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I felt really, really bad today when I woke up...judging from my reactions, it was 100% flu and 0% SARS,AIDS,H5N1,Dengue fever, Mad Cow Disease, Parkinson's disease (No offence to those who are down with these diseases)...Amzaing, how one can still joke even though one feels horrible. Anyway, though I knew I was sick, I had only two options to choose from: Not go to school, miss a lot of lessons and vital information necessary to be the fittest survivor in my school, OR go to school. I chose to go to school. Reason? I don't know, maybe it was my dai rokkan (sixth sense), or my daimon (inner spirit within you that controls your actions, as believed by ancient Greeks and does not refer to your brain or heart). 

So anyway, I dragged my limp, exhausted and ick body to school, and the first thing that I saw was that the second A. pipped me to the post to be 3rd to arrive in class. Chairman and Birdy were already there, so no chance of 1st or 2nd. Then, I got more excited when I realised that the MC for today's assembly wasn't here yet and I might have to emcee. Miraculously, this cured by flu at once. In fact, I even forgot about my sore throat. I rock, don't I? However, my hopes were dashed like how I almost wrecked my head against the terraces when I saw that the MC was here. But then, it was sort of too much to expect, wasn't it? 

So, back to lessons. We have Art homework today, a great step forward for all memebers of our class as it was not all talk by the teacher. Then, we had CL, where we learnt the format of a 私函. I was slightly confuesed, but at least I know some nice words to write for the 私函. 

Then, it was recess, and then it was Assembly. Music Appreciation today was the part filled with the most humour. Everyone was like clapping as if it was President Obama himself going up on stage when Mr TBB went up. We were learning how to sing a symbolic school song (unnamed to protect privacy). So Mr TBB was like ******* go, and we all repeated "******* go" and the whole level burst out into laughter. It was expected. We all "love" TBB. What interested me most was the portion about ANGLES. WHY, oh WHY must the whole school take part!!!! Darn the organisers. Anyway, after Assembly was RTA, where we did stuff about video footage. 

Then, we had our music lesson. TBB was like listening to a weird Winnie the Pooh song and all of us were making faces that explicitly stated "Holy moly!" We learnt another symbolic school song and we learnt the meaning of the symbolic school scong we sang in Assembly. LJY had the courage to say "You look very beautiful today, Mr T." and TBB was like "Huh?!?!" Anyway, after that, we had LA, where we did Character Analysis on Charlie Gordon. Charlie seems to getting even more fake to me after we pratically shrink him. 

So, during luch, I asked the first A. to buy the really nice Ham and Cheese sandwich for me. Then, I went to look for the first CSE teacher I needed to clarify something with. As I'm in the mood to practise my description skills, I shall now be describing the CSE staffroom. 

The room was completely empty. Even though the warm afternoon light was filtering in from the semi-transclucent shades, a few pale yellow lights were turned on. Even though it was highly unlikely that the teacher forgot to turn off the lights, as the teacher I was looking for was Head of Geography, one does wonder. As I stepped in deeper into the small room, I began to get slightly chilled, literally and figuratively. The aircon was sort of cold, and due to its proximity to the third floor, it is a little difficult to keep one's mind focused on the task before him. Looking around at the 4 tables, I immediately spotted the teacher's table. Looking around at her table, to see if there was anything that would clairify my doubts, my heart was beating as if I had just run my 1.6 like I did in Primary School a long time ago. It was ridiculous, but it was difficult to forget the fact that I may have been invading into the higher centers of the school. After all, she was the Head of Geography. Seeing nothing to answer my questions, I turned to leave. At this moment, a very nice melody was played. I turned around rapidly, looking for the source of the sound, and found none. The melody was the type of melodies you heard from music boxes, the very neutral type where your feeling is what decides the tone of the music. To my spooked heart, it sounded like a prelude to NC16 movies censored due to violence that always came before the appearance of a apparition, which will proceed to scare the wits out of everyone near, take the life of someone out of fun, give a deep, nasty laugh that would win it an Oscar, and disappear. Not being in the mood to be scared to death. I rushed out of the staffroom, almost hearing the evil laughter that resided in the deepest areas of my heart, ready strike out if there was cause for panic. 

Well, now that was an unsually long description, so I shall not elucidate anymore on today, cause I don't really think there is anything else to elucidate on. Sayoonara!

DL

Completing a task is great!

I finally can do today's blog post! Yeah!

