Wednesday, April 7, 2010,
alright, this is a description of my day in raw words. I will use short sentences. please do not ask me why I am doing this. thank you.
I got up at 6.10am. I felt sleepy. took the bus. got to school just on time. silly traffic light.
we got new seats. my partner is le win. we chatted nicely. I like the new seats. even if I'm near the front door. I forgot all my homework again. next time I must remember. I feel less weird than yesterday. but less hyper too. thought I was in a thoughtful mood.
first lesson was physics. mr singh made many errors. but it was funny. SI units are confusing. mr singh fell into the box at the doorside. the lesson ended well. all we did was go through a paper. I answered the easiest question and got it right. I am not smart and not dumb. so I enjoyed the air con and waited for the next lesson.
next lesson was geography. we watched cute chinese girls go to their new american parents on TV. I think where you grow up changes how you look a little. the grown-up girls all looked sort of pretty and happy. it was touching except that it ended with an advert about whales. I think I will like population studies. lee kuan yew is so old but so magic.
then came english lit. I still can hardly tell which is lit and which is lang. miss santhi did not let us continue with shakespeare in love because of the ahem parts. I have it at home. we had to do a presentation on the amazing elizabethan era. our group got religion. I pity the poor people burned on the stakes as witches. people then were mad and a lot more simple minded. but today they are also a lot less kinder sometimes. pros and cons maybe.
then recess broke in and I borrowed a book called the GOD delusion. it's by an atheist. it's supposed to be very insightful but I shall see about that. the cafe sells nice two-dollar hotdogs. after recess the period was about the same as the last.
then was cle. miss tong told us a lot about herself. it was emotional. we re-watched the living years song. well, for RGPS people at least. it's scary how every inspirational thing we did in RGPS seems to be re-manifesting in RGS. plain scary. maybe the teachers are in cahoots. I love my father a lot but I think we're not close enough. I'm freaked out that he's a man. I know this is plain scary but I wish I had two mothers. maybe I'm just scared of males. yuck.
then I went home and later for tuition.
we had a replacement teacher and I miss my usual teacher. she teaches okay but she is kind of mundane. replacement teacher, that is. she called me a nincompoop for smiling at her randomly. I was daydreaming. half the class doesn't know what nincompoop means but they don't read this blog. so I need not say no offense since that is an unwritten truth. I got lost on the way to tuition again. don't ask why.
then I went home. I bought bubble tea with no pearls at the plaza. the enjoyment was reduced by half. next time I will buy just one a week, not two. but I'll leave the pearls in. I got lost on the way home. I think I will have alzheimer's when I get old. I'm scared because my sense of direction and balance seems to be getting worse. I always look stupid. and so I walked three rounds around an unknown hdb estate. I was passing under this block when I nearly bumped into a malay schoolboy. he looked at me skeptically and then a slipper fell with a huge thud just an inch away from me. I wonder what would have happened had it fallen on my head. moral: never walk under hdb flat windows. I looked up but the person was gone so I just walked away. the boy who was still there must have thought I was mad for not reacting normally. maybe I am. whatever.
then I exited that flat cluster and walked home the long roundabout way. a million questions popped into my head because maybe the night sky was so poetic. why do people wear headphones when they jog? won't they fall off and not concentrate due to the music? why did that person and that person just look at me straight in the eye and hold eye contact for seconds then go away? why does everyone do that and feel awkward? why do some hdb flats have red lights on top of them? why is singapore's sky so cloudless? why does the sky change so fast at night but not in the day? why are there many more disabled people around nowadays?
I remember seeing two apsn people being stared at in the bus. they were nice and friendly and smiled at me even if I didn't know them and they didn't know me. I wish everyone was like that. I know I'm mean but I think they're lucky to be like that. to smile and dance and laugh and run and nobody will think you strange because of the tag you have on your neck. to not care what people think. I saw four old people in wheelchairs or with strokes on the way home. never so many before. it's sort of sad.
then I bumped into the bus-stop pole and a man who was with his little daughter stared at me. I felt stupid but I kept walking. then I went to the lift, passing by an old lady in a wheelchair who was moaning about something. I remembered what miss tong said about old people being ashamed of going out like that so I pretended not to see anything.
then I went upstairs and said hi to my sis and came to the computer and started typing all my swirling brainjuice into this blog.
congrats if you made it to the end. I was just hit by an impulse to get everything here so again, don't ask why I did this.
thank you. geog aa time.
7:54 PM