YWhat Is Observed While Floating
Yay! This house believes that Myanmar should be allowed to chair ASEAN in 2006! a14 beat s73 2-1 to clinch the Hwa Chong inter-CT debate 2005. YEAHHH. Meanwhile, I embarrassed myself in front of Burge and Perry by saying something completely contradictory to what Kai Siong had said before me (according to Lucas, at least) but hey, at least I earned a compliment from some s73 guy. According to him, everyone who spoke in the debate was really vicious except for "this MG girl who stood up during the crossfire round". All right.
They're really on to this siew-jie, tai-tai thing, aren't they? How strange. So far I've gotten at least one remark on siew-jie-ness a day, the latest one being that I'd make the best housewife out of all the girls in the class. Are they CRAZY?? I can't even COOK, and I hate to sew. :P
It's funny how our class has begun to clique (I don't know what's the verb of clique so I'll just make it clique). I'm still the drifter (and I've begun to enjoy drifting, actually), and it's interesting to watch the class slowly separate into two entities. Birds of a feather flock together, but it's not due to superficial common interests...oh no, it's far more intrinsic than that. Things will get a little more complicated with the addition of a new person in about a month's time.
I've lost track of what time it is now...Goofy time or Donald Duck time. Regardless, next week is History essay and Scholarship Interview week, and marks 3 months since the beginning of school. 3 months doesn't sound long until you realise it's a quarter of a year, and then things start sounding optimistic.
I should get back to the countless extracts I've got to read for the essay. I wish we were doing Plath for Lit; it's so much more interesting than Blake. Blake's fun at the first reading but he gets a bit repetitive after a while. Anti-organised religion and suppression, all that (though London is fantastic). Same imagery all the time (water=materialism and stars=oppression??). Plath's imagery is fascinating, though. I want to know how people do that. Maybe we'll get her next year.
Blessed is finally going to take place tonight. I always feel that even though the youth are the ones who are running the show, it's the adults who are the ones losing sleep over it. Cos they're always pushing us, springing surprises on us, even. We're just sort of reacting to things half the time, taking orders. Just a thought.
Justin told me something a while ago about loving your country. I've forgotten the exact words, but it sparked off a thought in me. More of a wonderment, I guess. I wonder how people love a country enough to do things for it, like work in the government. I'm not even willing to serve my school (yes, people. I am not running for council) and I find it hard to imagine some people would. Do they really love the country, or do they love the people? If they love the people, would that mean they'd serve whichever country they could, given a chance? How do you learn to love the people? What a great task...I want to know.
jac was here with you
3/26/2005 11:37:00 am
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