Friday, February 29
After much much consideration, I choose volley(: hope I get in! Stupid band, never call me): not that I want to join or anything but eh tk band eh! Hahaha, nah, I'm just being a loser!(: I put soccer second choice. Yup. My nails aare too long. I need to cut them. I keep scratching myself! Oh yes and Jean is back from camp. So is that a good thing or a bad thing?! Hmmmmmmm(: Heeeehehe, wanted to go east coast tomorrow but turns out that there is some biathalon going on. Oh oh oh, I think it's damn cool! I'm going to train and I'll participate in a biathalon/triathalon one day(: I think its damn cool! Yup yup. Maybe I run to expo tomorrow(: Maybe la, if I can wake up. So today after school, I hanged around for awhile before deciding that I was too tired and that I wanted to go home to zzzzzzzz. So I didn't watch movie with huiming and sylvia and didn't go for cg lunch. So loserish right! But oh well, what to do? I was too tired. Falling asleep during chem when I wasa right in front of the teacher. Woooooooops, I better stop doing that. It's bad, like seriously bad. I'm going to sleep again now. See my pig cycle? I sleep and sleep and sleep. PIG(: Oink! But its ok(: wilbur *the one in charlotte's web* is damn cute so oh well, a pig is cute! Goodnight(: ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
express yourself {11:13 PM}
Monday, February 25
MACS VS SUBWAY
MAAAAAARISA
CAROUSEL
BUS 12(:
BUS 12(: (:
MONKEY!
ORANGE SKATES(:
GANG
express yourself {8:24 PM}
Fugdeding freading fugly fugerly freak. I feel like I'm in denial, but on the other hand, I feel that I'm truthful. Maybe I'm in denial in a truthful way. Perhaps. Today was one long day and I'm like damn tired now. Booo hooooo. Tomorrow wil be a longer day. I know that it will never work and I would be badly, very badly stabbed. So anyway. I'm gonna be happy(: I'm gonna post happy pictures!
express yourself {8:19 PM}
Sunday, February 24
Today was a damn long day I felt. Went to east coast with daddy first and we ran to bedok jetty. Then met up with the gang of people(: Lyn and I skated while the rest biked! But she gave up halfway haha. We talked damn lot of crap and everything and ya da ya da and they took lots of pictures of themselves. KEYWORD: THEY! Yup, it wa fun(: Thanks for today gang! Hahaaaaa. School O2 starting tmrw. I'm dreading to wake up early tomorrow.
Can you please save me): I really need to stop being so mean. I hate myself now. I dont like who I am. I want to be nice but I always become mean. Maybe you all dont feel I'm mean but I feel I'm mean.): How? I'll do my utmost best to be nice. I'm feeling kinda moodish now and feel like slapping everybody. See, I told you I'm mean. What I did on saturday was mean.): What I told hilma was mean.): What I said to friend was mean.): What I bitched about to pong was mean.): What I told gang about n was mean.): Sometimes I dont know if I'm joking or I really mean what I say. I feel mean. But I dont want to be mean. Really, I'll do my utmost best. I'll start now. Im sorry to everyone if I've been mean to you even if you dont know it.
