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Somewhere along the way I lost track of time.

The week that just passed, was that the first or second after term started? Whichever and anyhus-ly, it’s been a pretty uneventful week. By uneventful I mean no random animal died dramatically in the Central Plaza, nor did I set myself on fire for that (very expected) U for Math.

The urge to set things on fire, however, did settle in pretty intensely on Friday during photo-taking. For some reason the photog team made it their life mission to make us look exactly what we’re Not for the class photo. I get that there are some basic technical stuff we’ve got to straighten up on, but the rigidity was bordering on anal, IMO.

All the girls HAD to pin up their fringes, doesn’t matter if it’s neat when down. The rule is to pin up. No low socks Debbie and I had to borrow the guys’ socks and it was damn ridiculous I had socks bulging out of shoes I could hardly stuff my feet in it looked terrible. The team took about a million and one shots, making Jerry take off his glasses and fussing about when people aren’t smiling or opening their eyes wide enough. I mean.. WTFBBQ?

At one point our class kinda just gave up. It’s so absurd it becomes half-amusing. I doubt I’m even gonna buy the yearbook. ‘Cause I can see myself, 10 years down the road, going: HUH? That isn’t even how I remember everyone to be. There’s no point. Really don’t get why the size of eyes is an issue when taking class photos – does it even matter? Like Debbie complained at length after – this school has truly lived up to their communist reputation.

I agree.

I don’t remember much of the first part of the week – mass-purchasing at Borders, Chawanmushi, a dangerous game of Captain’s Ball, ANOTHER WHIRLEY POTATO ORGASM EPISODE (ONLY get the one at Food Fairs, the others disappoint so much I almost cried from the betrayal.), a long talk with JR, tutoring kids at this daycare (I thought it was a stroke of genius to stop their swearing by teaching them to use Cheesepie instead, and now they won’t stop saying it I want to kill myself)… Then there was THURSDAY!

Island Creamery with Laupok and Debbie! For about an hour or so only in the hot son but ZEMAGATZ I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. Annoyed Yaya-Papaya Debbie outta her pants with our continuous rendition of A Night to Remember. And the remix of Buddhist chants when we were all slightly delirious – I actually had vertigo from laughing.

Then Sogurt + Burger Shack with Geoff, Xinyi, Ran, Richard, Rei-En and Ben!

Ben’s bionic finger thing we were all so fascinated with.

I’m sorry kay, this is my first pseudo-middle photo and I’m very excited about it. Especially because it’s cast in a kickass bionic finger thing. It’s very magical.

Anyway, whatever.

So we just slutted around and ate around and later stood around aimlessly by the road in that very fail at decision-making way that somehow always happens. By the time we decided to go home – we’ve been standing there for about half an hour discussing Totoro, getting molested by/harassing Ronald MacDonald, and very potentially got rounded up by the police as delinquents.

I think they were gonna arrest me – because as a Hwachy I am politically volatile and am capable of beating up bus-drivers and similar violent acts. But there were the Raffies around so their correct-ness outweighed my potential threat to the society. Wrong – they don’t know Rei is a black belt and can get nasty when provoked and/or hungry.

AND THEN WE HAD A ROUND OF FROGGER.

Which IMO is the best game ever! It’s like extreme jay-walking which is always v fun, but without the actual risk of dying!

FRIDAY had a series of vvvvvvv fail jumpshots with the class and borrowed a haul of books from the library – I’m telling you JX library is DABOMBXZ OK. They have a great supply of books, because somehow no one seems to borrow from there. So I had a mind-numbing Friday night Saturday morning of Murakamis, and then DINNER WITH BECKY! <3

Ish superbly nice to catch up with Becky after so long. (-:

I like it when life is nice and easy with friends and food.