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Friday, August 26, 2005

ytd gp had some mock conference thing. the consortium of scientists was represented by 5 ppl, but it seemed as if elsie was the only one, cos she answered almsot all the qns fired at her and she wasn't even s'posed to be doing A.I. so it was all impromptu, but then again she's real gd at this sorta stuff.
today: lit was the usual - almost done for frost. the gift outright, for which ms veera apparently feels no love.
chem, went thru tut at the usual snail's pace. for once i actually attempted a chem tut qn and cld do it. :-D
then bio lect - repiration. lots of stuff abt NADH and final electron acceptors and 34 ATP blablabla. so chem-ish. yuck. but the lecturer is ok la. at least i dint fall asleep. the stupid and extremely irritating mango took the seat next to me and as neither elsie, ivan or I can stand him, ivan moved his bag all the way down to the 1st row, hoping he'd take the hint. unfortunately farah/clare/andrea were all speaking wif mr lee and so weren't present to occupy the empty seat, so when he returned frm wherever he'd been he just moved his bag to his original place. but i got to kick him and hit him many times wif my v useful and handy file.
math test: first few qns ok. qn 3, at first i forgot wat a unit vector is, and cldn't for the life of me rmb wat the magnitude of a unit vector is. so i was stuck at the v first part of the qn. then i had a revelation tt the magnitude of a unit vector is 1!! so i cld do the qn after all. but, qn 4 was s*a#f^@#!. and at the start of the test i thot mrs khong said 15 minutes, not 50, so i was all happy n everyth. then it turned out to be a 50min paper. sigh.
lunch! despite wat the tchr (dunno who) said to us ytd, we decided to continue sitting at our usual place outside the council rm, and eat there. who cares wat ONE tchr says? then, clare started talking abt how archery had given her a tan line, and elsie remarked tt she (elsie herself) was v dark. clare n farah n me went: !!! but you're so FAIR. elsie: but i'm the darkest in my family. clare/farah/me: but tt's just u. compared to us (comparison of arm colour) u're NOT dark at all. farah (upon comparing wif my arm): yy, u must be getting darker! me: no, it must be u getting fairer...
[how's it possible for me to haf gotten darker? i haven't been canoeing and the past few times i've gone swimming, there's been little/no sun.]
then clare started talking abt how archery had given her arm muscles. then we all started flexing our biceps (or lack thereof) and v randomly, the attn turned to my arm muscles. if i had still been in sc uniform, there wld not haf been such surprise, given the sc lack of sleeves. so clare said she shld haf started learning dance when she was young so she cld get arm muscles too.
which brings me to this pt: how come so many ppl seem surprised tt dance does not require arm muscle? dance is not just abt legs and jumps/leaps etc. it involves stomach, arm, back, leg muscle. which is why there's this dancer in sc who has a six-pack. cos we haf to keep our stomachs in and backs straight; our arms haf to look strong (and hence be strong); so... it's not just legs! :-p
pe: lecture abt sports injuries and prevention. the prevention part is rather late, considering i sprained my wrist last wk.
i've been reflecting on my accident proneness. back in hk when i was v v young and just learning to cycle, i very cleverly hopped onto my bike right at the top of a SLOPE. the result? i hurtled down the slope, which ended at the wall of a kindergarten. so my momentum carried me right to the wall, where the impact of the collision brought me flying out of my bike and into the wall, forehead-first. no kidding!
also when i was young (ard 3 i think): i was climbing a jungle gym thing at a playgrd when i lost hold of the bars. i started falling; my chin hit another bar; my teeth clamped right down on my tongue. my mom says my tongue actually had a hole and was bleeding so much, it scared the hell outta her. (un)fortunately there's no scar cos young children are s'posed to be able to recover frm wounds super fast.
then in pri sch i hurt my elbow and arm (cos a large girl bumped into me and landed on my arm ) and had to walk ard wif a sling; in sec sch i fell during netball and hurt my knee such tt the bone stil hurts occasionally during dance; i sprained my ankle last yr (while attempting i-forget-what); scraped my shin badly frm cycling this yr; and now my wrist. i've got a sling, an ankle brace, a knee brace and a wrist thing. i'm missing a neck brace, crutches, wheelchair and... wat else?
gosh i've realli been rambling on and on and on and on, haven't i?

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