Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Wow... today is really a very freaky day. Well, to be exact, a really nice freaky day. The people round me are all so different today... its so surreal... like its a dream.. except its real-er!!

Actually today still pretty sick one... budden for the sake of my section, I had to go to school... really glad that I did... a lot of things really happened today... I am still very shocked now...

Anyway, my section did come late for sectionals, budden they were not as late as before... poor Anusha, still had to take a cab to NJ, all the way from Tampines... think that my section is really very fun... but too bad I am graduating from band soon... think will really miss all my juniors....

More surprises awaited me during civics... firstly, managed to sell another 2 tickets to Shini.. think it was rather bad of me... cause I kept on pressurising Shini's fren to go... in the end sold her 2 tickets... den when I went for Civics, found out that Candice and Linyi had decided that they would come for my concert... really glad that they made such a decision... this shows that the class is really very nice... even thou the duo had made arrangements for haircuts and also the fact that they are not band music lurvers... think that they are really nice people... hope they will get to enjoy the concert!!

Sold my second last ticket in my booklet in class... to whom you may guess... surprise surprise, its actually Mr Gwee!! Hahah... cause he kept on insisting that he wun buy... budden I volunteered to organise the class to play some games so he agreed to buy the ticket... think I quite selfish really, cause I only selling the ticket for the sake of selling... Mr Gwee din even want to go lor... budden the ticket sales is really horrible... 1 more day to the concert and not even half of the booklets were sold... so really desperate... really dun wan to play to a half empty hall... think I better persuade him to either go or give the ticket to some1 else who would like to go... dun waste the ticket mah... (anyway, I also managed to sell the last ticket of my booklet... this time to Shini again... she really not bad... must ask her to push the sales more tmr!!)

Anyway, the game that I was supposed to play with the class was really not a game lah... din even last for 10 mins... hahah... quite 'leng chang' (cold stage?) lah... budden the discussion was pretty interesting... talked about pretty 'controversial' issues... also it was quite fun to hear about some of my classmates' ambitions in the future as well as how we/they can maintain ties in future...

Well, Chem lect was pretty interesting too... think that Mr Low is actually a pretty good lecturer too... maybe its his tone or his use of powerpoint presentations or his interesting method of getting people to answer his questions... but it really kept me pretty absorbed during his lecture... well maybe except the times where I had to cough or blow my nose or clear my throat... which were actually quite frequent.. think its the aircon lah...

However, that wasn't the surprise of the day yet... um... actually still cannot believe that it happened... think has to be surprise of the year instead... the surprise of the year happened during Chem Prac...

Got back my 2 marked practicals that were done last week... instead of getting comments like 'Revise your concepts' or 'Work harder', I actually saw 'Good work!'... I was like 'Wow, I can actually produce a xiang(4) yang(4) piece of work!!' The other piece of work was well attempted as well... had 14 out of 16.. really missed seeing this kind of results... haven gotten them like for years...

Anyway, that still wasn't the surprise. Today's 2 practicals were very smoothly carried out... no major errors clumsiness... budden only 1 bad thing lah... I was really quite hungry at that time... to the point that I actually felt like fainting... think I cannot bear my hunger for too long when I am sick... almost decided to stop my practical... my hands were really shaking and trembling... couldn't hold my apparatus well at all... so had to sit down for the entire practical... anyway, I was commented that I make 'powerful swirls'... think it was a pretty interesting comment... cause so sick already still can make 'powerful swirls'.... hmmm....

Anyway, the surprise came when it was close to 12 noon... which was supposed to be lunch break... actually I was expecting a dismissal at abt 12.30pm... cause there were some problems before hand... so some time was wasted... budden all of a sudden, Mr Gwee actually said "Please hand up your work to me by 5pm. No, make it tmr. Food is more important. Go for your breaks."

When I heard it I was like stunned... in fact I think everyone was stunned... It was really nice to hear that... so even thou I was still dismissed late, I left with a joyous feeling... something that I have like never felt for the all the Wednesdays I had this year... (does it sound very exaggerated? Well, I am not really very good at expressing myself in words)... summore he still asked if I were feeling better... and that I must take good care of Nicole... she pretty poor thing really.. got stressed up by band stuff... den had no time for hw too... think she really needs a rest...

After lunch was bio... Mrs Khoo said that from now on, every Thurs ' free period would be converted to bio lesson... haiz.. pretty sad really... next time Thurs cannot crap around already... summore she kept on scolding the class about hw and stuff... pretty depressing to hear her saying all those stuff again and again... thinks that she dun like our class... feel pretty sad for her really... cause we so lousy already den some of the class people still dun do her work... no wonder she so upset... hope she can kan kai a bit lah... maybe I am really not a science person... shd have gone to the arts stream last time, den maybe I would not have been in such a situation now...

Anyway, had band at 2pm... actually just slacked around all the way till about 4pm... helped to move the percussion and fixed the tiers and stuff.. actually was pretty sad lah... cause today was the track and field meet budden cannot go watch cause of band... last year also liddat... missed TnF due to band... anyway, during the rehearsal got pretty sick... kept on coughing and coughing... den couldn't play the instrument... could not even breathe properly.. so had to mafan Rachel to play all the holding notes for me while I take the time to rest.

Finally during break I could go to the track area to watch the competition... but by then only left with the cheerleading parts... only watched the performance by Aerius house... cause I was pretty hum.. dun dare to stay for too long... if not later get scolding from band... whilst walking up saw Mr Gwee again... crapped for a while (anyway, think that my mandarin is de-proving!! Cannot converse as fluently as before already... shall talk more in mandarin in future!!) den went back for band.

After the rehearsal, Shuhui asked the band about the Etude Night. She was really nice, cause she kept insisting that those who want to go raise up their hands whereas the rest wanted those who could not go to raise up their hands... summore later when I told her that my section left their instruments at the linkway area, she volunteered to go down and look after it... really nice of her...

Haobo was really great too... cause the guys had to move the tiers and percussion back to the band room budden he told me to go take sectionals instead and leave the moving of the stuff to him... really very moved by wad he said... really glad to find some1 that is so understanding... sectional was very productive... the section stopped when I stopped... so time was not wasted... really proud of them...

Well, today is really a day of surprises for me... NJC rulez!!