Is this my third post of the week? i think it is. i managed to churn out three posts during a jam-packed school week; think i deserve a medal of some sort? maybe one of these days i'll make one out of paper mache. for myself. because i AM that much of an idiot :)
anyway, let's talk about yesterday first. after school there was a briefing for all the sapphire scholars. i think i left quite a bad impression of myself for ms oon (sapphire teacher coordinator) cos i keep forgetting about meetings and emails and stuff :X but in any case, one of the questions she asked during the briefing was what kind of a career path we wanted, and truth be told that question has barely crossed my mind, and im sure it hasnt for the others as well. in primary school and sec 1-2, we were basically led by the hand and studied whatever subjects the system wanted us to study. even when the option of choosing subjects opened up in sec 3 and in jc 1, there were still plenty of restrictions to guide us along (contrasting subjects, academic units etc) and in the end there was still plenty of backseat driving by the system. so when i realised that going to uni means having free reign of choosing one and only one subject to study, i got a bit worried. truly, choosing a uni course is a path of no return, and the scariest thing is that there's no such thing as "i'll just choose again" or "i'll just endure a bit and it'll be over", because it will ultimately lock us into one set of careers or another. i always become afraid whenever these kinds of decisions with wide-reaching consequences have to be made; maybe im too indecisive.
after the briefing i went to physics H3. im starting to feel like im way too slack to be in H3, cos everyone else there seems to walk around with 3 sets of notes full of scribblings while im always empty-handed. but at the end of the day, the teacher just comes in and blows our minds out, and it makes no difference whether you have notes or not. so i guess in that aspect im better than other students, cos im just as bad but at least i dont waste paper by printing notes :)
and then it was the OG10 outing! :D met up with a few of the other people who were still in school, then we went to just acia at marina square for dinner with the rest of the og. awesome fun talking cock with everyone, with hilarious rapid-fire suanning of myself, kaiwei, wuhong and jason due to our respective "scandals". and i think i ate more ice-cream than actual entree (ok, the word looks really dumb without the classy "tick" on top of the "e"), which means that nigel lim will probably kill me if he reads my blog :/ went home after that.
today was cny celebrations at school, but i think the focus was more on valentine's day instead. the exact same thing happened to me this year as last year: i told myself to prepare small presents for my classmates, then i forgot and ended up taking and taking and taking other people's gifts with nothing to return, which is really very awkward -.- but at least the OG10 ogls prepared cards for all our orientees (though it was mainly cass and sam who were doing stuff). im really glad to see that OG10 is so tight-knit now, and i really hope that it will continue after they get seperated into classes.
in the days leading up to today i've seen people put in so much effort for what i've always considered to be any other day of the year (coming from cat high and all), and i really find it intriguing that people can be motivated by such an abstract and intangible idea as romance to put in so much effort for this one day of the year: time, effort, money, teddy bears, cookies, pop-up cards, paper roses, foam roses, real roses... now i see why it has been said that love is nothing more than a special case of insanity. still, im not being critical or cynical about it cos i am after all still an outsider to all of this and thus have no right to judge. after all, insanity is all a matter of perspective.
random: thanks for the v.day note yicen, but the word is spelled valeNTINE, yeah? >.>
but just cos valentine's and cny are happening on the same day doesnt mean that we should neglect cny (at least that's what the school wants us to think, for obvious reasons...), so jacob and i actually dug out our rarely-worn chinese-style shirts that are usually only reserved for racial harmony day. we totally looked like kungfu masters or something lol. and the school's cny programme was actually genuinely entertaining, not just something we had to sit through like some other school-organised celebrations in the past. or is it just cos im starting to greater respect and appreciate the efforts of the student council and other such behind-the-scene groups? in any case, i have to say that the western dance performance seriously made my day: epic chinese fans + colour-changing dresses + light-up dresses totally took the performance by storm. and it was damn funny watching jacob getting stunned by the performance ("wow, i want a dancer girlfriend now!").
went back to cat high for a while after the programme. arrived just in time for some singing competition, and sad to say that the general amount of singing talent in cat high hasnt risen since we left. went for lunch with marcus, joshua and jerrell, then we walked around j8 a bit before going home.
well, the long cny weekend is coming up, and hopefully i wont be too caught up trying to catch up on homework to lock myself up in a room and mug for the entire four days. i swore when i came into NJC that no matter what the circumstances, i would never become one of the sereotypical muggers that the school seems to be so notoriously producing. what's the point of studying so hard, trying to get a good job in the future, if you end up spending all your time earning money but have no time to spend it?
junjie introed me to this awesome Bad Romance cover a few days back. drums are a bit too loud in relation to the other instruments in my opinion, but otherwise an amazing song. now, against all odds, im hooked onto Bad Romance. ~Rah rah ah-ah-ah, roma roma-ma, ga ga ooh-la la, want your bad romance~
