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Yeeeuuuurgh! I think I just stepped on a lizard! Not that I'm scared of lizards or anything, but I actually stepped on one!

I went into the kitchen to get a drink of water, not bothering to turn the lights on. Then out of the corner of my eye I noticed something moving across the floor, and the next thing I knew, I felt something weird under my right foot! Aaaaah! That's not the unsettling part. I actually heard some sort of squeak or tiny yelp or something! Sounded like a short crow call. Oh man.... And after I immediately lifted my foot up to see what was on the floor, there was nothing. I half-expected to see a detached tail. But there was nothing. Anw yup, that means I stepped on something that can make a noise, can move, and feels weird under my foot. Almost definitely a lizard.

There was some dark stuff on the underside of my foot. I couldn't see what colour it was- the lights weren't switched on. I just rushed of to the toilet to wash my feet. Yeeeeuurgh.

Hm... does this mean there's a bleeding lizard going around the house? Lol.

Today was one of the best school days I've had. I came to school as per normal, reached at 6.50, and attended flag raising at 7.25. What made today different though, was that I, along with 60-odd others, was dismissed at..... EIGHT AM! That meant no lessons haha. Why? Choir performance today. It was supposed to be at 4plus initially. Then just last Monday they changed it to 12.15. So we had to skip the whole day of lessons! I suppose I shouldn't have been too enthusiastic about missing lessons. I missed Econs and Maths lecture, and Maths tutorial. PW today was crap, I heard, so not counted. Got little bit of catching up to do.

Anyway, it was a really fun day today! Just nothing but choir the whole day! I had a bit of problems singing during the warm-ups though, cos of my cough. My sore throat decided to become a fully-fledged cough (the cough-like-mad kind) today. With a bit of effort I managed to hold the cough back, but during warm-ups my voice was really shaky and I sang quite out of tune for the higher notes. Sigh... what I time to get sick. But I sang normally during the actual performance I think. Maybe it was the adrenaline. Or maybe I was just warmed up.

Looking back on today, it was quite packed actually, even though the only thing today was the performance. I knew the whole thing was organised by the Singapore Police Force for some foreign delegates, but it was only today that I realised who we were performing for- representative from Interpol (international police)! And actually "performance" is sort of an overstatement. It was more of just some "entertainment" for those people from Interpol who were having a lunch break from some meeting about something. But it was still important for us. First time the Year 1s and 2s performed together!

We did quite well I think. For the first two songs. Ye Lai Xiang and Elijah Rock. The third was... haha. messy. Binnamma. Us basses misread Miss Lim's actions. She gave this low hand signal. Then we (including me) thought it was to cue us in for our octave-drop part . So we started singing that part. And that made us two bars ealier. Luckily there were distinct sections to the song, so we could quickly get back to what we were actually supposed to sing. The later part was quite ok though. The actions helped. I still didn't manage to get the note for the last part. Aargh. Oh well.

We went back to school at close to two pm. Had lunch (ramly burger for me. It's not as nice as the first few times I had it though. The novelty's wearing off), and then we went to the AVT for a "photoshoot". It wasn't really what I thought it was. I thought we got some outside photographer to take" professional photos of us" Lol. Turned out it was just two students from the school photography club I think. The photos are for the pamphlet for our performance on May 21, if I'm not wrong. Aspiration - Voices in Flight. The performance. The big one. I can't wait for it!

I actually went home in my long-sleeved white shirt (we wore that with school pants, tie and blazer for the performance). The shirt's quite comfortable haha. It was my dad's. Now he's given it to me. My very own white long-sleeved shirt. Didn't bother to change. I couldn't wait to get home anyway.

Got back at 4 plus. Not that early, but considering the fact that usually on Wednesdays I've got choir until 6plus, it's quite early. Didn't do any work though. Oops. Better get on with my bio tutorial now. Cos it's due tomorrow. Now ain't this last minute...

