We had a Lit Wing dinner-cum-meeting yesterday. It was nice to have a conversation about Plath and fanfiction, and not have people go, "Huh???". :)

Dance started at 8 this morning and lasted till nearly 4. In between we had a two-hour break so we had lunch at Coro then dropped by at the HC funfair which, to be honest, wasn't very fun. I met a couple of friends in the half an hour I spent there though- Yiwen, Ying Ying (the AC one), Jia Yan, Amanda, Felyna, Xiaoyan...

The technical rehearsal went terribly for WD. I think I screwed it up pretty badly. The PA people stopped the player before the medley had ended and had a lot of trouble finding the right part again, so in the minute or so that we were just standing there waiting people got bored, and after the dance the teacher-in-charge told us in not-very-nice terms that we had to cut the dance down to 3-4 minutes (from 6 minutes) so people wouldn't get bored, as he didn't want to run the risk of people "sleeping during NDC".

I nodded off a couple of times during evening mass today. I was trying so hard to keep awake but my eyes wouldn't allow it. I feel really bad about that now.

This post has been entirely pointless. I just felt the need to type something.

St. Nicks rocks! Double champs for the second year running! :) :) :)

Sand and I were so high this morning and on the bus ride to the National Stadium that I think we scared our classmates. In fact most of the ex-SN NJC-ians were pretty high. Our place at the grandstand was very convenient; we were situated right between the SN and NJ contingents, so we could cheer for both. SN didn't perform as well as expected but we still managed to clinch both titles. Go SN! Met so many of the ex-4-Unitians. More than half the class went back to support SN, and after that we hitched a ride on an empty meant-for-SN bus back to AMK for a reunion dinner. We're all fellow Northerners. Pictures will be up soon!

I screamed a lot today. I think I was quite out of practice; I had to stop after every short bit of cheering or screaming to clear my throat. I think I'll wake up with a sorethroat tomorrow. I want to take a Mental Health Day.

What, exactly, am I doing in school? What am I going to do with Phys, Chem, Math and Econs? Why do I try so hard when I know that I'm not going to use it eventually?

With the exception of this Wednesday's National Track and Field Meet, this is going to be one long, horrible week.

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Jy and Beek were supposed to crash NJ today. They were already on their way over the bridge when us tribers at NJ chickened out and decided that the risk wasn't worth taking, not with SP around and all, especially since the general office is so near the main gate, so we told them not to come. Still, since they were already on their way we met them at the side gate (which was closed) and talked through it. There's been a new addition to the NJC landscape: barbed wire over the side gate.  I felt like a prisoner.

Ella Enchanted was heartmelting. There were about sixty-thousand loopholes in the plot, but the movie was treacly sweet and WAFF-inducing nonetheless. It is not meant for cynics and guys.

I have CIP later from 5-10.30, and I have to be in full grey and TIE. It's crazy.

Just a quick scribble of a post- I've got to get offline at ten to watch my shows. Thursday is TV day! Randomly:
- I passed GP! Pretty badly, but still it's a pass.
- My dad got the PoA dvd! And Spiderman2! And Mean Girls! Which means I can watch something else tomorrow! Like King Arthur or Ella Enchanted!
- Happy Birthday Gerard! Your tagboard isn't working.
- I use way too many exclamation marks. Forgive me, I'm feeling high.

My mood has been swinging like anything today. And despite seeing my friends again after so long, it was still, for the most part, a Down day.

I have project work to thank primarily for that. Also, something happened today that made me really pissed off. All I have to say is, at times, 09 rocks. At other times, it so doesn't.

10.23p.m.
Edited to add: DAMN. It just went from bad to worse. One of my group members' computer crashed in the middle of our conversation. Now I'm stuck drafting the minutes, making up bits of it as I go along, besides having to annotate two secondary sources and a number of other pieces of writing, and complete my Independent Learning checklist. I hate that I'm such a procrastinator.

Sigh. I'd skip school tomorrow, if there wasn't the stupid Group Project File to hand in.

I feel awful. Much better than I was this afternoon, but awful nonetheless. I was sick this morning, but during dance practice I was fine, then when PW started it started up again, so we ended early. I think haven't been this sick the entire year.  
 
Yesterday was good. After school I managed to get my books - The Bell Jar and The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - and the VCD, Sylvia. (By the way, I'm really liking the new template on the Blogger Posting page. It's very easy on the eyes.)  We walked around Orchard for a bit (where dee & glen were, separately, though I didn't manage to see either of them) then hopped down to Hougang for CIP. It went well. I had a good time; the kids were all surprisingly well-behaved. You know how I've been saying (maybe not on this blog, but I have been saying) that our class needs to actually have class outings to bond and to get rid of the gender segregation? Well, I think this weekly CIP will help. It's priceless, watching the guys attempt to deal with kids. :)
 
I have 2 more things to say:
1. I want/need to watch Mean Girls.
2. I failed the language component of my GP essay. I need to stop using so many colloquialisms.

Edited to add:
3. I hate PW.
4. My depression is no more.

