Alpha and Omega...

The sadness is now gone.

It's literally gone! YEEEAAAAAY!!! God has finally saved me from the depression again!!! I praise Him greatly for this! Thank you Lord!!! Oh, life looks so fun and colourful again!!! Well, enough of the celebrations for now. Let's look into what happened today, shall we? Wait. Why not I highlight the things which happened today that made me see the colours again? Okay, then. Event that made me happier and reason for making me happier. Now on with the post!

Today's a 2-in-1 paper day. Language Arts (A) + Mathermatics. What a combination.

To start off the day, we had PE. And we had a NAPHA 2.4km trial for our programme, so we made our ussual formations: The front composing of Arjun, Ting Wei, Me, Toj and Tim, the back being composed of Kirby and Justin, everyone else in the centre. So in the end, The first five was literally Arjun, Ting Wei, Me, Toj and Tim in the precise order. When they were recording down my timing, I looked at the back of my numbering slip and I found a portion of the school crest. Qurious if anyone else had the same patern, I checked Toj's paper, and true enough he had another portion of the crest! Toj and I started asking for more numbering slips to see if we can put the papers together to form a picture of something, only to be stopped half-way by the teacher as she wanted us to hold our own slips to ease the process of recording our timings. The cheap-trills in life that are just worth it...

After this was Recess, of which I didn't want to go for any recess as I needed to finish off a CL'B' assignment. Pity. Why? Well, last night, Shil showed me a website containing loads and loads of piano scores. But then I told him that they would all be of no use to me as I can't even read the notes at all. So thus, Shil wanted to dedicate today's piano lesson for note-reading. He told me to print out any piece I found interesting and that today, he would teach me how to read the score so I can learn the piece by myself. I found Marvin Gaye's 'Ain't no Mountain High Enough' and decided to give this piece a shot. Unfortunately as stated earlier, I was trapped in the classroom, forcing myself to find a way to at least attempt the assignment. I failed to do so, and so recess felt rather wasted. Ah, well. Can't cry over spilt milk. ("Morriel, put that carton back in the fridge!")

Next was Life Science Practical, which involved the first part of a three-part practical session on Genetic Fingerprinting. As the class was preparing to move to the lab, I searched for my stuff and found out that 1) I forgot to bring my towel for Land Training and 2) I forgot to bring my L Sci textbook! AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Solving one thing at a time, I asked the class if anyone brought a mini towel to school by any chance, and by the grace of God Shil could answer with a "Yes!". Some people who heard his response told me to not take the deal as the towel may give me his, erm, 'nasal-invoving characteristics'. If I didn't have a towel, I'd either not be permitted to enter the gym at all or would have to pay a penalty of the following formula's worth of push-ups:

[5(T-O-W-E-L) x no. of people who didn't bring their towels]

And in Canoeing, they always multiply the verdict number by 10.
So I wasn't going to take my chances (This seems to be a new catchphrase of mine...) and took the towel and thanked Shil by a lot. Besides, the towel doesn't even smell like, erm, 'what-you-think-it-should-smell-like'. It smelt so fresh, but I think I'm moving too far from the main point.
I still had to find a way to get a subsitute for my L Sci Textbook, esspecially when my activity today involves the book very much and that after the activity there would be a lecture of which Sir would 'appreciate' the courtesy of the students to copy down notes into their TEXTBOOKS. I panicked more and more as we went up the stairs to the lab, and it even got scarier when Sir lined us up outside the lab to inspect us one by one and make sure we had our books. But in the nick of time, a textbook mysteriously slidded into my hand, and it appeared just in the right timing such that Sir didn't notice and so allowed me into the room. I turned around to see who helped me out, and lo and behold, it was Shil. Apparently, he went to the neighbouring class to ask for a textbook from a friend of his while we were making our way to the lab. Another day saved by Shilster! (Playing: Theme Song - Shilster) Comes to show that there will always be friends, or at the least a friend, who will be there behind you whenever you need them (or him/her).

In the lab, each pair was suppose to collect a sample of cheek cells from a willing partner using a scratching piece of plastic, and being interested in knowing what I consist of, I volunteered in my pair. I scraped my left cheek for a few minutes, but I could only collect half the required amount. So I decided to move over to the next cheek. Big mistake. I couldn't sustain the same scraping posture on my right cheek, and as such my sample was literally being smeared back into my mouth! ARGH!!! You should have seen the look on my face when I found out that my sample suddenly dissapeared in the same amount of time as collecting the sample.