I'm not really in the mood for recalling stuff that happened during the week right now, so this post'll probably be quite short. [EDIT: Ok fine, it wasn't short after all]

Nothing much happened during the week. Just the usual lessons. No more CSP though- yeah! PW starts this term. Apparently it's very likely that we'll be grouped according to our index numbers, "to facilitate the recording of marks". Sigh. Why must evey group-based thing be according to index number? Speaking of index number... mine has changed from 16 to 15, cos of the reshufflement of the class (two people changed). I still remember when I first found out my index no. was 16, I was thinking, "aiya, missed 15- a nice 'round' number- by one". Then I got used to 16. And now I have to stop using 16 and change to 15.

Hm... come to think of it, my index number has sort of been decreasing since primary school. In primary 6, my index number was 38. In sec 1 and 2 it was 27, and in sec 3/4 it was 18. Now it's 15. But it'll never reach 1 haha. Quite impossible. My name starts with O.

The two PW questions seem really weird. Wasn't really what I was expecting. The (relative) complexity of the questions really overwhelmed me. Then it dawned on me that there isn't any way out of choosing one of these two questions to do. PW is compulsory- no choice... sigh. Oh well. The questions are quite broad though. There's a lot of areas that can be explored.

Choir today- the seniors came back! Most of their block tests are over already. Some have bio SPA next monday I think. But they're back. Finally. It's nice to have the whole choir in full force again. We mainly revised the songs we learnt, and also planned two different standing arrangements.... because....
we have a performance next Wednesday! I didn't just find out today, but it all happened quite fast- the teacher-in-charge told us about it only two weeks ago I think, and boom- suddenly we've got some performance at some hotel, organised by the police force for a number of foreign delegates.

I'm quite excited. It's gonna be my first performance in a choir! We haven't got our costumes yet though, so we're gonna be wearing "council" uniform. The blazers on top of a white long-sleeved shirt, with the school pants, and black (leather) shoes. Oh, and the school tie too. I gotta somehow find a long-sleeved shirt and black shoes.

Something a classmate said jokingly really hit me today- "You're brainwashed already. That's why you don't even notice that you're crazy over choir!". Hm... it's not so much the brainwashing part that got to me (it's obviously a joke right? Right??) But am I really crazy over choir, so much so that I'd, to quote that classmate, "die for choir"? LOL. I don't think I'm crazy. I just really like choir haha. Hopefully this lasts.

Hm... it feels weird not to wake up at 6am, to be on the com at home right now on a week day. No school! Founder's day today. No lessons, but from 5pm onwards we have to be at school for some "hwa chong idol" singing 'contest'.

I still feel weird. School just reopened yesterday, and here I am doing nothing at 1pm. The only thing that's keeping me from believing that there's really school today and that I'm playing truant is the fact that so many of my classmates and schoolmates are online.

So... I guess I should be using this extra time to catch up on my work. To finish up my undone (dunno how to do) tutorials. But I haven't done anything today. Gotta go back to school soon to do that physics egg project. Oh well- wasted holiday.

Oh I almost forgot- yesterday. Econs test. I really thought 45 minutes would be enough for a two part essay question. Besides, we had the whole of the hols to prepare for the question (and one other question, only one came out). But I thought wrong. For I think perhaps the first time in all my experieces of writing for humanities tests, I actually didn't have enough time. In the past I always didn't have enough to write, and ended up racking my brains furiously trying to remember/make up stuff to write for the last few minutes or so of the test. But this econs test, I didn't have enough time.
I really need to improve my writing speed. Whenever we're writing essays, I always notice the people around me writing almost twice as fast as me. So demoralising... Yeah I know, it's the quality that counts, but no matter how great the quality of your essay is... a short essay doesn't give a very good impression. Gotta write faster... But I'd better try and write neater too haha.

Choir is still fun! Learnt a new song yesterday. 夜来香。 Nice song. The bass part is not very diffictult actually. For the most part of the song, we're singing only one word- "Bom". lol. But at least our part's not monotonous. It actually sounds nice on its own!

