This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
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After 2 utter redundant rounds of rehersals, we finally had the actual Founder's Day prize-giving ceremony today. And this time, it was spent sleeping (almost) all the way through. Too bad the college auditorium seats were those standard plastic seats with foldable tables - only the VIPs get cushioned seats! *envy* - so it wasn't a really conducive envrionment for sleeping. Had to make do with palms as head rests. =( Surprisingly for once though, most of the alumni/VIPs' speeches weren't that boring after all, though i still did doze off in the later portions. I say "most" becos there was one speech which was so plain boring, everyone clapped and cheered loudly when it finally ended. And - surprise, surprise - it was made by some MP of some GRC (think it was Sembawang). Can't exactly rmb the exact details for that guy, since sleep does clear your memory. Apparently, Mr. Hon was his Physics teacher back in the old days, thus he so creatively based his speech on Newton's three laws of motion. Blatant bootlicking *ahem*. So he was like, relating the theories to our problems and whatnot...and i fell asleep halfwalf through the first one. Though one of my JC friends said he got the second law wrong - apparently he didn't study physics in JC. Baaad student. But that's something new, lol - Mr. Hon teaching Physics? o.O And the prizes for the JC winners are sooo much better than ours. They get nice trophies and plaques, whereas we get only certificates where the most visually appealing thing was the ribbon used to tie it up. Crumpled and tore it by accident on the bus later. D: Ah well, at least we got $30 Kinokuniya vouchers for sitting around for 4 hours. But come to think of it, it's not really that worth - even working part-time for that few hours nets you a higher salary, heh. Then again, it's not often we get rewarded for sleeping, else everyone would be millionaires by now. Well, there's otehr benefits too: we got to skip some crap CIP activities too. Apparently, 3N got sent to some mission hospital in Simei to render gardening services, but looks like they ended up clearing the longkang and sweeping the floor instead. Not to mention that we got released slightly earlier too. =P And YYY took 3 servings of the "light refreshments" at the reception after. Thanks to the presence of the VIPs, the food was uber nice - way better than a lunch at poolside, our original intention. And the desserts are just heavenly <3 - brownies, oreo cheesecake, custard pastries...zomg! Eventually, the utensils actually ran out before the food did, since they actually had refills for the latter, wow. Oh gosh, ive just realised that ive dedicated 3 entire posts to this prize-giving thingy already. What a waste of time on an unimportant and largely useless topic. I swear, this shall be my last post on it. =X |
'Twas teh winnar at 11:47 pm.
