Wandering with the Wind...

Friday, June 20, 2008

Let's see...it's my second day in rgs after the June hols CRUELLY abandoned me in this dark dark life...*sob* how could you...

Yeah today was damn hectic, cuz only yesterday night at around 11pm did I realize that I got a belt TOO small for my NCC Air Photoshoot the next day. I did send a last minute email to the whole platoon trying to ask if somebody took a belt too LARGE, but I guess everybody dug into their beds so yeah...and as expected, I didn't get an answer. So I just stuffed that ALL-TOO-SMALL belt into my dustcover and lugged it to school today morning.

I didn't expect myself to loiter around with that problem dangling in the air, so I found a platoonmate Zann and she was reaaaaally kind enough to go around helping to ask for my belt. We called up Clara, Jermaine, Yang Jing etc and the 2 smallest platoonmates Shi Ying and Wei Qi, cuz it was really an EXTRA SMALL BELT and I definitely can't wear it. Unless I get done with it and poke a hole through the leather, and take a photo of a stupid belt that's a tad too short around the buckle.

In the end I didn't find my belt, so I kinda exchanged with Zann and another girl...so I got the medium sized one. Haha, lucky~!

It rained today, so thank heavens we didn't have outdoors assembly. I don't fancy launching myself up flights of broad amphi steps to get to that darn car park...I prefer sitting in a nice warm chair and looking at a flag that's stuck to the wall. Haha. XD

After that was was PE, Mrs Jay was dressed in this big weird green shirt (really nice though), and a light bit of mascara. She had lipstick on too...weird to see our PE teacher dressed like that but she explained that she had phototaking for teachers later, so I suppose...you've gotta put up your best, dontcha? Oh yeah, and she is pregnant and the doctor says she's gonna give birth to a baby boy! Haha, just like Mrs Chia. ^^

o.0 This whole week's for photoshooting, it seems. All the Uniformed Groups, Prefects, Teachers...all taking photos on Friday. Lol.

We did't go out for PE so instead she let us watch this netball finals, rgs vs Northfield, last year. It lasted for half an hour...NO SOUND!!! Video had some probs. I was almost BORED TO DEATH. Omg...everytime I raise, my head, it's the same thing. And they turned off all the lights! It's sooooo good for sleeping. Especially when it's raining and it's early morning and there's aircon and no lights and omg...Until now I still dunno if rgs or northfield won. Lol. What a GREAT concentration span I have.

Anyway for lit, we had to do another round of introduction to Ms Choo...-.- And since Nandhini wasn't here, I couldn't talk about my partner. Haiz...I wonder what she's doing though. Over in India, getting a nice soft tan for her skin??? Though it's tanned enough...For English we learned about the Plot Pyramid, what makes a story interesting and...yeah...I also realized I didn't bring a handout that was given to us like...before the June Hols. The teacher said it was okay though.

We also watched this Alien Song vid for English during which...er...in the end the alien was squashed to death by a disco ball that plunged down from who knows what heights above. Ghastly. And the sickly irony is...the alien was singing this song called "I Will Survive" lol.

Bumped into Chinese teacher halfway down the stairs today with Azzy. Lol she was smiling like a chrysanthemum.

Physics wasn't so good today, though it was damn slack. I love slacking, cuz I get a bit more rest from the big bad "School Bustle" lol. But yeah...Mr Singh had a sudden misinterpretation about directions...got his lefts and rights wrong. Lol. And he told us to create 3 physics questions about SI units and prefixes to let our partners try it out...omg it sucks...DOING the question itself is hard enough, let alone CREATING one...

For assembly we had a little introduction into Chinese Orchestra. I know about stage-fright and all that crap about legs turning jelly and all...so yeah, they were a lil messy. Perhaps becuz there's no conductor and one of the girls are missing for one instrument. So...can't blame them too much. The tune was nice though...they said it was a Chinese Song by Jay Chou. Lol. Okay lah I think...I'm not a fan of his, sorry to say.

But I'm kinda impressed by his life story, the way he worked this hard for today's achievement. I read about it in one of the Chinese reader's digest books over the hols...

The next item was Drama, called...er...I think it was something about "NO SKRONKING" and until now I don't know what's SKRONKING. Lol. If it was even a word...the actresses weren't exactly hilarious but...er...all I can say is they tried their best and the girl acting as the female diner DID sound like a cat when she meowed. And...yeah, she DID look like she had her mouth full like she was eating something. Lol, that's good.

I have to say, the best item was International Dance. I saw Germaine in the second dance XD! She was gorgeous. So were her fellow dancers too. They really danced with...energy and spirit. And they had a strong personality, you can see it in the flow of dance moves. It's gentle yet impacting. Haha, so it's really packed with influence and overpowering kind of...er...crushing feeling too. ^^ I enjoyed it a lot man...