Two-month holidays are still the best. One week holidays? Crap. I can't get fully relaxed, cos I know just a few days later it'll be the start of a new school term, and I also always dread the end of the one week of "no-school", wanting it to last longer. Oh well.

Just less that half a day left to the March "holidays". According to my "schedule", which was put together last minute (meaning only two days ago haha), I should be preparing for the Econs timed assignment. Stupid name. "Time assignment". It's just a test. Although it's not like most tests. They gave us two possible questions. Only one will come out tomorrow. So we can actually just prepare beforehand and then reproduce it tomorrow. I suppose that's better than having a normal test. But then it means I've gotta do two essays today. Or at least plan out two essays. And I haven't started. Sigh.

Off to plan my essays now...

One week holidays are really short. Term two coming up. I don't feel the excitement for school that I usually have just before school reopens though. That's probably cos.... I haven't finished my work! Or actually, to be more accurate, I only just started!

Anyway, here's a recap of the past few days...

Piano on Tuesday as usual. And I did my theory hw last minute again haha. Oops. It's sort of a habit. Very rarely do I complete my theory hw a few days before the lesson. Piano's getting more fun all the time. I suppose when you get to the higher grade the pieces get more interesting and fun.

Wednesday was the day of the choir workshop! I got an sms on Tuesday night about some choir senior organising a morning jog before the workshop, which started at 9.30 (or actually 8.30- one hour practice first). I actually went for it! There were only 4 of us who turned up for the run though. How pathetic. Oh well- it's choir- a performing arts group, not some sports group. The run was quite fun though. Around the school compound. Not just any typical school compound. The compound of the entire HCI!. Twice. Almost as tiring as the macritchie cross country run. I was tired, but satisfied, after the run. Much needed exercise.

The guest conductor was finnish. "Westerner". So it wasn't really surprising that he was a little eccentric, I guess. Mr Thomas, my civics tutor, is also a bit like him. Anyway, it was quite a new experience. Apparently his conducting style is much different compared to that of our own conductor's. I dunno. I wasn't really paying attention to how he conducted. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway. Still a newbie. Althought I did notice that quite often, instead of starting with, "3, 4", he'd go, "ooh, ah", or something like that. Rather amusing, haha.

We went through Double-Toil and Elijah Rock. I think I can almost memorise both songs already! Yay. Won't need to hold on to my scores. Hm... speaking of scores, we got to use original scores that day, cos apparently the guest conductor was the one who sold us the original Double-Toil scores. Lol what luck. So we couldn't use our photocopied version, or we may get sued, like some other JCs in the past. He never suspected a thing, that guest conductor. After the end of the whole workshop though, one of the seniors was shouting, "Please return the original scores". I immediately looked at the conductor when I heard that. He looked suspicious, lol. But nothing happened. Not that I know of, anyway. Hopefully nothing'll happen when we go back for practice on Monday haha.

At night, I finally started on............. my tutorials! Completed a chem tutorial haha.

So that was Wednesday. Thursday(today)? Well, another day at home. I played a bit of FFX, but then I got a major setback- one hour of progress into the game when my party got wiped out. Had to replay. Sigh. So I stopped playing. Did a little bit of work. Still got a lot left to do though. Sigh... And there's that Econs timed assignment (euphemism for test) on Monday. Siiighh.

The last 3 days of the hols are not gonna be as slack. Time to shift into work mode once again.

Wait. Was I ever in "work mode"? Lol.

And so the third day of the March holidays is almost over. I know I've mentioned it before, but I only really just realised that for the first time in 5 years, my March hols are gonna be free. No, not free as in I get to stay at home and play and (maybe) do work, but free as in I don't have to go for the SRC Softball tournament!

That really took up my whole March holiday every year, since Sec 1. The matches themselves were held during the two weekends, but we still trained during the weekdays. Then we always ended up spending the whole day at the SRC/padang during tournament days. My March hols always passed by really quickly. It was just tournament, training, a few days of break, and suddenly boom! Aaagh- Term 2!

