she was the object of scrutiny, the girl everyone detested. but she knew she had to do this. she knew she had to do this, for his sake more than anything else. uttering a silent prayer, she stepped onto stage, only to be greeted by thunderous applause.

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Anyway, here's why its a good thing to take a nap JUST BEFORE dinner.

-firstly, you wake up with a good appetite for dinner (me at least).
- secondly, you tend not to oversleep because after all, you HAVE to wake up to complete your dinner.

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excerpt of the toilet scene last night:

there i was, standing in the middle of the toilet with a dripping wet face towel smashed on my face in a desperate (futile) attempt to freshen myself up and stop dozing off on poor maths.

few minutes later,
sis*pokes me*: stop doing that! later suffocate then you know!
me: but there's oxygen in tap water! molly said so.
sis*repoked me*: ya and you think you have the ability to take in the oxygen from WATER?

ok so i admit i don't have gills and all, but poking me was uncalled for.

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my sis is retarded. i swear. she actually skipped into the room earlier and pounced on me with her filthy paws and flashed a megawatt smile at me. according to her, 9-9.15pm is her daily "disturb mei mei" time. and this "time" will occur at least 3 times daily. great. just great. now besides having to pacify her to teach me maths, i have to tolerate her disturbances. GREAT.

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MONDAY!

CME was actually interesting. mrs hoo told us about how she had to go for two down syndrome tests for her kids and jf just HAD to yell to the whole class that my mother's doctor read the results wrongly 16 years ago and actually thought that i had down syndrome. to think that i was so close to being aborted(ok sensitive topic sod it)! *shivers*

we had PE earlier and 3 loyalty joined us. some girl from loyalty ended up screwing the timings and position 13 onwards couldnt get an accurate timing. i was at 12 though. clocked 14.39. need to shave off 28 seconds for an A.

ME: now i'm starting to wonder if the 6 rounds we run every PE lesson has got anything to do with the 6 points we're all gonna get for Os!
Beverly*snorts*: hah. then why don't they tell us not to run at all so we can get zero points?

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anyway, we stayed back to finish bio and i got insulted for my apparent lack of speed by maybe about 3 people or more. :/

complained to jfeng about my height (am currently a depressing 5 cm shorter) and she said i had NOTHING to worry about because i was short like Nanoha and that my badminton racket is raising heart anyway. wth SO NICE of her. -.- she also said that since Fate was tall, she wanted to grow tall too and buy a skipping ROPE.

in a bid to buy her skipping rope(quest 1), we ended up trekking through deserted alleyways (saw whole bunches of bananas hanging around and decided that if we become beggars next time, we'll know where to go to find free food) and strolling through a mini forest/park. we walked for AGES, got a bit lost and came by about one or two crossroads, where we turned right on my insistance (since the right path is always the right route to me). after about a zillion years, we turned a right fork and whoosh! AMK library materialized out from nowhere. AND jf's house was right in line of view too!!

damn cool, we actually discovered YET another way to walk.

quest 1 failed and so we "inevitably" ended up at tenchi again. that place seriously cracks me up, what with all those almost prn comics on display which is Rated 18 and that big fat MARIO softtoy at the corner in which i seem to find great joy poking and punching at.

it's funny how the people there can only speak chinese and canto! jf and i are such total failures. we cant converse in chinese for nuts!! first off, we forgot how to say "last week" in chinese and fumbled for so long, before i finally came up with "前一个星期“ when the actual one is probably "上个星期“。THEN, we wanted to ask where the rental place was and after several failed attempts amidst the giggling, we finally managed: "猪的地方在哪里？" and received a weird look from the person. AARGH. chinese!!!!

oh and in my desperate attempt to find the right phrase to say about the rental place, i accidentally jabbed a softtoy brown dog on display and it started SINGING AT THE TOP OF ITS VOICE WTF. the dog continued singing like nobody's business during its 10 seconds of fame before jf finally had some sense to rejab the dog again and shut it up. by then, we had invited quite a lot of stares and jf went, "OMG you're embarrassing!! you're like this kid at a toy shop and i have to be your controller!!"　

