Butterfly Day/Frog Jumping Day/Friday The 13th/Lilac Festival (New York)
2005-05-13 @ 11:22 p.m.

Just got back from Dance Night, which was great fun. Heck, even the Shanghai dance looked good. I will refrain from offering any further comments about it, because it'll just degenerate into exclamations about how hot dancers are. The Performing Arts Centre in RJC sorely lacks the atmosphere of other venues though. If you want to spend money on providing a place for the performing arts to fluorish, at least give us a proper venue comparable to external values. We're not asking for the Esplanade; Singapore Repertory Theatre would do quite nicely. Anyway, the emcees were irritating. I hardly ever see any good emceeing at school performances. If you want to sound enthusiastic, don't make it forced and fake. If you can't manage genuine enthusiasm, then just stick with polished delivery.

Reworking my 'S' Paper essay, because Mr Purvis had left school by the time I finished. The handwritten essay starts of well, but rapidly goes downhill. Even the conclusion, which I thought sounded good in my head, didn't translate so well onto paper. Many thanks to Mr McConnell for reminding me that you always assume your reader knows the book you're discussing, because that frees me to discard two lengthy paragraphs of compressed narrative. I'm condensing the rest of the essay, so that there's more comparison of the two texts, instead of a disjointed individual discussion of each text. Now to hand it in tomorrow with Chernise and Li Jun. Talk about déjà vu.