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Tuesday, September 4, 2007,6:07 PM

4 September 2007 - Tuesday

Today at lunchtime, when the only people left at "Our Table" were me, Paullyn, Zoeder, and Emily, Emily said quite perasaan-ly that she was a drama queen. Then Zoeder asked her to make herself cry, coz making yourself cry realistically is a acting skill (by the way, laughing is way harder to fake than crying). Emily couldn't cry. So I asked both of them to keep their eyes open and not close them, because it's a great way to cry on purpose. For some reason they couldn't. This is the way to do it, keep your eyes open no matter what, let the wind burn them, blink once if you can't bear it, then keep them open again. The tears will come. I mean, I did it about 4 times so I "cried" 4 times. It's really fun but it's so painful!!

After lunchtime, Paullyn came to our class and told me that Mr. Fan was looking for me, so we told Sas to tell Miss Emel who was preoccupied by teaching something to a student, and went to the Other Side. Mr. Fan said a lady was taking a survey and we had to listen to something for about 30 minutes, then fill up a questionnaire, so I went back to Room 3 and took my pencil, eraser, and 0.5 Buncho lead. I went to the test room, where there were some other students, and sat down at the back row with Paullyn. Then we moved to the front so we could hear the thing better.

The lady, called Cheryl, was from World Vision and blah, blah, blah, and she wanted us to listen and see if the lady narrator on the laptop or the man narrator was better when they talked about a girl called Jothi in India, who was an orphan and whose brother and sister had AIDS. I whispered to Paullyn I need to go to the bathroom during the recording, and she said "Too bad." While listening, we rubbed our erasers to make them cleaner (Paullyn's idea). After that, we had to fill out a quick 3-page questionnaire. The last question was something like, "What comments or blah blah can you blah to make this blah more effective?" Paullyn wrote to make it more interesting. I whispered to her, "To let the people have toilet breaks in between." Before I finished my sentence, she and I started laughing. Or smothering our laughs. Shoon Fai asked what a narrator was, which made everyone laugh, too.

And by the way, a very tragic event happened in school today: I FAILED MY H&G 605!!!!! Drat! I failed so many already this year!! This is the THIRD test I failed! Isn't that horrible? And I am probably gonna fail the BM test we took last week, too, so it's gonna be the FOURTH.... HAVE MERCY! HAVE MERCY!!! I took the alternate test already. I don't think I still love History & Geography (H&G) anymore. At least, not as much as I used to. H&G has always been my favorite subject, but to most people, H&G is the worst. Maybe I'm becoming one of them, too, now. I used to love Math, but now I HATE IT!!!!

Remember the contest thing in Miss Emel's class? The win-bookmarks thing? The 6 bookmarks are gone already, so today, the Chanel (flower) scented fan from Thailand was the prize. At dismissal, Andrew said today it would be different. The three finalists were Ralf, Yen Ming, and me. I was like, "No, but I didn't finish my goals!" Andrew insisted, "Never mind, just come in front." So I went in front. He said today the winner won't be the one who behaves the best and finish his/her goals - instead, we'd be drawing lots. So he presented 3 tiny folded-up pieces of blue paper on a piece of white paper. My eyes immediately fell on the paper of the left, which was a little darker than the other two, as if someone had scribbled on it with a pencil and erased it, but it left a "stain."

Andrew said two of the papers had X's on it, which means you didn't win, but one has an O on it. He said, "Now!" And I quickly grabbed the darker one. He asked us to open the folded-up paper. I opened mine halfway and saw a half-moon in red. I opened it again.

O.

O.

O!

Andrew said it and said that I won. I stared at it for a few seconds then let out a loud shriek. Saskia and the others cheered. Yay I am so happy! I really like that fan, but it's really fragile tho. I am afraid that I might snap the string. YAY!!! Andrew said, "I didn't know you could scream so loud." PMae told him, "If she was outside, she would've screamed louder." That wasn't a scream; it was a shriek. And it wasn't really loud. On my Screamometer, it's like a 2 out of 10. After that, I followed Pmae to the bathroom and we met Hazel there. Hazel told me there was a magazine meeting today! I said, "But... I thought there were no more meetings!" And she said that they suddenly had one again today. I couldn't go of course; no one told me and anyway, my Mom was on the way. Too bad, so sad.

Why didn't anyone tell me?

P.S. I am re-reading Peter and the Starcatchers. It's just too good to put down!