I woke up with a swollen right eyelid. The cause of it is still unknown. It reduced slightly and I headed off for choir, bespectacled. My spectacles usually leave me in a more-easily agitated state of mind, and because of terrible deviation of pitch and tone, I reprimanded someone for the first time. It's okay if you can't get your notes the first time round, but it's not okay if your attitude sucks to the core.

With WR handed up last week and Chinese A Levels paper over on Monday, the rest of the week had been filled with countless OP dry runs.

Jia Ying, Li Zhi and I went to CHIJMES on Sunday afternoon for a short while just to give Ruici moral support while she performed her jazz pieces. It left us thoroughly surprised because she didn't sound like the Ruici we knew. Anyhow, before CHIJMES, Li Zhi and I agreed to meet at Parkway first to look for Jia Ying's birthday present. We got something that she'd really wanted but dumped it into some dubious-looking girlie-paper bag, topped with a pink ribbon. When we gave it to Jia Ying, she desperately tried keeping the "thing" away from her at an arm's length, but we egged her on to open it up and she decide to pretend the paper bag didn't exist. Her facial expression was so epic, I am actually regretting that I hadn't got it recorded.

Thursday was the final civics lesson we had in school. I suppose usual classes will spend their time together with their civics tutors in a classroom but we had PE with both our civics tutors. It lasted nearly 90 minutes and despite the ominous flashing of the lightning alert, we played on. Yes, even with both our civics tutors.

New things in the wardrobe, new things in the room. New clothes, new shoes, new bags. Anyhow, Vienna Boys' Choir tomorrow with Jodie at the Esplanade(:

Browsing through the pages of Livejournal communities which I've placed on LJ's friends page made my mind wander. Thoughts circled around how and why I liked some of them. Now, all I can think about is, "Why do they feel so foreign to me now?"

I feel a little queasy right now. My stomach feels oddly unsettled and my brain has been dormant the entire day. Can't think straight.

Maybe for now, I should spend some time getting re-acquainted with old loves.

I fear.

Your eyes aren't lying to you. I have indeed increased my font size and line-height by 1px. What difference does it make you wonder, I actually think it looks better being less cramped now haha. But then again, the difference is almost unnoticeable. Anyhow, this week thus far has been fed with tablespoons-full of sugar, both figuratively and quite literally.

Monday at Patty's house was like a celebration to the end of the final examinations. Tuesday was my sister's birthday and I got home to see an Awfully Chocolate cake stashed in the refrigerator. Wednesday, the civics tutors had some sort of awards/rewards for certain groups of studets for their conduct/academic performance and so snacks and candies were strewn across the classroom. Went to Holland Village to meet Skylar after choir and guess what, she'd made a cupcake for me! Thursday started off with Tweet #666 and updated rank points. Today started off with a short briefing for the A level Chinese paper and a cake from the two civics tutors. Michelle and I bought two cups of Milo after that but it was so sickeningly sweet. It was as though the drink was made up of nothing but chocolate, water, sugar and probably condensed milk. Maybe this is why my stomach's reacting so badly right now :/

The ends of my hair now form nothing short of a razor-sharp straight line. Had my hair been any stiffer, you could use it like a ruler to draw lines of regressions for Math. The whole mop of hair which had sort of outgrown its bob is now more like a helmet than anything, but I think it's kind of fun to watch my own shadows.

Being at Toni&Guy on Wednesday was quite cool actually. Skylar had this awesomely cool colleague who played in a Chinese gothic metal band. Supposedly, they were something like Chthonic. Actually, I've begun to see a bit of light in Chinese music. There was this band on Mtv today called the Pet Conspiracy (宠物同谋) and they made pretty good electonic/new-wave music. Halfway through the whole time there, they started putting on industrial music. Awesome ones. Anyhow, while walking to the MRT station with Skylar after the haircut, we'd discussed about dreams of expanding the music and alternative scene in Singapore. It's all hopes and dreams but we believe that it'll happen. How soon though, we can only wait and see.

The first SIMUN2010 meeting was held after school yesterday and we were finally given our country assignments. Isabel and I had been lounging around in school before the meeting started because we'd ended school pretty early. Apart from lamenting about the woes of certain things, she had quite a hard time staying awake hahahaha.

There was cake this morning. The purpose of it was never really made clear. We watched our Chemistry teacher swinging the knife in glee while the students watched cagily and dodged while the blade threatened to come in contact with the skin until it finally sank into the spongy chocolate and mango-mousse layers. PW was an hour of fluster and chaos as we battled the horrible odour of waste management while struggling to settle our GPF. The smell lingered in and around the school for quite a long while and I can assure you it was no sweet fragrance of newly-blossomed flowers.

Math lecture was spent sitting with Wan Sing and Weng Keong. It was completely unintentional but I sort of walked out of school after dismissal with the same two though the former walked off faster because she was going to steal scores while the other caught up from behind. Weng Keong mentioned something about symmetry during Math lecture, about sitting arrangements during Math lectures since the beginning of the year. Somehow, it's kind of disorienting to think about how we've pretty much reached the end of the academic year because it doesn't really feel like it. We're halfway through Sainthood and life feels like it's barely begun here. JC's really short, though I prefer it this way, so do Bel and many others. I felt the same as we compiled our GPF during PW while looking through the PI, the EoM to the I&R. They all look so different, so... directionless.

Most of the times, I get trapped in my own rut of paranoia and frustration and this week wouldn't have been any more encouraging than the others if it weren't for many many people. Of course, Li Zhi has been my #1 source of amusement on MSN. Beyoncé, pixies and what-not. And of course, not forgetting the incoming postcards. I have a total of 13 postcards on the wall now(: Reshuffling the things stuck onto the wall should be quite in order soon.

Back to school with Chinese mock-examination today. Seems like there are quite a number of people bogged down with the possiblity of LUEs as well and there were odd rumours of the rank points for promotion being brought up. Actually, I'm not worrying about it as much anymore because well, yeah, 1 rank point, what's meant to be is meant to be.

The fire alarm rang for a fire drill in the midst of break today. A coffee-laden Wan Sing and I had time to visit the toilet before assembling at the track with the rest of the cohort. It was such a failure. Anyway, the air has been really crappy today. People were lamenting about the heat while waiting at the track and we kind of pity the J2s who'd come back for consultation slots and end up having to waste time at the track for a fire drill. We were somewhat grateful that PE had been cancelled but we ended up lounging around in the cafeteria attempting to study for Chinese.

Anyhow, meeting Skylar tomorrow(: Whooo. Hazel's coming back on the 13th of November. Skylar and I will attempt to discuss what we want to do when Hazel returns from the deep South. Ah, exciting! ((: