Sandpapering And Applying Shellac

Today's 8th, 9th and 10th period was spent, well, sandpapering the tables and applting shellac on them. I've no idea what shellac is, but it's sort of like paint, except that it dries quicker and doesn't seem that thick. The main point of doing this is to get rid of those messages and swear words on the desks such as "f***", "soh-hai", "my last wish", etc.

We were all given jobs. There're 4 jobs, which are sandpapering the tables, cleaning up the dust and shavings, applying the shellac and looking after the bags. I got the "charming" job of cleaning the dust. Oh well, it could have been worse.

This is the order of how good/bad the jobs are, from the best to worst, and why.

1. Looking after the bags - Heck, you pretty much just mess around as there's nothing to do.
2. Applying shellac - Well, it's fun, but watch out or you'll get a really hard to wash off stain on your shirt.
3. Cleaning up - Yeah right. Dust up your nose. Dust in your eye. Dust on your clothes. Dust on the wet cloth you're holding. Dust on your hands. Not at all charming.
4. Sandpapering - Fantastically noisy, dusty, and energy consuming, seeing as there's a lot of swear words on the desks.

So now my desk feels... weird. Seems like somebody didn't do too good a job applying the brown stuff...

2 Classes Stopped For 2 Weeks

With H1N1 spreading all over the globe, the school's implemented certain measures to attempt to stop the flu from spreading to the school. Though it seems the "certain measures" weren't enough to stop over 10, 20 people from 2 Ai and 2 Jing from going down with flu symptoms, so they decided to suspend these 2 classes for a week, which wasn't a good thing because currently most of the classes are still going through a battery of mini tests. And believe me, the school's had all our telephone/cell phone numbers on standby so that in the event that there's a move to close the school, they can immediately tell us.

The boys recently thought of a new game to play using ping pong paddles: they replace the ping pong ball with a volleyball, so now everyone and themselves are at a bigger risk of getting injured. A hit to the head with a volleyball really hurts a lot, especially when the guy who'd hit the volleyball was one of the fitter ones. The"fit" part did came in handy when they pulverized all the other classes in the interclass football championship though. So now they're going to face off 1 Ren for the finals on Friday.

Gyaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!

Take one large portion of homework, stir in lots of exams, add a couple of idiots who love to make snide remarks about anyone who has something imperfect( which means anyone but themselves). Bring to the boil with one notice board which needs to be organized. Dish out and serve with a couple of "parrots", and you get a recipe for EXTREME stress overload.

Get your facts right about cancer, Mr Sae. It's the chemotherapy part that makes your hair fall out, not the cancer. Now I've got those idiots surrounding me saying I've got cancer all because I drop 1 strand of hair. I could say that you can get rabies by touching the fur of an infected dog. And the said idiots are also calling me Medusa, so I responded with:

Me: 再叫我Medusa，那你们以后休想借我的英文功课。
Idiots: NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

If you're wondering why they depend on my homework, it's because they can barely string a sentence together in English.

Then there're tons of mini tests, which are being hurled at us like crazy. On top of all the homework and stuff, it's going to be hard revising for them all... End of rambling. For the moment.

My First Time Cooking

This is my "work of abomination", fried bacon and egg...

Egg's slightly burnt...

Bacon's still ok...

Bacon and egg...

Not too bad for a first time though...

Of Uncooked Rice And E-class

After my brother woke up fro m his nap, he apparently made some coffee, and had "unwittingly" switched the rice cooker off, so we ended up with no rice at all for dinner.

The school has its own e-class website, and it would probably be added to our report card next year, this year is mainly to get us used to it. And my first homework is one rather easy BM exercise. With one problem: I can't download my homework. That could be a big problem. As my teacher said, it's because of some fault in the system. Wonder why they haven't gotten round to fixing it though...

Reverting Back To BM & Operation Disinfectant

The government's scrapping PPSMI, and there's lots of people fuming about it all around the country, not including most of my classmates. I'm pretty mad myself, I mean, I'm sick of being a guinea pig and they're reverting to BM in 2012, and unless I'm gonna study Matriculation, I'm going to have to learn Science and Maths in BM from Form 4 To Form 5. That means at least 7 years down the drain for me. I'm not sure if Dong Zhong's going to scrap it next year for my school, so for the time being it's 7 years down the drain.

Due to the H1N1 pandemic, our school is taking drastic measures, and this includes disinfecting the classrooms ourselves. So out comes RM 52 from the class fund, and we get new mops, buckets, a 5 litre container of Dettol disinfectant and 2 spray cans of, well, disinfectant. Every day, we are to wipe the chairs, tables, windows and doors with disinfectant. And after school, some of us have to stay back to mop the floor with yet more disinfectant clean the windows and doors and spray the air with, you guessed it, disinfectant.

