LIFE BEGINS

NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS

okay not literally, but suddenly that song by paul mccartney seems so much more applicable. no more lonely nights with my sad mugging notes HOHO. or should i say the school's sad mugging notes because NO I DO NOT MAKE THOSE LITTLE SCUM.

bear with the craziness, i think i'm going barmy. and despite thinking that i could survive anything after today, i almost died choking on a fish bone just now during dinner -.-" how stupid was that. luckily my mouth is quite sensitive ar otherwise i'm ggxx-ed. ANYWAY ignoring anything i did tonight (which is damn boring and meaningless because i tried posting on tcs but blogger seriously is screwed up), i think my day was pretty good.

IF NOT DAMN GOOD.

yup i could have just slacked the night away and i really should go shower but heck, i really can't wait to blog about this man. finally something happy to talk about. although of course no day is perfect i think my ankle injuries are coming back again (DUCK IT MAN), most of it were. so ignoring the blemishes, here goes.

morning wake up at half past 6, fifteen minutes after intended waking up time. thought i could squeeze in some last minute mugging but in the end decided not to because there wasn't much point. council room had the usual buzz of people last-minute studying. i had nothing for them and they had nothing for me either. proceeded to the canteen and stupid sl was last-minute mugging again. oh well. as every other day.

the navy seals + dom and a few other guys from s03e were there so we headed off for the biggest test of promos so far. this was the most subjective of all subjects, and like i said yesterday it was MAKE OR BREAK. and believe me even though i show no fear, my blood starts curdling (ya like the stupid casein in the chem paper, dunno what crap about milk) once i step into the hall.

and then i'll feel like shitting. don't ask me why, but that was the same sentiment i had for three consecutive papers - econs, maths and chem. shitting or vomitting, it just sucks. but anyway before going into our respective venues we gathered together outside the sports hall (s03 classes venue), stuck out our fingers, and shouted "BAO JIA" damn loudly into the cold morning air.

it was damn funny. and quite morale-boosting i must say.

i stepped into the hall without any fear, and i didn't know any fear until i opened bloody section b booklet. let me phrase this in poor but precise english: wa lau see already like want to cry. as i had very bad experience from cts, i decided to meng the later sections. and i was duly rewarded when i answered a decent amount of questions. i took a little less than 30 mins for mcq and in no way will i regret this.

at the start of the promos and in fact long long ago, i said i wanted to end promos without any regret. here you go, chemistry. i gave it my all and i'm pleased to announce that i'm guaranteed of at least an S. anything else would be.. INJUSTICE. no way am i fricking gonna get a "U" for chemistry, hell no those days are over. top 20? yup if the rest all start failing their papers somehow perhaps.

i like to remain optimistic. so when they announced "time's up" i cheered for my little victory today, that i didn't get too wholly whooped by chem. and in case any of you were wondering, i did question 1 (stoichio) for section c and it wasn't that bad. can salvage a few marks to get past that dreaded U. yes U. i hate U.

and chem dept 'stids, they gave out spa skill a worksheets.

BLOODY HELL?

anyway who the heck gives a damn, i think i won't do it. despite various resolutions of being a better student, this is just so not the time. i realise there's so much more to life after mugging, though strangely i think i'll miss this life somehow haha. =x okay forget i mentioned that.

yl and i tried to mug in the lib later, but it didn't help rjc had poor internet connections. so we ended up stoning at s11 for lunch, then stoning at ntuc while waiting for our drinks to cool. now this is funny, cos yl wanted cold drinks but wasn't willing to pay extra 15 cents so we just took 'em off the shelves and stored in freezer next to all the ice cream and stuff. then when we went to pay for it the cashier asked "did you take them from the freezer?"

JOKES. but well it wasn't really that cold later. haha so much for just 15 cents each.

i stoned quite a lot in the container room waiting for 3pm, translating all i could from a mcdonald's brochure, while yl bugged his female classmates. (i'm not suggesting anything but it's the truth.) then mme tse universal favourite examiner came in. i think i knew why i continued french at h2, because she was seriously a smashing french teacher at sec 4.

smashing as in she smashed all my foundations for french, but i had a lot of fun at her lessons. and all right to be entirely honest, i really didn't put in enough effort that year. she strengthened my foundation quite a bit in fact lol. today she was back, and i could tell age was catching up with her because she was getting to have a bald spot in her hair HAHAHA okay that's very bad i'm sorry =x

anyway i was being my usual idiotic self to mme tse. after she said good day i cheerily replied, "il fait très chaud aujourd'hui" (it's very warm today) because she left the door open. well she told me (in french) - "yes.. i think you're hinting for me to close the door." and the poor old woman went to close it. oops.

out of a pathetic whole class of 22 (i think), only two of us were nurtured by tse's powerful french lessons. ambrose didn't even join till after 3 months. her comment to him was "tu as grandi" (you have grown). quite funny. and she's still in the habit of using "good boy". this might sound wrong but i think she's a very cute teacher LOL. though she still picks on me.

like when she said "sautez un ligne quand vous écrivez" (leave a line when you are writing) or something to that effect she had to add "YEJIE!" behind in her sharp tone. "did you understand that?"

