Let 'em roll...

Recieved a new timetable. Everybody did. Now, the school tries to fit two Pastoral Care periods into a week! Yipee! Who wouldn't love Pastoral Care?

Anyway, in the Prefect Fall in this morning, I checked for my new dutyfor this term, and turns out that I'm doing Level Duty! On the Red Level! With Jaira and Zachary! Yayz! Some adventure, for once this year! Jai told me the different things to do in this duty, like going from class to class to tell the students to go assemble at 7.20, and checking the doors of empty classrooms and making sure they're locked properly. It was interesting, and there was still some spare time to slack off and chat with fellow Prefects until 8, when we had to assemble outside the New Audi and quietly blend in with the crowd.

Chapel today, as far as I heard, was about jealousy, and let's just say that due to my past, I could relate very well to the talker's points.

Then there was History, where we finish off our Colonialist Saga. The NCC (Land) men had to go for a camp or something, and that included Tim, so Sir requested for Shil, who was kicked-out France from another table, to become 'King Philip'. Well, I doubt that he had as much attention as Tim if I made much a move, so that was one burden relaxed. To remind those who weren't aware, the plan was that all the colonialists in the game target Japan now, since after all, Japan's a powerful country of 'infinite' armies.

But I wanted to be evil.

Just like Napoleon.

And so at my Capital in Northern Europe, I faced my army to Ukrane and declared a state of war at the Capital state of Russia. Russia (Joel) was trying to request for peace, but I wasn't bothered to listen. Russia had so much land, and I was just two turns away from getting it all. ALL!!! The Russian Capital was poorly defended, with only as many as 5-odd armies protecting it from my 26 armies. I weakened the capital by half, needing to wait for my turn to strikew again. Japan (Sir) came to our table for a couple of throws where he also attacked Russia in Russian China and USA (or should I say USR?), defeatingthose colonies mercilessly. In Russia's turn, he was forced to return fire by attacking one of my countries in South America. I wasn't worried. 'Let him take it,' I told myself. 'It'll be yours again anyway.'

But then there was a tiny detail which I forgot to notice in my plans. The rest of the world was watching. The other colonialists that were watching saw my intentions and knew it was a good move to gain that whole half of the map, and in no time at all Russia was brutally attacked until - of all countries - England (JKit) won two-thirds of the entire map. I watched as my plan's sucesses went to another man. It was humiliating, and I was moaning like how Napolen would when he found out he lost Russia. UK wanted to give me a few countries to make up for my lost, but that wasn't my purpose, and it was too late. France hated England. And with such fury, people were lucky it was just a game. Or heads might had rolled.

And so I channeled my anger to the dices, where I was ready to throw in my turn of attacking England itself. But then it was time's up, and the game had to end. Completely. I had a sudden rush of anger in my or a few seconds before it totally left me. But don't get me wrong, I still understood it was a game. Just that battles can be quite addictive. Now to write my Reflections on this game (It's really homework.)

To cut a long day short, the school half of theday ended with PC, where we talked about the matters in the class and caght up with events like Class T-Shirt production and the announcement of the class outing to the Esplanade to watch 'The Phantom ofthe Opera'. I'm interested in the musical, and about the shirt - I'm not sure if Genisis 49:16-18 would work. It's basically about the prophesy on the tribe of Dan (Yes, Dan was a real Bible character. He was one of Joseph's brothers.) And at the last part, we did a survey as a class on what we felt about the OEP camp to Desaru. When Sir asked us if we enjoyed ourselves in the camp, I was ready to shout out loud, "Yah!" along with (assumably) the rest of the class.

But to my surprise, or even to my horror, everyone in the class said 'so-so'. 'So-so'? 'SO-SO'? Why, was it me, or was I the only person who greatly enjoyed myself overall i the camp? Since it was a class survey, I decided to hold back my enthusiastic, or as my class would say 'enthu', comment and say plainly that I loved it. This really reminds me of the story of the land spies in Numbers 13-14.

In short, it's the story about leaders whom Moses was asked to send to scout the lands of Canaan, which God was going to gve to them in due time. All the men selected went through the lands and saw the many things the land could provide, from richly fertile soil, to great food supply like abundances of granates, figs and bundles of grapes so large it required two men to carry a single bundle on a pole! The only thing that scared most of the spies was that the land was inhabitted with literally tall and big people. They appeared strong and powerful in comparrison to the Israelites, and after scouting for 40 days they returned to the whole community of Israel to report to them that the place was filled with undefeatable giants, advising them not to enter the land and backing up their plea with false reports about how unfertile and bad the soil was and how little the food supply was.

Only two spies, Joshua and Caleb, said that the land was exceedingly beautiful and excellent, stating that if the Lord was at favour, which he was all along, He'd bless them with the victory over 'that rich and fertile land' (Good News Bible)/ 'a land flowing with mlk and honey' (New International Version). But the community wouldn't want to listen, and they kept on complaining that the Lord had brought them to great trouble. This made God upset, as all of them, except Joshua, Caleb, Moses and Aaron, didn't trust in the Lord. I mean, how would you feel if you told your friend that you placed a million bucks in his mailbox, which you did, and he didn't believe you, staying away from his mailbox in great ignorance? So God ensured that no one in that particular generation of Israelites, except Caleb, would never get to see the Promised Land in their lifetime. Oh, and God struct a disease on all the spies that lied to the community infear.

Very similiar to this survey. Except for the ending part.

No training for me today as I needed to attend a Prefectorial Term Meeting, where all Prefects were briefed by the different committees in the Board about what happened in Term 1 and what can be expected in Term 2. I get to know about the latest events in store for the school, and I think the school has loads to expect. That's as far as I can say.