Of the Misplaced
Yawn.I hate Wednesdays.I used to like it,if not love it.Now,i hate it.Why.First:Lessons starts at 810am and it stretches to 1110.No breaks.Second:Weilien is released at 1110am,his guitar practise starts at 230pm.Calculate the number of hours Weilien has to wait in school before he can start practising.Go figure.Third:Guitar practise itself.Thankfully,i do have my fellow classmates to fill up the time and act as time-killers.Last Wednesday i actually spend the time studying in the canteen.(Yeah,study.Dont raise your eyebrow.I saw that.)Today,Rachel,WanWei and JiaYing wanted to go out and have lunch together.I was hungry,and i didnt have anything in mind.I couldnt gone home but,with my comfortable bed and soft pillows,its hard to get back out again after that.So i tagged along with them and took a bus to Junction 8.It has officially turned out to be our favorite hangout.Its not as if it is the best place to hangout but,at least we are not associated with the NYJC-ians who hangout at Ang Mo Kio and Serangoon Centrals,and think that those are the most "happening" place in Singapore.Like the joke that goes around the students,"NYJC-ians probably dont know where Orchard Road is when asked of its location.They would probably answer an unknown and distant province of China."Im glad that i dont belong under that "Sua Gu" or "Mountain Mushroom" category.Anyway,we went to this Ramen store at the basement,which name i cannot recall.The girls ordered noodles with names.Those noodles had names written at the bottom of the pictures in the menus.I am not a big fan of noodles,save for my mother's cooking.So i searched for rice,and found it under the "Today's Specials" page.Well,those didnt have names.So when the waitor asked what i wanted,i said,"Erm.This one doesnt have a name,so I'll get this one."I pointed it out to him and he went,"Alright.Set C."I replied,"Set C?Thats the name?"Alright,that was pretty dumb.But then again,what was i supposed to say?The food was cool,the crab meat was a gift from heaven,and the Sashimi was awesome.The bill,however,turned out to be an eye-opener.It totalled up to 47 dollars.Wow.I know Japanese food are expensive,but i didnt realise it was THAT expensive.5% GST.Argh.Screw the taxes!Anyway,so we paid reluctantly and went back to school.Rachel had badminton,JiaYing had Tennis,WanWei had some interview and i had guitar.(Yay.)I hate guitar practises nowadays with a passion.They are boring,especially when we are learning the Syncopated Clocks Song.As much as i love guitar,i had playing notes.Im better at chords and strumming.Not memorising notes and picking.A couple of notes,fine.A whole song full of notes?You are kidding.Never tried that,will never like it.And i didnt.Tomas started his lesson,and we were asked to play the song.Great.I sat there like the statue of Stamford Raffles.The differences were probably the position and colour of both of us.Notes started to dancing on the song sheets,and lines started to merge and swirl.My fingers started to dance all over the frets until Tomas noticed and nagged.Yeah,if you actually taught me how to play,with the "Slow-Mo" button pressed.Anyway,so throughout the whole practise i felt pretty stupid sitting on the front row,staring.Time crawled,time crept,time went on.And by the time it was 530pm,i was rubbing my eyes and wiping tears off my face.He ended the session soon after,and i threw my guitar into the casing and dashed out of the room as soon as possible.(Exaggeration.)The school was pretty empty at 6pm,save for the pugilistic girls practising their swords.I admired them for awhile as i walked towards the fountain.Saw Mr Hanis,and quickly tucked my shirt into my pants.Close call.Anyway,i walked out into the late afternoon.There was no wind,and the ground was pretty wet from the shower a couple of hours before.I pulled out my headphones and pressed the buttons to the 13th track."The Field of the Pelennor".Bloody nice track.As i walked down the slope at the side of the carparks,i start to think about how things around me seem to have changed.Or perhaps i have been the one changing all along.I have been misplacing a lot of things.The passion for guitar,the motivation to study,the girl.Which i will not elaborate,again.I wonder where i placed them.Damn,the habit of misplacing things is getting onto my nerves.Irritating.I hope i find them soon.At least the first two i mentioned.Fine,at least the second.I really dont want to lose out on this battle of the results and grades.I admit,to have lived in Singapore for the past decade or so,has made me a semi-Singaporean.In the sense that,i am kiasu in terms of studies.Luckily,that aspect of kiasu-ism is not shown elsewhere other than my academic life.Life stinks,but what the hell can i do.Bite some nails and hold some breath,and everything would be over.Things to look forward to after the As:Dinner & Dance,Backpacking trip,slacking time.Taiwan,perhaps.In the mean time,more tutorials.I hate complex numbers.It is so complexed.Nicely named,ancient Mathematicians.Piss on you.

Song of the Moment---Let Go by Frou Frou



Drink up baby down
Are you in or are you out
Leave your things behind
'Cos it's all going off without you
Excuse me too busy
Writing your your tragedy
These mishaps you bubble-wrap
When you've no idea what you're like
So let go jump in
Oh well what you waiting for
It's alright
'Cos there's beauty in the breakdown
So let go just get in
Oh it's so amazing here
It's alright
'Cos there's beauty in the breakdown
It gains the more it gives
And it rises with the fall
So hand me that remote
Can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow
Such boundless pleasure
We've no time for later now
You can't await your own arrival
You've twenty seconds to comply

Frou Frou is a new band.Wait,maybe they are old.Anyway,they are virtually unknown.I love their songs.Those who are into moody songs should try their album.I recommend tracks like,"Shh","Let Go" and "The Dumbing Down of Love".Awesome.Haha.Whatever is Frou Frou?