Exhale

Some people really need to get decent lives.
Instead of living out the lives of Bo, Vivian and Gang.
And assuming that people actually enjoy and appreciate
Bad, very bad, soap opreas.

And some people.
Should.
Read the dictionary
A bit more.

And some [like Sylvia says] should read between the lines.
And
Use a braincell. And.
Act accordingly.

But unfortunately.
Most. Don't see.
Which is a pity

Wheee.

Expository writing seems to be the rage now. Read an essay about Vegetarianism in class. Supposedly, going veg is the only way to stay fit and healthy. The writer wrote stuff about how "we are what we eat"...so meat-eaters are actually greatly "influenced" by what they consume and thus adopt typical animal characteristic and become more "savage" and "violent". Sheesh. She's making us out to be mini Hannibal Lectors.
Then she went on to talk about how vegetarians, like Gandhi, advocated peace and non-aggression and how noble they were.

Elaine: *from back of class* HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN
Rupa: *stunned* Oh...well...*tries to salvage situation* as you know there are always exceptions to the rule...

After several bad episodes with their food stall, Gwen's decided that she's never going to support the Parents' Support Group.
And I still can't get to them before the hot dogs sell out :(

Just not going to support their beehoon again. [I thought it was fried rice at first] Monica Chua can go on a wild sales pitch, I don't care if its vegetarian either, if it needs tomato sauce to taste better I'm just going to go back to canteen food.

Monica Chua: Ahhh...you should buy some fishballs to go with the beehoon! Fishballs! Designer fishballs you know! Make you more intelligent! Yes? Ahh...good girl!

Ate them and felt very oily. No sudden spark in my brain either. Hm.

Pea is...quite strange.

She bought the beehoon last week. Condemned it as mousefood/rabbitfood/the ultimate Bland.

...Then she went and bought it again today.
Because she said she was sick of canteen food.
She ate about 5 spoons of the beehoon, couldn't stand it and went to Stall 3 to buy fishball soup.

:|

Ting taught us the last folkdance today. I wonder what we'll do for PE from now on...? More dancing?
Yea, apparently, there's an interclass dance competition. So I guess the dances we learnt weren't meant to be forgotten after all.
Did another Russian dance today. Just spent the entire lesson twirling aimlessly around the parade square because the music was too fast for us to catch up. Very remiscent of the English folkdance we did 2 weeks ago. Anj and Sylv would be casting down the row halfheartedly whilst Priya and Amanda would be galloping diagonally across, now and then colliding, and me and Gwen would be twirling clockwise and then anticlockwise in the center of the row. The only part we nailed was turning around on the spot at the same time...which doesn't really say much about our dancing skills. Right. Probably doesn't say anything at all in fact.

7 free periods yesterday because Rupa didn't come. Monday's are becoming strangely relaxing. Anjali and I have time to sing opera in the classroom. Sylvia told us off after our 8th rendition of the chorus of "We are Singapore" [or whatever its titled]. Then Anjali went on to do the operatic version of Sisqo's Thong song which was hilarious only it was cut short again by more "SHUT UP!"s

Oh ushering was quite pointless actually XH. THe guest were quite adept at ushering themselves. They didn't really know how to use the aisles though. Just jumped out of their row [they were in the first row] onto the stage directly in suit, courts, VIP corsage and all. Then one of them didn't want to get up at all to receive her prize :| And the other one went back to the wrong seat.

...And then the photographer suddenly yanked me away because I was in his frame. Sheesh.

posted by Jeanne @ 12:35 AM

This is a bad sign. It might be an omen.

First a B3 for Chinese.
Now an F9 for CCA.
I hope this won't be a reflection of grades at O's.

My mum thinks I deserve the F9 though.

Mum: "HAH. THIS WILL TEACH YOU. I hope you realize the foolishness of your youth!"

Eugh. That sounded like a line from a badly dubbed Chinese Drama Serial. Thankfully she toned it down after a while.

