dr-WONG
Saturday, August 25, 2007
「 sunset on 7:37 pm 」
this is a week of surprises, i guess.
below summarises the SURPRISING, and NOT-SO SUPRISING ones, as well as the MIXTURE of them.
{ dont blame me.. i'm bad at summarising.. =( }


[THU-SURPRISING- SORE THROAT!]
arghh! sore throat! i'm going to be sick soon.
i know it. it's like u have tt kind of feeling everytime u are going to be sick.

who says we need 8 cups of water a day to keep ourselves healthy?
i drink 8 BOTTLES of water today (abt one every period) to combat my sore throat.

[THU-SURPRISING- APPLES!]
mrs lam brought us apples.
no, not the APPLE COMPUTER.
but the fruit apple.
no, not one apple for the whole class.
but one apple per person.

apparently, all (if not, most) of her clsses got apples.
makes me wonder, how did she carry the apples?
40 ppl in each cls. if got 5 cls, then 200 apples?


[FRI-SURPRISING- NEW NEIGHBOURS]
bye 3A, hi 3K!
now we are beside a '3K' cls again, just like last yr.
apparently, a girl was injured and hence, needs to move down frm her current cls to a lower level cls.. this was indeed a smart choice..
afterall, even normal ppl find it tiring to climb 5X24 steps to get to a clsroom..
and this was what happened last year to my cls.. =(

but shuldnt the cls move to 2nd floor, or even the 1st floor (either interacting wif nature or stuck in the CCA rooms..)?
and i think tt 4L shuld move dwn to the 1st floor.
WHY?
because yuelong, mrs lam and mrs lee are crippled (lame).


[FRI-SURPRISING- NODRINKSOUTOFCANTEEN POLICY]
everytime, ppl just smuggle take drinks out of the canteen during recesses, even wif councillors looking at them, or perhaps, walking with them.
my throat was obviously not feeling very well today, so i took a bottle of 'PURPLE GRAPE JUICE' with me, out of the canteen.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE!
it was not until outside all saint's church, tt a councillor, maybe remembering her council pledge, decided to stop me.
and hence, i have to drink up everything before going up to the clsroom.
[luckily i had 2 1/2 yrs of 'water parade training' =D]
the councillor then walked away.

if you ask me whether i'm angry, i'm not.
because this shows tt at least some ppl up there are finally doing their job.

then immediately aft tt, PETER went to the vending machine outside the all saint's church to buy a can of coffee.
the new council president (old or new, makes no diff) happened to walked by, take a glance, then continued walking again.
then one of us asked why he so daring.
as peter saw him walking away, he said smthing like "councillor 看到都不要 stop 我!"
and it was evident tt ppl within 50m radius of him can hear it pretty clearly.


[FRI-ENGLISH- A MIXTURE]
not surprising because:
- oral practice again
- mrs chew is using up 2 periods to examine a person for oral
- mrs chew seemed relaxed, and most of the time, calms ppl dwn instead of giving tips abt oral

SURPRISING because:
- found out tt mrs chew got a diploma (or smthing like tt) for COUNSELLING!
well.. no wonder it was more of a counselling session than a normal english lesson with her..
she talks so slowly, blinks and smiles at every oppurtunity..

and yes.. after her 'counselling', i felt so much relaxed before the oral!


[FRI-MATHS- SURPRSING]
the amaths surprise test attempted last wk was returned.
the surprising thing was not my mark, but PERRY's marks.
being always the top student in cls for maths, he fell from grace, and FAILED his AMATHS!

a historical event. the history txtbk has to be rewritten.


[FRI-HCL- NOT SURPRISING]
why is it like a routine? huang lao shi is coming into cls and doing one of the 2 things:
1. talk abt a subject for 10 minutes. then ask us to do lian bi.
2. coming in 10 minutes aft the bell rings and say "好，我要不多不少，四个人一组" and then gives us a paper with qns and ask us to answer them. then when everyone is discussing she would keep on talking non-stop abt the topic..


