Make Your Dreams Come True Day/Rubber Band Veteran Day/Roller Skating Day/Make Your Mark Day
2005-01-12 @ 9:37 p.m.

Reading Vaish's blog, it occurred to me that I forgot to say something about the performance put up by the TSD students of VJC. The first piece was the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet, which I later learned was supposed to be funny, as in their rendition of it was supposed to make us laugh. I couldn't decide whether to laugh or not while I was watching it. It's weird to think that Romeo and Juliet were younger than me when they died for love. The subsequent performances were better, to varying degrees. The group piece was hilarious! I like it when people poke fun at top schools, even though in one year I'll be the alumnus of three. I saw someone there who used to be from my Secondary 2 French class. Personally, I liked the last one best, which was excerpted from a play entitled China Doll. Probably because on a subconscious level, I'm extremely ambivalent about my cultural identity. It's an inherent conflict I feel, being English-educated Chinese, whom Mr Purvis calls the power base of the PAP. Education in general is a dangerous thing, and literature even more so. Anyway, I think the standard of TSD is higher than other JC drama groups, but not without good reason. TSD is an 'A' Level subject, while groups like Raffles Players are CCAs. Thus I don't think it's fair to measure one against the other. To be frank, I think Daniel enthuses too much about TSD, which I can deal with, until you notice the only adjective employed is good or variations of it. Okay, I'm probably being ridiculous here. I shall stop.

Starting on homework for the umpteenth time. I've decided that I'm going to be more hardworking this year, which is why I didn't whine about having to prepare another position paper by Monday, this time for Mr Rollason. Ah well, I'm working with Shiqi for the fourth time, and the routine's established by now. She does her hal and sends it over to me. I add in my half and print the thing out. Then we bluff our way through the tutorial! That usually works, unless we get Mr Kwok in a bitchy mood, like yesterday. Then we just sit there and act blur. At least I do that! Right now, I'm trying to decided how to do a review of a book that I've never read, based on one chapter that I photocopied months ago while desperately looking for quote for my essay on China. I need to clear my backlog of work! It consists of Mr Kwok's work, and only Mr Kwok's work. Unsurprising, if you know me well enough (or have read my posts concerning him). Tired, and I have to meet a stupid, irresponsible person tomorrow. I get annoyed whenever I'm around that person. Bad vibes. Relax, it's not any of you. I wonder what Mr Purvis thinks of him?