options = good
Aaaaaaaaaand October's round the corner again! That means that I get to turn sixteen soon. Which is actually not much of a big deal, considering the number of NC-16 movies I've snuck into. I would much rather turn seventeen, and evade the whole 11pm rule. Or eighteen, then Julie and I can go and legally find that party boat on the ocean ;)
Arrgh, I feel so tired. Yesterday I was out the whole day, having rushed from options to a dental appointment to home for freshen up and change to City Hall - where Jolyn Khoo was finally the one who had to wait for me - to the Esplanade. But at least I finally got to watch Forbidden City! The entire place was PACKED. I couldn't spot a single empty seat... haha, who says Singaporeans don't support homegrown talent? Well, I for one am still in great awe of Kit Chan. I have no idea how she manages to do all that incredibly amazing singing almost every night in full empress regalia, and for a full month at that. Especially for this one song when she was holding her 'son' and her voice had to reach inhumanly high notes. She should audition for a huge international musical, but her career is apparently going on hiatus after this. Pity, really.
Anyway, almost three weeks of options have passed, and my verdict is: OPTIONS ARE WONDERFUL!
Well, besides Photonics that is, but never mind that.
I seriously look forward to every Reel Reading (my Language Arts option) session in my timetable. So far we've watched The Sixth Sense, Psycho (the 1960 original) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. And how could you not love a class where you can eat freely, watch movies, discuss and critically analyse them after? It's sheer fun! I don't even mind the essay writing. Actually, it makes me remember the interesting, intriguing side of Lit (and not the horrendous
are-you-sure-the-author/poet-actually-meant-for-it-to-be-interpreted-that-way annotations which I don't wish to poke at with a ten-foot long cattleprod).
Entrepreneurship is okay. It's not particularly fascinating, and Adrian Lim has an obsession with Elim Chew (the founder of 77th Street) that borders on unhealthy. But at least we have one big group of us from 412 in that particular class. It's just sad that we're leaving the school soon and won't have enough time to set up BookFree, our ingenious item loaning business. What a wasted opportunity, I could already see the dough rolling in ):
It's just Photonics that really kills me, because it is both immensely boring and somehow still tiring. Having Physics practical in a darkened room for three hours is no joke, especially when there are only four people in your class, and you do not give the slightest care about Malus Law or Brewster's Angle. Oh well, at least Monday lectures are amusing. You get to see Michelle (Cheong) fall asleep every thirty seconds or so. It's a hilarious process in which her eyes turn bleary, and her head slowly drifts downwards until she suddenly jerks back up, only for the whole thing to start again. All this while random other people in the class drop like flies. Or soldiers on a battlefield. I guess that's entertainment in itself.
But yay anyway, because I am having the slackest time ever. On Mondays I have two hours to have a nice long lunch and trawl Orchard. On Tuesdays I get to sleep for one and a half hours before the first class starts. On Wednesdays I am completely free after 10.25am (options-free day, woohoo!) and on Thursdays I have something like four hours in between classes and options. Which I happily utilized last week to watch John Tucker Must Die at 11am with other class people, and got back to school by 2pm, a whole hour before classes for the Sec 1s-3s even ended. If there's one thing that sporadic bursts of free time during options has made me realize, it's that school coops students in for INCREDIBLY LONG periods of time. How we managed to survive 3pm days in the past is a real miracle to me. Brains slowly stewing in an air-conditioned hellhole while the clock ticks surreptitiously, youth slipping away from your fingers just like that.
I shall now flounce off to YouTube, or something. Free time overload, heh.
Arrgh, I feel so tired. Yesterday I was out the whole day, having rushed from options to a dental appointment to home for freshen up and change to City Hall - where Jolyn Khoo was finally the one who had to wait for me - to the Esplanade. But at least I finally got to watch Forbidden City! The entire place was PACKED. I couldn't spot a single empty seat... haha, who says Singaporeans don't support homegrown talent? Well, I for one am still in great awe of Kit Chan. I have no idea how she manages to do all that incredibly amazing singing almost every night in full empress regalia, and for a full month at that. Especially for this one song when she was holding her 'son' and her voice had to reach inhumanly high notes. She should audition for a huge international musical, but her career is apparently going on hiatus after this. Pity, really.
Anyway, almost three weeks of options have passed, and my verdict is: OPTIONS ARE WONDERFUL!
Well, besides Photonics that is, but never mind that.
I seriously look forward to every Reel Reading (my Language Arts option) session in my timetable. So far we've watched The Sixth Sense, Psycho (the 1960 original) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. And how could you not love a class where you can eat freely, watch movies, discuss and critically analyse them after? It's sheer fun! I don't even mind the essay writing. Actually, it makes me remember the interesting, intriguing side of Lit (and not the horrendous
are-you-sure-the-author/poet-actually-meant-for-it-to-be-interpreted-that-way annotations which I don't wish to poke at with a ten-foot long cattleprod).
Entrepreneurship is okay. It's not particularly fascinating, and Adrian Lim has an obsession with Elim Chew (the founder of 77th Street) that borders on unhealthy. But at least we have one big group of us from 412 in that particular class. It's just sad that we're leaving the school soon and won't have enough time to set up BookFree, our ingenious item loaning business. What a wasted opportunity, I could already see the dough rolling in ):
It's just Photonics that really kills me, because it is both immensely boring and somehow still tiring. Having Physics practical in a darkened room for three hours is no joke, especially when there are only four people in your class, and you do not give the slightest care about Malus Law or Brewster's Angle. Oh well, at least Monday lectures are amusing. You get to see Michelle (Cheong) fall asleep every thirty seconds or so. It's a hilarious process in which her eyes turn bleary, and her head slowly drifts downwards until she suddenly jerks back up, only for the whole thing to start again. All this while random other people in the class drop like flies. Or soldiers on a battlefield. I guess that's entertainment in itself.
But yay anyway, because I am having the slackest time ever. On Mondays I have two hours to have a nice long lunch and trawl Orchard. On Tuesdays I get to sleep for one and a half hours before the first class starts. On Wednesdays I am completely free after 10.25am (options-free day, woohoo!) and on Thursdays I have something like four hours in between classes and options. Which I happily utilized last week to watch John Tucker Must Die at 11am with other class people, and got back to school by 2pm, a whole hour before classes for the Sec 1s-3s even ended. If there's one thing that sporadic bursts of free time during options has made me realize, it's that school coops students in for INCREDIBLY LONG periods of time. How we managed to survive 3pm days in the past is a real miracle to me. Brains slowly stewing in an air-conditioned hellhole while the clock ticks surreptitiously, youth slipping away from your fingers just like that.
I shall now flounce off to YouTube, or something. Free time overload, heh.