Mum: "See la. Make me fetch you to school all those Saturdays and instead you go pon CCA...serves you right."

*phew*

Gave a copy of my CCA slip to Dorai who seems quite horrified. She said she'll do something. Then Mr M caught me during lunch and asked for a copy of my CCA slip. Gee. News travels fast in the staffroom.

[And of course we can do the whole blame game again...]

Its KLS's fault!! I went for half the year!! Check the record book man! I have *some attendance!

There. That's a load off me.
[Ahh. This won't help at all. Why am I crapping.]

Open house-cum-Arts Awareness Week tomorrow. Argh. Given up even looking at the tourguide script. It'll have to be an impromptu. Shall just peek at the FAQ during my lunchbreak tomorrow before I go for my shift. They've placed us on duty during peak hour! :
Rehearsal in the Arts Theatrette today for ushers. Shraddha proved that she's got much more screws loose up there.

Shradhha: *sidling up to wall, fascinated* Oooo! The walls absorb sound! *leans right up to wall and whispers* Hi Wall-ey! *cocks head and listens before turning to us* Wall-ey says Hi to you!
Me: Jump into the Wall Shraddha.
Shradhha: *presses ear to wall* ...Wall-ey says that's not a good idea.

Sorry Shrads, but people who count sound-proof walls as friends do have problems.

Did some Lit with her later. I still don't get her point about the submarine.

Shrads: You see...the submarine is forced down, which is likened to Kingshaw under pressure from Hooper. And then it emerges again in a stream of bubbles so that's like...Kingshaw's sucide
Me: ...You mean, like, how Kingshaw's body was found floating in the stream?
Shrads: No noo..because with Kingshaw's death, he escapes from Hooper's clutches and the bullying only Hooper doesn't realize it and so in a way that's like the submarine which rises up in the water. Because you see the pressure lets up right? So...
Me: Ah...
Denise: *toddles over* Isn't that a bit far fetched?
Shraddha: No no Shraon Goh said something like that before *carries on arguing*
Denise: *turns to me* Can we do Warings?
Shraddha: NO wait! We haven't finished the submarine point! You see...

Then the band started playing so we had to shut up. [Jithra! It was a bikini! Don't lie!] Yea and Jithra was wearing a bikini over the leotard while she was doing the drums...though she claims she wasn't. Heh.
Mrs Lee got the samba costumes from STC in, like, 2 days. Woa. That was quick.
The head dresses look real Madi Gras. Colourful.
ACSI bagpipes band will be the closing item.
Jus's interested to know if they'll be wearing kilts.

Will be escorting an Inuone San and his wife onto the stage tomorrow. Note to self: Inuone is not a woman's name. I keep on refering to him as Ms. Inuone :|

*repeats*
Mrs Arfat Selvam. Not Arafat Selvam.
MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC. Not Tanjong Katong.
Ms (Mrs?) Lena Saint-George Sweet. Not Lena Sweet.

Have to get everything right by tomorrow.

Bright and early at 7.45 in courts!

posted by Jeanne @ 12:58 AM

Lessons on being a tourguide-cum-usher today. The open house is this saturday and I just found out today that we're going with Option B meaning that Sec 4s will still have to memorize the entire script. And we'll be leading the parents around individually without our old partners. :| Need to find my script soon!

*cue to smile*

Welcome to our library! It is newly renovated with cascading display shelves! *wave hands vaguely in the air*

The ground level is reserved for print and non-print materials while the mezzanine level is for computers! *gesture above*

Cosily tucked underneath the wide staircase is our video corner! Students can listen to music for leisure or watch movies! *sweep hands*

We even have a coffee corner for students and teachers to relax! *throw hands toward back of library

[Mrs Goh: ...But we have no coffee grinder!]

Please feel free to look around! *retrieve hands*

They recycled the script from the PS21 event. Guess the library is going to stay with me for a very very long time because that was the one she made me do over and over again ["SMILE MORE JEANNE!! I BEG YOU!"] . I think, mostly, the library stop will just involve lots of forced grinning and arm flinging. The whole Vanna White thing.

