OK, finally an actual post with actual words after so long. I'll try to recall what I did as much as possible.
From the second day of CNY up till Sunday I was on a floating fish farm in the middle of the sea somewhere in Batam with aunts and uncles and cousins from my mother's side of the family whom I never knew existed O.O It sounds really awkward on paper, but actually it turned out pretty enjoyable. Sure, there were sunburns and splinters and cuts from barnacles and no electricity before 6pm, but the feeling of lying in a hammock at 4pm with the sun shining lazily on you and the wind blowing past you and the ground bobbing up and down with the waves more than makes up for all that (note to self: acquire hammock for personal use).
Yesterday there was an 09SH27 dinner, probably the last one for a long time since the February enlistees will all be going in one by one. It was the Dhoby Gaut Just Acia again, seems to have become our standard location for class gatherings when we're not going from school. As usual I ate way more ice-cream than I should :P (on a side note, they have slushies now which are actual really good, better than the 7-11 slurpees) Also, we passed around a birthday card for tzumi so that everyone could sign it, but jacob kept smudging it while trying to write in it -.- Oh well, in spite of, and because of, their epic retardedness, I'll definitely miss my friends. Hopefully I'll meet a few of them in Tekong (talking about the guys here obviously).
March is shaping out to be a life-changing month. It's not entirely because it's Prog Metal March though (but still, Prog Metal March plays a big role in its importance), but also because if the persistent rumours are to be believed, 'A' level results are coming out on 4th March. Quite without exaggeration, our entire future hangs in the balance of what is printed on our tiny little report slips on that day. It's crazy that so much can hinge on so little, but that's simply how it is in Singapore.
Another thing that is simply how it is in Singapore is of course NS. The first of the February enlistees already went in yesterday, and later today another group of them will check in, and after that is my batch on Wednesday. People keep asking me how I feel about it but honestly right now I don't have a good answer for them. I guess I've just been pushing it to the back of my head for so long that I haven't had the time to seriously think about it. I consider myself pretty talented at pushing undesirable thoughts to the back of my head; after all, that's how I could go on for weeks without doing homework and still not feel or anxious.
Speaking of not doing things, I still need to finish packing for NS. Also, I still haven't healed completely from this pretty big and pretty irritating ulcer I've been having for nearly about week now. Not that it's life-threatening or crippling or anything, but I just want to go in with as little to have to worry about as possible.
