Au revoir, for now.

It's always sad when a friend has to leave for another place...and almost permanently at that. Cheryl left for Canada yesterday and some of my french classmates and I decided to send her off at the airport. Tears aside, I suppose it makes me terribly envious that they are able to just uproot (yes, up-friggin'-root everything.) and move to another place, presumably better than what there is here. She's got plans, that girl. Going to study in a college there and participating in yet another exchange programme with French students. We sorta agreed that we were going to meet each other in France in 4 years time, but we all know how those "agreements" usually turn out to be nothing more than empty promises which only serve to temporarily stave off the bitter aftertaste of a goodbye.

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Yvonne came yesterday too and my oh my, is she looking upbeat and so much better since the last time I saw her during french class. No more untucked RJ blouse, no more unkempt hair...uh uh. She looks just so...refreshed. Must be because of the fact that she just passed the DELF C2 exam¹ and is now applying to Universite de Sciences-Po, the top university in France and had a letter written by the French Embassy about how she should be allowed to skip the entrance exam and a guy who will help get her to France even if she isn't accepted by Sciences-Po...I mean, is that going smoothly or what? She is now my idol for now and after speaking to her, I think I'm more determined to go to France to study, if only for the challenge and the rare oppurtunity to advance my french further. Now, everything just depends on the prelims and the As.

Depressing.

My iPod mini's working again...somewhat. It's not totally functional yet, but at least I got it to turn on and I can do absolutely banal stuff with it like turn it to disk mode and run diagnostics with it. Hardly much fun. I spent a total of two hours trying to repair it using the help pages on Apple but alas, iPod's stubborn and won't listen to my bidding. Crap.

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I hate the idea of teachers guilt-tripping us when we don't do our work, although I know most of the guilt-tripping actually comes from me. My conscience just goes a-bleeping when I know I haven't done my tutorials and it just ain't too smart if your teacher happens to be one of those time bombs, waiting to explode in your face when you least expect it...

TICK.

Hasta la vista, baby.

Right. Lesson learnt : complete all the bleeding tutorials on time to avoid their wrath. Yes.

¹ "Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. Can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations."

Fleeting bliss.

It's the post-block test period and the whole world is having fun. Well, sorta. I have had so much to do over the past few days...very eventful. Let's see now, 4C class gathering cum benjamin's party was great! 4C is just so special. Everyone's so comfortable with each other that it's rare and we had such a good time just talking over nonsense and catching up with one another, although most of us were from hwachong anyway and we see each other in school. It's different...we got past the perfunctory "hi"s at least. Had a good time.

Went to Adora's church today along with Emmett, Guowei and Kenneth. Charismatic, minus all the speaking in Tongues, which always scares the heck out of me. I know it's a spiritual gift and everything...but something about a room full of people rambling away in seemingly nonsensical syllables spooks me out. Thanks but no thanks, really. It was nice to go back to church once again and partake in the communion. Was reminded of how it's like to actually "carry the cross", so to speak.

Then there was Yaminee's birthday party. Met this really nice girl from ACJC who speaks Japanese (*gush gush*!) and was just awfully nice and friendly to Georgia and I since we were just about the only people apart from Christl who were affiliated to Yams by french class. No bisous, no "joyeux anniversaire"...but there's something about meeting old friends, especially peeps from french class! I miss so much about it - the french immersion programme, the days of slacking in french class and just fooling around at the back...and how we all shared the same passion for the language. Even surviving to AO level is a feat by itself! So anyway, after the party, Christl, Georgia and I, being such party animals, went out because it was "too early" to go back home. Haha...talked a fair bit. Toured around in Fullerton! And took pics.

My IPod's just about bust! Sheesh. I'm crushed! Can't believe I have to survive the long bus journeys from school back home without music! To cut the long story short, clumsy me forgot to cap my waterbottle properly before putting it into my bag with all my valuables (read: IPod, PSP, wallet, handphone.) Water plus IPod = BAD. It was soaking wet and there was even this little puddle in my bag from which I had to fish out my IPod. Now my IPod is reduced to a pathetic existence in a small plastic bag with the silly "Thirsty Hippo" at a corner of my room. Let's just pray that the fat hippo does its job well. Suck the water, baby!

Lord of the Rings Tactics is just plain frustrating. Even more frustrating when you realised you paid 70 bucks for such a difficult game. Can you imagine I got stuck at the second level and had to replay the level 4 times to actually get everyone's butt off the silly bridge before the Balrog comes and toast their behinds? 4. Flippin'. Times. And it wasn't even the Big Daddy at the end of the game!! Sometimes, I just want to smash my PSP from frustration.

Gushing about The Notebook. Yes. Just like Orlanda. =)

More DVDs to watch, more Xbox games to play. There's even a class outing on tuesday! But I'm seriously contemplating whether to go or not. Sigh.

Issues and Ideas is a pain in the neck. I wish I could set it on fire.