These videos had me totally zoned out. They are ab-so-lute-ly cool. Where do people come up with these stuff anyway? Which reminds me, 4 months ago during the December holidays my family drove past a flash mob at Orchard Road, which is something like the Frozen Grand Central video featured below. Watch them! :D

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Today was a surprisingly relaxing day for a Monday. During Lit, my group presentation went smoothly (with little bumps here and there) but Shirin and Aaron improvised. Nice! Then during English the lesson was quiet as we did our essays. I chose "Marriage" but didn't know what to write so ended up with only two paragraphs. =x Sorry Mrs Ezekiel! Then it was followed by Chinese. I felt confident I could follow the lesson because Xu Lao Shi was going through oral and then for some reason the lesson ventured into how Chinese is an important subject because we would do business in China in the future, even though many in the class didn't agree on that. It started to rain outside I think, which made my day. Coupled by the fact that Xu Lao Shi was standing right in front of me, I felt compelled to do Chinese because she kept stressing on the fact that China is an increasingly advanced country and her voice made an impact on my dejected soul which was reluctant to do Chinese before. She held up my pencilcase, not to show the class what it looked like, but as an example to how many things are made in China (not that my pencilcase is), but as an example, like I said. I was surprised that I took Chinese for granted before and never noticed its value. She also emphasised on the two most powerful countries in the world - China, as mentioned, and America. I made the connection as she wrote down what I was thinking too - I am currently inclined in both of those languages.. so why did I take for granted my knowledge of both before? So many billion people in the world don't know either or even neither, and yet, here I am, born with the ability to know both, to be able to surround myself with people who speak and use both languages, but yet I don't treasure them. What have I been doing for the past 15 or so years of my life? My PSLE Chinese was an "A", and now I'm merely scraping past a "C". Have I wasted my education? Natalie memorised 10 idioms. Me? Slacking. Slacking.

O Levels means 4 months more hard work = School I want to go to = Job I want = Future I want
as compared to
O Levels means 4 months more slacking = School I don't want to go to = Job I despise = Future ruined.

If you were me too, which one would you choose? And this does not only apply to Chinese. All my other subjects are equally important. Where am I heading?

Mr Yap talked to my class last week, and it gave me a wake-up call. He made me realise that out of so many people in Singapore who want the same school, job and future as me, what would make me stand out if I continue this way? Nothing. A pathetic piece of nothing.

*back to today's lessons*

Continuing from where I left off, Maths was pretty relaxed after all that rushing for time to finish both textbook homework and worksheet homework. Mrs Lee went through a newspaper comic (yesterday's Foxtrot comic) and article (English lesson? Haha.) about elite school stereotypes and neighbourhood school stereotypes. I think people subconsciously develop particular mindsets about this or that person, like if I told you someone was a nerd (no offence), you would probably think big glasses and burying in books all the time. Isn't that true? You know yourself. It's sad that people stereotype but hey, I hate to say this but that's life. Take Susan Boyle, for example. She's so brave to sing her best even when people make fun of her. She's also humble and cute! xD Ok moving on.. History was 40 minutes of massaging classmates, re-arranging 4 pairs of students' seating arrangement and debating with Mrs Hua about school rules and how they affect our studies. Don't wanna go into detail because this happens almost every time and I am sick of it. Last but not least, Social Studies was free period with Clarissa and Nat doing a bit of source-based questions. Nothing much.

I shall end of with the a video of the amazing one-half of the Singaporean twin boys who made it into VIENNA BOYS CHOIR! They invited Nigel (the one in the video) and his twin brother to audition there (do you know how hard it is to even apply? They INVITED HIM!! So privileged!) when their eldest sister posted this video on YouTube then put a link on their official website's (http://www.wsk.at/) guestbook and asked them to watch him sing. They're ten-year old boys, mind you, and they like classical music. WHERE CAN YOU FIND BOYS WHO LIKE CLASSICAL MUSIC AT THAT AGE?! Anyway I'll let you watch in peace. Ciao!

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P/S. I am not a paedophile, people! xD Esp. to a few of my friends. =P