Of the Red and Blue Balloons
*Sniff*Damn.I think im sick.Literally.Mustve been the rain i ran through just now when i came home from J8.Sigh.Really dont want to head for school tomorrow.I need a break.Afterall,i havent skipped school for this half of the year.(Lets not talk about classes,shall we?)Anyway,today is the annual Sports Day.It was cancelled last year due to SARS,and this year it was successfully held in our school's field.We got down to the grand stand,and the Dragons were pushed to the extreme left end.It was burning hot,and the sun was just about to peek over the HDB flats.We settled down on the grand stand,and flags were distributed to the crowd.Not to mention those little gongs.Anyway,the races started in no time,and the boredom started.The crowd was pretty dead,though i expected worse.Hey,there was sound.So that's something to cheer with.The newly elected house captains are pretty good.They made an effort to bring the spirit high.Though on the whole they did not succeed,but you can see that they tried.Good job.I think her name is Michelle.Not sure about the Indonesian guy.(I think.)Anyway,as the sun crept up the steps,we began to sweat.WenLai,who was sitting beside me got pretty uneasy and started fanning herself with the flags.I on the other hand,started listening to my discman.Damn,I love John Mayer.We did a couple of cheers,and to be honest they were pretty good.I didnt know the lyrics though.Some thunders and some aspiration thing.Hmm.I just did the actions.I was pretty bored most of the time,save for the occasional lead from the runners of Dragon House.I would stand up and cheer for about a minute or so.I was tired,and didnt feel like doing anything.(Slept at 2.30am yesterday.)Everyone didnt seem to enjoy the event.Most of them were staring into nothingness.Shariffah for example,just stared at the field for a while.I kept drinking mineral water distributed by Ng Kim Teck.Got really thirsty.Mr Tong was the mascot of our house.He dressed up as a green dragon,and that was pretty hilarious.He's a joke,a good one.Tai Ee,on that other hand,was a bad one.He rolled his sleeves up and cheered the crowd on.His armpit hair was showing and...i shall not continue yeah?Anyway,i did not pay much attention at all to the event,so i shall stop here.While i was heading for the toilet,caught a glimpse of her talking to her friends at the Milo Truck.Wondering i will see her during the guitar session later.:)

I met up with the rest of the gang.Only a small group of J1 guitarists gathered in the hall,while the J2s were nowhere in sight.They came,eventually.We met up with the J1s and introduced ourselves.Some people they already knew.Like Ahmad,Debbie and LiPing.Debbie and LiPing being the President and Vice President,and Ahmad being the attention seeker.(Haha.)We got into a circle,and i managed to remember a couple of names.Erm.I shall not name them here.Not a lot of them turned up,at least she didnt.Sad.But what the hell,i can live with that.It was fun anyway.We did the "Whacko" game,where someone with a rolled up newspaper will go around hitting people's heads unless they sabotage somebody else.Somebody actually remembered my name.I totally didnt expect that.Since the last time,nobody did.(Chinese names,its a pain in the ass i know.)It was pretty fun i must say.Anderson visited us from America,so thats nice.He's having his holidays now,and he's visiting the school,in uniform.(Pretty damn dumb huh?)So,we finished that game eventually.We proceeded on to this balloon stepping game.It was pretty easy actually.Basically,step on the opponents' balloons.Till the last one standing.In this case,it was the J1s VS J2s.We were all pumped and ready to go.But first,the balloon test.I can never get a balloon inflated.Didnt know that is a problem shared by lots.Norman,a J1 helped us with it.Haha.Big lungs.Should join band as a saxophone player.Anyway,we tied the balloons to our legs,and started the game.It was a mess at first,everybody was trying to step someone else's balloon,while trying to avoid being stepped on themselves.Soon enough,most of the J2s were out of the game.I on the other hand,kept running about jumping everywhere.I figured,that if i keep jumping it'll be harder for them to step on my balloons.I got a red,and a blue one,and they were pretty huge i must say.Easy targets.I tried stepping on their balloons,but some of them were really fast in reaction.I went up from behind Tee Oii and tried to burst his balloon.I stepped on it,it didnt burst.That happened over and over again.I had a girl's balloon right under my feet,and it wouldnt burst.Argh.This Malay guy was stepping on my balloon as well,while i was not paying attention.He couldnt burst it as well.Haha.In the end,i had both my balloons in good shape.Heh.Anyway,the J2s lost.Sadly.No forfeit though.Not yet.Next game was the Monkey game.I forgot the name of it,but you are supposed to grab the object from the centre of the two rows when your number is called.(Yeah,that one.)The J2s cheated.We just ran out there,whatever number they called.Haha.Bad bad bad bad bad.But we didnt care.I was next,and when they called the number 10 i just rushed out without knowing what my number is anyway.The girl was pretty fast,but i hooked the can away from her and kicked it away.Ran after it,picked it up and ran back to my group.Haha.Well,they didnt say anything about kicking,did they?Well,after that no kicking was allowed.I scored anyway.Haha.We even strategised to rush up together to block the J1s while someone else picks up the can.Evil J2s.It was lots of fun,but the J1s wanted to play something else,since we had time.So they came up with a game,and see which group could form the longest line,with whichever object in sight.The J1s started taking off socks,watches,shoes,belts,you name it.The J2s thought of another evil plan.When the J1s were done,the guys went to one end of the J1's line,and the girls went to another.We sat down at both ends of the line and said,"There,longer."Haha.We cheated,again.But it was all for the fun of it.In the end,Ahmad was forced to do forfiet.Haha.That was funny.Did this breakdance,which was pretty alright for an amateur like him.We had fun,an aching back,and lots of sweat.Ahmad,Grace,Debbie,Yilin,XinYu,Dini,LiPing and I went to J8 after that for lunch.Had Sakae Sushi.It was great,too small a serving.Started talking about ghost stories,which made XinYi retreat into the corner.Haha.Took some photos and hey,i did not blink.Thats got to count for something.Alright.I dont want to crap anymore.It was a good day,save for the running nose.Goodnight and,bye bye.

Song of the Moment---Wild World by Mr Big