okay i suppose i shall blog, as one usually does when something significant happens.

ROADRUN '05. woohoo. i actually ran a substantial fraction of it this year as opposed to last when i SERIOUSLY walked the WHOLE way [candy and zx. such memories. it makes me sad].

some funny stuff:

-bea and i trying very hard to find shortcuts but realizing nj outsmarted us by putting road marshalls at EVERY SINGLE BLOODY TURN.

-acs j1 going to the front of the j2girls crowd before the j2girls run started and trying to start the YAH cheer by jumping around waving his finger in the air [that's how the cheer is supposed to be started, btw] - well, he jumped around for a very long time before realizing the j2 girls just didn't give a penny. if his purpose was to attract attention - SUCCESS. if his purpose was to inculcate in us some form of school spirit - GAME OVER, pal. and the worst thing? this boy joined drama.

-at the final stretch at the track where we were visible to all [the house team blah blah blah] bea and i started running a very 'i've-been-running-my-whole-life-i've-been-running-throughout-this-whole-race' run while lingee and amanda walked and had a discussion,

amanda: do you think we can just cut across the field to the finish?
ling ee: huh?! i think you kai [IGNIS HOUSE CAPTAIN WOO BIG SHOT!] will shoot us. take a rifle from the shooting range and SHOOT US.

well that was that then.

-i still don't have the blue aqua house t after surviving many events where we were supposed to wear house t. because frankly no one cares an orange if you wear it or not. still, though, i aspire to be bothered enough to buy one by the time Sports Day rolls around. so instead joined ignis house so my red t would be less conspicuous and also had to do some forfeit ignis house was subjected to. rubbish stuff in attempt to build school/house/any sort of spirit.

-terence chew getting fourth even though his cut on his leg is so bad he limps when he walks. okay this is more inspiring and amazing than funny.

as you can tell, i'm not one with much nj spirit. like omg NJ ROCKS, LET'S CHEER MAN BRING IT ON!

it's not them, it's me. really. i can be sitting right in front of the house captains during an nj vs whateverjc soccer match and the guy will be telling me to cheer and i'll just sit there. you can hate me for it, i don't really care.

on the other hand. after roadrun we went back to sc. at first i was considering not going but in the end i'm glad i went. the minute i stepped in, all the memories of happiness just started flooding back. i was really on a high. and it was just the canteen. after satisfying our meepok cravings, we walked around the rest of the school. every part of that school has something special written all over it. every single part of it. like mrs quek said when she saw us, 'welcome home'. yes, welcome home. just before we left, sam said, 'there's something special about sc. there just isn't any other school like us.' and even though many other people from many other schools may say that about their own school - i biasedly would say like every other person that in our case IT REALLY IS TRUE:) fran claims sji has a similar special school culture. i don't know about that, but i do acknowledge one thing, without sji next to us, sc life wouldn't be the same. whichever way you want to interpret that is up to you. well, one example, you wouldn't get edna making cracks like these [i still remember this!]:

'why don't we have a brother school man..'

'maybe we should get sji to be our brother school'

'no, then we'd have a sister school'

walked home after that. and along the way saw some njcian i didn't know, obviously visiting sji. maybe fran is right.

met cher and zx. and ven for a while. watched the aviator with zx. beautifully directed, casted, acted and shot - but that's all. it was really rather a disappointing movie. disappointing and long. it felt long, which a good movie shouldn't feel like unless that's the effect the director wants to create, the effect of prolonged insanity, but i highly doubt martin scorsese, brilliant as he is, had that idea in mind. i think there was a point where i just started cracking up for no reason because the thing just got SO DRAGGY. perhaps you call me uncultured for not appreciating such a movie but frankly i think this is the typical oscar flick - of epic proportions, pretentious, and trying far too hard to be more than what it is. i prefer small, simply shot films with relatively unknown actors.

then while waiting for the cab for more than an hour at takashimaya taxi stand, we had the privilege of being in the queue behind an scgs girl and a BARKER boy - both of which were glued to each other. STOP IT!!! stop the PDAs in your uniform thing. it is very unsightly. and the whole sc-barker thing. ugh. as zx commented, 'aiyah. it's not like she'll marry him. a seconadary school fling with a little rich boy is quite acceptable.' i feel incredibly disturbed whenever i see couples in school uniforms. ESPECIALLY SCGS GIRLS and acs/sji[most of the time its really just either of these schools] boys. DON'T DISGRACE THE SCHOOL DAMMIT. it makes me so angry. oh well. i feel like an old, irate, spinsterish woman. but honestly, it really is just gross.

today i overslept and missed the current affairs quiz. bottomline: i'm screwed and irresponsible. will face berating on monday. oh well. somehow nowadays whenever i go out i can't feel happy or at ease because i'm too bugged by this innate sense of guilt in me for going out and not mugging like i should be.

+ posted by M @ 1:57 PM