Of course, the March hols are only a week long. But at least now I sort of get the weekends and some extra weekdays free. There's a choir workshop on Wednesday, but it's only half-day, and I'm looking forward to it anyway.

My March hols so far started with a bang though. Whole day out last saturday! Well, whole day out if you don't count the half-and-hour I spent at home before going out again. Went to the St Nicks, erm "fiesta" (funfair). St Nicks is big. Really big. I didn't know that. But, considering they have a primary school section also.... Chinese High was bigger. Now HCI even bigger. Ha. Anyway I can't say the funfair was very fun, haha. Really hot day. I was sweating like mad, until the later part of the day. But maybe that's cos I was in an air-con room haha. I wanted to ration my 10 dollar's worth of coupons, so I was quite reluctant to buy anything or play anything. In the end I almost didn't spend 6 bucks! So I quickly got two plates of waffles and a cup of grass jelly. Some lunch...lol

I only remember ever going to one other funfair before. It was held at some school. And it wasn't even half as crowded or noisy (really loud music) as the St Nicks one. I guess they really know how to organise funfairs....

So after spending quite a long time (and not very much money haha) at the funfair, I decided to go home for a while before heading out to meet my classmates for dinner before 黄城夜韵. When I left the house and took the bus, the ez-link reader showed "transit". lol.

I didn't really know what to expect for huang cheng. I knew it was some drama production, and that it was really big in my school, but that's all. But cos of my over-enthusiastic assistant CT-rep, most of us ended up buying tickets. And not just any ticket, but the most expensive $15 one! Oh well. It was worth it. The show was quite good. It was actually three different plays. Not bad. I shan't describe the plays here.... Or should I? It'll take very long haha.
Fine... I think I'll just describe the plays:

The first one was about this girl, who's dead, trying to get her sister and brother (who went missing from the same car crash the girl died in) back together again, with the help of this, um funny "angel/omnipotent-being". Apparenly the brother lost his memory, and the reckless driver took him as her own. Eventually the brother regained his memory, of course, and that driver got her just desserts. I think. Hm... I forgot what happened to her. Oh well. I quite liked this play. The "angel" was really funny.

I didn't really like the second play. It was not bad, but I just don't like broken family stories. They made it so sad. I think there wasn't a single funny moment in the play. There wasn't, but we still laughed at some parts anyway, haha. The play was mainly about this woman, who had gone through several marriages, raising three children on her own. The children each had their own problems. Hm... haha I can't seem to remember how it ended. Probably some happy ending. Or was it a cliffhanger? Oh well. The 'prologue' and 'epilogue' were quite nicely put together though. They started with a whole lot of "jiu" (pinyin) projected on the screen, and then they ended with the actual words, which were part of sentences of a poem summing the whole story up.

The third one's starting was a little weird. Some 'dance' sequence with a chinese chess backdrop. If I'm not wrong, the whole play was about two rival companies. That's just about it. I liked how they painted some red pattern the faces of the members of one side and some green pattern on the faces of the other. Symbolic? Anyway, I think I didn't really get some of the more "cheem" connations throughout the play. I didn't get what the whole thing about this big slab of rock with a lot of red words (at the backdrop the whole time) was. That really bummed me out. But I still got most of the story. Actually for the other two plays I also had to pay very close attention to what they were saying haha. My chinese not that pro. But I was very pleased with myself- apart from that rock, I think I managed to understand everything! Yay.

It was really not bad on the whole... I felt really sleepy towards the end though. Luckily the "ending credits" part was really quick. Saw a lot of my classmates on stage during the "谢幕"。Headed straight home after that. Tired.

