Good afternoon everyone! I'm happier than I've been in a long long time. Not just because of O's results obviously. Who in their right mind fails chinese man. I heard 14 people did. At least I'm not alone.
Shall not disclose why I'm so jubilant. Suffice to say that if you learn the art of patience, for waiting for the unexpected, the wait for it, no matter how long, is worth it. Cryptic words dears. Oh my connubial felicity.
Anyway. I've been thinking. I was hardly my seniors' junior. They hardly existed. Those seniors who did, I think I never juniored hard enough for them. Then, I was seldom my peers' peer. Not just for peering(verb) over the shoulder to
peek at answers kind of peer(noun) obviously. Half the time I wasn't present, spiritually and/or physically. I shouldn't have. Too late for regrets now, but I should've given whatever it took to be a proper peer(n). So I guess all I'll
ever be is my juniors' senior. It's so easy to be that. I love fitting into that role of juniors' senior. Maybe that's why I'm finding it so hard to fit into JC. After so many years of senioring, to ask me to be a junior suddenly is
impossible. It's going to be a whole year juniorless. And all that we'd be seeing are seniors. Oh man. What if I turn out to be another Oedipus Rex? Ha. Yeah right.
Band is my drug. Only in there, playing my guts and heart out do I feel properly jubilant. Maybe they put some heroin in the
reeds to make us addicted! Yeah right. When band ends I always never want to leave. And when it starts, I hate seeing the clock creep closer to six. Oh woe is me. Wherefore so?
Read this!
Noch gibt es sie, die [[ungestalteten]]
LKW-Planen. Farben, Signale, Streifen, Kreise und Balken formen sich zu Wörtern und Botschaften. Diese [[ungestalteten]] LKW-Planen sind die Grundlage zur Herstellung der FREITAG-Taschen.
Die Artenvielfalt der LKW-Planen ist jedoch bedroht.
Die LKW-Plane wird zunehmend als fahrende Werbesäule entdeckt und mit einheitlichen Werbegkampagnen tapeziert. Mit dem [[DESIGN-A-TRUCK-CONTEST]] macht FREITAG einen ersten Schritt zum Erhalt der Transit-Grafik.
Confussed? Here's the
English version.
They still exist, the [[un-designed]] truck-tarps. Colours, signals, stripes, sircles and bars form words and messages. These [[un-designed]] truck tarps form the basis for the production of the FREITAG bags.
However, the truck-tarp[[diversity of species]] is endangered. Increasingly they are being used as moving advertisement space, wallpapered with uniform advertizing campaigns. With the [[DESIGN-A-TRUCK-CONTEST]] FREITAG is making the first
move to preserve the Transit-Graphics.
Love it. Funny isn't it? The irony mixed with comedy to bring out the seriousness of the message. Save the Truck Tarps! Or we won't have anymore FREITAGS. Anyway, 1st prize for this contest is
2000 Euros! That's about SGD$6000. Money manymany. 2nd and 3rd prizes are 1000Euros and 500Euros worth of Freitag vouchers respectively. Not bad. If I had 1000Euros I can buy about 8 Knight-riders, or 4 Dragnets. Doesn't sound like
a lot innit. Ah well. We aren't 'Professional designers, enrolled students, graduates and post graduates of international design schools' so it doesn't apply to us. TSK.
I have a new best friend. I go to her when I'm angry, sad, happy, nervous, or just feeling in need of a buddy. She doesn't speak, but she doesn't have to. We understand each other completely. I place all my faith in her. Oh my dear piano.
Never complains no matter how much I play, doesn't matter how terrible my playing is. Absolute faith. I wish I could buy a bassoon. My very own 34378, or whatever number they're at right now. I think I should get a Freitag Bonanza if
I'm really going to NewYork.
I want to go to Japan too! Please sponsor me, Cedar!
Yesterday, I realized how much I miss Cedar, and CSB. Nothing'll ever replace them. I felt so secure stepping into an all-girls school again. Sigh.
Oh how random. Good luck to everyone for postings okay. Let's learn to live with what we've got, like how I've done for my Chinese and D7. Or you can always send your papers for rechecking/remarking. Let's
all send our Chinese papers! Then MOE'll be forced to change the whole chinese marking scheme, then I can pass and get the 2 points! Yeah! Yeah right. Tsk.
Let everyone and everything else fade into insignificance outside this connubial felicity. -D.H. Lawrence 'The Blind Man'
Ohayo gozaimasu. My darned back is still hurting after, lemme see, 3 weeks and 4 days. Yes. Started on the 2nd day of Orientation and refuses to go away. I thought I'd be able to get away from it after a week or so, but alas. It was not to be.
I went to see the doc 2 Sundays ago and he told me it's just a muscle ache, it'll go away in 3 days. Today is Monday, a week and a day after he told me that. Rubbish. So I went to see a different doctor. Ha. This guy's my regular doctor(or should I
say I'm his regular patient?) and he knows his stuff. Cos I've never seen the other 3days MC doctor before. My doc gave me 2weeks MC as he said it could be dangerous if it doesn't get better in a week, could be a fracture. Not likely though,
we didn't do any backbreaking work. HA. 2 WEEKS MC! Huzzah.
Let's talk about the NEW YORK trip!! EXCITING! The most exciting thing that's ever happened to me in my life, other than the birth of my Freitag. Haha. Well, it's true. How often do you get to play at the Carnegie Hall eh? Ruddy exciting man.
Seriously. Look at this:
Program Details
North Torrance Youth Symphony Orchestra
Oxford Academy -Symphonic Orchestra
San Clemente High School Chamber Orchestra
Collegedale Academy Chamber Orchestra
Aliso Niguel High School Wind Band
Victoria Junior College Symphonic Band
Whoa. Can't believe it myself. Think I'm just attracted to the fact that we are going to NY. HA. It's no Japan, but hey. It's the Carnegie Hall. Plus, we get to play in Central Park, probably!
AND there are 4 shops selling Freitags in NY. Hopefully the US dollar drops some more so I can buy my KnightRider/Surfside6 there cheaper than if I buy it at Actually. Hohoho. New York, New York! Machu Picchu man. If Mr Tan decides to cut bassoons,
I'll just try my best to go play contra or piano just so I can go to NY too. Perhaps I should switch to oboes to have a higher chance of going. Surely a band needs more than 1 oboist. So our repertoire will be: Entrance of the Gladiators-Julius Fucik,
Machu Picchu-Satoshi Yagisawa, Einzugsgallope-Johann Strauss.
Happy Happy New York.
Okay. TSD is busy. Started crewing already. I'm going to play a nurse called Plimpton (tentatively) who gets splattered with blood! Harhar. Shouldn't be a problem
after Macbeth right. Then we have to make windows. And get lighters and labcoats for our senior's chosen play. It's about a bunch of psycho men, so he calls us his Psychos. Ha. I suppose whoever signed up to crew for him is a psycho? Well, I'm
liking the play. Very much like The Shining by Stephen King. Psycho men.
Blah blah. Practicepracticepractice. Studystudystudy. Thursdaythursdaythursday! Scary isn't it. It was supposed to come out faster so I wouldn't get too attached to
VJ! Oh no. Now I think the NY thing is really attracting me to VJ. And the proximity obviously. And TSD. TSK. I will study hard and then pray hard for Thursday! Good luck all my fellow comrades-in-arms! May the points be with you! (or not be with you,
since less points is better).
What if I said I'm not like the others?
What if I said I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're a pretender!
What if I say I will never surrender?