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I know too many Ians :|

Xianghong: Isn't it funny? In the morning you see one Ian on stage (the council president). Then during school you see 2 more Ians (classmates) and when you go home you see another Ian! (my brother)"

Argh.


Ian (the one at home) claims that each year, the sec 1s that come into SJI get shorter, noisier and fatter - the latest stats offered by his PE teacher (or so he claims) is a 70% obese rate amongst his juniors. I dunno about my school but I suspect they're getting...stranger. Like the bunch of them who ambushed Anjali when she went back on Friday to get results.

Strange sec 1s: *yelling excitedly* EEH! Senior! Senior!!!!
Anjali: ....
Sec 1s: Ey, what JC you in?
Anjali: ....Ah...
Sec 1: Ah? What JC is that...??

Then there were those sec 1 reporters. Think I'm going to cringe if they ever publish that interview...anywhere :\

Over-enthu Sec 1 reporter: So what's your big secret to preparing for the O levels??
Me: Oh eh....none la. I just read through my notes.....yar....*pauses*
More over-enthu sec 1s behind her: *look on encouragingly*
Me: ...Yaaaar. And...you should keep reading through them so you don't forget. *starts to walk away*
Sec 1: Wait! Last question! What advice would you give your juniors who are taking their O levels this year?
Me: *a stroke of brilliance* Mug.
Sec 1: *jaw slackens*
Me: Oh. But yea you should play too.
Anjali: *starts laughing* Mug and play??
Me: Yar if not you'll go insane. Seriously.

Then they started looking at me as if I really was insane.

But there you are.

Hate to say this but I've actually been somewhat inspired after Tan cc's 35-minute response - now that's really stretching it! - to one guy's question during friday's econs lecture ("how will econs help us in the future?" or something like that). She went on to talk about teaching, career prospects, South East Asia, Middle Eastern politics, yellow-skined people, Chinese poets, South Korea, her brother's business deals, billingual ang mohs, the bleak, economic future of Singapore, the feud between Japan and China (etc etc etc...) and it finally ended up with her talking about the importance of learning Chinese in view of the rise of China. Learnt that (a) Econs teachers are extremely long winded. (b) maybe I should brush up on my chinese - yea serious! And I suppose a good place to start would be to hand in my 1 month overdue Chinese assignment.

So took a look at chinese notes over the weekend - the ones which contain english translations for all the idioms we're learning. Hah. Think some of stuff in there really got lost in translation:

Bao Xing Jiu Huo: *english translation* Carry faggots to put out a fire.
Bei shui che xing: Trying to put out a burning cartload of faggots with a cup of water.
Cang Hai sang tian: Seas change into mulberry fields and mulberry fields into seas.
Chun Chun Yu dong: Ready to start wriggling.
deng e pu huo: The moth flies into the flame only to set itself burnt to death.

And those which just don't make any sense:

dong chuang shi fa: The treacherous affair of the eastern window was exposed.
de long wang shu: covet eichuan after capturing iansu (??????)

Ian's (the one at home) also attempting to brush up on language - he's teaching himself Swedish. I think he's very proud of his linguistic achievements to date - in addition to learning common phrases (how are you? Have you eaten? Where is the little boy's room?) he's picked up one or two "more complex" sentences from some deranged handbook he bought from Borders like "I am a sausage." and "Can you help me pick up my contact lens? It fell into the volcano on your right".

Drama's setting up a booth at the AC Alumni dinner tomorrow in Shangri La - selling Midsummer Night Dream tickets! :D My brother's going to ask SJI's ELS if they're interested in coming...think they're trying v. hard to revive the ELS this year. Ian went as far as to play Gimli and a homosexual Sam for some LOTR spoof they performed in a bid to attract Sec 1s during their school's CCA display. Kinda backfired because the Sec 1s didn't really get most of the jokes and Ian got a stomachache because he swallowed part of Gimli's beard.

Michelle told us not to wear anything revealing at Shangi La tomorrow. Apparently ex ACSians tend to try and revive their schooldays and act like 18-yr-olds when they get too drunk - Creffield says that if anyone asks us to sit on their lap/dance before they buy tickets, the answer is a definite no. But I guess it shouldn't be too bad since I'll be just at the booth itself with Kelly and Xianghong - reassured Kboon that candy spray can serve very effectively as mace when aimed directly at the eyes.

Kboon also concedes that Kelly's "violent tendencies" should come in handy that night if candy spray fails.

posted by Jeanne @ 10:05 PM

Going to collect O level results in about 2 hours. In the meantime Gwen and I are stoning in my house listening to music and leaving random quips on my blog.

Gwen: stupid moe...release the results so late in the day..
probably getting a big kick out of mking us wait for the whole day and holding us in suspense.
haix.

Its quite amazing how indifferent the both of us seem now. We'll probably panic once we reach Crescent...but right now we're just munching on apples and reading 8Days. Maybe we just can't be bothered to bother anymore. Or maybe I'm just sleep deprieved and can't register anything properly. Yea. Need a nap.

Quote of the day: *our form teacher to the class* "Eh....Why did you guys come to school today?"

So after that, she took us to the bleachers where we spent 2 GP periods crapping and waving at the other classes doing mass pe.

Some J1 class threw a small, stuffed Pikachu toy from the 5th floor today. Lynn confisicated it under the premise that it was "killer litter" and went up to blast them before he came in for Geog tutorial - with the Pikachu. (Think he's taken a liking to it.) He wore a blue shirt today - in honour of CJC, the JC which he believes most of us will be going to after today :P He actually enjoys this kind of torture!

