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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