School days
Yay for Scott! :) Seacrest and his "Two of you are going home tonight -- and Scott, it's you..." *cries* "... who's in to the Top 12!" *cheers*
I'm dropping Constantine from my list because he just scares me. So that just leaves Bo and Scott that I'm rooting for. I'll have to admit that it's difficult to see either of them having a particularly huge fan base -- especially for Scott. But I like the guy anyway. Something about stoicism that makes a girl want to break him down.
The only other performer that I thought was good this week was -- for the first time -- Mario. But mostly I was bored. Even more so by all of the girls -- but that could be becauseI am my hormones are biased. ;)
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I had dinner with an old classmate earlier in the week. I never realised how parallel our lives are. We have a younger brother and sister each, and both our sisters are studying in Perth. Also, we were both highly inclined towards Physics and Mathematics in the past, only to find ourselves steering towards a Biology-related career -- he in Life Sciences, and me considering a specialisation in Biomolecular Engineering.
We spoke candidly about our concerns with our field; how it's very much restricted to research; what kind of work would be available to us when we graduated; how most pharmaceutical research labs don't take in fresh grads. It's all very worrying -- more than I'd ever cared to admit. I don't know why it is that misery loves company, but we do; it helps to know that someone else is clueless too. (Feel free to send job opportunities and advice my way.)
Grown-up concerns aside (I'm still young enough to do that), the reason why we were meeting up was because he wanted to pass me my (belated) birthday present. I almost passed out when I heard that, because... well, you will see why.
Back when we were in JC "that is now an Institution" (even now, actually), we used to give him a really hard time about his frugality -- if you can even call it that. He'd come up to me looking very apologetic, and the first couple of times, I would wonder why; he would look at me with those puppy-dog eyes, hem and haw, before blurting awkwardly that I still owed him five cents from a week ago. It was so hilarious, it drove us all crazy!
We would do things like, send him to buy us ice-cream, saying that we'd pay him back. He'd come back with two McDonald's ice-cream cones (each costing 50 cents then), then we'd spend the next hour trying to talk him into giving us a treat because we had no money! The agony on his face was priceless.
In the end, we paid off all our debts, and, as you can see, he never held it against us for torturing him. ;)
So this is why I was surprised at the thought that he'd actually paid money to buy me something. And it wasn't even just some teddy bear he plucked off the shelves on a whim, either.
Look at that -- a Mogu cow! Complete with a little trinket tied to its ear, and a nice (cow-themed) birthday card. :) (And if he ever reads this, I would just like to say that you forgot to remove the price tags from the trinket and the nice big bag that the cow came in, you dork! :p)
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Speaking of school (because, you know, I was talking about old schoolmates), A L has a post on the strangeness of school songs. I realise that posting my ex-JC's school song is going to skyrocket my geek quotient, and send my popularity ratings sliding, but I couldn't pick out specific parts that made me cringe -- because they all did. For some sense of political correctness (as if we needed more of that), but mostly because I'm hoping people don't figure out which JC I was from, I will replace the name of my JC with "The Institution." Strictly not for the weak hearted:
Apparently "The Institution" is very big on racial harmony, seeing as they had to reiterate "multi-racial" with "many races" (just in case you didn't get it), which is ironic because -- while I don't have the official statistics -- I think we probably have the most un-multi-racial student population among the JCs.
I'm dropping Constantine from my list because he just scares me. So that just leaves Bo and Scott that I'm rooting for. I'll have to admit that it's difficult to see either of them having a particularly huge fan base -- especially for Scott. But I like the guy anyway. Something about stoicism that makes a girl want to break him down.
The only other performer that I thought was good this week was -- for the first time -- Mario. But mostly I was bored. Even more so by all of the girls -- but that could be because
***
I had dinner with an old classmate earlier in the week. I never realised how parallel our lives are. We have a younger brother and sister each, and both our sisters are studying in Perth. Also, we were both highly inclined towards Physics and Mathematics in the past, only to find ourselves steering towards a Biology-related career -- he in Life Sciences, and me considering a specialisation in Biomolecular Engineering.
