D-Day: 24th Jan 2008. H-Hour: 1400hrs.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Hi. Big day tomorrow. Yep.
Will be reporting to school (MJC) at 8a.m. first before logging off at 9:30 to go directly to Damai. I think (no, seriously) they will be infusing us with a small dose of MJC propaganda in those few minutes. I will be wearing the dog tag as a supposed lucky charm, but since when do lucky charms help in such a late occasion? …Back on tangent>>>
That day I went home early from school, during the CSE period, Rachel apparently couldn't find the intro I gave her, so for some reason she knew I had it on my blog. She showed it to the teacher, whom allegedly went gaga over it. He proceeded to tell her to get me to send it to him via email, but I think I’ll pretend to feign ignorance until he asks again… I.E, if I do stay in MJC.
I seem to be getting used to pre-typing blogs in Word. Continuing, I just came back from tennis today. I got a message saying that we were going to play a friendly match with SRJC, and to bring along two rackets (is it racquets?) in case one breaks. I soon realized the absurdity and knew the guy was talking about the snapping of strings, but the way it was phrased was odd.
Anyway, while the message was sent to me, I eventually wasn’t called up to play. The coach said she thought I wasn’t ready and ought to train some more. So for most of the day I sat there watching the matches. The only other two J1 guys, Chai Yong and Darren, played the game six-love. So I don’t believe I could have done any worse… heheh. =D
I think I analyze and feel that I am apparently the worst of the best. Out of six boys chosen for tennis team this round, four of us are J1’s. The other J1 guy didn’t come, maybe he wasn’t smsed, so there are three of us left. Anyone knows that a game can only consist of two (singles) or four (doubles), so quite often the other two play a game and I take turns to play with them. Which is where I get the term; worst of the best. Sounds demeaning, or is it at least an achievement? Being cynical, I tend to think of the former, but I don’t let it bug me. My problem seems to be consistency of hitting the ball right. I can hit it right, just not often enough.
On another note, and much more significantly, I have to confess I’m a quite a sentimental person… at least in certain cases. Where the prom and End of the O levels made me miss the constant company of friends and classmates, I felt the same thing today, but of course on a smaller scale. It is effectively the last day I get to see all the exact people of my class, because I know that should I actually stay in MJC, I’m sure at least one or two won’t make it, or will leave for other institutes. Which I wish they wouldn’t.
We all went to the hall entrance after the last period to take pictures, and after that it felt pretty sad knowing some, or even I, might not stay. And it has been just three weeks. Of course, I wasn’t in the mood to bawl (come to think of it, I haven’t cried in a very, very long time…), and it was nowhere near compared to the feelings I had after prom, but three weeks is three weeks, and the friends I made were pretty swell. After all, how many times must I say the classmates were (and hopefully are) great?
The nostalgia did vanish very quickly though, and I realized I was late for the Pre-U seminar talks. I passed the preliminaries and got into the team. Needless to say, the guy who thought Lee Kuan Yew would live 40 to 50 more years didn’t get in… And for this segment of the seminar, I got into a team of four, with me being the only boy. Very multi-racial… two Chinese, one Malay and one Indian. I did realize though, that there were few chio girls T_T.
To all of you reading this post before the 24th, and with the exception of Zhengwen, Who got an absolutely enviable single digit score many moons ago, I wish you (in direct conformity with all that is cliché) all the best, and hopefully I’ll see you in a few weeks time. Of course, I don’t intend for you to sink with me should my ship go down, in such an event, take care and be sure to keep me jealous. =D
posted by joseph at 4:24 PM