express yourself {8:52 PM}
Saturday, February 23
Helloooooooooooooo, today was one hell of a long day. Stared out by waking up to do SOMeTHING, then went for breakfast with dad(: and headed for MJC for some dance finale thingy. The beats are okkkkkkk and I thought them M16! So if you find that something is wrong, you'll know whose fault it is(: Muahhhhhhhhhhahahah. Then went back to band to return my uniform and give my section cookies/tart/muffin(: Hehehe, I bet it sucked! Lol, no la, I think its damn nice cos hot and cute and much more rach bx joan baked those, FROM SCRATCH!(: Yea right! Yup, met tang and bx at the bus stop, katong one! Oh ya ya ya, I havent tell what bitchy thing I did. Something happened and I couldnt stand it momentarily la. I was super omggggggggggggg so I ran to the hall and call bx to bitch and she didnt pick up. Then I called rach and started bitching big time! And she broke me the devastating news that I'm in callisto): I want miranda! Tang in atlas and Bx in miranda. I was so bitchy la. WLAO, cant stand myseld la. I even smsed my friend when we were like 2 steps away. Shit, I'm such a freaking bitch. Damn. I need to be less bitchy. Freak. Help me out k! I need all the help I can get. So after that I ok alrd la. Maybe its just PMS. Dont know! So we headed for ah yap house for the cny party. Tennis was fun although I missed like 99% of all the balls... Yup, nubcake! And I went home and the journey home was damn short!(: Jonathan yong journey was like 10seconds! Haha. Skating tmrw with Lyn Ris Ping-pong James and PETE! You freaking better come k! I'll bite you if you dont come!!!!!!!(:
I suddenly thought over what I thought and I'm like NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER EVER! OMG FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why did I even ever ever ever had that freaking disgusting thought! Eeeeeeeeeeew, no! I did not think of what I thought! NO NO NO NO! I'm damn disgusted with myself. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, damn gross. Ok, whatever~ something off my mind(:
express yourself {11:48 PM}
Friday, February 22
PRETZEL M&N'S(:
CHOC TART!(:
MS TANG
MS BX
COOOOOOOOOKIEEEEEEEE(:
MUFFIN NAME 1(:
MUFFIN LOVE 2(:
Hello. MJ didn't have school today as it was STAFF WELL BEING DAY. Cool that the school actually have that! So, I made good use of my day! I slept in until 11 when baoxian decided to call me and ask me what she should buy. Oh gosh, you know how much $$$$ we wasted???? $20/person la! So ex right?! So if any of you get to eat it, better treasure it k! So at like 12 plus a sleepy me trudged out of my comfy home wearily. Today we damn cheapskate. Went to all the cheap place to eat. Went to simei food court. Popiah was damn nice and the ice was damn cheap!(: We WALKED home ok! Then slack awhile and started work! Tang has alot of pictures. Find her for more pics soon(: Waaaaaa damn noob la, I spilled the red dye and now my hand is damn red! Freak. Lol. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, don't all the things that we baked look appealing? Yea man! Hahahaaa. Bake bake bake, OH YA, we baked everything from scratch(: *im not lying* yea right! Haha. Bake bake bake, then we went for dinner at bedok. Wlao! We damn pig la can! We ate chee queh carrot cake, bx wonton mee rach fish pian mee fen and me quack rice! Zzzzzzzzzz and I sat on my thirty minute bus ride home. Heeeeeeeeee.
express yourself {9:34 PM}
Thursday, February 21
I think too much sometimes you know. Stupid brain. Why think so much. Wlao, I actually ok one lor. Then you know right just now after school we took 15 to parkway. Then the bus ride was damn freaking long so tang and bx were asleep la then I was listening to my shiny lg phone. Then IDK how and what and why I freaking started to think.... Omg la. So everytime I think about things I shouldn't think about, I'll be sad. Yeaaaaaa. But I didn't realise that I was sad until I started slacking alone at ah tang house when both of them were busy making the cookie(: (smile for the cookie) Somemore when I ask them to choose right, both of them chose a different thing. Booooooo. So sad. I'm like super confused now la. It's like WLAOOOOOOO. I dont get myself at all la. I tell myself something and I find myself doing the something that I told myself not to do. Shit. How? Aiya, nah, it doesnt matter. You wouldn't understand what I'm saying anyway. Anyway, I think this phase will pass. Hopefully. Heck to all of that!
So besides the above! Today was fun. Ok la, quite fun. Cos I hanged out with ah tang and ah huang and we crapped the whole way. Haha, of course, my fellow ogls! Everyone made my day(: I was the only one that spoiled my own day. Booooooo. Haha, whatever~ So during the stupid talks we were like having loads of fun(: I bet lots of people were irritaed and hate us but WHO THE F CARES ABOUT THEM?!(: I dont! Had to leave early and couldnt go for the wbomb making session): SORRY! Yup went to ah tang house for our fun loving session. We are going to let the mj tk people eat. Haha mean ass bx and rach. When I told them I wanna give the band people eat the cookie they were like FOR WHAT?!!!! And they confiscate like half of my cookie and say NAH YOU TAKE THIS! HAHAHA BITHCES!!!!!!(: (: (: No wonder we all friends(: LOL. The cookies are super yummy and nice and appealing. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAA MAN!!!!!!!! So anyway, because today is the 15 day of cny, daddy decided to go out for dinner. Wanted to go to astons but it was damn long queue. So we went parkway and went to crystal jade! Guess who I saw? I saw my most loserish best friend(: Haha, if you know who that is.... lol! So qiao right?! Saw more tk people like Jo tan brian and gang. Yuppppppppp and Jean is damn crap(: Heheheeeeeee.
