Of being a Student and Staying Alive
Right..Monday...always the most dreaded day of the week..even when today is the earliest day of release and marks the beginning of the week with the longest holiday of the year...This monday still sucked..Chiefly due to the Econs test coming up later in the afternoon..and we had to wait for 5 straight hours for it to begin..Pretty huh?I wanted to go home actually...until Jia Ying wanted me to stay in the library to study with her and the rest of the gang..well since i dont think i wouldve been able to study at home i agreed to stay...and so we did for awhile..I went to the library to wait for Wan Jun and Shariffah's drama meeting to end..while waiting i had a chat with Jane who was busy mugging econs..Apparently she didnt make it as well..Anyway,she fell aslp soon after..So we ate in the school canteen(Me being the stubborn one of the lot..refused to eat at canteen because of the poor quality of food)then later went to my place to study...(Since its right beside the school..)I was exhausted by then..for some reason i was extremely tired today...couldnt keep my eyes open even for the lessons..in fact nothing went into my head during maths lecture..and that kinda worried me..And so we got to my place and we 'studied'...Yea i lied...we didnt exactly study.in fact JiaYing went on and on about wanting to exchange rooms with me..Saying that her room is boring and that my room is "Heavenly" she said...(Well true..but well your place is the ideal place to study eh?No Hifi no computers...perfect..)And so we just sat around my room and started talking about school and our class..it turned out that things have became pretty complicated between the Jiemeis..and the details i shall keep it disclosed..JiaYing told me about that someone which really made me think twice about them..(Not that i was very fond of them anyway...)Had a great chat with the girls...and learnt a lot about the relationships within our class..Now its became a little easier and less complicated than before..No cliques thats for sure..which is good..Im sick of girls(And guys..)forming cliques and blocking everybody out of that clique..then gossip about everybody outside their world..Why bcant everyone form one big bloody clique...Hmmm..anywayz..Mom wasnt exactly very happy that i didnt want to study..(When the truth is that i actually studied them yesterday and Mac)And he a long lecture with me in front of the kitchen..not that ive never had this kind of conversation with her..in fact conversations like these helps me to communicate with her better sometimes..and it helps me to think twice about what i am doing and what i am not doing..However,today was a whole lot different in the sense that i got into a really foul mood after that...Reason being that mom gave me her lecture in front of my friends...and im seriously uncomfortable with that..Though what she said kinda made sense..saying that me being a student should act like a student and study...(Not scolding nor was it a nagging...just talking..)Well,though i agreed with her..but the main problem with me anyway is the existence of laziness within me i must admit..i guess i just dont like to force myself to do things that i dont like or dont want to do...well you can call me a pampered person but thats not the word to use anyway..I just feel like i am wasting time studying what i am not interested in or what will benefit me in the future..like i told my friends...As if you use trigonometry formulas or integration formulas when you grow up to buy eggs in supermarkets..or buy a packet of chicken rice...make a deal with a businessman overseas or even in the music industry..i dont see how the stuff that we are studying now can be applied into our daily lives..In fact the only subject that is actually relevant is economics..(Sadly ive lost interest in it because of the constant Fs i get during tests and exams..)Anyway,later we took the test and it turned out fine...it didnt turn out as good as ive hoped it would be...but wasnt as bad as ive thought it would be..and by the time i finished it was already 6pm..and it was pouring outside the school...the covered walkway behind the school was literally flooded and the pavement to the backgate was flooded with rainwater...luckily benches were lined up side by side so the students hopped from onee bench to the other and managed to cross the 'river'...I met Eric on my way down the grandstand..normally i wouldve took the route down the slope to the front gate..then turn right towards home..but today it was raining really heavily so i managed to persuade Eric to fetch me..afterall his mother was picking him up from the carpark at the back of the school..But hell his mother was late..and we wandered around the market behind the school..he bought some tibits and a deck of cards..(For CNY he claimed..)I got impatient waiting for his mother so i ran into the rain and under HDB blocks..ran through the flooded carparks and across the monsoon drains which was now flooded with raging water..then through the HDB flats beside the school to the narrow walkway beside the drain..i was already wet by the time i reached home...Wait..Correction..i was Drenched instead...the old man stared at me as if he havent seen a drenched human being before.."Yeah you bloody lucky man has an umbrella and i havent got one.."Anywayz,took a long bath and locked myself in the room...Watched "Alive" on HBO only awhile ago..it was a pretty inspiring show..it talks about a group of football players who's plane crashed in the Andes in South America...and managed to live for 80+ days...29 died and 16 lived..and what they had for food?they fed on the dead...And guess what?it is based on a true story...Errie..Ive watched that show dozens of time when i was young..But i really forgot the story..now that ive watched it again it gave me chills and brought back childhood fears of flying in a plane..The sight of passengers being sucked out of the broken tail and bodies burning up..and having to feed on your fellow passengers for food..Nah...aint exactly the best situation ive hoped to be in..So i wondered if i was one of the passengers what would i have done..Be the leader and encourage the guys to stay alive or sit in the snow and wait for death to approach?Be the person who volunteers to cross the Andes or the one whining about not being able to fix the radio?Or simply the one being fed on...Creepy thought...But a movie that definitely left an impact..pretty awesome stuff there..

Quotes of the Day:
Narrator,'And so we were saved. Nando and Canessa breached the Andes and we were saved. Later a group went back and buried the bodies. They built a stone grave and on top of it, they placed an iron cross. There's nothing more I can tell you. '

Rafael,'Hey, I'll pay for pizza if you go get it.'
---'Alive'(1993)