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Finally the holidays have begun. As usual, those sadistic tutors had decided to make our holidays a terrible experience for us by setting a grand total of 5 major tests on the very first week of school next year, and had piled huge stacks of assignments on us helpless students. Just for this 6 week holiday, I have 6 GP essays to complete, 200+ Physics Ten Year Series Questions, 8 Mathematics Revision Sheets, 5 Mathematics Assignment Sheets, 20 Mathematics SAT Exercises, 2 Chemistry Past Year Papers and 300+ Chemistry Ten Year Series MCQ Questions. I seriously doubt I can finish all these even if I work non-stop for the entire holidays.
Even though I have too much time on my hands now, there is positively no way that I would spend every single free minute with my head buried in my books. My holidays are meant for relaxation and not to succumb to my tutors excessive demands. I just want to work at my own comfortable pace, and allocate much time for leisure activities as well. After overworking us students for the past 1 year, do they still think they have the right to make us work during the holidays? Hah!
I had just realised with a shock that I hadn’t practiced bowling for almost 2 months, which means that I would be completely out of practice. Not that I had any skill in the first place, but my bowling would be positively worse if I continue neglecting it. For some strange reason, I had completely lost interest in the sport. In the past, it would seem as though something was missing from my weekly routine if I missed one personal practice session. But these days, bowling had been the last thing on my mind. My poor bowling ball and shoes had been sitting in the locker collecting dust and waiting for their lazy owner to come back and use them, but she never returned…
My family’s Genting trip (3-6th December) is approaching in two weeks time… My mother informed me last night that my family had decided not to head for Cameron Highlands on the December 6th, but instead redirected our destination to Bukit Tinggi resort. A few minutes ago, she had phoned me, requesting that I do some research on Bukit Tinggi and to dig out some good deals and accomodation prices. Managed to print out 5 information sheets on the place within the past 5 minutes and had read through them with great interest. But how personally, I’d still prefer Cameron Highlands because there is much beautiful scenery which I wanted to capture on my digital camera.
Oh well… I guess the scenery at Genting Highlands would do, not that there is much scenery to see there. There are absolutely too many hotels blocking the view :(
Had been playing pool at Yahoo! Games for the past 2 hours and now my right wrist feels so numb, probably due to it resting motionlessly on the computer table for a long period of time. I finally decided to stop after my wrist started hurting when I moved it.
This is what I call the Excessive Computer Usage syndrome, which happens when you hand is clasped over your mouse and keyboard for too long a time to an extent of it losing all sensation of movement. So far, I had been struck by this so-called syndrome for two times. The first happening in July this year when my left wrist continued to throb for three full days due to me typing too fast when I was using the computer. I wonder how many computer addicts in this world had already been struck by this syndrome. Care to share your experiences with me?
JW introduced the Virtual Pool game to me during our Project Work meeting yesterday. Being the usual curious person I am, I decided to try it out and I got hooked on it almost immediately, spending three hours playing it last night and a total of 4 hours today (2 hours in the morning and 2 hours at night). After playing it for so long, I have come to the conclusion that I am absolutely hopeless at the game, with opponents beating me at least 90% of the time.
However, there was something which I had learnt during the course of the game, and this lesson is… there are perverted people out there! I was playing with this 20 year old male half an hour ago and he started to chat me up. Thinking that it was only a friendly chat, I responded. As the game progressed, he started to ask me more and more personal questions until the last one became *cough* sexually-related. Completely ticked off at his attitude, I ended that game immediately.
This is throughly frustrating. Some people actually take the other party’s friendliness for granted and actually dare to go one step further to ask such questions. Now I understand what people mean when they say that the Internet is a good place to conceal your identity, although this is nothing new to me. Thank goodness I am someone who has the correct sense to ignore such people. What if the person he was chatting with happened to be come impressionable child? For instance, a nine year old girl who does not know how to deal with such a situation? She would definitely fall prey to such people and it is unpredictable what may happen after that.
From now on, I am going to be extra careful when responding to other people on Yahoo just in case it ends up to be another chee ko beh (Translation: “Pervert” in Hokkien) Either that or I’ll give up playing anything on Yahoo for the rest of my life. It all depends.
I currently have a head of horror, considering the awful haircut I got just now. My initially long silky hair has now been reduced into a horrifying mess and I would start gaping each time I stare at the mirror. I asked the hairdresser to layer my hair nicely, instead she went to chop off 3-4 inches of my hair. Now, my hair is so short that I can barely tie it, and would take at least 6 months before my hair grows back to its original length.
Groan… How am I going to face my friends in school tomorrow?
Speaking of hair, my friends and I had noticed a particular teacher from my Junior College who seems to be turning her long hair into a piece of art canvas. Her hair was initially dark brown, but recently, she had been arriving with her hair in a wide range of strange colours. The week before, she turned up with her hair in a slight tinge of pink. Last week, she appeared with dark green hair which reminded me of grass. On the other hand, my classmates and I spotted her during assembly today with blue hair.
The amount of giggling coming from the direction of my class during assembly today was audible enough to be heard by her, but she simply ignored us. Even the students from her own class were poking one another and pointing at her. Although it is unusual having hair in such strange colours, I must admit she is very daring to attempt such a stunt on her long flowing hair.
Hair issues aside, I have recently noticed that I am starting to get lazier and lazier. The A Level Chinese paper is already next week and yet I have not even touched my books. The sense of urgency is just not there and I am still indulging in my favourite activities such as watching TV, going online and reading instead of revising through my Chinese notes. I guess that a short period of break after the Promotional exams isn’t that good for me either, considering the fact that I would just procrastinate my studies over and over again because I would simply insist on more time for relaxation.
My ex-Chinese tuition teacher just phoned, asking on my views regarding Tampines JC. His current students are agonising over which JC to attend and thus, he wanted to ask my opinions. According to him, he had heard from many people that Tampines JC has very a horrible discipline standard and that the teachers hardly care about your academic performance. Who had loaded his mentality with such nonsense? With that eagle-eyed discipline master around, there is no way that the discipline level will drop. Also, some of the teachers are very good in their teaching abilities, such as Mrs Lim for instance.
Why do so many people think that Tampines JC is a terrible JC? That is just purely based on stereotype and not reality at all.