Anyway, I feel sort of ill today. Sort of down with the flu. Anyway, I don't feel it now. After eating breakfast, I went to the barber to cut my hair. Apparently, it looks better on me than an army haircut. Then, I went back and did some 3rd lang e-learning. For the first time, I only retried a quiz once! Yes! I would start dancing now, just that I don't know how to dance, and I might disturb my neighbours. I ate my lunch at 2, and watched the last episode of a Korean drama series "The Last Scandal of My Life". Ironically, its female star by 崔真实, the Korean star who commited suicides after a series of Internet rumours. It should be selling like crazy now in Korea. As Valkyrie Cain's uncle Gordon comments in Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire, the works of people who have recently died will earn a great profit. After watching the final episode, I've been filling in 9 days of memories and here I am now. It feels good to accomplish a task like this. However, the price I'm paying is that I have just used up 5hours that could have been used for next week's tests.

But whatever: there's no point crying over spilt milk. And this spilt milk was not spilt in vain. I think you get the metaphor. Cheers and bye!

DL  

Day of reunion 30/1/09

Woke up at 9 today. Not surprising at all. Anyway, after eating breakfast, I rushed my 3rd lang and school homework and finished them just before lunch, which was at 1. Then, my cousins living upstairs, my father and me played blackjack and I won! I really won a lot this time, for I remember beginning with somewhere around 5 bucks and ending with somewhere around 6 times more than that. Then, I went to my aunty's house and played a little bit of blackjack there. Due to time constraint, we moved the game to my uncle's house, since we were supposed to be there before 7 and we arrived at my aunty's house at 6. I won $4 at that time. Then, at my uncle's house, after playing a little blackjack, I won $6 and left the game. I am not a greedy person. It was 10.20pm at that time, and I went up to my cousins room, where I realised that my cousin had been training me in Maple. Sigh...I realised the joy of Maple then and  sort of regretted playing blackjack till so late, cause we had to go at 10.30. But never mind, at least I won some money.

YEAH!!! Now I'm only left with today to cover!

DL

Happy seems to be the hardest word 30/1/09

Ok, for those who don't know, Sorry Seems to be The Hardest Word is a song by the band Blue. Anyway, i couldn't be happy today. With homework in EL, Maths and Science, how is it possible! Anyway, today was uneventful, just some slight commotion when we were proceeding to the consortium assembly. 

Anyway, I went to 3rd lang with Boss and as I have never taken the route, I was slightly lost and would have been majorly lost if it wasn't for Boss. We learnt counters today and I truly realised how fast native people speak when we did listening comprehension today. 

When I got home, seriously tired, I bathed, just before my uncle came, and we 捞鱼生-ed. I know it was early, but we couldn't have done so on Sunday. Anyway, we then played mahjong! Yeah! Major milestone: I was playing with real money for the first time! In the past, it was considered that I could only play "paper money". It may have been beginner's luck, but I won $5.20. However, I had to give my dad $2.60. Reason? He told me that he would foot half the cost if I lost and i had to give him half my profit if I won. 

Slept at 12.30, which was considered really late as today was a tiring school day. However, I had to wait for my relatives to leave first. Manners, you know

That's all, and sayonara! Oh sorry, it should be (When writen in Hiragana) sayoonara!

DL

Back to school 29/1/09

This symbolises my return to school. It was sort of weird, but I still could function normally, thank goodness for that. Function normally means that I could remember the school song. Isn't that good? Anyway, first period was the viewing of News in Class. All I remember was the art exhibition thingy in the Phillipines, I think. It was to address social-political issues. That is a untouchable topic for me. At least, I don't think I will touch on it much here. Anyway, next was EL, and we had no homework. Then, it was P.E., and we were introduced to the weights room - without actually entering it. Reason? Door was locked. Great planning, wasn't it? Then, we had Geography, with our Geog teacher being unusually kind and not giving homework. It was followed by EL again, to replace CL, as our CL teacher was not back yet. We were experimenting with prefixes, suffixes and root words. Mr Yap had the ingenuity of creating the words "gymgynoid" and "facamist". I don't sensor the words, cause their meanings are unclear until you search the dictionary. But don't search it, please. I hope everyone can have a pure mind. Then, it was followed by computer studies and I completed next week's assignment today. YEAH!! However, it was "compensated" by the fact that I stayed back, in vain, for the Maths Olympiad training. Apparently it wasn't on that day. What day is it on then? Will ask it on Monday. Anyway, I borrowed Michael Cricton's book Prey after reading Sphere. With vague memories of reading a part of it with my cousin when I was 11, I am really interested in what I missed at that time.