Ah...Night of Laughter was a success! Thanks to all who supported and especially to Michelle who was a great help. Spent Friday evening tallying up the ticket sales and counting stubs. Tiring. Went out for dinner after that with Johnathon and met up with Kboon, John, Kelly and Laura later at BK - something my mum wasn't too happy about. She threatened to confisicate my handphone, my Nets card (which she did), cut my allowance and transfer me to NJC if I didn't tell her where I was going in future. (Not sure why she decided to use NJ for...*hm*) Then she started gripping about how I spend too much time in front of the computer, so she confiscated the mouse as well. (its wireless) Thought it was quite funny then actually but didn't think it would be a good idea to laugh, so I just toddled off and went to watch American Idol.

Going off now. Good luck to all! =)

posted by Jeanne @ 2:32 PM

Ran back and forth from my house and school yesterday while preparing for Funorama. Hung around outside school, in the grassy patch behind the barbwire fence directly in front of our classroom (in the container block) yesterday with Kboon and Shaun waiting for Kelly to pass the banner cloth to us.

Kboon + Shaun: *grabbing hold of the barbwire and rocking back and forth* [chanting] Let us in...let us in....let us in...
J2 girl: *giving us weird stares* What are you doing??! *goes into classroom and slams door*
Kboon+ Shaun: ...Let us in....let us in....let us in....
More j2 ppl: *peering suspiciously out of their classroom at us* ..........
Kboon: *yelling* What?!
More j2 ppl: .............*slam door*

Sat on the grass and played daidee as we continued to wait for Kelly. Figured no one could do anything to us, since technically, we weren't gambling in the school itself. Kelly came a little while later and attempted to throw the banner cloth over the fence to us, but it got caught in the barbwire, whereupon Shaun tried to scale the fence to get it. Then the J2s peered out again and decided to throw out a chair to help us.

Designed our banner for the games stall the same day after we sewed the cloth together. Decided to draw a man peering out of a cubicle in a female toilet. Kboon had a go and we ended up with this funny looking shapeless thing peeking out from behind a door with hands gripping onto the edge both above and under its head....looked like some animal crawling out from the sink!

Spent most of the day today in class trying out our projectiles - these putty/playdoh-like things we made from flour, salt, water and oil in my house 2 nights ago - also known as Blob I (more oil, water), Blob II (extra flour) and Blob III (dehydrated and subsequently bloated after we pumped in more water.). We left the blob family in plastic bags in the cupboard in our classroom the night before and somehow the oil seeped out...so we've got a very oily cupboard now!

The most common quetion asked whenever people see our projectiles/blobs - "Is that meant for eating/baking?"

Aaron: *after hearing what's gone into the Blobs* ....Your stall sounds scary.

So spent about 2 hours throwing the projectiles through suspended toilet seats in the classroom this afternoon - the toilet seats cost 60 bucks in total! The games committtee's going to take back a seat each after Funorama and autograph them all.

The food committee's coming over at 7am tomorrow to prepare the ingredients. Will have to somehow roll myself out of bed then and make sure Daniel/Ian Poh don't blow up the kitchen =p

posted by Jeanne @ 1:17 AM

Apparently there is an econs test tomorrow based on topics which have not been adequately covered (judging by the mystified looks we have when Ms Yu goes through tutorial questions) or have not even been covered at all.

[2 minutes before the bell]
Hashim Ali: *starting to look desperate* Eh listen la...this is in your test....a command economy is -
*bell rings*
Hashim Ali: *begins flicking through all the powerpoint slides he hasn't covered yet* You see la ...you see la...all haven't been covered.
Everyone: Haaaaaarrrh...
Hashim Ali: *reaches the last slide* Oooook.....good luck! *skips out of LT*

Stoned for the rest of the day.

Still stoning.

I feel like getting a new blog.

....


Yea I need a new blog.

posted by Jeanne @ 10:04 PM

Had cross country yesterday at MacRitchie - think it has to count as the best X-country I've ever had so far. We walked together as a class for the entire route along with the other people/classes who also wanted to slack. So we all brought up the rear, strolling at a pace usually reserved for walking down Orchard or for grazing cows whilst the Woodlands and Commonwealth secondary school kids overtook us with complete ease - though looking very mudsplattered. Laura, Ian and Kelly brought along their handphones and began smsing and calling people in the middle of jungle (hah.yea you still get reception there.) while the rest of us started gossiping.

Me: *halfway through* Eh...how any kilometers have we run already?
Sherman: None. We never ran what.

Came back after about 45 minutes and the rest of the school was already cheering. Met up with Gwen, Farrah, Jermaine and Yingtse and tried to join in the cheers but we didn't know half the words so just ended up clapping and screaming in odd places. After Gwen and I concluded that Thoburn stood no chance where the cheer competition was concerned, we went to get Milo, made our way up the hill, sat there and started singing the school song over and over again.

...And Thoburn actually swept all the championships in the end. ...Including cheer!! Whoo!!

Mr L's demanding that all Geog students get involved in the geog quiz AC is organizing for Secondary schools on valentine's day. If we don't want to help in any specific area then we'll have be the "fake audience" on the day itself and just clap and smile at the appropriate moments which is totally boring, so John, Kelly and I are thinking of volunteering to mark the answer scripts.
Mr L's planning to rig the whole quiz in favour of RI - he's already sent them a "sample" question with the answer! He's planned everything out; TCHS won last year so he's going to give them a grand entrance to put added pressure on them and also to make them swell so RI'll have a better chance of getting through the first round. He says markers will also have to "mark wrongly" :|

Went to watch Rashomon with my class yesterday. It was really cool. Haha we need more plays like that!

posted by Jeanne @ 12:34 AM