wha i felt damn gg owned. she never encouraged me to go for h2 french anyway, but i was a young brave adventurer willing to pursue my passions. so here i am sitting for papers i hardly understand but totally enjoying the process.

right enough talking about mme tse and french lessons, though they bring back fond memories.

french compos are by no means easy to write, even though it has to be around 250-400 words. think gp, then think it in another language. doing it in chinese is bomb enough, but french UH. i chose my question the way halogenoalkanes are converted to alkenes (ie by ELIMINATION) because i fricking didn't understand any question.

in fact, when i turned over, i felt like i died AGAIN. qn 1 dunno what it's talking about, qn 2 dunno, ditto for 3, 4 and 5. upon closer examination, i found that i could guess the meaning of one of them. so there. so i just whacked that question. they gave 1,5 hours for the paper, a tad too generous? i spent my time doodling with my pencil and drawing chemical compounds for the heck of it.

and i almost didn't finish my essay -.-" of course since mme tse claimed she's a generous person i gladly asked for more foolscap so i could plan more drafts. i wrote my essay out like about 4 times including the real thing i submitted. mad. kept sharpening my pencil like mad cos those anal frenchies from moelc claimed that "NO CORRECTION FLUID WAS ALLOWED" like wth i'm sure. some people cleverly went around that rule by using correction tape -.-"

somehow, despite the feeling of despair and not knowing what to do at the start, i thought i managed pretty well at the end. HENCE. THIS. MEANS. THAT. I. MADE. IT. IN. THIS. MAKE. OR. BREAK. DAY. yessssssss and freedom was great to taste.

yl and i went back to ri to play bball, because our promos were really as good as over. yl only has bio (but he can't mug all the time) and french listening compre left, while i'm just left with listening compre. well we both concede that we're really bad listeners, especially if its french and honestly you can't mug for that so TOO BAD. play and play and play!

(actually today's subject was muggable but made no difference mugging so there is a general distrust in mugging for exams alr)

basketball was quite violent, as the express took on the geps. of course, being express, we naturally pwn3d. okay not entirely and not all that convincingly but it was just great going out to play. we play not to win, but to have fun. and i sure did. after which we just fooled around a bit round the courts and went to slack at canteen.

now this is the funny part. grinning smugly to myself and silently congratulating myself for faring okay in this decisive day (and declaring that i've secured promotion, which i think is quite true), suddenly some guy (heexun, i think) told us that a couple was embracing each other at the third floor!

like WTH i'm sure! isn't that funny LOL.

naturally, being inquisitive fags always on the lookout for scandals, i went to the sink and craned my neck a bit and YES LOL it was indeed true. third floor on one of those little coloured rooms, there was this couple being VERY INTIMATE. like seriously BLOODY INTIMATE, wa the skin on my hand was seriously growing goosebumps and ZOMG DAMN SICK!!

nevertheless everyone's looking for some entertainment after promos so i watched for a bit until i think they saw us LOL. and wth that was stupid because we went away for a bit, before coming back and finding that they were still at it, if not more intensive.

i will not describe everything graphically here, but the girl was kissing that guy's neck quite passionately. it was retarded but DAMN FUNNY. LOL then even the security guards were watching from the second floor. you know those jokers on bikes? well there were two of them camping at the area going to the parade square (the mini one) with their bikes looking up.

and it was seriously something to WTH at.

sometimes i wonder wth they're up to. at least if they want to make out or get intimate, FIND ANOTHER PLACE. the most amusing thing about the whole incident was that they were in the room and they TURNED ON THE LIGHTS. airheads. think they whiff too much drugs, cannot think clearly then all get high and passionate and all.

still, it was a rather interesting experience. not to mention eye-opener. i didn't know such people existed in rjc and it's no wonder teachers want to crack down on PDAs (public displays of affection) - i thought this rule was redundant at first, but LOL today i see their point!

apparently cz said a lot of those couples like to camp at various parts of the school to make out. i'm sure. think it will be quite exciting to go couple-hunting? only thing must go in large groups so you won't get solo pwned if you do manage to chance upon them. but nah, i think tonight's experience will most probably be the first and last time i see such shit in rjc.

that doesn't change the fact it's DAMN FUNNY.

i feel like laughing at the thought of it. but that basically rounded off a very interesting night. and anyway ripb elections are here so appealing to all ri students to cast blank vote. let ripb die ftw please.

even though i've more or less completed promos and secured promotion (which i very proudly declared today please don't let me get jacked), i decided to keep off msn for one more night. what's one more night anyway. saturday morning 3am, it would be two weeks off msn. wow, i think i'm feeling real powerful.

and as for the midweek angst, just ignore out of it. i can be real cranky when i get down to mugging. and if you're speculating that's something happened, stop it because it's not what you think.

i'll be glad to return to msn tomorrow. like the start of my post, no more lonely nights. and i've effectively wasted more than an hour blogging on tcs and here (SCREW BLOGGER ZOMG). and i want my sleep and i want to watch my MVs. life begins after promos, and it's beckoning to me. let's just hope for good results now.

yup and i'd better shower because it's seriously CRAPPILY late!

(starting to realise this is bloody long post)

goodbye, and all the best for physicists, biologists and whoever who has had the ill-fortune not to end by this week or today. i'll attempt to ace listening compre tomorrow.

(end of) promos ftw!~