~JcZw

Its been a dusty week. The repairmen came to the house to repair the damage done to the wall by the car accelerating down a rather steep slope from across the road as mentioned a few posts ago. Also, more workmen came to paint my sister's room. With all the furniture going around the house, it was inevitable that the dust would come.

As the eldest son, it was also inevitable that I had to help out in the work, even though it, for the most part, had nothing to do with me =D

So it happened on Saturday afternoon, between coming back from fencing and going out with my JC class, I had to help my father assemble my sister's bookcases. The process kicked off with the two of us maneuvering the long parcels of wood up the staircase. The landing made it a little difficult cos we had to tilt the thing vertical so that it could fit, me making a lot of heaving and whoosing noises, my father making derisive comments on the physical quality of "our ex-officer cadet", and my sister cackling every time we made a loud thump.

It was kinda like the description in H.J. Riker's Los Angeles Class of the torpedoes being loaded into the submarine.

Still, it was pretty fun assembling the thing, finding the pieces and screwing everything together (like a giant lego puzzle). Except for the part when we were trying to slide in the backboard of the bookcase and the thing wouldn't fit exactly in all the required grooves (like it would go into one, and fall out of the other at the other side) and in the end I started laughing while I was doing it, which made my hands shake and my very-patient father who was holding the whole thing up for me to fit in the thing ending up expending more energy oops..

In the end we solved the whole thing by turning the bookcase upside down and hammering everything into place heh.

The JC class gathering was also pretty fun though maybe there weren't that many people... Trina and ChuaH are also coming back soon, so that will be another opportunity to meet up haha. We watched "Wanted" which was very hmmm... interesting and graphic, shall we say, but kinda unreal. I mean its the kind of show which you watch and say "Yeaaaa riiiight" to yourself at the same time

Anyway, OGL precamp beckons tomorrow... Wondering how it'll be like. I know a lot of effort has gone into it but its gonna be different from medicamp... There won't be the air of discovering the new qualities in your OGmates with every game that goes by... Discovering WeiLun can scream higher than a girl, that Glen would allow himself to be dressed up as a model, that Alfred and Charlene could cook or that Ju was good in decor, that kinda thing.

Still, we'll see how it goes, and I hope I survive the shiong shiong Wednesday schedule heh