Saturday, August 09, 2008

"
Edwin - ...when the bicycle walked by...
Me - I don't recall seeing a bicycle walk by. [Pause] Ever.
"

Ok, LONG OVERDUE tag replies will be at the bottom of this post, I promise ^^

Today wasn't as terrible a national day as I thought it would be. Despite Jo-Ann, Kegan and Nigel running off to HongKong leaving poor old me at home to play STUDY AND WORK HARD. Plus, I had tuition today. So it really looked like it'd be a very lethargic and empty day.

Well, it still was, sorta. But not as bad as I thought. Finished some papers and revised quite a lot of Physics during tuition today, clearing up a lot of basic concepts that I never bothered to really learn.

"Celebrated" National Day yesterday in school with the most lacklustre terrible National Day celebration I've ever experienced. The less blind ( aka those with any degree of actual eyesight ) will notice that I put the word celebrated in inverted commas. This is because the 'celebration' was not a celebration. Instead, I went to school in PE attire and spent morning assembly trying not to throw up at the horrible horrible sight of scores of people in hideous singlets. Sorry, I love VS and all, but the singlets/house vests are just soul-crushingly ugly. And everyone decided that today was the real day to experience what they presume is the school spirit and faux esprit de corps which was really not even faux esprit de corps but really just the desire to attain personal glory and for fun.

Admittedly, the face-painting session was fairly fun. [Mozart]Kow smeared a tramatizingly ugly smiley that was more Chernobyl-war-victim than anything remotely smiley. Ran around smashing paint into Chedwin, Thapashwin, RaphaelOng and Kenneth. Splattered Jia Lok and Joshua Chia too, then went down to the toilets with Edwin. To wash paint. Aha, sick bastards who thought otherwise.

Spent like 5 minutes scratching paint off my arm ( not very water-soluble really ) and face, leaving it in the bleeding-pink of health. Karma caught up; Pom-Pom and Jia Lok barged in and slapped me around with their beautiful red-painted PAWS O'DOOM and left me even paintier than before. I bellowed in righteous manly rage and started to wash it off. Then Ashwin strolled in and my face got pimped.

I spent 15 minutes in that darn toilet in the end.

The super exciting climax of the day was the sadistically evil ancient mass sacrifice pagan ritual CROSS-COUNTRY ^^v! Indeed, the run was so brilliantly exciting that I was left breathless and very very nauseous. Plus, we were running on the beautiful east coast park beach. And after what seems like forever on that damned desert dune, the sand gets less and less beautiful and more like quicksand. Plus, the t-rexes in front of me kept pounding giant craters in the sand for me to stumble and trip on.

It was a lovely run. At least this time I didn't throw up, collapse or hit a single tree or obstacle, and I am proud of myself.

Staggered back to school where we had the immensely exciting prize presentation in the scorching hot sun. Kapor did fantastic this year, bagging an amazing one (and the crappiest at that) out of a possible 3 (actually 9 ) awards. Then spent like 2 hours with Davis, Joseph, Joel and later the morbese ( morbidly-obese ) Tamim at the piano while we waited for Chun Yong to finish his thesis paper on how long you can make people wait before they explode Chemistry. Joseph and I shared very romantic moments on the hard wooden bench. Basically, he leaned on my shoulder because I koped his seat.

Joseph and Tamim left our company of merry men as Davis, Joel, ChunYong and I went to Parkway, Banquest for lunch. Took the Sambal Chicken Steak as usual, since I noticed too late that they had MEE HOON KUEY. Indeed, I was very =( Talked and crapped for like two hours before we all made our way home. Slept soundly on the bus ( with bandung ice-blended, $1.80 ) smuggled sneakily in my CRUMPLER ^^!

And there's church tomorrow and tuition tomorrow so I best be sleeping soon, seeing as that it's 12.11 A.M already. Hopefully Monday will be a day to go out and have fun ^^

Tag Replies [ZOMG]
Daniel: Hostility, not hospitality ^^ And Hotel Rwanda would kick ass man!
Kenneth: It is Cleopatra. The extra h causes it to be pronounced as 'phat/fat'
TWGuang: IT"S ALL ONE HUGE LINK! How to see anything!
Edwin: It's Cleopatra alright. And you're MARIA ^^