Well that was Saturday. Sunday and Monday (today) were really boring though. Spent almost the whole day home (besides going out for lunch) on Sunday, and I've been home the whole day today. Not only have I been home for the most part of the day, I haven't really done anything. Nothing. I didn't do work, I didn't really play. I just slacked around, watching my brother play PS, practising a bit of piano, walking around the house, reading a bit of Outbound Flight (new SW novel!). I suppose that's how holidays are meant to be spent. But somehow I feel like I could be doing a lot of other stuff. Hm...

So fast! So fast! Sooooo fast! Term 1 is almost over! It seems like just yesterday when I first stepped into my Sec 4 classroom, and it's like just a few hours ago when JC Orientation started. And now The second-last day of the term is almost over! Wow.

It's been quite a relaxed Term. Sure, there were a lot of tutorials and a lot of other stuff to do, but it was also very fun. I suppose it's cos I'm J1? Exactly one year later, I'll be busy mugging for March block tests. Sigh. It's still one year more though. Hm... but wait. Isn't everything happening very fast? Aaahh March block test is approaching in 2007! Ok this is lame.

Well, I've had 5 tests this term, excluding the diagnostic tests. A total of THREE chem tests (1 lecture "pre-test", 1 surprise class test, and 1 common test). Just had the other two tests- bio and CSP today. CSP was, um, tikum-tikum lol. My general knowledge of China isn't very good, and I wasn't really listening during the lectures. Ok fine, I wasn't listening at all. The most I got out of the lectures were a few words here and there- nothing coherent, haha. CSP is finally over though. No more chinese lessons ever! Yeah!

I think I'm not gonna do very well for my first ever bio test. We're supposed to be short of time right? Well, I sort of had extra time. Hm.... maybe I missed a question? I'd rather prefer to think that I'm too good, lol. But maybe I didn't write enough for each question (structured only, no essay). Oh well.

I'm sort of looking forward to the holidays. It's gonna be quite a different March holiday than compared with the previous 4 years', cos I quit softball, so I don't have to go to SRC for the softball tournament on the two weekends of the holiday. So... that means I've got more time! My weekends during the March hols are finally free! Yay.

Sigh... choir is fun (really fun!), but I still feel a little twinge of nostalgia evertime I walk past the field and see the softballers training. I miss batting and throwing ball. Can't wait for the "softball module" for PE. Hm... I think my glove is still missing. Sigh. I want my glove back... for sentimentality's sake. I think I've got some senior's glove here at home instead. Lol.

Just came back from JTS (junior class treat senior class). Quite bloated. But not as full as I thought I'd be. We ate at some a la carte buffet place called Rice Table. Haha, not only is it a buffet, but it's "a la carte buffet!" So we just sit at the table ordering. Maybe it's cos there are girls or something, but I just felt like we didn't eat much. We didn't eat our twenty bucks worth! Took a lot of photos though. Not of me- of others, haha. Sigh, had to pay forty bucks- paying for a senior's share as well. I'm still a little sore about the whole didn't-go-for-STJ-but-went-for-JTS-thing. That means I lost money. Oh well. Hopefully there'll another STJ sometime soon.

We walked for a bit before deciding to go to the Esplanade. So we took a bus there. Some of us walked all the way there (from cuppage), but I was slack, so I joined the bus-taking group. Wise decision. The walking-group took very long to finally meet up with us at, to quote someone, "A 'piss' of concrete" (basically just some wide open concrete space) outside the Esplanade. Sat around doing nothing much. Some played Truth-or-Dare, complete with a spinning glass bottle. I didn't dare, and I'm a liar, so I didn't play, haha.

Hm... I wonder if I ate too much. I know I ate quite a lot more than normal. But it's probably ok. Definitely not as bad as this time I remember, from long ago:
I was very young. Well, quite young anyway. One-digit age I think. It was a buffet. I can remember eating so much that I felt sick and had to vomit. For some reason, this incident really stuck in my mind ever since then, haha. I keep recalling it now and then. But it's hasn't really made me so conscious of my eating habits. Hello- that happened almost 10 years ago? haha.

