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So JAE has come and now every dragon baby is desperately trying to log onto the JIS to register.. Well well, an efficient system indeed, I don't think. They could have experimented on a smaller cohort. Spent i-don't-know-how-long today in the computer lab in school waiting for the thing to load. Can't really complain though.... Lionel and Li Ling were keeping vigil over the computers for even longer than I was.

Too add to irritation, stupid doodleboard has shut down its system without even telling us users about it, hence the change in my tagboard.... And I thought it was due to my uploading of pictures? pah!

Okay. Should stop complaining then. Many things have happened since results came out. On Tuesday, happily all Victorians did not have school, so in the morning I went out with Evelyn and Soo Yee.... Wei Quan should have come along to make up the four of us, but Temasek didn't allow its people to leave, so he couldn't come. Spent the morning in Tampines MacDonalds catching up about our various JCs as well as St. John life.

Interesting meal we, or rather, I, had too. When I opened my coffee to pour in the sugar I discovered a broken packet of pepper. PEPPER!!! which has burst open at the seams. So presumably the bottom layer of my coffee was a layer of pepper. I was like "...." Boy, if I was in America I could have sued the company. Anyway I drank it in the end, cos I felt too inactive to get up and complain. Didn't drink the last layer though. Anyway Soo Yee helped me take a picture of possibly the most unique *ahem* cup of coffee i've ever drunk. Curiously enough I didn't feel very high, despite the infusion of caffeine. Maybe pepper neutralizes caffeine.

Then in the afternoon went out with the OSSIS people. Not many people came though. Maybe everyone was still, like me, suffering from aftershock. Went cycling... we cycled to Bedok jetty (where desmond ran his bike into one of the anti-vehicle posts), hung around the breakwater at the eastern end of the ECP watching the aircraft. Stella, Gerry, ChuaH, Derek, Lionel, Desmond and Alon. Didn't have much xing qing for the outing. As in, it was fun and all that, but the number of people was very low, and all of us knew that we almost certainly would take a few losses from our class.

At night there was fencing again. Cos of that I couldn't go out for dinner with the OSSIS people... sighz... but the mood there was more fun, because the Year 1 fencers had done not too badly. I and Wei Yang from RJ both got 7, Joseph from MI got 12 and another guy, whos name I dunno got 10. I avenged King Edward hall by beating Wei Yang 15-8, but lost to Joseph 15-4. Bleah. I was fencing with Nico and leading 4-3 when his wires began to give problems, so again we had to cut short our match. Most of them will be going to Malaysia for the Selangor Open or something like that in a little over a weeks time. Good for them... hahaz... can't join them due to some... reasons... Joseph or Nico hit me hard enough on my right collarbone so that the force penetrated both my silver scoring jacket AND the protective suit to break the skin and cause a slight bruise and abrasion. My goodness.... hehz... on the other hand i'm pretty sure I've injured a lot of other people too last time, especially my father.... so I guess it evens out in the end.

School on wednesday and today is little more than a blur. I can't really remember what we've been doing besides making a lot of noise in Bio tuitorial, probably because I'm tired with staying up all night, until 12++ am trying to apply for my JAE. Happily my father just told me that the MOE has extended the deadline to Monday, due to the overwhelming needs of the students. Oh... I really wish I could feedback some stuff to the MOE. It wold include a cut out from Readers' Digest about the consequences of lack of sleep.

Oh yeah... its kind of likely that our class would take losses. Really don't want anyone to leave, but then also its kinda selfish to think of it that way. But I trust that God would guide me where he wants me to go from Victoria anyway. Hehz, I'll be doing my best to follow in the footsteps of my sister. As Soo Yee told me, tian xia wu bu san zi yan xi... yeah, I know that, we all have different paths to take. Its just that this time it was so fast. It just proves that time is relative... depending on whether you're having fun or not. Anyway, whoever leaves, if anyone does at all, we would wish you all the best in whatever you do =) And we will always be 05S15. We'll always be able to meet up again. Rarely, its true, but we will.

Yeah. Lastly was about my chinese.... Been gathering opinions over the past few days whether to retake or not... I guess its fairly split down the middle, if I consider that my mother and my sister are encouraging me to retake. =)

Yup.. thats about it for tonight... feeling really incoherent. I'll write a better one when I get back to normal, and my cold generator begins receiving electricity.

And thanks for dory n xun-ai n xiaoquan for being around for me to spit things out to too during my unusually burnt out state.... =) Take care everyone!