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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Case Study
Ok, so you guys want an example of how those aunties always seem to get away with their inconsiderate behaviour even though, I daresay, they're more annoying than we are?

Here's one for ya...

On Sunday after church, I was in Bus 107 with my mum and bro on our way to Marina Square for lunch. I wasn't doing much. I was just studying my O level Chinese oral notes with a typical yellow highlighter in hand and sitting on those seats in front where you sit sideways so your back is against the side of the bus. Right next to me, there was an empty two-seater, so whoever who sits there faces my side. Right, so I've got the scenario clear now.

Some time after turning into Kallang/Geylang bahru, 2 aunties came up the bus. One sat in the row right opposite me. The other sat in the two-seater which was facing my side. The one that sat beside me (kind of, even though we're in two completely different seats) took off her sandals(I must say I don't think her feet were very clean), rested both feet on the empty seat beside her and proceeded to talk to her friend in this clear loud voice. How disgusting can you get? Pretty inconsiderate too, don't you think? I mean, who'd like to sit on a seat that once cushioned someone's FEET?

I ignored her, and continued to study my notes, with much difficulty, since the bus was jolting around. Then I looked at her again, and to my HORROR, one of her foot was now resting on the bottom of my squarish-like seat handle. I was just MILLIMETRES away from me. I can't believe her. I mean, you've already got an empty seat to abuse, and now you want MINE? I mean, someone is SITTING on it, and you just rest your dirty foot on it like you own the whole world, and you even expect me to accept your, might I say, ATROCIOUS, behaviour?

I couldn't stand it. So what if I'm just 15? I'm never gonna let her walk all over me. That's as good as admitting defeat. But then, if I screamed at her to move to the back, it wouldn't do good to our poor mangled reputation as well, nor would I even dare to do it. So I kept glancing, OBVIOUSLY, at her foot. And in say, 5 minutes, she'd scooted to the back. SUCCESS.

Don't say I have no respect for my seniors. I have respect for everyone, even little 3 year olds. However, the amount of respect you get from me depends on your behaviour and how you treat others around you. If you've lost that bit of respect I had for you then sorry, but you have to earn it back. You don't demand respect, because it will never be given to you this way. You earn it, and MAINTAIN it. Don't think that just because you've got authority means that you can go around telling people you deserve their respect. It doesn't work this way, and it never will.

Blacking out
I almost blacked out in school today. It was pretty freaky, but kind of cool too. I was already not feeling very well because the countless late nights I'd spent poring over my notes and textbooks. Don't say I don't have proper time management, if you ask me, there's no point because:

1)I've got practically NO TIME to manage.
2)When I've been so good to manage my time, something crops up and ruins my plans.

And you think I want to sleep at 1.30AM? Who asked them to squeeze all 5 tests in one week? Which leaves me no time to study for some of them, and means that I have to dig out the time from my sleep.

I went to school feeling pretty OK. But during flag raising, my stomach felt a bit queasy and I felt well, VERY nauseous. My stomach was practically lurching and I had to keep on swallowing to keep the vomit down, at least for the time being. Then the most scary thing happened.

Sometime towards the ending of the school song, the edges of my vision started blackening and blurring and I realised I was kind of dizzy as well. When I could sit down(thank goodness, if not I'd have puked all over everyone), my vision gradually went back to normal, but all I could hear were muffled voices and it sounded really really WEIRD. Then I knew, straightaway, that had I not sit down, I would have blacked out.

I managed to hang on till the end of morning assembly. Then I told my friend, XinYi, "I feel like puking." and then ran into the toilets and vomitted all over the sink(Which I must say I did pretty neatly since none got out of the sink). It was like my stomach was like some water hose or something, it kept spewing out mixtures of hydrochloric acid and my breakfast till it was satisfied. While I was busy puking, Cherise somehow appeared and started clapping me on the back.

Puking is a pretty bad experience and I wouldn't encourage it in ALL circumstances. But whatever, like you can decide that. Almost blacking out aws kind of cool though. I later reconfirmed the "symptoms of blacking out" with SM and it turns out that she experienced just the same thing when she blacked out and almost ermmm... broke her nose.

Green
Just a reminder, try your best to wear green on 7th and/or 8th July to show your support for the Global warming concert thing. It would also be a great way to celebrate the best colour that this earth was ever blessed with.

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in the darkness...