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forty in the pits

Irony.

By Edmund
So just when I think I've had enough to write, there comes along another thing. Something big. Something so ridiculously, nreasonably large to do given the current state of time that it boggles the mind. 

Thinkquest Narrative. There, I've said it. 

Today's the 20th. Mrs Chor wants a draft by the 22nd, and the final product by the 30th, since she wants to send it to some journalist before the deadline of May 4th.

Which is all well aand good, except for the small problem of there being only 25 pages to write.

And i quote Naishad and Ryan Chan-Wei:

N: Why did you ask us to join you in the first place?
R: And why did we even accept?

*buries head in hands*

This reminds me of last year's Poetry slam competition. The aforementioned prefects were also in my group, as well as Lloyd. It was then that I made the quote that several still remember till this day:

"Our first two days were our last two days."

(The other poetry teams had two months.)

Our situation is remarkably similar. We have ten days. The rest have had 4 months. Deja vu much, eh?
 

Reasons.

By Edmund
So I've come to the conclusion that I'm posting less often. And then I asked myself: Why is that?

And the answer is: because I'm writing too much for other things already. 

:P

Too... many... essays...
 

Sizzle. Have You Not Heard.

By Edmund
I missed school on Thursday and Friday.

That may be old news to some, but it isn't to others. So here it is.

Why? Well, because of a fever. And in case anyone hasn't read my MSN name for the past few days (likely, since I've been offline), it was a HIGH fever. Let us see:

Thursday, 9.10 am: I reach the General Office with Gao Ming, who managed to get away with missing a good 20 minutes of Chinese lesson. Lucky sod. Temperature 38.4 C

Thursday, 9.40 am: I reach the doctor with my mother. The checkup takes (wtf?!) 4 minutes. Temperature 39.2 C

Thursday, 10 am: I reach home and take my meds, then fall into a coma. Before I do so, I take my own temperature. 40.7 C

Friday, 10.15 am: I rise from my coma. Forgot to take my darned temperature, but it still feels pretty high.

Luckily for me, it's gone now. But the irritating thing is, I still have a phlegm/cough problem. Nasty, but that isn't stopping my attendance tomorrow...

On another note, this long period of recuperation has led me to think of some very interesting choices of music, particularly instrumental ones... Heheh...
 

Holiday Scouting Comments And Reflections.

By Edmund
Yes, I'm back. After my (can you really call it a holiday? I guess not) break. I'm mostly recovered from it, with the unfortunate side effect that I'm falling asleep in class again. Further proof of one more of my vices: waking up too bloody early.

Jobweek was meh. Since someone repeatedly tells me that I'm not supposed to say how much I earned, let me just say that I fell way short of the target, but then again most people did. Very off form. Then again, there are some people that my batch would like to throttle... *coughyentercough*coughfourdigitearningscough*

SUTC was fun. Being an editor is fun. I can't really say anything about the other SS roles, like cheebohs ("Maroon underwear? Is that a scouting colour?! HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK YOU OWE FOR THAT?!"), cooks ("The eggs are very edible. The other foods, however: less so."), and PICs ("I evacuate the man.""How?""By evacuating him lor!")("Okay, the checkpoint's to your west...""Okay guys, let's go north!"). The only downside is the lack of sleep (which is even more a problem in my case, seeing that I sentried the SS room for 2 nights running), and having Yenter as a colleague. Nuff said.

The CCA Hike was gay. The hike itself was easy enough, but the morale of Nicholas Kok made it a lot more difficult. Not that it was entirely his fault; he was allergic to half the food that we brought along, optimistically. We even calculated that he would die if he ever ate an Oreo... But the worst part was the examiner. No, seriously. Stop Suan. I'm not putting it here, since enough people know about it already. And it's even my bloody MSN name.

That's all for now. Cheers.
 

Foam.

By Edmund
Feeling really really tired right now. No idea why, but it's probably the lack of sleep (or so my mother says), or it could be all the stuff that's piling up against me now, like my

1. Editor Proposal (which I'm saiganging for yenter)
2. Jobweek routes (which I'm foaming at 'cause I have absolutely no idea whether my route is gonna foam or not, it being one huge gamble)
3. Today's 2 tests in 2 consecutive periods (Physics prat and SS)
4. Waking up way too early. As usual.

And my march hols are completely screwed. Check this:

Fri, Sat, Sun: Jobweek.
Mon, Tue, Wed: SUTC. Foam.
Thu: Sleeping off the previous two events.
Fri, Sat: CCA hike. Foam.
Sun: Hey, the holidays have started!
...and ended. At the same time. Hooray.

Not to mention that I'm in the brink of getting an illness. Perfect timing, as usual.

Now, I'm not one to put emo stuff as my MSN name/pm, but if I was feeling that down, I would put:
Life isn't catching me up - it's trampling me down

I know that's emo. That's why I didn't put it. See?
 

Excuses. My Latest Obsession.

By Edmund
Hell, I haven't been posting for quite some time. Partially because of all the lame stuff like CCTs. Like Chinese. Which reminds me...

I have this strange feeling that I'm the best in my Chinese class. It's kinda creepy, considering that the teacher is not that nice a person. And especially when there are people like Edward in there. But the fact still stands: I was the only one who passed today's tingxie. Of course, this is not a feeling I'm used to, which means it will take some getting used to.

Onto my other reason. I've been playing Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning, which is the newest MMORPG on the electronic block. It's P2P, but of course it's still cheaper than other stuff like Maple, since there's no cash-fuelled currency to drive prices up. And the in-game economy is actually very robust, since the developers hate gold selling so much they automatically ban any gold sellers.

Suck on that, Lesmana.

Currently I have a level 10 Dwarf Cleric, and a level 11 Chaos (human) Tank. I'm currently training the latter, but I'm purposely limiting his levelling to avoid being locked out of the lower-level areas so I can push for the last few points to get my epic loot. Lol.
 

We Apologise For Any Inconvenience Caused...

By Edmund
As some might know, munglin has kindly petitioned to let me become editor, which I have, and as a sign of kindness (rofl) I have edited my previous post to unreflect his noobiness. Lol.

However, I shall leave you with one statement from the duck himself, Quoted For Truth from his blog:

Ok dota is fun. I like the two headed guy.

xD
Couldn't resist. Not as bad as the previous one, I think. haha.