Tell A Lie Day/Vitamin C Day
2005-04-04 @ 10:34 p.m.

Mr Sowden is a good man! Went up to him at the end of today's lecture and asked him if we were doing the presentation later. He looked at me and went, "You want me to say no, don't you?" I grinned helplessly, and said, "Yeah." So thanks to my honesty, we're presenting on Wednesday instead! PE today was good or bad, depending on how I want to look at it. It was good because it was raining, so we didn't have to play touch rugby in the mud. It was bad because I had to do 40 assisted pull-ups instead. For once, I actually completed the sets assigned to us by Mr Low. Spent the whole of the break playing si guo qi, which is the game my class used to be crazy about in Secondary 4, so I had lunch with Ben at McDonald's after school. It was the first time in a while that I've stepped under the evil Golden Arches, and I don't intend to return anytime soon. Lunch conversation revolved around the various fast food chains in Singapore, and how McDonald's is hugely successful because it's captured the student market. KFC is too expensive, Long John Silver's has lousy food, while MOS Burger has a unique menu but is also too pricey. Only Burger King has prices comparable to McDonald's, and it's healthier too. The trouble is that it lacks the right kind of advertising. McDonald's has insinuated itself into the consciousness of an entire generation. I doubt though that its latest effort to rebrand itself as a healthy choice will be successful. I'm sure Singaporeans are not that dense...

This week:

Bake Week