Mdm then told me the correct posture to collect the sample again, and so I tried a second attempt on my right cheek. But the collection rate on this cheek was somewhat slower, so I thought I should instead move over again to my left cheek. Another big mistake. I was so addapted to my right cheek, I couldn't remember how to position the instrument in my mouth, thus smearing most of the sample back into my mouth again. When I found out what happened, I was so frustrated and desperate that I quickly moved back to my right cheek and kept scraping onto it as fast as I could.

After a minute or so, I took out the tool and checked how much I had gathered. Yet another big mistake. True, I did collect just 1mm from requirements, but noooooooooo. Mdm wanted me to collect that remaining 1mm of sample before she could allow me to proceed. And so I quickly placed the sampler into my mouth in the wrong fashion that after scraping with the same velocity... I think you know where I'm going.

Well, it's a good thing I didn't loose that much this time, and so Mdm had pity over me and immediately asked me to stop. She even took over for the rest of the steps till the part where we had to 'boil' the samples. Well, we were off schedule - 9 minutes to be exact - and the rest of the class was waiting for my pair, literally. The scares of it all. But I guess this can show that some (for me, all) of the bad things in life can actually turn out to be 'bad' so as to be at your advantage in a later time. After the whole experiment, we were given back our Common Test papers, and I'll share the marks once I get my Report Card back, thank you.

Next was Language Arts A. Well, not exactly. It was the exam of it, rather. We were greeted by the stern version of Mdm (As always...) and the test was basically an essay based on the question flashed onto the whiteboard. You know, how many students in Singapore can actually say that a question was "flashed onto their whiteboard"? But anyway, yah. We did an essay based on the question shown and had to complete it in an hour's time. The thing was based on Act 1 Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a portion of the story I can easily remember all because I re-wrote it in an earlier post (Midsummer Night's Dan). The things in life that appear useless may turn out to be useful afterall in due time. I think I did fairly well. Jesus did say that if we believed, miracles would happen, and I've gone through that many times already, so I'm just going by faith that everything turns out fine.

Then was ISO, of which half was spent on discussing on what we've done for the past 9 weeks and a warning that the next week is Oral Defence, while the other half was a 'free-period' since my group's supervisor had to attend to something else. We could only spend it in the library, though, but that's good enough for me! So I kept walking around the shelves while trying to imitate the ways of the Ninja, searching for a book about my research topic - The Sense of Humour. Shil followed allong to find books for himself while Raam was just trying to annoy the both of us, Shil in particullar. Sheesh. Shil found a book of questions about the Bible, and so he tested me with it. I answered most of the questions correctly, and I can graefully say that I'm getting to know my Bible better! I used to think I'd never reach even this stage of knowing that even countries like Spain and India were in the Bible, but now I even know the story of Esther very well! And all glory be to God for saving me from my, erm, 'dead self'!!! Yay!!!

Then was Mother Tongue, or a quarter of it in this case. Just the right amount of time for me to go to the classroom, collect my stuff, make my way to the Pastoral Care room to meet with the teacher, tell her you have an exam in a few minutes' time, walk back and enjoy a generous serving of Math. How nice. Maths was rather straith-forward, as long as you know which formula to use for which equation. Although now that I think back, I think that there were a few shortcuts I could have used. Gasp. At least now I know how to do better in the next paper...

Then came Land Training, of which I brought my towel! Yay! To make sure that other schools don't copy our tatics so they can own us in a competition, I shall say that "everything was status quo". We even managed to pack up as early as last week! After training, I bought a bottle of H-two-O, which somehow dissapeared a few seconds after purchase. I lamented over the bottle and it's $1.20 worth of suppliments, but later remembered the words of Denzel Washington, "If you know your Source, you'll never worry about the supply.", which basically meant that if you know God well and understand that He supplies, you'd never be fearfully concerned about thethings in your possesion. And so I moved along, asking God to bless the person who found my drink.

Went back home, drank lots and lots of water and started on my CL'B' project. Well, I started printing the photos some time ago already but the writing part was unknown to me for a while.

Anyway, better not sleep too late tonight - Have to report at the Prefectorial Boardroom by 6.55 a.m. tomorrow for Founder's Day Rehhersal. Bound to be exciting, esspecially for the Prefects and Student Councilers. Wonder what's gonna happen...