And that is why my eyes are stinging: the class that the club uses has been cleaned with too much disinfectant.

Happy Happy...

Yesterday, I finally managed to buy Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox after waiting for a year! Really happy... Maybe you might say I'm being a bit... over the top... hehe...

I'm gonna make sure bro doesn't sneak into my room to get the book tonight...

An Aunt's Visit

My aunt came on Saturday night to help fix the computer, and as usual she brought presents. I keep forgetting that she normally picks presents which aren't my taste or my brother's. And she normally splashes a bit too much.

Though this time it wasn't as bad as last time when she bought a poison pink shirt with three creepy looking ballerinas on the front which probably would have fitted a 6 year old, and an oversized shirt that would fit somebody who's three times wider than bro. Bro got The Five People You Meet In Heaven. I got a Babysitters Club graphic novel called Stacy, and a Candy Apple book called Accidentally Famous. I didn't really like the Candy Apple book, but I liked the graphic novel.

After she's done with the computer, mum, dad and my aunt talked their way to oblivion. It was way past midnight when she left, and bro and I had to listen to them talking about everything from Herbalife to dieting to the college my aunt teaches. In other words, anything that they could think of that has something to do with at least one of them.

With her going off at way past midnight meant I couldn't pay off the sleep debt I accumulated over the week, so now all I felt like doing is sleeping...

H1N1! Or Is It?

In this couple of weeks the school has been putting in place certain safety measures to prevent H1N1. This includes no air-con, regardless whether if it's the teachers office or classrooms, with the exception of rooms which don't have a fan. Second measure: those suffering from flu symptoms have to be quarantined for a week. And if you're feeling feverish, nip over to the emergency room to have your temperature taken.

Jia Yie and Kit Nyan have supposedly, note, supposedly, been quarantined since yesterday afternoon, while Tay, the guy sitting next to me's had flu symptoms, with the fever only coming after 10:00 a.m, so now I've gotta watch out...

Volley Of Volleyballs...

For the lower half of the year, we're ditching basketball for volleyball. This means... our exams' gonna include volleyball. On the plus side, no basketball for the rest of the year. At least for now.

First, we all had to sit on the groung practising "digging". Not a good thing when everyone's inexperienced and when we're all sitting that close to each other, so there's lots of accidents.

Then we got to finally stand up. While there're still a lot of accidents, there weren't as much as when we're sitting down. After 'bout 15 minutes of practising, pretty much most of the class stopped practising to watch a volleyball match. Rather interesting, as it's one on one with a rather short guy and a rather tall girl. The girl won. Bwaha.

Now I think my wrists aren't there at all: I've been hitting the volleyball too many times with them.

Tagged By Choco

Seeing as I'm darn bored, might as well do this.

1. Besides ur lips, where is the favorite spot to get kissed?

Are you kidding?

2. How did you feel when you woke up this morning?

Lousy, groggy, grumpy... what d'ya expect when you have to wake up at 5 in the morning 6 days a week?

3. Who was the last person/people you took photo with?

Nat.

4. Would you consider yourself spoiled?

Maybe...

5. Will you ever donate blood?

I have a fear of needles going in me...

6. Have you ever had a best friend who was of opposite sex?

Yes... Why?

7. Do you want someone to be dead?

YES!!!!!

8. What does your last text message say?

明天或后天的七点那样可以吗？

9. What are you thinking right now?

How to get revenge on Henry for ruining my puncher.

10. Do you want someone to be with you right now?

...Yup...

11. What was the time you went to bed last night?

10:30

12. Where did you buy the tee you are wearing now?

Erm, Sunway Pyramid?

13. Is someone on your mind right now?

Not really.

14. Who was the last person(s) who text you?

Celia

NINE lucky persons to do this quiz:

Anyone...

The "Great" Biology Lesson: Centipede Vs Spider

My class got started on organisms which have no spinal cord coupla weeks ago. Ya know, roundworms, liver flukes, jelly fish, tapeworms, scorpions, flies, you get the main idea. I'm pretty freaked out even if the others weren't. Especially when our teacher showed us close-ups with the projector. As she said, "这就是肝吸虫帅气的样子"

Then we progressed on to... insects and arachnids. Not my favourite at all. Then we got on to an "interesting" part: a video of a centipede fighting a tarantula. The commentary's entirely in Japanese, so I can barely figure out what they're saying. Apparently they dumped both creatures into a glass tank. Whichever creature gets poisoned first loses. In the red corner, the centipede, with 2 wins up its belt(note that this info's written in English). In the blue corner, the tarantula.

The boys were originally rooting for the tarantula, but later booed it cos it didn't even try to bite the centipede when it had so many chances. The centipede won in the end.