Thursday, January 12, 2006
yaang lao shi, watch out!

Wo0T! thought today would be a tiring day but it turned out to be fun!
basically the same usual things I do every morning (since january), alight the bus, grab the class list, unceremoniously yank out the class tray and stagger back to class with a huge sling bag across my arm.
First block was PE. After pinning some notices to the notice board I went down with kiwi to the canteen (followed by the rest of the class). We were supposed to have Contact Time with mrs koh in the canteen but she didn't turn up even after the National anthem. Wo0T TEN whole minutes of free time and acting out stupid scenes for dee, huiwen, kiwi and valsoh. WOW huiwen has extremely the cursive handwriting. kudos to huiwen WOAH. Only some time after the bell rang did we see mrs anis beckoning us to go to the miniamphi. and so we did. rather sluggishly. HAHA. We took height and weight today, and seriously, i think that they're using the BOYS scale instead of a regular GIRLS one (according to karishma) because most of us either shrunk by about 4cm and "gained" 2 kilograms... THAT MAKES ME FEEL FAT! I feel fat. But people say I'm not. Give me 10 reasons why i'm not FAT and I will give you five dollars. Seriously. It's just that no matter how strict my diets are (i have multiple diets), no matter how much I run on the treadmill and jump on the trampoline, my weight can NEVER hit below 50 kg. That's tragic.
Blah blah and blah, after PE (and lamenting about being fat) was Science. Science was kinda fun today. Which reminds me. Yesterday kimberley (cucumberly) and I played volleyball with a paper cube over sujin's head! oooh. that's really tragic. for sujin. haha. Then there was lit, where we did some sharing about our research on the different topics of TKMB [to kill a mockingbird] and finally RECESS. Finally just half an hour more to speech and drama.
I have always liked speech and drama and if they'd offered it as a CCA in my pri school i'd have joined it. Too bad, they only started the RSS drama team like THIS YEAR. TRAGIC again! The subjects which really keep me surviving and pressing on in school are really literature, english, speech and drama, philosophy and MEP. FUN! I'm not much of a math-and-science person but I aspire to be perhaps a pathologist? Ironical.
I was so afraid of getting an immediate booking for being late for SPEECH so i ran up to the KS Chee with zaff. lalala the FUN STARTS HERE. From this very moment. Me and zaff and annie and willette and valsoh dashed into the KS Chee, hoping not to get the feared-by-everyone immediate booking. A teacher suddenly exited the KS Chee and we thought it was miss chen and it was not so we were like, PHEW, no more immediate booking. Then valsoh and I sat on the second row (we left the entire front row for miss chen HOW 'BOUT THAT?). I was sort of getting myself all hyped when the noise suddenly died down. OH. teacher come oredi!
WHY are all the teachers wearing GREEN today? First it was a teacher in the canteen, then a PE teacher, then another teacher, then miss chen! I wonder if all the teachers were instructed to follow a certain dress code, hmm hmm.
"are you ready?"
silence.
"good morning class."
"good morning miss chen."
grunt. valsoh is laughing away and valteo is grunting.
Zaff and sujin hadn't bought a Speech file yet, but there was a warning for zaff and another chance for sujin or else she'd have the immediate booking. I hope no one gets an immediate booking tomorrow! I like typing the word immediate booking because of the doubled 'm's and 'o's. I SO BO LIAO RITE?
Today we delved deeper into the subject of "How To Project Your Voice".
"Does everyone know where's their diaphragm?"
oh! I didn't really know, honestly. whoops--
miss chen points to her diaphragm and a picture of a diaphragm on our handout.
yuan lai ru ci... Immediately everyone started poking around in search of their diaphragms valsoh and i kept on tapping her brace. she's wearing a hard hard brace for her back so obviously when we tapped on her brace there was a "TOK TOK" sound.
"I would like two volunteers..."
silence.
something again about two volunteers.
valsoh and valteo giggle. giggle, grunt, guffaw, gwoosh.
silence.
valsoh and valteo are trying desperately to stifle their giggles because they didn't want to be the two volunteers.
Michy and Stringbean Celene volunteered themselves. WOAH. so brave. give the duo a round of applause!
miss chen asked mich to lie down on the floor. to lie down like A LADY. HAHAHA.
then stringbean had to locate mich's diaphragm.
stringbean was trying to press a wriggling mich's diaphragm, and finally mich couldnt stand it and burst into fits of laughter.
Then we had some hands-on activities. WHOOSH! It was something about being a Geisha so me and valsoh were teaching miss chen and the class how to introduce themselves in japanese. WATASHI WA VALERIE DESU! Think of japanese, think of spare tyres. HAHA. valsoh and I were bowing to each other, and in the end, stringbean had the best bow and the best introduction so she was the FIRST geisha! *applause*
Next we had another activity. We had to hold our voices for as long as we could. It was something like saying YUM SENG during people's weddings and I so accustomed to doing this sort of breath thing. I did it while swimming, I did it while playing the pianica, I did it while playing the flute. I can never forget those times when my flute teacher, mr ivan, told me about the diaphragm thingy AND how to hold my breath. And if you'd been playing ascending and descending scales together on the flute without taking a little breather, you'd find that doing this in speech was a lot easier. So all of us went VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and ruixin and I were in the finals. haha. Ruixin kept laughing, I kept losing my voice (sort of). In the end I won and became the SECOND GEISHA (wo0ts!)
we did so many things today! We wrote this funny poem and played the very same obstacle course Mr Connolly let us play when we were in sec one speech and drama! Oh mr connolly u must come back like mr wolfe! hahaha.
oh.
mr wolfe's back! YAY! so happy! i think he'll be teaching magdaboon's class. OH magdaboon! haha!
and...
SPEECH AND DRAMA ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS Wo00TS! :)