That's all for today. Cheers to all and bye for now!  

27/1/2009 CNY Day 2 ¬ 28/1/09 CNY Day 3

Hi all!

Day 2: (I think I forgot to mention, so I'll mention it now: I slept at my grandpa's house). This day was basically punctuated with both babies (Newborn, within two months of each other a year ago) crying sounds. In fact, I was woken up by those crying sounds. At 6.30am. You should try it, sleeping at 12.30 and waking up to a baby's crying. Anyway, we went to the place we have always gone for breakfast. The food was as good as always, but there was no chee cheong fun. Boo. ("Boo" seems to be appearing commonly in my blog). Then, we went to my uncle's house, and we enjoyed the sea breeze (or was it the river?)Anyway, his house was built on the banks and the breeze was nice. OF course, good things don't last and after gorging myself on my aunt's CNY snacks, we went back. The older baby was in our car and she seemed to have fun kicking me while attempting to sleep. 

Anyway, we went back, and what did we do? Play blackjack! Well duh. It's CNY. I didn't mention Mahjong and have been enthusiastically discussing blackjack. What do you think we played? It was quite good, considering that I won RM20sth. However, I gave all my winnings to my cousin, whom I believd was my good luck charm. You might say I'm crazy (that's what my mum said), or you might say that the money was better spent on you (that's what my dad said), but hey, I'm supersitious. After having steamboat dinner at 8pm, (We played blackjack for a long time, considering that we came back home at 2) we watched "Just Follow Law" on TV, the Jack Neo film that I really like cause its so funny and so heartwarming. Then, we played (do I even need to say?) until 1am. I nearly lost, but still walked away with RM10 in the end.

Day 3:

I woke up at 8 today. At least the babies didn't wake me up. That's good. We left my grandpa's house at 10.30. Due to a horrendous Causeway jam that still makes me shudder, I slept a total of four hours on the way back. This gave me the sufficient strength to edit a piece of homework that had become factually incorrect (it was 在新年发生的一件事). However, it wasn't a lot of editing, so it was still OK.

That's all for today! Yes - I'm only left with...oops, still a very long time. Nevermind, I think I can do it. Sayonara! 

DL 

26/1/09: CNY!!!!

Yeah! It's CNY now! After waking up at 8, even though I slept at 2.30, for reasons unknown, I ate my breakfast, which was symbolic and really delicious (my mum's cooking always is), went to the temple to pray, went to my grandmum's house to eat, and went to my aunt's house to play blackjack, hoping to win big like I did the day before. Unfortunately, I won -$10. Around $10. Boo. But nevermind, cause my dad won it. And he gave it back. He's such a great dad.

After that, we left for Malaysia to pay a visit to my mum's dad, whom I shall call Grandpa. We're coming back only on the 28th. Car journey was long, tedious, boring and sleep-inducing. In fact, I think I made up for all the hours I've been sleeping late. I know, I know, you can't make up for sleep like that, but you get the rough idea. We arrived at Grandpa's house at 11pm, had our really late dinner (It was dinner, cause I didn't eat anything from 3pm onwards. And I ate a small slice of home made buttercake by my mum at that time.) Slept at 12.30 in my cousins room. 

As they say in Star Wars, the saga continues. See you sometime later!

DL

25/1/09: CNY Eve.

Details are as follows.

Woke up. Breathed. Breathed again. Breathed again.

OK, Ok, just joking. Today, basically tidied up the house, finished the loose wisps of homework I missed yesterday, and went to Grandma's house to play blackjack. Won $16. Don't expect a treat, cause I'm still sore. My father lent me $6 to play the last game, where everyone takes three cards, see what is the sum of the numbers/pictures on the cards, and the guy with the sum of 9/10 takes it all. Of course, 10 is the best. With my father's loan, I won $26 and how much does he give me? A measly $10!

I see my brain swear word detector going off, so I shall not mention any more. At night, went back and basically waited till 12, before saying happy new year to my dad and mum. Then, I helped them to wrap the red packets. Sigh, should have "accidentally" stuffed more money into mine...

But still, it was a good day. Cheerios!

