Oh dear. I had just typed out this totally emo post a couple of days ago and save it as a draft. Then when I opened it today, I got irritated just reading it. So I deleted it (something that was oddly satisfying) and I'm typing this in its place. Whee.
Drama Night's over. It was fun, and I got to know some really great people. And some assholes. But lets not dwell on unpleasant things.
Out of the five Drama Night plays, Electra ( the one my group did) was never one of the best. And I can tell you, Fridays performances really sucked. But I was really surprised that everything went so so so so smoothly on Saturday. And I didn't forget any of my lines at all! Hahahhh. After the National Day thing, I was really scared, but I guess Electra had so much more practice, so we were okay.
And now, I don't have to see Mrs. ____'s face for the next couple of months. I I ever see her Hagrid-like form approaching, metaphorically AND literally blocking out all sunlight, trust me, I will close my eyes and I will flee.
Sandra rocked as Electra, Su-lyn was amazing as the EVIL QUEEN (surprisingly (or not) she didnt' need much practice at pretending to be an evil, moronic, murderous, sallow-faced, twisted old gargoyle), and Inge and Angie were really amazing as Stage Managers. Like, they did EVERYTHING.
I was one of the servants/women of the palace (no confidence during auditions hehe) but more importantly, I was costume designer. Since its always something I've wanted to be, I thought it would be fun.
Well, its not fun if the drama instructor goes to the material shop and says "Whats the cheapest material you have?" chooses a colour that is roughly the same colour as everyones skin (which would thus have NO IMPACT on the audience), says "it doesn't matter if the sewing is all crooked, girls," forces me to sew seven greek gowns in five school days and tells me I have no time management when I tell her its not possible since I have no sewing experience, insists that she gave me "a month" to sew everything, which is like WTF because we had FIVE SCHOOL DAYS, etc. Aaargh.
Anyway, lesson learnt. Next time, choose your own material, make sure the colour is complementary, make sure you have enough time to do it, make sure the cloth length is correct (did I mention that we needed a 2m x 3m cloth for a gown, but she bought a 3m x 1.1m piece for everyone?) and make sure the people who are actually wearing the costumes actually bother to help out.
I just wish Mrs. Chew had been more... helpful? She just sat there you know! And said it was possible to sew seven greek gowns in three hours. And told us to "Get out! Just get out!" if the dance room when we told her it would take more time. MAJOR WTFFFF?
Clarissa Yeo from 1D: Thanks so much okay! You really really really helped out alot. :)
Just to let you know, Clarissa is the only person I've met so far who can do a passable evil laugh like mine! (Finally, an heir!)
Su-lyn: You too, cuddly-bear!(Su-lyn will punch me tomorrow for calling her this) You didn't even take Home Econs in lower sec yet you were always there to help me, and could actually sew straighter than some of the others!
Inge and Angie: Saya satu orang! Hahahahahhh. Thanks for helping with the sewing so much even thought you had to do the set at the same time!
Meera: Even though you weren't in my group, you were reallly supportive (and insulting towards all the losers who were mean to me). Thanks for entertaining us as an airhead in the mexican play, and craning your neck all the time, hoping to see if Seow was around!
Quotes from Drama Night!
[In between scenes, Su-lyn is arranging the dead snakes hanging on her shoulders- part of her costume]
Su-lyn: (pointing to one of the snakes) This, is Tom. Hey Tom! You know Tom Riddle?
Me: Yo Tom.
Su-lyn: (starts hissing spastically, imagining that she's speaking parseltongue)
Rivali: (starts hissing spastically too)
Inge: Adoh! Stop it! The audience will hear!
___ :(Pulls another snake off Su-lyn's costume) This, is Thory (Chew).
Ms. Suneeta: And there is so much room for improvement in Electra. You know girls, I was looking at your rehearsal and you know what I was thinking? "Rubbish. Just rubbish. Total. total, rubbish." I was so embarrassed. This is a greek play, throoow yourself into character, immerse yourself in the moment. [walks away]
Everyone: Well, we'll know who to get if we ever need someone to play Medusa...
(Ms. Suneeta has very frizzy hair.) Actually, she's quite nice. Nicer that Mrs. ____.
Sandra: My name is Sandra, I am a panda. A salamander, I am electra!
Everyone: Shabooya, sha-sha, shabooya-sha-sha..
Sandra: Su-lyn rollcall!