As I said, I got back quite late. The refreshing effects of the shower I just took are wearing off. Sleepy....

EDIT 5th March: Just looked through the photos I took. Reminded me of something I wanted to talk about. We met at Somerset MRT station before heading to Rice Table. I was happily shooting away with my camera when someone wearing the MRT personnel uniform walked past me, adding casually, "boy keep your camera before I confiscate it", before walking away. WTH. Yeah, ok I know, the stupid terrorist threat measures. But WTH. He really pissed me off. I had half the mind to continue taking photos, but my classmates said I'd better stop. I didn't like that guy's tone though. Who does he think he is? It's not as if there are signs around saying "no photo-taking allowed". If there were, ok, I MIGHT follow the rules. But in the first place I knew nothing about any restriction on photo-taking in the MRT stations. What gives that guy the right to walk up people and hand out threats? He's abusing hs authority, I'd say.

Whoops. It's already a day after the incident, but just blogging about it has got me so worked up, haha.

Cos of HC's extremely good results (shan't go into the boring details here), we got a half day! Lessons ended at 12pm. Interestingly, the high school side also got the half day. I supposed that makes up for the lack of the "O-level-result-half-day" we got every year last time, before IP.

So... I was looking forward to today. Got to skip GP and Bio tutorial! Although something tells me the bio tutor will want a make-up tutorial. Oh well. Whoops, almost forgot- missed the LAST chinese lecture too! I don't think they'll hold a make-up session for that, haha. Next week during the last ever chinese lecture period it'll be the MCQ "test". Hm... I hope it's easy. Not that I'll be that dissapointed if I don't manage to pass anyway...

Some of the class wanted to go kbox-ing. I decided not to go yesterday already. Rather go home and slack. Anyway I don't feel comfortable singing solo in front of so many people, even if they're my friends. Lol, that's not the reason I gave for not going though. I told them, "Must give you all chance.. if I go then sure trash one". haha.

I followed them to cineleisure for lunch though. Burger King. It seems a little stupid to go to town just to eat at BK and then go home... but well, I also did a little gift shopping for my choir angel and mortal. Revelation day was yesterday actually. But my mortal left early before it was time to "reveal ourselves", and for some reason my angel didn't come up to me. I was sitting around for a while, then walking around asking people. So sad, haha. Then I realised it's probably cos she didn't come. Hm... it'd better be that she didn't come, and not cos she doesn't wanna reveal. Lol. But well, I didn't actually write much to my angel, cos she didn't reply for a long while. It's very likely that my latest (meaning two weeks ago) reply letter got stolen or something, making us both wait for a letter that never came, haha. Oh well.

Anyway, I'm still very lousy at choosing gifts. Had to ask some of my classmates to help me choose. It's not really cos I've got no taste or anything. I take very long to decide what to get. Gift-buying is the worst part of the Angel-Mortal game for me... Feel like passing on next year's haha. The letter writing is quite fun actually.

Dunno what came over me. I got this really big "bolster-pillow" thingy. Oh man. How am I gonna bring it to school discreetly tomorrow? Aargh.

After reaching home I meant to do a bit of work. But... I didn't. Then I thought maybe I should practice a bit of piano. But... I didn't (practiced only a little bit later) . Ended up watching this show called "Les Choristes". I think it's probably the first movie I've watched that's in a foreign language. Not bad. The ending wasn't the best, but still quite a nice movie overall. I was moved at one part. Eyes got a little moist. A little. Lit-tle. Anyway, the soundtrack's great! One of the best movie OSTs ever- besides SW, that is, haha. And ok, maybe that little boy was, erm quite cute.

So... it's 9.22pm and have I done any work? Nope, not really. Not unless you count taking out the Maths tutorial 2B as "work". So has the half-day made any difference? Well, sort of. I got more time to slack.

It's only Maths and GP tomorrow anyway. The rest are lectures. Fridays are fun. PE in the morning with one hour break following it, and choir in the afternoon!

Off to do (some) work!

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