I still feel sad! Not sad la, confused la actually. Idiot. But neverming la. Monty python- ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE(:
express yourself {10:24 PM}
Wednesday, February 20
Hellooooooo. First day of JAE and the role of an ogl is so wth can. F up la can. Bloddy TIC, she scold us when we go toilet luhhhhhhhh can. Wthhhhhhh. Zzzzzzzzzzzz. Whatever la~ Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz, anyway, so sian lor admin. Aiya, dont mind me. I just feel super bitchy now la. Dont know why too! The fun part only began after school la. Hahahaha, yea im a bitch. Went to parkway roxy eat ban mian with tang bx and lp! I never ever go out with lp sia!!!!!! First time although we know each other for 4+ years?!!!!!!!! Yea............ LOL. Whatever la~ !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh zzzzzzzzzz whatever la. I'm gonna sleep le. Byeeeeeeeeee
express yourself {8:54 PM}
Tuesday, February 19
HEY EVERYBOEEEDAY!!!!!!!!!!(: Hope that all of you got into your institution of your choice! For those who still don't know, Joan is in MJ and will be staying in MJ! So is rachel and baoxian and weiting. Joining us would be many others!!!! LOL. The tk dominance would be increased, I think. Heard that darren kenneth shaun yexi himla huanting terrnece melson and many many are coming over. I think that they're either TJ rejects or TP go up. Either that or they like MJ over whatever school they were from or whatever school they were not from. Ah, whatever la~ Zzzzzzzzzzz anyway, tmrw only need to go school at 8!!!!! But wth! I need to reach at 710 for IDK why!!!!! Omg la, damn noob can! Zzzzzzz all the admin stuff all over again. Crap. Haha eh whatever. I dont really care. I'm just sad that now I'll have to start sutdying properly and start doing my tutorials and treat lessons MORE SERIOUSLY than I did in pae. Yup. That's basically it! Oh ya, I went to change my bracing to white(: Maybe green again the next time! Muahhhhahaha. I saw timothy wang kuo and brent when I was going home from dentist!(: Haha, and JOAN DID 5 TODAY!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY(: (: (:
express yourself {2:50 PM}
Sunday, February 17
I DID 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooooooooooooots!(: (: (: YIPEEEEEEEEE FOR ME!
express yourself {3:49 PM}
Hello(: Today is such a nice and breezy day! Haha. East coast park is damn nice! I LOVE EAST COAST! YAYYYYYYY(: Went skating with Jo today. Omg, I was such a noob la can. Cos I reached the bus stop at like 910 so I didn't want to go to the park and be a total loner and loser. Hence, I decided to wait at he HDB flat near the bus stop. I wait and wait and wait and Jo never came! =.=!!!!!!!! Then she called me... and told me she walked to ecp!!!!!!! Wth right?! NUBCAKE!!!!!!!!!!! Haha, yup, we skated at tortist speed to bedok jetty and the nubcake Jo didn't wear guards PLUS she didn't know how to break!!!!!! Omg la.(: So when she couldn't stop, she clinged on to me, THE PRO! Haha ok la whatever! Then zhiyi msg me at bedok jetty. He just woke up! Lol. Yup, we slacked at jetty for like damn long before we finally decided to go back. Went macs to drink milo(: Milo is always damn nice. So by the time we were about done it was 1100(: And guess who decided to come? Yexi!!!!! Haha, another loser. When I called him at nine he was still like zzzzzzz 'uh I just woke up' haha yea right, and went back to sleep I suppose(: Yup, walked to the 12bus stop and take my favourite bus 12!(: Yup, I think I'm gonna jog later. Just finished lunch and daddy is going away for 3 days! Oh noooooooooooo!!!!!!!! No one to fetch and buy dinner and everything! Booooooooooooooooo. ANYWAY, TODAY IS A HAPPY DAY(: See you on saturday Jo!!!!!!!
express yourself {1:22 PM}
Saturday, February 16
Today was a nice day(: Wooooots! Haha, went out with julien jos michelle to sakae to visit jac! Yipppppeeeeeeeeeee(: So fun haha. I only ate one plate of kakiage and the rest ate damn little too! This is like our cheapest sakae bill la can! LOL. Anyway, we went to swensens afterwards for deserts and MY FRIES! YUMMMMMMMM. Aiya, whatever la, I'm like damn lazy now! Talk again soon k, see ya!