Sec 4s slipped out halfway through the practice session on the pretext that we had a Bio Mock test in class. More a matter of making a quick escape before Ms D. could pounce on us really. I think she kinda scared the sec 2s off with the whole Gestapo act.

Junior *reading from script* "We are proud that this condominium feature of our school....
Dorai: *face buried in hand. suddenly cuts in* LADIES I WANT MORE ENTHUSIASM AND EXCITEMENT BUT I'M NOT GETTING IT CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE AN EFFORT TO SOUND PROUD OF THE SCHOOL TRY THAT SENTENCE AGAIN
Junior...We are proud-
Dorai: MORE LIFE LA PLEASE SMILE MORE YOU HAVE SUCH A PRETTY FACE ALREADY

She was still yelling at them to look more "happy" and "excited" when we left. The Stupid portable mic was squealing away like mad. And I think she's going to force me to wear it on Saturday when I lead the brat pack around the school *hm* Apparently I'm soft. And I need to smile more; AAL says I look angry all the time.

Orals yesterday. Just our luck to get two old and dead examiners one of whom started sleeping halfway through the reading.

Then told them about the girl who broke her spine and got paralyzed after a practical joke and he woke up after that.

And the woman on the right gave me some patronizing smile during the picture :\

Picture convo. *groan*

Anyway.

Tourguide practice tomorrow. Happy smiles all.

posted by Jeanne @ 11:05 PM

Evidence to show that Dads are clueless.

#1 My dad came home while I was reading my Bio textbook.

Dad: *confused* Hey...do you have something called....eh...Preliminary Examinations?
Me: *reading Bio* Oh yar, I thought I told you?
Dad: Oh...so when are these exams happening?
Me: *reading Bio* Oh...2 to 3 weeks?
Dad: ....HARH?! *swells* Are you studying?! You don't look like you are!!

#2 Sylvia called her dad yesterday to tell him her Chinese O results

Sylv: *on the phone* Yar I just got back my results...Chinese O level results...*raises her voice* YAAAAR??...I take Chinese!! ....I took the exam 2 months ago in June!!

#3: Gwen calls her dad next.

Gwen: Hey. I got an A2
Dad: Oh. Not bad what.
Gwen: For Chinese.
Dad: ....oh....I thought it was for English.

#4: [haha Elaine I still your dad is damn funny]

Dad: *halfway through sec 3* HEY! Where's your Physics textbook arh?? How come I've never seen your Physics textbook before??
Elaine: ...I don't take Physics.
Dad: *amazed* :O:O ...ISIT???

#5

WJ's Dad: Hey...how come you have two Math textbooks? Did you take your friend's one home?
WJ: No, one's for Amaths, the other's for E Maths
WJ's Dad: E-maths?? How come you take E maths?? I thought only Normal Stream people take it!
WJ: The whole of Singapore takes Emaths!
WJ's Dad: *unconvinced* Ah...don't bs lar...only Normal stream take E-Maths...your maths must be weak!

Ah well.

Hah. I just scrapped through to meet my target for Chinese. At least I'm not going to have to retake.
Chinese is now officially a free period!! :D:D
So coupled with Amaths, that's 10 free periods for me in a week! :D:D:D

I'm going to be smelling Ammonia in my dreams after today.

I'm becoming a no-life.
Biology is eating into me and my cuecards.
Still irritated over Chinese.
Singapore propaganda at its best in Chapters 4 and 5.
Still irritated over Chinese.
Kingshaw should've just died in Chapter 9 and made my life easier.
We should stop doing English folkdances for PE which require us to skip around gayly.
I really should stop whining.

Last day of Landscape Garden duty tomorrow.

And after 2 weeks I still can't find the councilor who's supposed to be my partner.