We spoke candidly about our concerns with our field; how it's very much restricted to research; what kind of work would be available to us when we graduated; how most pharmaceutical research labs don't take in fresh grads. It's all very worrying -- more than I'd ever cared to admit. I don't know why it is that misery loves company, but we do; it helps to know that someone else is clueless too. (Feel free to send job opportunities and advice my way.)
Grown-up concerns aside (I'm still young enough to do that), the reason why we were meeting up was because he wanted to pass me my (belated) birthday present. I almost passed out when I heard that, because... well, you will see why.
Back when we were in JC "that is now an Institution" (even now, actually), we used to give him a really hard time about his frugality -- if you can even call it that. He'd come up to me looking very apologetic, and the first couple of times, I would wonder why; he would look at me with those puppy-dog eyes, hem and haw, before blurting awkwardly that I still owed him five cents from a week ago. It was so hilarious, it drove us all crazy!
We would do things like, send him to buy us ice-cream, saying that we'd pay him back. He'd come back with two McDonald's ice-cream cones (each costing 50 cents then), then we'd spend the next hour trying to talk him into giving us a treat because we had no money! The agony on his face was priceless.
In the end, we paid off all our debts, and, as you can see, he never held it against us for torturing him. ;)
So this is why I was surprised at the thought that he'd actually paid money to buy me something. And it wasn't even just some teddy bear he plucked off the shelves on a whim, either.
Look at that -- a Mogu cow! Complete with a little trinket tied to its ear, and a nice (cow-themed) birthday card. :) (And if he ever reads this, I would just like to say that you forgot to remove the price tags from the trinket and the nice big bag that the cow came in, you dork! :p)
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Speaking of school (because, you know, I was talking about old schoolmates), A L has a post on the strangeness of school songs. I realise that posting my ex-JC's school song is going to skyrocket my geek quotient, and send my popularity ratings sliding, but I couldn't pick out specific parts that made me cringe -- because they all did. For some sense of political correctness (as if we needed more of that), but mostly because I'm hoping people don't figure out which JC I was from, I will replace the name of my JC with "The Institution." Strictly not for the weak hearted:
As part of our glorious land
Sharing her spreading fame
"The Institution" will firmly stand
Always to maintain her name
Multi-racial we study together
For knowledge we wish to attain
Many races we shall gather
Each day to achieve its aim
We shall strive with verve
For health in body and mind
We'll learn to lead and yet to serve
In character ruggedly fine
May "The Institution" shine forever
Her name big and strong
One and all, let's stand by her
That she may live on and on
Apparently "The Institution" is very big on racial harmony, seeing as they had to reiterate "multi-racial" with "many races" (just in case you didn't get it), which is ironic because -- while I don't have the official statistics -- I think we probably have the most un-multi-racial student population among the JCs.
posted by Laughingcow at 2:23 am
4 Comments:
this is hilarious. but i think my one from bishan-amk funnier. =P
and that mogu cow is lovely! it's wonderful to have friendships like this isn't it? (mayhap a certain interest too...? *cougH*)
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*COUGH* *HACK* *SPUTTER* Really really not. (What about the doctor, then? :p)
Oof, only school songs will make us want to compare which is worse! ;)
I disagree! I LOVE ALL my school songs, from primary school to JC. Me and my mates sing them all the time, like really ALL the time.. during Karaokes, while drinking and clubbing, while roaming random streets when travelling. and since we're all from the same secondary school/ JC, we fight over whose primary school song is better. We try and outsing each other ALL the time, and we are VERY LOUD always, shouting more than singing! I'm sure you can imagine.. and we get really competitive and upset with each other until one of us will then remind the rest that our Secondary school song is the best and then we will ALL agree, VERY LOUDLY as well.
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