[FRI-HCL TOILET BREAK- SURPRISING]
every sick man needs to go to the toilet every one or two periods.
i'm not an exception.

i was nonchalantly strolling dwn the corridor leading to the gents, and stopped dead in my tracks when i noticed a sec one boy in his cca attire scuttering out of the 3rd-floor, upper-sec-only toilet.
my head nodded slightly to make a small angle of depression in order to observe him.
he was at least 148cm tall (at least taller than shawn. no, not shawn GOH, but tt small boy always appearing in channel u, and will be, today).
his eyes, although bigger than a fish's eye, is smaller than an ostrich's eye.
his seemingly-empty shirt was light green, with a dark green trousers which seemed over-sized for him. the colour combination made him a little 'SBS-bus-driver'.
he is, Meng Howe (FYI: my ex-cca's *cute* little sec one cum patrol mate).

"WA.. why you change here?"

"huh.. er.. because downstairs got ppl.."

ok.. upstairs here also got ppl wad.. but tt's not the point..
he's so.. CUTE!


{a photo taken 2 months ago, on a high class 'cruise' on the way to the 'exortic' island, pulau ubin}

ok.. some ppl might not agree with my views..
but isnt he just *CUTE*?


[FRI-SURPRISING- O LEVEL ORAL EXAMINATION]
wow.. time flies! it's like just 10 yrs ago, i'm just a 120+cm boy attending primary one in class! (ok, tt's a FACT, i guess..) now, i'm a 160+cm boy trying to pass my english oral.

this is how the game is played. the cls of 36 students (one had taken the day before) are divided into 3 grps, F143, F144, and F145 (sounds like Lim Bo Seng's Force 136), each with 12 ppl.
the 12 ppl, one by one, leaves the waiting area and has 10 mins for preparation.
then aft the 10 mins, off he/she goes to face the examiner in the library.

because my name starts with 'W', i was naturally one of the last to go. being the 10th in our grp, i have to wait 10X10 mins (100 mins), if not more, before my turn. BOOs!
ended up talking to tsze deng, viviana and hweeli. it was so fun having the conversation and it definitely soothed my nerves. remaining silent for 2 mins will get my adrenaline pumping and cause my heart to beat extremely fast. (wonder if adrenaline can 供不应求 one?)

and when it's my turn to read the passage, i kept repeating the counsellor (mrs chew)'s words in mind. "YOU ALL ARE SMART PEOPLE. YOU CAN DO IT."
in the end, the topic's abt COOKING.
guess what? mrs chew's 'counselling' really worked!
i think this is the time which i performed the best (in EL oral) in my whole school life!
other times, i would be all nervous before the exam. then i will like do this:
"i think tt cooking is fun because i can express.. .. .. (3 seconds).. i can express my feelings through.. .. (2 seconds)... ..."
and i will talk damn slow (according to mr eugene ong and mr ben tan and probably, mrs ganesan).

who cares abt this now..?
what matters is tt i felt tt i did satisfactory for the first time in english orals.
i'm not sure whether i can get a distinction, but merit is a sure.


now i really have the motivation for english. no more 'FAIL' attitude. no more '全靠 HCL 了啦' atttitude.
and yes..
I FINALLY HAVE THE EXAM MOOD!
forget abt my last post..
I'M SWITCHED TO MUGGING MODE!

PRELIMS + O lvls.. HERE I COME!



i could have done better, if i had prepared more beforehand.
i could have done better, if i had spoken more english in life.
i could have done better, if i had practiced more in skl.
i could have done better, if i had taken english language seriously.
i could have done better, if i had this kind of "i can do it" attitude a few yrs back.
i could have done better, if i had... ... ... ... ...
i could have done better, if i had... ... ... ... ...

life is full of regrets.
what you have not done does not matter.
what matters is what you have done.

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