I think I saw her today. But then she ran off to yell at someone to tuck in her shirt. And then I got shooed from the foyer to go stand at the foot of the garden. [it makes no difference! >.<]

Which reminds me of what LG said to us the other day. She seems quite desperate. Must be hard being a DM.

posted by Jeanne @ 10:43 PM

QUOTE of the day: *my dad in the kitchen stirring the beef stew* God made cows...and it was good. Michael made stew..and it was better!

Never diss my brother's school in front of him.

Spent last night being Ian's secretary and Matt's mouthpiece as the both of them sparred over MSN.

Matt: ASK HIM why his school people wear tight, white pants.

Ian: *thinks* TELL HIM...*pauses*... that it was the. will. of. God. *satisfied with his powers of improvisation*
Me: Since when did you become so holy?
Ian: I always have been.
Me: Then how come you aren't going for your Legion of Mary for 7 months?
Ian: *loudly* And TELL HIM ......that my school has a 150 years of history and heritage...no, no! 151! And that the guy who founded our school is the patron saint of ....*rattles off school propaganda* Hah. Beat that.

Matt: ASK HIM if he knows about his school people being effeminate.

Ian: Hah. QUOTE TO HIM this line from Merchant of Venice...*digs out his literature textbook* "I am a Jew. Hath not Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

Me: Eh. What does that have to do with anything?

Ian: *very patiently* The point is...that Victorians shouldn't call Josephians effeminate because we bleed too like them.

Me: ..I think you're just trying to show off what you learn in Lit right?

Ian: *growls* TYPE IT OUT. NOW.

So started testing him on the Merchant of Venice [his lit text] in a bid to quieten him down.

Me: How is the theme of materialism portrayed in the book?
Ian: *pause* AH!! I have a quote for that! *flips furiously* Ahem...Shylock says here, "I'll give thee a ducat!" *smugsmug*
Me: But that doesn't show anything. Its just a quote...and its a pathetic one.
Ian: *not listening* Oh do you want a quote for the theme of Mercy? *starts reading out a huge chunk of text as I continue to play daidee*...There, did you understand that?
Me: But you're not explaining anything. Don't you have an opinion?
Ian: *deadpans* The text's opinions are my opinions. Oh and here's a quote for racism: "I am a Jew. Hath not Jew eyes? ....If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die.....?"
Me: ...I think that's enough.
Ian: NO! I've got more quotes! Here's another one on mercy...

Had to lock him out of my room after that :
Ian: *hollering* I HAVE THE KEY! ...*tries all the keys in the key ring but can't find the right one* Damn....*loudly* Ah I'm gonna watch Mission Impossible now...but I'll be back!

At last. A chance to play Daidee in peace.

I never knew the song Jeannie's Diary could be such a useful tool in psychoanalyzing people :|

Went to church today.

My dad stepped out of the house and saw this wicker basket/baby cradle thingee at our doorstep [Someone abandoned it there] and went "WHERE'S BABY MOSES?!"

:
Must remember to bring Toffees for Gwen and the Koala bear for Sylvia tomorrow. [Gifts from Stephanie] Thanks for the net top Steph!

posted by Jeanne @ 12:45 AM

Ah, National Day tomorrow. Just think. In 24 hours we'll never have to hear Steph Sun's voice over the PA system ever again! ....Well, at least till maybe next year.

Community singing headed by Josef Tan. Ugh. That was a really cheap way to make us scream: "I LOVE SINGAPORE!!!!"

Josef Tan: *very enthu* DO YOU LOVE SINGAPORE??? *holds mic toward us*
Us: ..*very softly* yaaar....*and then some* noooo...
Josef: *frozen look* Ah...oook...*has a bright idea* Well, let's get some representatives amongst you for the... Ms Singapore contest!! *jumps into audience and starts picking out very reluctant girls, asking them to stand*
Now, if you support so-and-so *points at very reluctant girl*, scream as loud as you can "I LOVE SINGAPORE!!!!" The one who gets the loudest screams will be Ms Singapore!!! *gringrin*

We screamed louder for the Crescent cheer than for that :|

And its strange. I've always liked that Indian song but I can never sing along to it. *hmpf*

Wanted to do a wave!

