THE PRELIMS ARE A BREEZE.

HOW HAPPY I AM, I NEVER EXPECTED TO LITERALLY FLOP EACH AND EVERY PAPER TAKEN, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ENGLISH. AND THAT ONE ALWAYS WAITS TO SURPRISES ME, IT JUST LOVES DOING THAT. SO I COULD DO REALLY WELL, OR WELL, FLOB.

the way amoeba flob. flobbity-flob.

i am a funkeh amoeba.

BUT WHAT THE HEY, SAME DIFFERENCE.

I'VE BEEN DOING SO WELL THAT BOTH PRACTICALS WERE TRASHED, I HAVE NOT MANAGED TO FINISH ANY OF THE PAPERS EXCLUDING ENGLISH. MAN, I WILL SO BE UN-JCing FOR THE FIRST THREE MONTHS IN 2005. THIS IS JUST THE WAY I PLANNED IT. UBERLY PERFECT.

I COULD NOT ASK FOR MORE. BUT THEN AGAIN, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SO INDULGENTLY BLESSED..JUST LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS TODAY.

APPARENTLTY, I ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE STUDENTS, HAVE MANAGED TO MISINTEPRET THE PROSE. let me ask you, can you actually misintepret prose? THERE WAS NO CLEAR INDICATION OF THE actual STORY PLOT. SO OBVIOUSLY, IN THE VERY SHORT 40 MINUTES, WE GRASPED AT THE NEAREST FIGMENT OF LOGIC. I DO NOT THINK IT IS COMMON HABIT TO QUESTION AND DELVE INTO SOMETHING TO SEE WHETHER THERE ARE OTHER ANGLES OF LOGIC THAT CAN BE USED.

WILL THESE YOU-LEARN-SOMETHING-NEW-EACH-DAY WONDERS EVER CEASE?

OTHER THAN THAT, I AM HAPPY.

REALLY.

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i also discovered today that with the growing dominance of my Inner Geek, i have also developed certain personality traits that are interesting indeed.

for example, i am very choosy with the pens that i use. i suppose today served to remind my mother of this particular idiosyncracy of mine. see, a few days ago, i came across this shop. a typical HDB shop selling a mish-mash of everything. it was a new place, walls newly painted in a garish and painful shade of orange. boxes full of cheap plastic artifacts likely to stop functioning in a month or so [even more possible, they don't have a function at all] were littered on the bare concrete floor. curious and irrelevently full from chicken rice, i wandered around the place and came to stop at the shelves of stationery.

i found a pen. it's ink ran surprisingly smooth and the nib was just right, 0.48mm. perfect other than its tacky design. but more importantly, only 80 cents a piece! oh how my stationery-slut soul cried out, cheap cheap you must get it!

and of course, so i did. three in fact, but only because $2.50 with me.

yesterday, i had a discussion with my mother. we had depthful discourse and i told her, mother dearest, you must get me more of those pens. i have fallen in love with them cheap skinny things, i simply cannot do without them for me Examination! inspired by my very inspiring speech, she said, all right daughter i shall get them tomorrow for you. oh how my heart leaped with the fresh joy that came with having new pens! i hurriedly shoved to in her hand the pen and conspiratorally, i whispered, this one. you must get me this one. in fact, BUY THE WHOLE BOX.

and so, i went to sleep dreaming of my new pens. well, not really. i was actually hurriedly re-hashing Warings gossip, but that is another point entirely.

today when i got home, utterly happy-ied up from the disastrous prelims, i skipped to my mother. 'mother mother', i cried, 'did you get the pens?' indeed i did, said she and pointed me in the direction of a yellow plastic bag.

'you got the same brand that i wanted, right?'

'no, i got (insert cheena brand) instead. they right better.'

i frowned. hmm, a straying in my very specific instructions but no matter, i trust her. peering into the bag, my mind careened off into a spin of confoosion amidst the rustling. not only were they a different brand, they were *GASP* in aqua blue ink.

i was utterly horrified and relayed my emotions by spluttering. in a thoroughly bratty manner, i wailed, 'i can't use these!! their, their, b-b-blue! you KNOW i only and ONLY write in black. oh mother how can you disappoint me so? i refuse to use them, give them to my sister.'

it is true, i have fully developed into a student with disturbing a diva-esque attitude.

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ohmigod ohmigod, mtv's playing an OLD spice girl video! --nostaaaalgia----