Su-lyn: My name is Su-lyn, I'm clytemnestra. I'm really evil, I try to killl electra!
Everyone: Shabooya, sha-sha, shabooya-sha-sha..
Sandra: Rivali rollcall!
Me: My name's Rivali, I'm really mean. I kill people, I'm an evil the queen!
Everyone: Shabooya, sha-sha, shabooya-sha-sha.
Inge: (runs up to us) Oi! What are you doing??? It is in the middle of a play! The audience can here you!
Everyone: Shabooya, sha-sha, shabooya-sha-sha..
Inge: Stop this! Stop it NOW! Mrs. Thory Chew will kill us and-
Sandra: INGE ROLL CALL!
Inge: ADOOOH! QUIET!!!!
EVERYONE:SHABOOYA-SHA-SHA, SHABOOYA!!!!
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Aaargh. Just had Bio test and I'm in the com lab blogging now. It was really horrible.
We had a Social Studies test earlier too. But I'm not worried. I mean I scored so fantastically for the last three SS tests, I'm practically untouchable. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I, Rivali Dass, have finally scored a hattrick for my Social Studies tests! For the last three consecutive tests, I have ..... failed. Yeah. I don't think I'll be surprised if I get a 0 upon 12. So, no worries there. :)
Speaking about the biotest, 2 minutes before it started, Ding and I were standing outside the class, clutching one half of my bio textbook each, and frantically trying to cram last-minute stuff into our brain. Ms. Lau approaches. We ignore her. She tells the two of us, and Lydia and Cheryl to go into the class, then walks into the class.
Or should I say she tried to do so.
I wasn't looking, but suddenly I heard her saying loudly "Girls!..... Girls! What are you doing?" Turning around, I saw her tugging frantically at the door handle, which would not turn.
My darling 3e had tried to lock her out of the class.
I just started laughing so damn much I forgot all about the Bio test for one glorious second or so. Then, reality crashed in and I walked meekly back to my desk, knowing I'd fail.
[I stopped here at the end of recess, and am now continuing the post at home, because I wanted to sketch but couldn't find my eraser. My dog is glaring at me.]
Oh, before Bio was English double period. We generally fall asleep the moment Ms. Chuah starts talking, except for brief, hilarious periods where we rise above the inactivity conditioned by the sound of her voice and try to, very bluntly, screw her life up.
So, today during English I was frantically studying Bio right? But there was an English test too.
So Ms. Chuah gave us the test paper, THEN spent 20 minutes discussing the test with us. Anyway, we were asking dumb questions, like
"Ms. Chuah, in the letter we're supposed to be thanking our Uncle for paying for an English course overseas for us right? So, if we're going for an English course it means our English is bad right? So you can't penalize us for wrong grammar because we're just being authentic."
"Is it okay if we write to an Uncle called Mary?"
And Ms. Chuah was so desperately trying to answer all the questions sensibly. I didn't feel the least bit sorry for her though. Does that mean I'm a hollow, empty human-being devoid of any emotions? maybe. Think about it while I go and push innocent old ladies under buses.
Aaaaanyway, here are some other quotes from the past week.
[Ding accidentally drops and smashes four of her test tubes JUST before a chem lab lesson. She goes and cleans them up using a broom, returns to the lab and dumbs all the glass shards into the chem lab dustbin.]
Mrs. Lim: Xin Yi! Not there! You don't put sharp things into the dustbin of the-
Ding: (as if she couldn't care less) Oops. (rolls eyes and walks back to her table)
Sharon: Xing Yi, are you studying for Bio?
Sotong: Tra la la la la.. (singing to herself)
Me: She doesn't take Bio!
Sotong: I... don't.
Sharon: But maybe she thinks she does.
Sotong: I..... don't.
Sharon: [laughs contemptuously, and walks back to her desk.]
Hahaha. I always thought that Sharon was this super guai, innocent, extremely quiet girl who kept to herself. She's actually quite funny. Sigh. I have to stop jumping to conclusions.
This one happened after tennis CCA on tuesday. Su-lyn told me about it-
Sotong: (holding a wad of toilet paper to her eyes)
Su-lyn: Xing Yi! What happened to you?
Sotong: (removes the paper to reveal a very red, puffed up eye.) A ball hit me...
Su-lyn: OMG, whose ball was it??
Sotong: ... Mine. I hit myself.
Sarah: Sotong, don't rub the wet toilet paper into your eyes. The fibre in the paper can unravel and damage your eye..
