#478: "Shiyang can you move quickly? ... Would that hurt you?"

ONE WEEK TO DRAMAFESTE.

TWO WEEKS TO HOLIDAYS.

THREE WEEKS TO CTS.

FABULOUS!

#1: My hand-drawn calendar that I am extremely proud of.

#2: After PE one day we found a melted MUFFIN on the ground.

#3: "Abiii please lend me your SEA Hist term paper" - Nicholas Hsien stooping to his lowest.

#4: Shiyang giving birth.

#5: Shanzhi seemed to think this upped his appeal. I just thought it was hilarious.

#6: Projection by night - MT DF at the watermelon steps

#7: Romantic siala

#8: This is why rehearsals at to live for.

#9: We did this after getting chased out of A71 one night.

#10: More voice-projection practices this afternoon (after we got chased out from the TSD room and SR6 respectively).

Till Next Time...

Seeing as I won't get to blog until next week this time (perhaps), I thought I'd leave an interesting graphic for you to ogle whilst you wait.

I thought this leads to happy but now I'm not so sure. Screw it.

#477: PANIC! AT MANY DISCOS

"Also, I know that rehearsals have not exactly always been THE MOST productive, but that will change with the start of this week because we really have no time (which warrants a major PANIC! AT MANY DISCOS) Be prepared to stay until 10 every day; when they lock the classrooms we'll go down to the watermelon steps and project like crazy and practice pacing as well. I know it's going to be tough but YOU ARE ALL GREAT AND TOUGH PEOPLE. Besides, MT vessels make the most noise, no? Therefore it will not be a problem."

I was tired but I LOLed at this bit of the email anyway, so that's something to look forward on monday. Late, but productive, rehearsals. Yay Claire and Cam and Cast.

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- credits to Postsecret

I think I'd die (in the good way) if anyone said this to me and meant it.

Any takers? Oh wait, this means you'll actually have to see them first. Oh damn.

#476: Crazy Concentricity

I haven't been coming online because I haven't had any time to. So thus explains the frequency (or lack) of blogposts.

I am involved in MT Dramafeste this year, so this means that

You must come to watch me angst alone for 3 minutes on stage;

I have been coming home much later than usual;

I have not been able to do much work this week;

This worries me.

WHAT'S UP NEXT WEEK
Econs Test
Math Test
Chem Test
SEA Hist Term Paper Due
+ DF Rehearsals everyday

Yes, indeed this worries me.

On a brighter note, I went out on Thursday night (yes, a school night) to watch What The Butler Saw. It wasn't as prodigious and captivating as The Pillow Man, but somehow the fact that we were whiling away a SCHOOL NIGHT, and going out when other poor & tired school students were heading home / mugging their butts off.

The National Library is a charming place, because I have a thing for spacious areas with glass panes. And so we swaggered around in our civvies, observing Hwatchers and another assorted JC kids mope at tables piled high with notes.

So with that in mind, and a very talented & hilarious cast (two thumbs up to Vernetta Lopez, my favourite of the night), it made a very enjoyable evening over all (minus the guilt & angst from not getting any work done).

But I need random blips of frivolity like this to survive the monotony and cope with the Demands of life; A form of sublimation-cum-escapism. And something to blame should CTs come out poorly (i.e. "OH, I DID BADLY IN CTs BECAUSE I WENT OUT ON THAT SCHOOL NIGHT WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MUGGING MY SORRY JAYTWO SELF INTO OBLIVION.")

And now I need my sleep. Ta-ta.

On nights like these, you felt like time was almost fleeting, like you were an addiction; another vice I could kill myself with. Nights like these we prayed for an alternative kismet, one where I was just a tad bit younger, and one where you didn't have to leave. On nights like these, we spent loving the incredibly longed for company as though yesterday never happened, and tomorrow marked the beginning of the rest of our lives. On nights like these, once upon a time, on nights like these, we once believed, we deserved to be happy.

-almost all from an ellejay i stalk

#475: It's Friday I'm In Love

#1: Beautiful "Friendship Day" flower Yona presented to me this morning that really cheered me up on no end (after getting white-slipped at flag-raising for the very first time in my JC life).

