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Monday, August 09, 2004
It's National Day today! Whee. Singapore's turning, what, 39 today? Yeahh. That's pretty young for a country, considering the fact that America's probably 200+ years old or something. Still no flag this year, though. Mom and dad never believed in hanging a flag outside for National Day only to have to take it down to wash before the government fines us for displaying the flag after the legal display date.
Stayed up until 1 plus last night to finish up one geog essay. You know, it seems so pathetic here - one essay - but I felt so proud of myself as I wrote in "in conclusion" and blaaahh. Four (all right, maybe three-and-three-quarts) sides worth of words does seem like quite an accomplishment for one night's worth of work, yes?
Chinese tuition just now was... Not very enlightening. Sighhh. Can't wait to drop the GROSS subject. You know, there was this article the other day in the papers where SM Lee said something about the average person not being able to be completely 100% bilingual - in effect, I think he means that only linguistic geniuses can be just as proficient in English as well as in Chinese. Since I am so not a genius of any sort, that excludes me. Meaning. My disgusting Chinese is somewhat normal. I owe laoshi a whole ton of work. Seriously. I wonder how I'll finish it all by year-end. Ohhh. Speaking of Chinese. Apparently, there's gonna be a Chinese exam this Saturday. Like HUH????? Since when?? No one said anything about any Chinese exam happening anytime within the next month or so. Sheesh. You'd think they'd at least bother to tell us - even though they probably think I'm gonna fail beautifully. But STILL!
I'm waiting for mom and dad to come back from grocery shopping. They're supposed to pick up lunch for Carol and I, and it's what, 230pm already. I'm starving.
And I think the Wheelock management should think about investing in more dustbins. I went there on Saturday and spent 15-bloody-minutes walking up and down the floor just looking for a damn dustbin. Guess what?? - there wasn't a single dustbin on the whole of the second floor. Hello??? Isn't there some Clean-and-Green campaign running now or something? If I'm encouraged not to throw my rubbish on the floor, and there are NO dustbins anywhere. Then. What the heck am I supposed to do with my trash? Eat it?? Sometimes. I swear. People don't think.
Just spend a few hundred bucks furnishing the corridor with dustbins, and maybe there'll be less need to hire that many cleaners. Well. Unless they're trying to maximise employment by increasing the cleaner-workforce. Okay, so this is getting quuuiiitee out-of-point. I want to eat.
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