I know I promised that my posts won’t be “emo” anymore but I just can’t help it can I ? And I guess, if I really force myself to not type these kind of posts, I’ll lose my only way of letting it all out. Then it would be bottled up, isn’t that worse ? Sorry that I couldn’t fulfill my promise. Everday, dozens of incidents happen and through them, you understand life better and also yourself. I have to say that I’m understanding myself better, every single day of my life is not wasted because of that.
Today was an eventful day I guess ? Actually everyday is but I wonder why I’ve lost the incentive to blog about them anymore. Somehow, it’s getting difficult to recall all the happenings in the mornings and afternoons. I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with my memory so I wonder why my mind is refusing to do all these tasks. Laziness ? I doubt so. Even if I know, I guess I would choose not to accept the fact. I’ve realised this digusting trait of mine long ago. Even if the truth is right in my face, I would still run away from it. Weak huh ? Whatever now.Â
Let’s just get on to what happened today. In the morning, we had a economics talk by Dr Yen. Was that his name ? Seriously, I can’t recall but it ain’t that significant as compared to what his talk was about, well at least that’s how my brain graded the priorities. He talked about the current finanicial crisis, what led to it and what has the US done to rectify it. And, I suddenly feel that I’m really just a frog in a well. Whatever he mentioned, I’ve no single clue about it. Much to catch on, Enghwee, much to.Â
But thanks to him, I’ve learnt a lot today. How everything works and that diagram at the last slide. How the consumers, firms and finanical institutions are linked together. Everything is just a circular cycle. Something happens and it affect the other, then it leads on to affect another and so on. The cycle doesn’t stop unless something major happens. And thats what did which led to this crisis we are facing now.
Yupp. We had a meaningful Q&A session though only 2 students went up to ask questions. And they are in fact very relevant. I could never think of them or would I even be able to summon up the courage to ask, even if I have.Â
GP lecture was quite interesting. We did Application Question. The text was about Mr Nathan’s speech on Singapore’s progress and the challenges that are to come. The points were pretty straight foward which served as a good practise. One of the students that presenter her answers really impressed me. Her standard of language just shows how much I have to work harder. WeiQin added in a valid comment ” That’s the difference between an arts class and science class”. I couldn’t agree much more.
Economics lesson was as usual I guess. Not much to elaborate about.
Computing lecture. I was feeling really guilty because I didn’t pay attention. I was busying highlighting some nonsensical points so that I can pretend that I’ve READ the GP content notes. Lying so well through the fact that I’ve not of course. The only chapters that I’ve really read and not browse through are Terrorism and War. Jolene was doing the same. And we were busy complaining that MingSheng was going to put us in a dangerous position because he kept attracting attention from Mrs Liang. He was scolded once for sleeping and another for using the computer. I mean, we’re in no position to blame him as we’re not even focusing in the first place. So much for being such “good” students.
Break was the best and shortest period of the day. Jeannette and I satisified our cravings for that usual dish every thursday. Something that cannot be missed. After eating, I quickly scanned through my Physics notes despite knowing that it won’t make any difference and also completed my GP assignment.Â
Physics period was one of the worst. The first question of the test stumped me hard. Darn. I guess I’m never lucky in taking risks. All those I gave up would always come out. Next time you need a hint for tests, you know who to look for. I won’t even hope that I would pass because I know it’s impossible. I should just forget about it.
Maths lesson was more of a stoning lesson. I’ve realised that I could never fall asleep during lessons. But I blank out quite often. I was caught once by Mr Wen where he said bluntly to me “Enghwee, stop staring blank”. I quickly snapped out of it and gave that “angelic” smile to cover up my guiltiness. Sitting beside RenZhi and Weiqin really helps because they would always try to help me when I don’t understand certain concepts.
GP lesson was the most fun lesson, at least for the crapping part. I mean, it’s one of the only lessons where we can talk and joke around. Besides, Ms Mok is the only teacher that would joke along with us, not forgetting Mr Wen and Mr Phang. Oh, actually there’s more. Okay, forget what I said. Back to the point, we did this text on turkey and animal abuse. Just to digress a bit, I really did watch this documentary before about the living conditions of these poor creatures we feed on. The documentary which I still remember vividly was screening on KBS channel. There were english subtitles of course. These poor roosters and hens were treated really badly. There were 3 roosters squeezed in a 3m by 3m small cage where they can’t even move. Some were pecked to death by their “roomates” . And the corpse is just left there to rot. On the other hand, hens are forced to lay eggs every single day. They are forced to breed. They are also fed with an excess amount of nutrients that would make them plump and some were fed to the extent that they couldn’t even stand. If you didn’t understand what I meant, they are so heavy till their poor feet can’t contain the weight and collpase. That’s how it is. Despite feeling sad for these chickens, I still have to say, I’ll still eat them. Hah. So much for feeling pity huh ?
Oh, before I forget. Finally, Ms Mok’s punishment system was put into place. Muthu, Weiqin and Cheewee forgot to bring them GP content notes to class today though WeiQin’s one was really AHH ! She left it in the car in the morning. So yeah :l Going back, the punishment was that the people sitting at the left and right of them would have to do an essay outline, not sparing themselves either. So yupp, I’m down. I guess the most innocent victim of that period would have to be awarded to Shannon who got a double combo from Cheewee who did not do his GP assignment too, resulting him having extra pieces of assignments. An essay outline and a full length essay. Jennifer, Kenneth and JiaJie got dragged down too by Muthu and Melvin. I realized that this is even more contagious than the H1N1 virus. So in this case, Cheewee would be SARS and the others being H1N1.Â
After GP lesson was computing lesson. The misunderstanding starts here. Really badly too. A couple of people were fustrated and all. Well, I can’t say its not my fault either. What happened was like this. Jolene and I saw Mr Ho during the morning computing lesson, so we tried to negotiate with him to shift the computing practical to tomorrow because we have not prepared for it, which we doubt anyone did either. But we were terribly wrong, Ash had prepared till 3am for it. So I guess, on that part, I apologize and admitted that I’m really in the wrong for not getting the consensus of the people. Mr Ho agreed and we informed everyone that was outside the computer lab. When Mrs Liang came, we told her about it based on the fact that she has mentioned in the previous lesson that if Mr Ho was okay with the swop, she was fine with it. However, we were so disappointed as she said she had lessons so she couldn’t accept that swopping of lessons. So we decided to let the entire matter drop.
Who knows, when the second computing lesson came, it was a huge mess. Suddenly, it was Mrs Liang’s lesson again. Jolene and I were really shocked. Many cheered and of course me too because like the others, I didn’t prepare for it. Well, of course when there’s a big group of people, there are bound to have conflicts. And, yeah. It did happen. And so, I couldn’t really understand that fact and I was quite irritated by it. Jolene too. I mean, we had our side of the story and the others have too. But this entire matter, it’s really just an entire misunderstanding. But I have to say that the fact that we did not get everyone’s nod for swopping the lessons was wrong. So yeah, another lesson learnt. We have to be sensitive about others’ feelings and besides, they are a part of this class. It was unfair to not consider their feelings.Â
Yupp. That’s what happened today. A total of 1609 words posted in this super duper long boring post with no pictures, nothing. Words and more words !
Well, time to sleep already . Have a good night.
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By the way, Junyo looks really cute with the apron in the end baking the cookies ! xP Jandi and Junpyo cookies ! 
