Second post, which u might notice is the day after my first post. dont expect daily updates like this (provided the blog even survives the experiment stage) because i ASSURE u dat im only gonna update at a once-a-week or once-every-few-weeks basis under normal circumstances.
today was our last chinese lesson. started off on a bad note, when 3/4 of the class epic-failed and lined up at the wrong area for assembly. yup, ms chong (my CT and also chinese teacher - talk abt "lucky") was not in a gd mood when lessons started. i think i slept through >50% of the entire thing, as per normal during chinese. it also ended 40min overtime (maybe fate wanted to prolong our suffering during this last tortu-i mean chinese lesson), but finally it was over. i would be feeling relieved if not for the fact dat chinese A levels is still only 3 days away. still not feeling anything though, maybe i should start studying... oh well, see my mood i guess.
after that, had a crazy taupok session. it was jeremy gan's birthday, so a bunch of 27s (me, jacob, edmund, chin, rayson, lionel) escorted him down to the field. i say "escorted" because he didnt rly try to resist; guess he knew dat it was inevitable. we chanted "jiong, jiong, jiong..." (jiong3 is some super-rare, olden times, currently out of use chinese word dat ms chong just taught us, and it looks like a sad emoticon :( )(i know it's completely random, but dats the 27 style i guess), and then proceeded to taupok him. 3 times in the span of 5min. vids should be up on facebook soon :). it sends chills down my spine to think dat my turn will be in 4 days... haha, wonder if i'll be able to survive the day without getting taupoked.
after that, had PW OP discussion. nothing much to say, i think "PW OP" is enough to describe how it went. there was a lighter moment though, when jun jie walked away to do some stuff and jacob decided to send all his super brie to kexuan (that's mousehunt btw, which i personally think is retarded, but it has 70% of everyone i know addicted to it, so wat can i say).
on the bus home, we talked abt some more random stuff. jun jie was saying how now's a very awkward time to start a blog, since everyone's been letting their blogs die and doing their bloggish stuff on facebook, but i feel that there's a distinct difference. facebook is so superficial, u scan through the wall and its like "hey, so-and-so had ice-cream today, ok lets move on". a blog, on the other hand, should be more insightful, shouldnt it? personally i'd prefer reading a blog to rly get to know more abt someone, facebook just has such a trivial feel to it.
still on the bus, we also talked a bit abt 27's class bonding, and there was a general consensus that it kind of sucks. ok, so it really sucks. its depressing to see that after a year as a class, we sometimes feel awkward even to talk to fellow classmates, esp so between guys and girls. of course, im not saying dat we should hook up all the people in our class with each other, but even on a strictly platonic level, i dont feel any link or camaraderie (is that how u spell it? oh well, u get the point). even during breaks or lectures or tutorials, there are very distinct invisible lines drawn in the seating plan: it's always guys one side, girls one side, prc scholars one side. its understandable that ppl want to sit with their friends, and that their gd friends are usually of the same gender, but the situation is so bad that whenever guys and girls have to sit tgt due to space constraints, there's the constant fidgeting and shuffling to see who will be the "buffer layer" who has to sit directly next to the other group. is that getting a tad overboard? or am i just over-reacting? oh well, maybe things will work themselves out eventually; nothing to do but wait and see i guess.
STILL on the bus (there was a jam), we also talked a bit abt the possibility of a class chalet/outing during the holidays. that discussion didnt rly go anywhere noteworthy, but i did start thinking abt the planned hockey chalet. response from they boys team doesnt seem too good at the moment: songko and guan hao cant go due to council retreat, and then there are some other ppl who so definitely wont go that im thinking abt this entire thing based on the assumption that they wont go. if things keep going on this way, i predict that this chalet will be as epic-fail as the june chalet.
here's another song from Protest The Hero. the mv version is rly cool, the band members play the song blindfolded for most of the entire video, but the album version is longer and has more of that awesome intro, so i decided to embed the album version. btw, this song has perhaps my favourite intro of any song ever (im talking abt the part after the piano part of the intro; the piano part is ok i guess, but not rly my style). so, here's Blindfolds Aside:
