Monday, August 07, 2006 5:14 PM
I was sitting in class beside Jieru as always and was feeling an urge to blog, nowadays I think the touch of the keys on my keyboard gives me a sense of security, like everything will be alright as long as my keyboard feels normal. If anyone ever removed my keyboard I would be really really sad, though I won't cry la=) It has that wonderful in-between-soft-and-hard touch that no other keyboard has, not even one of the same model because I have used this keyboard for so many years it is like a friend to me. That is why I so hate using my brother's laptop except when I have to do work urgently, the keys are tooo soft for my liking! Today's post should be quite long, I just want to feel the keyboard forever and ever. I don want the magic of that un-soft, un-hard touch to simply disperse...
ChineseI did not bring home zuo ye, and somehow Jean found it when she stayed back in 6L. hahaax, still remember her calling me and me asking her to bring home for me so that she may pass to me today!=)) If not, I ould have to run upstairs to grab it from the possibly locked classroom. I rushed through the zuoye while cls was talking. phew! Nevermind, I think I did all that I could do. No need to feel guilty. We did xiao ce yan corrections. I did really badly. nevermind! YJ n Christabelwere paired up because they had the same marks! What affinity! But afterwards YJ found a mistake in his paper so they were half mark away from each other. I meant that both literally and ...... 'abstract-ically'. They are really half a mark away from each other. Really! I got 47, was rather disappointed, but got over it because of the fact that I got full marks for both OE Comprehension and tian xie yao dian-the only 2 open-ended sections in the paper. Enough about chinese, there is still 2 hours after school for me to talk about later!
CMEMr Pang's hairstyle made him look like he just got out of bed, and also a little like he just stepped out of Institute of Mental Health. lolx. We did a simple quiz on the members of parliament. Our group, Survivors, won! Well, we are not called 'Survivors' for nothing, right? Nothing interesting happened, it was just the usual mr-pang-lesson.
MathsWe did some maths paper. It was not really that hard, an Jieru was really careless, so she owes me a few marks le! oh wells, I do owe her some marks for the last practice paper too, yeh, so it always happens like that between the two of us.
English
It was really boring, but since this is a critical moment, I perked myself up to listen. 'Perked' is not very accurate, I was literally dozing off, never mind, I tried all that I could do...
Overlooking the fact that the lesson was as a whole, boring, I did learn quite a lot from it. Mrs Ortega was looking really pale and ill, I think I was quite sorry for her and thus decided to listen attentively. She was explaining the compare and contrast between the behavior of the narrator befor and after he gave the injection to Monty. i knew the answers to many of her questions, but really could not be bothered to answer them since everyone else were drifting off to sleep. I noticed BS sleeping on the table and Mrs Ortega did not even BAT an eyelid. She must really be very ill mans! Poor thing!
I had quite a few realizations durin her lesson though, but they were realizations that can never be properly explained in layman terms or words. I guess I can try. I somehow ound that many meanings can be derived form one word, and I was practising how to use symbology in my compositions in my head, while listening to her lesson AND talking to Jieru. 3-timer. I did not really suceed because I was trying to focus on her lesson. Now I just thought of one symbology.
I lay flat on the cool, moist grassland, inhaling the pastures. Gazing up at the ominous sky, I watched the raindrops go pitter-patter on my face. Those raindrops, so pure, yet so bitter.
I think the last sentence has abit of symbology, though rather subtle. Raindrops are pure because of their beauty, yet bitter because of the inconvenience caused to mankind by their presense. Does not make sense right? I am always like that lolx.
Chinese supplementaryWhile cls was droning about who-knows-what, I was doing the 3 pieces of chinese revision papers. I did most of it and Jieru did some before we exchanged answers. For the paper which is one entire "mock test", I did all the MCQ and Jieru simply copied, but I left the Openended fo her and I to do ourselves at home. Chanwei had to do this demonstration of oral since he got the highest in class. I think he was rather nervous about the entire thing and stumbled more than what i THOUGHT he would from his standard. I was thinking that we really should take it as a normal oral and not be nervous. I guess only the person going through it will understand the feeling and I, an audience, should reserve no right at all to criticise him. All in all, I think he did rather okay.
End of my boring day. Sometimes I feel like this entire life is a whirling routine. We start on Monday and end on Friday, rest 2 days and start all over again. But still I am trying to prevent such thoughts from entering my mind, I still hold on to this belief that routines are barely routines if followed non-routinely. I guess it is all up to us to find our own happiness or source of happiness. Only we and we alone can find it and know it when we find it. When we finally chance upon it, we will know it at once, just like how we know that the sun rises from the east and sets in the west, just like how we know our name and will never forget it. I guess finding our true happiness will be much harder than we think, because all this metal infrastructure and sturdy sky-scrapers are blocking the clouds from floating and blocking our line of sight. Looking past these strip of metal and towards broader horizons would be ... not easy. oh wells.
-zhe-en flew off to the apple tree in her garden-
