Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Two
Wow. I'm updating this post after at least a year's worth of
fill in excuse here(pause/break/breathing). Exams are over (better results, alhamdulillah), school books have been left in a corner to collect dust, and notes have been shoved away, out of sight and out of mind. There's nothing
to do but to just relax, chill, and have a good time.
God, I miss school already.
It's true. Now that the long-awaited holidays are here and I can finally start on that yard-long 'Things to Do During the Hols' list, I have no idea where to start, what to do, when to do it. I mean, okay, I know where to start, that's not really much of an issue. And I know what to do; that's what the bloody list is for. And when to do it?;
now seems as good a time as any.
But when you actually start to do all these wonderful things that you've been wanting and waiting to do for so long..... well, you know what happens (if you don't because you've always been this amazingly unboring person who can always entertain herself 24/7, then good for you, buddy ol' pal ol' friend! Go read another blog).
Let's take reading for instance. The moment those school gates slam (or squeak, in my school's case) behind you, you make a run for the nearest library. You grab as many books as you can carry in an armload and borrow them all. You gouge yourself in it. Breathe it. Swallow it. If books were fattening then you'd be twice as big as the most obese person on the planet. You're just reading and reading and reading, and you're loving it!
And as soon as the bookload is over - what else? You head for the library again and borrow some more books. And some more. And some more. Pretty soon you've burned yourself out. It was too much too soon too often. You can't bear to read another book the way my mum can't bear to see towels on the floor.
And the first week of the holidays isn't even over!
The same goes for any other activity: be it drawing, surfing the net, or playing the pogo-stick....
It is a huuuuuge problem that we're all gonna face eventually.
Unless of course, you're going to some cool, random, faraway country, like, oh, I don't know, Melbourne or New Zealand or Sabah or Indonesia, perchance. In which case, good for you,
buddy! Knock yourself out buying souveniers!
But for the rest of stuck here in Singapore.......
WE DEMAND ENTERTAINMENT!
Which, lemme tell you, is
NOT easy to provide! (Note the underline, bold, italic, capslock, red font PLUS the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence for emphasis). I'm always trying to entertain people, because I feel this certain expectation from people that I'm supposed to be entertaining, but it's
NOT easy. I'll be doing stuff, like talking or making up games, but then they'll be all like
"What are you doing, Dee?"
And I'll go: "I'm just trying to entertain you!"
And them people, they just say : "It's stupid, dude, cut it out."
"Yeah well, you know what? Yo momma so - "
"I said
SHUT UP!"
12:33 AM