Too bad I had to leave early at 12.55 to change for the photoshoot. Selene, Qiao Xi and they all...some of them, yea...they left like 35 minutes early when we were only supposed to leave 25 minutes earlier than the phototaking time. So ah...they had more time to change. NO FAIR!!!! Oh well...haiz. Afterwards they said it was becuz they wanted to escape the last item, ya know...the sharing of experiences from Sec 4s about a learning journey lol. Dry subjects.

Photoshooting was hideous. The whole platoon had to like...squeeze together and we had to squash our beraes (izzat how ya spell it) onto our heads. It was so hot stuffy and itchy. But since we were in fall-in position we couldn't really move. Oh and poor Yang Jing...forgot to bring her nametag. Lol. Of all days, she just had to forget about it today. Yeah, boring...

After school I kinda had to go with mom to Aunt Chen Bin's house to visit, cuz her younger daughter Qi Qi was sick and all that...at first I refused, but after a while on the bus, I suddenly thought of my grandmother and I had this...soury feeling, and I felt a lil guilty. I thought my mom would feel lonely going alone, since my dad won't be coming. So yeah, I called back my mom and said I would go.

It wasn't a really good time, especially when I was forced to play Monopoly and SORRY! boardgames with the girl and yeah...not allowed to play piano by THE GIRL...I'm like totally controlled lol. Haiz. But the food was good XD too bad I'm on a diet. I got sick of the blueberry cake though. Can't take too much sweet stuff at once. But the tea was wonderful, really fragrant XD.

I just realized I've improved in drawing hair. I dunno, it just feels a little more weighty now and I've managed to move on to more carefree and spiky hairstyles instead of...droopy all-too-honest ones. So yeah, changing looks of my drawing characters! XD Yippee. The only achievements I feel happy about, when I'm in rgs, is when I actually did really well in Japanese class that Ang Sensei praises me or when I improved, even if it was very very trivial, in drawing.

Azzy got me to try a can-can dance pose for drawing, but omg...it turned out to be really absurd. First the expression was wrong, next the clothes were confusing. And the feathers...omg I totally can't get the idea of a pink feather sticking out of your hair, and weird dresses that...ah...split at the front to cascade into a...cloak like thingy that's triangular at the bottom. Ah well...can't say I didn't learn something from it though. It was a good drawing experience.

Cherlyyn suggests I should try Hawaiian characters next. I mean Hawaiian dancing. LOL I wonder how that'll turn out. Coconuts and grass dresses...perhaps not THAT primitive and traditional, I guess I'll just draw a green tubetop with floral designs and perhaps some flowers/grass sticking out of it and yeah, a grass dress. I can't bear the idea of coconuts. o.O

Poor Azzy. Tomorrow's Saturday and she's got extra training for Girl Guides. Will have to wake up at 5am to rush over to Bishan for GG walkathon. -.- Sad. Haha, but I cheered her up. XD By stating many ways she was luckier than me and...that I bought her a ceramic bird toy from China and she'll be seeing it on Monday!!! Yay! And she said she'll make an Onigiri if she had time and learnt it, so we can eat Japanese food!

And we planned on going Japan together when we're older, so she can teach me how to skii and fall in that thick soft snow and then, when we're cold, we can get to a nearby Japanese shop, bake our gloves and drink corn soup! Woohoo, sounds brilliant. It'll be a luxury! XD I love travelling with friends. And I'll do all the questioning for directions and such since I'm learning Japanese, haha! ^^ Yay! I'll be looking forward to that time.

Oh yeah, signed up for the Raffles Ringers concert and the "30 Reasons Not to be in a Play" performance by the English Drama club. Azzy's going for the drama performance too, haha same time same slot! After I go for these 2, I'll be able to fill up all 3 slots of my Support-School Activities for this year. XD Yay! Also to support Ms Christina Sergeant who directs the Drama Club! Haha gambatte ne!

Around 9.30 I kinda called my grandparents over at China...I feel that they're really a lil lonely. Not a lil...VERY lonely. -.- I'm a bit worried too. Guess that's my horoscope scorpio and I'm born to be oversensitive but still...it has goods and bads. I'm gonna learn how to cook and just pot up something for them when I go visit them this December hols. I'm saving $2 everyday from my pocket money so by the end of 4 months I'll have around...$200 dollars. Then if the plane ticket is $1000, my mom will only have to cough up $800. I really wanna accompany them as much as I can through their remaining years...ToT sad to think they'll be going away sometime in future...

Okay then...there's not much philosophy today. More of...no time to blog about philosophical stuff. Come to speak of it, I have A LOT. Just that I have to even them out and post them one by one...

Good luck Azzy, for your walkathon and GG activities...Yeah, enjoy life, friends. Even if it sucks sometimes.

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~~~*The Winds struck at 11.14pm*~~~

Aurinya blogged at 10:04 PM

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