Wednesday, May 07, 2003

a long long time ago

hi. sorry for the horrendously long absence. if i'm not mistaken it's been close to two weeks. a thousand apologies!

this is for the benefit of my faithful follower (yes, i know it's singular, but that's the sad sad truth...). this is in order of events, btw.

the life concert was on the friday of the elections for house captain. how was my speech? err...err...ERR. you get the idea. went to the concert, enjoyed myself, yada yada, didn't make it for house captain, was sad for a while, yada yada, got caught in the rain on the way to ikea, had dinner soaking wet with teacher mentor, went back to hostel...only to get a call barely 5 minutes after signing in that we are all quarantined.

for 5 days.

because some prc guy went down with fever on good friday and was in tan tok seng hospital (ttsh-take tonic sure heal) and not spore general hospital (sgh-sure go heaven).

we weren't allowed out. at all. not even after the blasted fella was declared sars negative. not even when our food supply got short and we were getting sick of hostel food. not even when the girls were desperately craving for mcds icecream (i know, it's weird, it's like we're addicted to that stuff).

well...as you can see, those 5 days weren't exactly enjoyable. the worst part of it was the fact that we were smack in the middle of chemical bonding, graphs and transformations and were missing the last 4 periods of gp we were gonna have with the best gp teacher in the world.

i tell you...it's so cursed, this year. we want to have class outing...it rains. we wanna go home in june...sars hits. we finally get a teacher that makes us actually look forward to a lesson, especially a lesson like gp...and she gets called by MOE. goodness...what have i done wrong???

anyway, enough of the whining. although i'm tempted to continue since i've already broken my new year's resolution of not whining a million times already. heh.

we were allowed to leave the hostel starting 1st may, and i tell you...the feeling was like...wow...we're free...woohoo! *cue: the beatles' "free as a bird"* everyone stocked up on groceries, withdrew money and spent it all...muahahaha. really. we did. =P

i actually enjoyed the first day back at school last friday. not only cuz i missed my classmates (everybody now...*aww*) but also cuz PE was cancelled (whoopee!) cuz of football. victoria vs raffles (0-0), saints vs meridian (1-0). obviously i stayed to watch right? it was exhillarating, really...plus i got the best seats in the house. but yeah, the atmosphere was overwhelming, and for the first time i felt this whole feeling of pride for sajc...and best of all, i could feel that everyone felt the same. this monday's match was even better (saints drew with raffles 1-1...excellent goals, excellent game) but it wasn't the quality of the games that mattered most. it was that love for the college...that desire to see the saints win.

that was priceless.

saturday, we had a talk on bgr. oh, you know, the usual things. communication, community and conflict resolution...the difference between infatuation and true love...yada yada. me, i'm thinking...i'm 18 for crying out loud. why would anyone who's 17-18 bother about whether it's true love? all everyone wants is to have a guy/girl on their arm to show off and brag about. you know...the "haha, i've got a girlfriend and you haven't...LOSER." heh. but then, maybe i'm just bitter cuz i'm single or maybe i've watched too much oprah.

the college play was pretty good. it was very entertaining to see students acting as animals in "animal farm". the sheep were particularly popular..."four legs g-o-o-o-d, two legs b-a-a-a-d" hehehehe.

and that's all, really. nothing else much has happened...except maybe there's a rugby match this evening. shall prob watch, though i still see no point in a couple of guys causing bodily harm to each other just to get this oval ball (you can't even kick it!!!) over a line. yeesh. wow, how fascinating. still, i'll go anyway, mainly cuz i'll be in school till match time cuz of cca...library mar.

speaking of which, my meeting starts now. cheerio!

lishun at 9:36 AM

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