started on a look-for-comic-spree and after probably a whole fricking hour, we ended up sprawled on the floor reading titles aloud to each other, which included "麻烦小孩“， “魔法王子”，“青年欢欢”and even "kiss me". the salesperson walked past us twice and gave us THE LOOK twice. we obliviously continued yelling the titles at each other until one fateful minute, when we both decided to read the notice on one of the shelves. It read:

"PEOPLE CAUGHT SITTING DOWN WITHOUT NUMBER TAGS WILL BE FINED 30 BUCKS"

!! okay so that finally explains the weird look the salesperson had.

ZAOed home thereafter. eep, almost got fined 30 bucks each!

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TUESDAY!!

tuesday was "oh-so-fun". tkam people had lit test and i lazed around talking to yanlin my old old old tablemate for pretty long. :)

got whisked off to the library by roxanne afterwards and me, her and xinying got dispatched down to the old, musty PE room to pick through the whole bunch of books and tick off a list to find out whether all the books there are accounted for.

me the mini slacker ended up being so fascinated by a small colourful box that i brought it to my ear and started shaking it vigorously. apparently, susan lim caught my action and gave me A LOOK. she then proceeded to say with a smile:

"girl. those are just FLASHCARDS. just open them up to see if you're so curious. you don't have to torture them so badly."

that sort of cracked me up, even though i have no idea why. so i cackled a bit and went on looking for those missing books.

reported back to khong and VOILA! another trip had to be made to the MEP room this time to sift thru maybe a thousand books?!! jonathan cher gave up after 20 seconds and left us to our own devices. xinying and i almost died at the end of just one shelve and i made use of that opportunity to put my feet on a teacher's chair. =D

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tuition was funny. as usual. we started randomly taking videos and supposedly unglam pictures of each other and talked about the benefits of WII and horror movies. our teacher was an active participant too! took 2 unglam shots of her and she just smiled and shook her head at me "sadly". wanted to announce to the world in the underground place that my name was mary, but jacob had to spoil everything by telling my real name. :/

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WEDNESDAY!

haha! wednesdays are THE DAY man. jerked thru the day with lit test (flunk worthy), A maths test (ultra flunk worthy) and mind draining chinese and english lessons, where we were told horrific stories about childbirth and how painful the process of raising a baby can be.

wang shan shan: "my RU3 was 硬到像个石头，痛死我了！”

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after learning club, jf and i maintained tradition by being the last to leave the class as usual. tried YET another different route home though. this time we walked by the whole (LONG) stretch of horizon garden houses and talked a whole load of stuffs ranging from possible stories wrenched from our oh-so-warped imagination to wild thoughts of being attacked by unicorns.

we walked for AGES and somehow ended up at the deserted park/mini forest again. got approached by 2 creepy looking sec 1 girls from yck sec? and they told us that they "lost their juniors in the park and that we should be careful since it's probably gonna storm and all". maybe we're just stuck in this real life computer game and are supposed to finish the side quest of "bringing back the juniors" before we can go back to our REAL WORLD. ok shit. i'm digressing like mad!! :/

we continued the random walk and came face to face with 2 HUMONGOUS(REALLY HUGE, like i dunno, the size of half a face?) spiders(PHOBIA!) in a LARGE web. plus there was a buddhist pendant stuck in between two branches where the spiders were living at. HMM. bet is some sort of mystical spider beings and shit, there i go again. yelled and screamed and jumped and tugged each other like mad trying to escape from the huge web without coming in contact with either of those huge murderous spiders. (i knew we were still stuck in a real life computer game. i just knew it)

saw a bodiless chicken head on the way back too.

seriously, every wednesday promises something new and interesting. xD

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tomorrow's motivational workshop with one none other than ADAM KHOO. i remembered him from my primary FOUR days, where he tried selling to us his "i'm gifted, so are you" book. i dunno, but if everyone's really gifted, such a word wouldnt exist anymore right.