck in stupidly not-yet-sars-free singapore for the entire 3 weeks and the hopes of maybe my friends coming down to visit have been dashed with the emergence of the new case yesterday.

sigh.

still...if any of you wanna come visit me here...please do. the sars thing is under control. it really is. it if weren't, i'd be suffering from atypical pneumonia by now, at the rate of me going out. besides...singapore great sale is in june! =)

consider it...ok?

lishun at 9:40 AM

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