Bridge Or Bed?

Today's Invention n Design activity involves... making something out of clothes pegs. Each group has to make something out of the clothes pegs given. And they gave us three choices. First choice: a kitchen. Second choice: a bedroom. Third choice: think of something yourself.

So we chose to make a bedroom... out of 36 pegs. We started off with fashioning a bed. To do this, we needed to get the springs off some of the pegs. Then we found out some of the pegs had rotted partly, but due to lack of pegs, we still used them anyway. Then we got into some sticky trouble with the glue: the glue refused to be squeezed out, and when it finally did, it splattered over our hands and the table.

After cleaning up the mess, we got on with making the bed. The result at the end of 1 hour( including whatever cleaning up was done) looked more like a bridge than a bed. At how it looks more like a bridge, chances are it will be classified under think-of-something-yourself...

Fit Of Randomness

I think this is adorable...

The Academic Fair...

Okay...I woke up at 5 am like on a normal school day, mainly because every single student has to attend school on Saturday even though it's academic fair day, so I had to take the bus at 6 am as usual.(the main point 0f waking 15 minutes earlier than bro is so I don't have to wait for a long time for him to finish doing his hair)

Although the notice said that "classes" start at 7:30, it isn't until 8:45 (nearly two hours after I got to the school) that anybody took the roll call, though nearly every single club took the roll about an hour earlier. As for taking the roll, if you aren't present at all, they'll take marks off. Sweet.

Listened to epic speech by the deputy minister of education, with reporters and photographers everywhere, and tons of teachers and bigger students squeezing the breath out of my tiny frame while trying to take a glimpse at what's happening, which isn't helped by the fact that some of the banners are blocking their view, which made some students and teachers stand on chairs, which in turn made them more prone to getting shoved off and fall... from the fourth storey.

After managing to get away, sat down and read Artemis Fowl for the rest of the speech. Then went round with Nat to some of the exhibits. We went to the History club, which is doing an exhibit of the Egyptians, with a few models(some shoddily made so it looks rather funny) to boot. Also went to English society. Whoever scrawled those letters on the extra big sheets of paper really needed to make his writing tidier. Then we made some little dough dolls at the Chinese society booth. Mine crumbled. Nat's doll fell off it's stick. Watched how a Malay wedding ceremony's carried out. Also watched the wind orchestra perform and a Hindu dance with music set too loud( we're not deaf okay)

Made a furball at the Handicrafts place. Played aorund with kendamas and looked at the dolls and kimonos at the Japanese society booth. Didn't try on the kimonos or take pictures with the cosplayers though. The cosplayers were so bored until they fell asleep on the sofa they were sitting on.

Then we went to the pet exhibit. Those hamsters were so damn cute! So were the rabbits and the hedgehog and mice and albino hedgehogs! One of the hamsters was pregnant. The poor mice don't know that their fate is to be eaten by Mr Lee's ( the P.E teacher) pet snake. There was also a prawn, tortoises,fish, turtles, some kind of reptile and... an eight legged monstrosity with eight eyes. Then Mr Tan (the teacher who owns the normal hedgehog) decided to put his pet hedgehog into the tank containing the albino hedgehogs for some fun. His hedgehog immediately went up to the male albino instead of the female and humped it. Turn's out it's gay. The female went hyper.

Ahahaha...

I'm Supposed To Be Home At This Hour

I'm here at home, instead of being at school raiding the library after finally getting my student ID, cos of preparations for the "90th Anniversary Academic Fair" held at the school. This means no school for today, Friday and Monday (for forms 1 and 2, at least). I've got to go back to school on Saturday though, and I'm not happy about wearing a bright orange Invention n Design shirt. On the bright side, it looks better than the oversized hideous looking red jogathon shirt that those without a club shirt have to wear.

The Academic Fair... there's going to be a lot of epic speeches, including one from our deputy minister of education, so I had better bring a couple of books to school if all I'm supposed to do there is be there just for the heck of the cameramen.

There's a ton of stuff that's going on... an exhibition by Astro, a folk song cafe, what I think is a fashion show, blood donation drive (for those who are not from the school and who are 18 years of age), a lot of distressed looking pets by the Biology club(at least that's what I heard) and more stuff, including talks about Eastern medicine.

And now to wait for the day my ears get blasted with the sound of thousands of people thronging the school...

A Random Day

Yesterday went to Sunway Pyramid to watch a movie. Waited in a very long line to buy tickets while bro groaned about us being able to go to Holland by the time it's our turn while I groaned about not having lunch yet.(note that we were buying the tickets at 3:30 p.m.)While waiting we ended up bickering over what to watch. First we decided on Night In The Museum 2, then it turned out there were no tickets left, so we ended up watching Monsters Vs Aliens in 3D. We didn't watch Terminator Salvation because bro heard from his classmates it wasn't that nice in the second half of the movie.

The graphics are really great. Also bought a new book, Magyk by Angie Sage. I was pretty bored with reading all the same books roud the house, so I'm really happy. *jumps*Early B'day pressie from myself to myself, just a day before my actual b'day.

Bubba And His Shrimp

I know that my pics are crappy enough,ok? Don't rub it in.

Had dinner at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company last night. Now I'm not going to eat shrimp for at least a week, cos of the fact bro's still in Penang means I ended up finishing what mum and dad can't eat. Normally he's the "rubbish can" cos he can't bear to waste anything. As for why I ate the "leftovers", the price of one dish is really astronomical. Makes me feel like not wanting to waste ALL that shrimp. Groan... My stomach now feels like that time when I overate at ClubMed...

Tonight mum and dad are going out to a dinner, so I'm supposed to "be a good girl, stay at home and eat my pizza, don't let anyone in, and make sure to wipe the table after I'm done eating". When they go out to some dinner, it normally means "home alone", at the mercy of bro or boredom, whichever comes first. Tonight I'm at the mercy of boredom. Right. I better go find all the "old" CDs from Star Wars to Dr Dolittle to 102 Dalmations and so on for "entertainment"...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Been comparing the Broadway musical version of Sweeney Todd and the movie version.



Thankfully bro and his class didn't sing The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd for the singing competition, or I'd have taken rocks to throw at bro.(no throwing tomatos, I love eatin' em')

The musical's ending is different. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd isn't included in the movie. I'm freaked out enough by human meat pies. I'd be freaked out more if the corpses come back to life just to sing about Sweeney Todd.