Went out with Clarissa to eat and was cheated of $3.50 - The roasted pork in my claypot was cold and gluey. And it wasn't even crispy, it was like..soggy, disgusting lumps of fat. And there were only 4 pathetic slices. *argh* Ate everything except the pork - which would leave just the rice :| Then tried to make up for it with dessert, Only I took too much coconut milk and felt like puking after that -argh- Wont ever be able to look another bowl of bobo-chacha in the eye again. *groan*

The woman who served me was...weird. She cuts enough green chilis to feed the whole of Tiong Bahru and she can't even look up for 10 seconds to serve a customer. And when she does, she doesn't talk. She grunts. And fingers her chilis.
....

Well. Its 11.50. And so I think in about 10 minutes they're going to burn the flag =(

Anyway.

Happy National Day!

Keep Singapore SARS free!

Don't burden poor students with 4-page long NDP messages which ramble on about knowledge-based economies, racial harmony...and yes, SARS too!

posted by Jeanne @ 1:58 AM

We are reminded once again by E.Seah that our lab skills are atrocious.

E. Seah: *deadpans* "I marked your practical books....they are atrocious."

And she's still on her campaign to weed out those "unfit" to do pure chem :|

Then she got irritated because we didn't know how to record proper observations for the experiment with Lead Iodide yesterday. Supposedly only 2 people in the class got the correct observation - Golden crystals formed - and all the other "jokers" wrote funny stuff like "Glittery things appear in the test tube upon cooling"

And apparently someone went to count the number of "Glittery things" too. [5 of them!]

But I liked the glittery things/crystals. They're so pretty! Yueyou and I stole some out of the lab after practical and stoppered the test tube with filter paper.

But I lost interest after I shook my test tube and all the crystals disappeared underneath the yellow ppt. Filtered it out into a papercup, ooh-ed and ahh-ed a bit and tossed it aside.
Unfortunately, Yueyou's test tube got smashed at the bus stop because the wind blew the whole thing over.
She was really devastated.
But Syaz mixed another batch of Potassium iodide and Lead Nitrate for her today so she's just got to heat it now to obtain the crystals. [I want more too!]
Lead Chloride crystals next!

Back to today's practical.

E. Seah: *evil look* "...if anyone else adds aqueous Ammonia to the unknown...and then heat it and tell me that Ammonia gas is formed and therefore the unknown contains Ammonium ions...even though you clearly put the Ammonia in yourself...I'm going to make that person sit next to me and smell aqueous ammonia for the whole lesson..."

Ouch.

November 1991 QA was a disaster. Practically no one managed to sniff out the ethanoic acid for the last test.

E. Seah: "...Did you not notice the sour smell? Didn't you notice the lab smelt like you people after your mass run?"

I got a sweet smell! I think I got an ester. So I guess its good to follow instructions and put a few drops of ethanol and not put it in excess.

Esters smell like starwberries :D

Everyone started testing for gas when there wasn't even any gas evolved.

E. Seah lost it again.

No one suspected Chromate ions.

Anj got pissed. Ann started to freak out.

Deliberating over the anion in class.

I think we're going get more sarcastic remarks when she finishes marking our books. And red crosses everywhere with "SEE ME WITHOUT FAIL!" in the margins.

...And I maintain it was a white precipitate in green solution >.<

We had, possibly, the first, proper CME lesson in the entire year. Topic was Globalization..typical NE stuff to coincide with National Day. Quite interesting.

Started talking about immigration. Gwen has really warped logic.