My lower right arm hurts. I think I strained it today while playing badminton. :(

We've gotten back most of our results, and I'm pleased to say that I'm pretty happy with mine. We also got back our GP essays today. I barely managed to scrape a pass, but I'm glad that at least I passed, considering I didn't study for it. I didn't have any statistics at hand about the birthrate in Singapore or the use of the internet as opposed to libraries, so I decided to do a topic within my realm of 'expertise'- 'Movies have the sole purpose of entertaining. Do you agree?'. :) The whole essay sounded pretty frivolous, but then I threw in a lot of movie titles and plots and stuff and I guess that helped substantiate.

I realised I've been coming online every single day for the past few days, a few hours at a go. I'm such a time-waster.

It's raining now. I love it. :)

My Physics teacher scares me. He keeps barking at us, so much so that during pracs my hands start shaking and I begin to panic and then I screw up.

Meanwhile, I don't know what to think about everything. I want to go to Kinokuniya. The Plath promotion is on till the end of July, and while stocks last.

Anyway, here are more random pictures.

I've been blogging, journalling and diarying with increased frequency lately. It's cathartic.

I had a rather traumatic experience on my way home today. I was walking up the stairs to the alley that leads to my house, tired after a long day filled with walking, climbing stairs, rushing for time, squeezing in buses, etc., when I saw a cat. Yes, a cat. I froze at the top of the steps while the cat stared at me in a stunned sort of way. Then I fled down the steps to the roadside and proceeded to call my parents. Thankfully they were having dinner nearby, so they arranged to pick me up after they were done. While I was waiting, this woman came along with this big, black dog. It was on a leash, but it was a pretty long leash, and the woman didn't look strong enough to control the dog anyway. It started making its way towards me, and I kind of shrank back in terror and inched out of the way. The woman either did not get the clue or didn't care, and she just followed her dog where it led, so I promptly turned and crossed the road. In retrospect, it was pretty dangerous but at that point in time all I cared about was getting away. I hid in Esso and ended up buying a packet of chips (BBQ Roller Coaster, if anyone's interested). Just as I was about to cross the road I saw the woman with the dog again! I had to wait for about two minutes before I could cross. When my parents picked me up they were grinning. My sister teased me the whole trip home, until she opened the car door and freaked out because she saw a lizard. :S

Oh, yes. To Gerard: Congratulations! I'm glad NJ gym did well.

Been feeling pretty down lately. The worst thing is, I have no idea why. It's unnatural, this heavy-heartedness interspersed with brief spurts of joy. Hopefully tmr will be better. It's a lecture day. I prefer lecture days.

Anyway. I've decided that I need to improve my English. My GP teacher has marked our papers but refused to return them today. But she told us that the lowest mark in class was 40, and she kept staring at me as she said that. I'm afraid she might be hinting at something. Call me paranoid, but from the next entry onwards, I'm gonna start blogging in proper English. It can't hurt. I've been avoiding doing that cos I didn't want to come across as being awfully pompous, but if I keep typing in broken English very soon I'll start thinking that way, and speaking that way, and then writing that way in my essays. Which will be v bad. And, you know, maybe when I'm free I'll read the papers. I'm horribly lacking in my general knowledge of current affairs.

Had a good dance prac today! Two out of three times the koala swing movement thing was successful. My shoes actually scraped the ceiling both times. Scared me for a bit there; I thought I was going to land on the other side, but it felt good to be able to do it. :D

Went back to SN today with Sand. The official purpose for going back was to 'collect O'Level certificates', but our hidden agenda was really to eat. It felt so weird, having to sign in and sign out at Father Barre when I'm so used to just strolling in and out like nobody's business. SN food rocks. Plus it's cheap. There was a surprisingly large number of old girls there. Saw about 10-15 from our batch, and it wasn't like there was anything special going on in SN today. Which just goes to demonstrate our loyalty to St. Nicks. Or to its food. :) After we left I walked home, something I haven't done for more than six months. It felt good.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY XIN!

My favourite song at the moment. Leonard Cohen's voice rather sucks, but the lyrics are.. wow.

I just would like ONE proper class outing. Is that so hard?

On a happier note, I've been shopping! Got a bag from projshop yesterday and I got two tops from Mango today. I think Becky Bloomwood's rubbing off on me.

Yay cts are over! I think I did pretty badly, and especially screwed up phys and math, but at least they're over. And just nice, they end on thur- The Apprentice & The OC. :)

Watched Spiderman2 today! With Est, Sing Ying, Gerard, Ser Jing & Jie Yu. It rocked. Really really did. It was so much more exciting than the first one. And Kirsten Dunst looked much better, and there was the thing with Spiderman's best friend, and his grandmother, and freedom vs responsibility... It went a lot deeper, emotions-wise. And later we trekked down to Toys'R'Us so that the guys could wow over the spiderman toy web thingie.

Ate a lot too. Pastamania and Swensens. My goodness. Who says we can't have a fun class outing with only a quarter of the class there?

9.30p.m. Edited to add:
There's no OC today! Instead there's some soccer match. Portugal vs Netherlands or sth. And it's not even a live match! It's a re-telecast of yesterday's. Soccer shd be screened at like 2a.m. It should NOT take up actual TV time. Luis Figo or whoever is NOT more impt than Seth Cohen.