The Royal Family is coming soon...

Just thought I'd warn you guys first.

Anyway, today was fairly good in my opinion. I must warn you this post will be a whole lot longer than the others as I'm trying to test myself on what I can remember about today. Brace yourselves.

Starts off with Prefect Fall-In, which told us that {Confidential} and that {Confidential}, so {Confidential} by {Confidential}. I guess I'm in standard trouble now. Oh, and {Confidential}! So soon! I'm just really excited! Can't wait for it to come! But in a few moments we had to report to where we were suppose to go for {Confide...} ...as the Taiwanese students were arriving. Told ya' we know many things before hand.

For the time being, I still havn't been assigned a morning duty and so I join the rest of the cohord in Chapel/Morning Assembly. How un-adventurous. But anyway, I went to the front of the area of the hallthat the class ussually sits for Chapel, only to find out after 5 minutes of close observation that my class was upstairs at the back of the balcony! Panicing that I might not make it in time through the heavy crouds surrounding me, I tried to make a dash for it to the nearest staircase, which apparently was not obstructed by the crowd that badly. When I arrived, I asked around why on earth were we given the balcony (Which was quite nice, I must admit...). They then told me that they had no idea but that our original rows were reserved for some other VIPs. It was then that I knew our rows wre taken over by the Taiwanese, which in a few seconds' time started to stream into the hall through the front left entrance. They were all wearing blue uniform. How nice.

Then was the National Anthem and the Pledge. And the Pledge was in Tamil again. You have no idea how hard I squeezed my nipple with my right hand to prevent myself from giving the slightest of giggles. To the Indians out there, especially to those who speak Tamil, I greatly appologise. It's nothing personal, really. It's just that, well, I just love the rythm of the language. Really nice melodic tune. Somewhat after that, an IB guy came to our class and gave out this white square piece of origami paper. He told us notto crumple or fold it. Wonder what's it for...

Then we sang Christian songs and finally introduced the electric guitar into Chapel music after a long time of plain piano. I'm not trying to hit at anything, but it's just that many non-believing schoolmates are missing out on what song Christians can actually play in worship; Did you know that Christian Music is the only religeon (Well, Christianity is more of a relationship that a religeon, but anyway...) that touches every form of music that has ever existed on the earth, from African Tribemen Chorus, to European Classics, to Asian Village Worship, to American Soul, to even Rap and Heavy Metal and even Bangra! Christain music is too broad a title, so be careful on what you say...

Anyway, after singing came the part that tests endurance, strength, will-power and strategy.

Sermon.

I praise the Lord that today's topic was somewhat relavent. It was about mercy giving, how Jesus has shown priceless forgiveness countless of times and how and why we should follow him. I needed that as, well, let's just say I needed to forgive someone who had wronly accused me of something. I can now say that I fully forgive that person and that I am at peace again. (Thank you, Lord!)

After the Sermon, we sang another song, followed by the School Anthem and a few announcements, including the arrival of the few Taiwanese students that I mentioned about earlier. Then was the crane folding thingy. That's where the paper came in. You see, there this charity thing where for every paper crane you fold, the sponsors would donate a bowl of rice to the needy. The way that they thought us how to fold the cranes was funny as it made us sound dumb. And Justin was able to lend a helping hand in what he can do best for once. Good for him.

Being sent back to our classes, we prepared for the next subject - Art. Now art was still Mrs. Sharon Woon, for those who don't know. Today, she started off the lesson with a detailed discribtion of how much fun and food she had at her OEP trip to Malacca, and boy, this is just one ofthose moments when you wish art teachers wern't so detailed. She told us of how generous the servings for of their meals were like, and also the trilling activities they did. The class, including me, were just sitting there, drulling with hunger and staring at Mdm attentively with grunts of envy time after time. It was just miserable listening, not in a bad way but in an entertaining way.

Next was recess. When I went to the canteen, I bought my Ussual and searchedfor the table the majority of the class would be using. But when I fund the table, most of the table was occupied, and I didn'twant to trouble them even further. So I found another table next to it and ate there, later to be accompanied by Shil and Raam. We chated a bit during the meal and even discussed about having a pizza try-out tomorrow. I heard that the pizzas were quite expensive and extremely cheesy, but hey. We all only have one life, so might as well. Not sure if Raam was serious, though...

After the meal, I decided to visit the excessively conqured table next to us and see what they were up to. Heard a few of their jokes and laughs. Then I walked off, suddenly joined by Toj. Toj and I talked about somethings, them he came to the topic of why I didn't join the main table. I basically replied by telling him that there was no space. He laughed, then told me that next time I should tell them to move aside. I'll try it one of these days, I guess...

Maths was fun; the excitement of Algebra. And Kirby thought some therories in the equation factor. How helpful.

At the end was PC, and I must tell you, today rocked! We had a chance in playing traditional Indian games and my half of the group had a round of their version of Snakes and Ladders. Most of it's the same, but just that the die were hexagon tubes instead of the modern cubes. Under each ladder was a positive characteristic like 'Honesty' and 'Helpfulness', and we had fun laughing at others with comments that didn't really match them.

After school was Canoeing water trainning! Hooray! Another {Confidential} rounds in the water, padling our butts off. Literally. I'vegot abrations in there cause of my twisting posture. Might be somethingwrong I'm doing. Anyway, after trainning, we had to help the Sec 1s to pack up as they had to go back to school for some particular reason we seniors are unaware about. I don't remember having such priveledges back in my time. In fact, I had to carry my T2 back with everyone's paddles in them, with the help of Nick Ng. Oh, well.

Went back home, ate dinner, washed up and typed this out.

Yay! Done! Now to check for errors or missing details...