DL  

Countdown to CNY 24/1/2009

Hi all again!

Yeah, I know, it's WAY past that day, but still gotta account for it right? Anyway, I basically crammed one week's homework into today. It rocks, you know. I'm still trying to figure out why am I still able to type. In fact, I'm also wondering why am I not in Woodbridge or the hospital right now. Anyway, yeah. That was the 24/1/09. It's short, cause I'm making up for lost blog entries. Also, it's the same logic as compo writing. If it's too long, there'll most likely be grammar mistakes, right? So for this entry, if it's too long, there'll be more vulgarities. I think. Cheerios!

DL

Countdown: (censored) days to CNY 23/1/09

I believe the reason for the sensor is too obvious, so I need not mention it. 

Today was peppered with fun, but certain well chosen comments by MPC were strong enough to bring back memories, so do forgive me if I drone on too long about past events.

When we proceeded to the terraces, certain people in my class found it delightful to rush forward and throw the whole class into chaos. That, plus the seething mass of people who were lost and confused regarding their seating positions, almost sent the CMC to Woodbridge. It's a nice CNY present, right?

As we were waiting for the seniors to sort out the delays that always happened on important events like this, MPC suddenly called me and said, "Hey, what's 7-11?" It was only after my reflection that I mentioned that it was the command to surround a certain cordoned off area in Michael Crichton's book The Andromeda Strain, but hearing his tone, I drifted off into a nice recollection of what 7-11 used to stand for in my old school. Of what 7-11 truly is, I shall not mention, for that is a deep secret that I will keep until I find fit to reveal.

Then, after the national anthem, we had the CNY concert. On our way there, the class split into three parties. The first party was under yours truly's command and was efficiently progressing towards the hall and wondering where the second party were. The second party was led by the chairman and took an unknown and long-winded route towards the hall, wondering where the 1st and 3rd parties were. The third party were composed of people who had no idea where to go, but just drifted with the crowd and arrived at the hall, where they finally met the 1st party. Oh, the joy of chaos after chaos.

However, the concert made up for everything. The 相声 was particularly nice and I enjoyed all the performances. My favourite performance was the "Don't forget the lyrics" CNY edition. All of those in my level loves our music teacher (for his so-called "sissyness"), and were thus shouting "Mr *** **!" so loudly that the teachers seating beside us had an expression that clearly stated, 'Who is this guy?"

But, our music teacher disappointed us. When confronted with the lyrics he needed to fill in, he went "祝大家学业进步，万事如意" and all of us were like, holy - .

Towards the end of the concert, my heart begin to ache for my old school. It was expected - I missed my friends, and I particularly missed a few people, like JH who went to LKYS, and LTwo went to LKYGDS. However, LT couldn't come back, so that was sorta sad, but JH could, and I started dreaming about beating JH at table-tennis. 

I don't know whose wise idea it was to wait for the girls from the nearby school, but wait I did, and finally got fed up of waiting and took the bus with Muffin. On the journey with Muffin, Muffin was silently trying to wipe up the wet patch on his pants caused by his leaking water bottles (what did you think?), while Michael Buble's Home and Daniel Powter's Next Plane Home kept replaying in my mind. It is true, music does make your heart grow fonder. 

When I arrived, I was so excited that I was constantly babbling to Muffin about how excited I was. When we walked past the P6's classrooms, we caused a furore. Actually, I caused the furore, but does it really matter? Anyway, I met my teachers, and I basically played some table tennis with my friends. I feel so much more stronger after defeating 11-8 people who used to defeat me 11-4. Very amazing, ain't it?

Bad point for today (No perfect day ever occurs): Got "birthday bashed". Ironic I was speaking about it to the whole level a few days ago. Friends took my handphone and sent a message I would rather forget to a girl that I would also rather forget. Not that I ever liked her. Just that she basically robbed me of the chance to get highest for CL and she claims that she's a better speaker than I am, which is not true. OK, maybe she is, but that's not the point. Anyway, they sent two people to guard me, but I escaped them soon enough. Please. Talk about pathetic. They brought me to Block C, unfamiliar ground for them and a familiar playground for me. What chance did they have. You should have seen JH's face when I tapped him on the back just as he sent the message. That was the only silver lining.

So that's all for today. Yeah, I know, it's not really today. Whew, lucky I wasn't history based at all. Not that I hate history. Just that it was a long day. Really long one. Sayonara!

DL