Sotong: Salad, can you help me get some more toilet paper?
Sarah: Okay..
Sotong: .... Make it wet.
Speaking of Sotong, I realized that she's not really blur. She just doesn't bother to talk to people. I mean, she's really, truly, a cut above the rest of us. She very philosophical and sensible, and whenever I start complaining about something to her, she always says something which makes me realise that its not really that important ultimately. It does make me feel intellectually inadequate (like a bratty child shrieking her head off until this old saint comes and pats her head) but seriously, its quite sad that I only realized it after knowing her for almost two years. (Oh dear, was 2e that long ago?)
Anyhoo,
Yanka: [acting drunk during English]
Me: [casually reaches over to take Yanka's 'water' bottle. Unscrews the cap and sniffs the Vodka inside. Pulls a disgusted face.]
Yanka: (Grabbing the bottle back and clutching it protectively to her chest) Hey, man, give that back!
Me: Yanka, its not right to start drinking, in school, in the middle of the morning and-
Yanka: YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT MAN! (starts laughing maniacally, and pours Vodka down her shirt for fun)
Physics was fun. Nicole Chan, Sotong and me kept on throwing stapler bullets at Cheryl Seah's head. Then, we tried to throw them at Evan, who was sitting right in front of Cheryl. So since they hate each other, Evan would assume that it was Cheryl throwing the stuff right? But unfortunately none of them hit Evan.
Denise fell asleep. Evan took a marker and drew drool on her face. She didn't wake up. After the lesson ended, the whole class called her. She didn't wake up. We YELLED. She woke up but almost immediately nodded off again. We sprayed water from the basin in the lab at her face and she FINALLY woke up. Hahaha.
Physics was hilarious also because after going to the lab, I realized that I had left my glasses in class, got Mr. Yeong's permission and went down to get them. So, on the way to class, I saw Nat, Xianwen and Sharon strolling up to the lab, looking peaceful and smiling at each other. Immediately, the gears of my evil mind started creaking into action. I ran up to them, faking a look of concern, horror and disbelief, all in one. "Guys! OMG, what are you doing here? Do you know who's back? MS. CHEONG!"
And they were all like "WHAT? WHAT? OH MY GOSH! WE'RE LATE! AAARRGHH!"
Nat wanted to go back to get her calculator, but decided that she'd rather not be even later and get stoned to death by pendulums or smth.
So, she asked me to get it for her, and ran after Xianwen and Sharon. And I'm just thinking, why didn't they even pause to ask why I was strolling along so peacefully in the opposite direction? I think the very mention of Ms. Cheong's name sends people scurrying for cover, all sensible thoughts expelled from their mind, concerned only with getting as far away as they can from that old, emaciated hag. (hey, salad, can I insult Ms Cheong as much as I want to cuz she's not a teacher anymore right? Right? Salad? Hello? Hey Salad come back! What's that blue thing you're holding? No- hey!Put down that booking card! Hey!Saaaaaaaaaaallllaaaaad!)
Anyway, I laughed all the way back to class, got my glasses and Nat's calculator, and was still giggling to myself as I made my way back up to the lab. The first thing I saw when I got there were Xianwen and Nat's pissed off faces! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Nat was like speechless.
I just couldn't stop laughing!
Gotta go now.
I know this post has been random crap, so bear with me until the EOYs are over. AAAARRRGHHH. I've actually started revising, which is a record for me, but there are so many test that my schedule keeps getting disrupted. Then there was Drama night. And for some reason, during the week I'm totally full of energy, running around and stuff. Then, the moment I reach home on Friday, BAMM, i get this sudden onset of lethargy. I fall asleep in the afternoons, have depressive mood swings, go to bed at 10 (which is really early for me) and am too exhausted to get any work done, until after 7 sunday night, when I'm suddenly energetic again. And if you say its because I love school so much, I'll seriously punch your face, because I dont. Most of our good teachers have abandoned us, those heartless creatures left on course, so we're not getting much work done (substitutes in 3e = slack till you drop dead)
Some are okay, like I prefer Mr. Yeong to Ms. Cheong (duh). Who wouldn't? Would you choose a teddy bear or the grim reaper? A fairy princess or Osama? A harmless ant or a blood-sucking, venomous, poisonous, evil, deadly tarantula- you get my point.
Au Revoir for now, and I think I'm a coffee addict. :(
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