Thursday, March 27th 2008

It's very depressing to be ill.

Early this morning around 3am (Singapore time), I awoke with a temperature of 38.7 deg C, a very very sore throat, and coughing. It felt like my throat was swollen inside, and I couldn't swallow. The coughing hasn't been too bad, though. The fever made me feel really lousy, but I dragged myself to school.

Couldn't sing at/for school singers this morning, so I sat with my own class. Thankfully, I was welcomed by people there, and I sat at the back with people like Zu.
I was feeling too ill for the Accounts test today, so I wrote Mrs Chow a note asking if I could please take it another day. I hope Diana passed it to her for me. I've this strange fear that I wouldn't be able to catch up in my studies and as a result, do badly in the Mid-Years. I promised myself I'd do well.

At about 8.30am, I looked for Mrs Khoo and told her I wanted to go home. I had trouble climbing stairs. She told me to call Dad using the public phone which is, unfortunately, located in the canteen, which meant climbing lots of stairs! Mushuang followed me, so if anything happened to me, she could have called someone.
After Dad drove me back to AMK, he dropped me off at the Polyclinic with $50 and told me to go see the doctor while he drove my sister to school. I took my bag along so I could study Italian if I got bored waiting in the Polyclinic. I felt too sick to study Italian, or any other language or subject, so I spent the time watching Mr. Bean cartoons that were playing on "repeat" on a small television set there. It was very depressing to look around me and see no cute people.

After two hours of waiting during which I felt like I was about to die, my call number was finally flashed on the screen, and I went into the consultation room. Doctor wants me to stay home tomorrow as well. Etc etc, then I went home while Dad stayed to collect my medicine for me. I was prescribed paracetamol, diphenhydramine and dequalinium.
Sounds scary, I know.

Got home, slept till 7.30pm, ate my dinner. Dinner was take-away fish porridge, which almost killed me to eat. My throat burned like hell. Took a shower, and here I am now, blogging.

I last saw Franco one week ago. I still miss him! If anyone has any pictures of him, please SEND.

Sunday, March 23rd 2008

TWO GOLDS, PEOPLE!

All in one day, too. We had to endure 14 hours of sheer torture, but we survived and came through with 2 golds!
Italy is beautiful. I shall go there again just before I die, so I'll die there.

Franco is so cute.

It was so depressing to fly back home to Singapore, because the minute I stepped out of the plane, there were absolutely no cute people. It's as if I'm on a different planet altogether!

I guess I'm really happy I went on the trip. Got to see plenty of churches and stuff, and naked statues. It rained on Good Friday at around 3 pm again.
The whole choir competition part was hell, juniors gave trouble, but never mind, I won't stay in this choir very much longer.
I love Italy.

Sunday, March 9th 2008

I guess it's a good thing I'll be missing the first week of school in Term 2. It's when all the homework would be collected, and I haven't very much time to do the truckload I was assigned. Competition in 2 categories, all the way in Italy, in 5 days!
What's so scary is that we don't even sound prepared.
At least we'll get to play for 6 days there.

Was supposed to go swimming this morning, but it was drizzling, so I ended up staying home. It's depressing, really. I spent the morning watching "December Boys" ,watching Elvis Presley on Youtube and saving photos of him. I'm trying to find a good one for drawing.
I figured that since I managed to draw Bob Marley, I could draw Elvis, too.
Bob's dreadlocks almost killed me.

Planned to go to Orchard today to buy nice pyjamas, but it looks like I wouldn't be let out, so I'm going to just stay home and rot today. I could go after choir on Thursday.

Mom and Dad are still talking about buying a 42-inch plasma TV set that we really don't need. Sometimes I wonder why they're so stingy about other things that we do need.
They think that moving furniture and hanging CNY decorations on our front gate would help them win the 4-D. How stupid they are.

I did some lonesome shopping the other day. Went on a hunt at Far East Plaza for a vest, hair-clips, and then to AMK Hub for a pouch-thing. Felt some sort of accomplishment after I got home that day.

Think I'll do some Biology later. I hope I won't miss out on too much during the first week of Term 2. Can't afford to. T'is a crucial year!
Mark my words, I'll do well in the Mid-Years.

Monday, March 3rd 2008

I miss the days when I would just draw, in my sketchbook, Elvis Presley.
I miss shaping his hair with my pencil, strand by strand, and dancing around in my room like a loony to "Blue Suede Shoes".

Now it seems as if there's no time for all that. Two tests tomorrow! Both are re-tests, by the way. I didn't exactly do that badly.
A little part of me wants to have my seat changed. It's not as if I dislike Regina in any way. I just fear that my grades will slide further. They're bad enough now. I don't want Mrs Chow pinning any faults on her. I'm not asking to be seated with someone I can't stand. I think I'm asking to sit alone. If Mrs Khoo does change my seat and put me beside someone I can't stand, I'll request to sit alone. After all, our class has 41 students, so if I sit alone, it'll still be fine.

Now, for some good news. Remember a few posts back, I mentioned having studied hard for the Bio test on the Nervous & Hormonal system? I got full marks for it!
I guess 10 marks doesn't sound very impressive, but it's all there is to the test. I love it when I study my head off and then score full marks in a test, or at least very well. There's a sense of accomplishment.

Wow, Elvis was fantastic.