Dorai: Gwen, why do you want to go overseas?
Gwen: Oh....to see
Dorai: See what?
Gwen:....To see...you know...To prevent myself from becoming like..uh...a toad in a well.
"What?"
"Its a Chinese idiom."
"Oh."
Dorai: But why to that country in particular?
Gwen: I have relatives over there.
Dorai: So what have they told you about the country?
Gwen: Oh. *pause* They discriminate alot there. *starts laughing*
Dorai: *flabbergasted* And you want to go there to see yourself get discriminated against?
Gwen:...Yea but I have relatives there...so we can stick together.
Dorai: *still flabbergasted*...and get discriminated against together?

Hah Gwen you're funny sometimes.

Then we started talking a bit more about discrimination and Amanda took the oppotunity to voice her grievances about the PRC scholars :|

Ms Dorai told us a very interesting story about the incident in the Italian restaurant and the drunk foreigners. Hah. She's cool after all.

posted by Jeanne @ 1:13 AM

Sylvia read the newspapers. She says they're cracking down on people who download music illegally on Kazaa.
Damn. Its going the way of Napster.

I wish they'd go nab the pirated VCD seller at Holland V before getting on our case for downloading music.

Bah.
Not a single person from Crescent scored a distinction for O level Social Studies last year according to Dorai.

I'm getting worried.

On a brighter note

A very Happy Belated Birthday to Dad.

Dad: "Hm....but I don't feel 50 at all...and I bet I'll feel the same way when I hit 70!"

I must learn to control my temper.

Or maybe I shouldn't.

Some people are really starting to get on my nerves.

posted by Jeanne @ 10:21 PM

The crow hunters came today to shoot down the crows in our school.

We heard the first gunshot during Maths D and ran to the window to see crows falling from the trees.

Anj: *howling* DON'T KILL THE CROOOOOOWS...
Nina: *enthusiastically* YES! Kill the crows!!

Ms Chua tried in vain to convert our dietary habits.

MC: "If you think its cruel to kill crows, why don't you become vegetarians? What makes you think a crow is better than a chicken? Or...um...*finishes lamely*...a cow?"
Us: *still gaping at the window*

Haha she's cute.
But I'm never going to survive on sprouts.
I don't think its cruel. Animals eat other animals.
So lets eat them and get our Zinc and Vitamin B :D

Heated debate during PE over whether its ethical to kill crows. Ting disappeared for the whole period. Apparently she was spotted wearing a thong yesterday too. [Never wear white shorts!]

Syaz: *grouchy* The crows don't even beautify the environment! They just shit everywhere!
Fatimah: Hey but they help fertilize the soil!
Wushan: ..But do they deserve to die?
Anj: *howling* DON'T KILL THE CRROOOOOWWS....
Yueyou: *muttering* They're getting bolder and bolder...they're swooping lower and lower...
Me: They stole my potatoes.
Anj: *howling* DON'T KILL THE CRROOOOOWWS....

Then we watched as the hunters dragged the dead crows by their wings and started swinging them around :|

But I guess it would be fun to shoot crows as a profession.

Mrs Aw bought in homemade Agar for us to eat today. FOOD!

I think each person was supposed to take two. But Tam, Elaine, Pea and I took Gwen's and Amanda's share because they weren't around...and then since they were so many leftovers [she made about a hundred], we took a few more for lunch.

Mrs Aw: *as we're stuffing ourselves* Oh by the way, the Agar jelly is very fatty! Its got lots of coconut milk!
Tamara: *pause* Oops.
Me: I took 9!

Yueyou got miffed because I took so many pieces of Agar for myself.
Then she got pissed and started to strangle a stuffed toy.

...I'm becoming very greedy.
But the agar was nice :D

I think I'm going for the GA meeting tomorrow. And I think I'm going for the Fairfield funfair as well.
I think though, that I might just sleep through everything and wake up at 1pm. -argh-

Crisis.

I need to buy Pea's present.
I need to return Yue Hao money for a chicken pie.
I think I owe Gwen money for something because I always do.
I owe Sarah a treat for recess.
My hI card needs to be topped up.
I have used up 5/6 of the money in my account.
I really need to save.
And I desperately need someone to manage my accounts.
:/

posted by Jeanne @ 2:38 AM