#2: True to my destructive nature, I managed to snap the stem in two (by accident of course) before leaving the campus.

#3: Adorable marshmallow from Sabby, Ruiting and Vionna. The color of the filling was so intriguing I just had to take a photo.

#4: [MUST SEE!] Raffles Institution Junior College's latest addition to the campus landscape... WATER FIXTURES! (that are really necessary to boost our academic bearing) According to VP, students have been tossing coins into the pond... so now you know where to go when you need small change.

#5: View from outside 7A's homeroom (7th floor) - some J1s having fun (as J1s do, and make us nostalgically jealous) doing some forfeit. Edith's shoe makes a cameo as well.

#6: This is Abiho during H2 Math Lecture on the complex topic of complex numbers.

#7: Looking at the sheer volume of scribbling on the whiteboard made me so tired that I could not copy it all down, and hence decided to take a photo to keep for revision.

#8: Ivan being unusually charismatic during econs tutorial, though he keeps annoying the tutor by ranbling, "According to the equation AD equals C plus I plus G plus X minus M" at high speeds when presenting his answers.

#9: A couple of weeks back, where Anish and Nic Hsien (those two white figures perching on the road divider) held up the traffic in an attempt to flag down a taxi from the opposite side of the road, and found themselves in a Catch-22:
The traffic could not clear until Anish and Hsien crossed the road to get into their cab, but
Anish and Hsien could not cross the road to get into their cab until the traffic cleared.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.

#10: Mustafa trip during CNY yields large slab of Whole Hazelnut Cadbury for under $8!

#11: Charles, just before taking him to the vet because we figured he was getting too thin.

#12: Charles, post-vet, looking for dishevelled and wretched in the cone. He hopped onto my table just to mock me with his doleful eyes.

#13: Meimei being possessive, by sprawling herself across my things.

#14: She has become an almost-permanent fixture on my desk.

#15: This is why I can hardly get any work done.

Freedom

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows."

- Winston Smith in his diary, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

I saw it and I laughed

The way you're degenerating is so epic I can't help but find it funny.
But honestly, it ain't a pretty sight, seeing you crash and burn (even though you're enjoying it).
I actually want to help.

#474: Take 509

The annual RJ 4-hour colonization of Pasir Ris park occurred yesterday, and even though I was sick (for real. I had headache and fever the night before), I actually showed up.

I almost missed the shuttle bus from Pasir Ris MRT to the actual Take 5 destination because when the 39 finally arrived, it was chocked full of commuters. This was after I'd smses the Iris bus status updater service like 4x (incurring 20c worth of phone bills), only to be told that 39 was 3 minutes away from the bus stop 3 times in a row (I smsed at 5 minute intervals). So when 39 finally decided to stop cheating my feelings, it arrived with a mass of RJ kids in house T-shirts smiling sympathetically at the 4 RJ people at my bus stop who failed to get onto the bus (hi Nigel).

So I went by an alternate route (969 to Tampines first) with Denise, who apparated into space behind me all of a sudden, and another RJ girl, and we met Lihua at Pasir Ris MRT. Chen Lihua has got to be one of the most hilarious friends I have. We met her eating an ice-cream cone, which she attempted to hide in her bag so that we could board the private shuttles. On the bus later, I discovered she had taken the 1hr 15minute ride via MRT from Woodlands to Pasir Ris, when she could have saved 30minutes if she had taken bus instead.



And the other photos are proof that I (and Abbykang) were at TAKE 5 and totally didn't escape at 10plus via the 403, along with a number of other sneaky J2s and teachers. After which, we so did not end up at Raffles City and did not discover a wonderful end of season sale. And I did not go to Orchard after that to meet a 'sick' classmate and walk around and have a nice lunch and waste more time while the rest of RIJC had good fun at Pasir Ris and I actually didn't feel very bad about it because I had my fun last year, and did almost the same things with Abbykang again this year, except we got bored by 10am and thus departed.

By the way, I've not blogged this entire week because I have been truly and utterly busy.

This is entitled (1) Why You Should Read Your Notes More Carefully, or (2) Kwotable Kwotes

"The Cold War made the USA more involved in the Cold War."

- RJC International History notes "Reasons For The Growth Of The Global Economy"

Well, duh.