express yourself {11:38 PM}
Friday, February 15
Today was supposedly a short day but it was damn freaking long can! The thing that made it long was CHEM!!!!!!! Bloody... Take our recess for make up! Grrrrrrrrr so irritating la can! So we had lessons till like 1205 with NO BREAK AT ALL! BTICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So angry! Lol, anyway, the day didn't end there. There was a KI trip to the museum at 1345 but it was delayed to 1500. How sad and a tremendous waste of time huh. But oh wells. The whole museum thing was quite nice(: I learnt alot of things! YAY(: And I was bloody lauughing the whole way for no reason(: LOL. OK ok ok I got something to say!!!! You all got hear the light bulb joke before right?
Q: How many RJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 4 whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one to
manufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it.
Q: How many HCJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. To compete with RJC.
Q: How many VJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. One student to screw it in and the rest to cheer and wave flags and banners to give him/her support.
Q: How many NJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They can study without light.
Q: How many AJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They’re too busy trying to be one of the top 5 JCs.
Q: How many ACJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They’ll rather use all their money to employ YJC to do it for them.
Q: How many YJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Only one teacher to tell them what a light bulb is in the first place and to demonstrate how to change the light bulb. (So how do you think they’re able to change it for ACJC?)
Q: How many CJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They’ll prefer it to be darker. (Hmmmm?*raises eye-brows* )
Q: How many JJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Their physics is so bad that they made their macho male physics teacher cry.
Q: How many TPJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Would they even bother?
Q: How many SAJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They believe in praying for it.
Q: How many NYJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are still using oil lamps.
Q: How many SRJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Huh, what litebarb?
Q: How many PJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Heck the light bulb lah, the principal would do something about the rightbarbs. Let’s do 300 jumping jacks for not wearing the proper school attire.
Q: How many MJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are too busy trying to get promoted.
Q: How many IJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are Innovians. They’ll find ways out of the dark.
Q: Who wrote all this?
A: A TJCian.
Q: How many TJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They think they are already very bright.Ya that one. Today, JOAN created one KI one!!!!! HAAHAA, cos it was like everyone was crowding around the lockers and trying to close it as the locker was too full. They were having ALOT of difficulties in closing it. So I was like
HOW MANY KI STUDENTS DOES IT TAKE TO CLOSE THE LOCKER? NONE! THE LOCKERS DO NOT EXIST! Hahaha, wtf right! I know I'm damn cute(: LOL!!!!!!! Yup, that all for today. I'm damn tired now. Good night(:
express yourself {9:47 PM}
JOAN<3GER!(: I WROTE HER A POEM YESTERDAY(: MISS YA!
TK BAND!!!!! I FREAKING MISS ALL OF YOU(: LOVE YOU<3(:
I AM FREAKING LOVED AND LOVABLE(:
BX&JOAN+RACH+WT*****WE ARE LOVE!
RACH&WT+BX+JOAN*****WE ARE LOVE PS: HS didnt come! She is a freaking loser(: muahhhhaaha!
WE ALL ATE THIS(: EXCP WT!
YUMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
HAPPY VALENTINE DAY EVERYONE(: TODAY IS IS NICE DAY NO?! Heheeeehaahahaaaaa, lots of CHOCS&CANDIES&LOVE NOTES(: Muahhhhhahaaaaa. My mum was damn funny. She saw my sis's vday presents on the coffee table and was like: Wa so many ah! Aiya girl school like that one. (Refering to me) You all don't celebrate it in tk and mj right! Girl school la. MUAHHAHAHAHA. I then grab my bag of goodies and flung it to her. Heheeeeee, she was bewildered(: JOAN TRIUMPS OVER JEAN!!!!!(: Going gai gai with KI tmrw to raffles place.(: Meeting island on saturday for sakae(: Skating with lyn and rissy on sunday! Hahahaha, NO TIME TO STUDY YIPEEEEEEEEEE! HAHA I SWEAR. AFTER PAE I WILL START STUDYING VERY VERY VERY HARD. And so I say....... LOL. So now, I shall let all of you into my day! Oh must thank everyone first! Thanks to rachel baoxian weiting jocelyn michelle lyn marissa peiting sheryl lynette huiming shyam brian joseph james chun peng peng peng kaying hazel jolenetan gladys clarissa jillene AND MANY OTHERSSSSSSS(: Oh! And angel too(: Thanks everyone for making me feel so freaking loved! I LOVE ALL OF YOU(: THE WORLD IS GREAT WITH LOVE<3 MUAHHHHHHHAHA. Ok ok so back to today. Morning went to school early and I slept in the canteen. Haha, kinda miss TK when during vday everyone will be so busy going around everywhere putting presents on their LOVED ONES table! So sweet right! But we dont have our own classroom in MJ so we cant do that. We did a mass gift exchanging session during recess(: Yup yup, so that was basically vday in mj! Went out with RT BX WT to white sands SWENSENS. The food was ok la! Ice cream was ok too! Ambience was boooooooo..... LOL. We were too lazy to go suntec and it was too late. Hehe, oh ya, thanks for waiting for me yea!!!!!! I<3YOU GUYS! Yup yup, that's today(:
express yourself {12:46 PM}
Wednesday, February 13
Ahhhhaaaaa, <3 muffins!!!!
Woots! I'm a nice angel(: That's for my mortal(:
OOOOOOMIIIGUASHHHH. HAHA, IM ACTING LIKE TOTAL BIMBO NOW. WHATEVER~
Anyway, hweesan just drove past my house and I passed her the yummy muffin! Save me the trouble of running to her house!(: Heeeeeeeeeeeeee yup.
express yourself {6:32 PM}
WOOTS!(: I MADE THE MUFFINS!!!!!!!!!!! YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE(: (: (: OOOOOOOMIGUSAH! Haha, but so sad! Sat no band): SO IDK HOW TO GIVE MUFFINS TO YEXI AND JOLENE! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So sad right! Haaaaaaaaiii. Oh well, poor them. I feel so sian now. Cheer me up k! <3 ya(:
express yourself {5:41 PM}
Tuesday, February 12
Heeellooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I'm being forced online today to do some zzzzzzzzzzz osc thing! Today was ok..... I was ok the first half of the day, then I became sleepy. So sleepy la can! I'm going to poink on my bed soon I tell you. It's going to be VDAY soon!(: I love my friends and I'm sure they LOVE ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY! Lets indulge in GAYNESS(: (: (: I'm gonna bake yummy muffins for love and give chocs to other love!!!! Heeeheheh. I'll give a special special to Rach<3 BX<3 WT<3 HS<3 Lyn<3 Ris<3 Pete<3 JoZ<3 Jos<3 MichK<3 Thats all I can think for now?! I havent seen HS in a longggggggggg time! Maybe I'll go press her bell tmrw and deliver her muffin(: Heeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I'll put an song up tmrw(:
Till then(:
SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYA!
express yourself {10:00 PM}
Monday, February 11
I WROTE A LOVE POEM!!!!!! Haha wth, no la. I tried to. I wanted to make it sound damn emo la and I even resorted to listening to emo sucidal songs when writing it! Bahhhhhh, it came out all happy and everything..... LOL. Here goes!!!!!!!
Hello bestie its been long
Since we've talk.
Yesterday seemed so long,
You're always in my thoughts.
Cheer up bestie,
Don't do all those weird things.
I'll give you all my smiley,
You'll always be my king.
Bestie you get confused
Over the slightest issue
But I'll always be there for you
Offering your tears tissue.
Bestie I love you.
If I may.
Bestie I love you.
I love you in every way.
Damnnnnnnn cute right?!!!!!!!! Haha, it doesn't make sense. To all of you at least(: Hhahaa, it MAY make sense to me! Nah, I was just trying SO HARD to make everything rhyme and everything given my limited vocabulary(: My first poem I ever written! A love poem. Hahahaaaaa yea right! Like it has anything to do with love. So sian! Today start school so I'm like Zzzzzzzzzzz la can. I feel like poinking onto the floor to sleep la can! Waaaaa sian! Somemore must stay back for osc until 630 when lessons end at 245! Raaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh! So irritating! Freaking shit, I haven't done my work yet. I'm like so screwed la can. Goooooosh! I wanna cry): Whatever~ Anyway, I think that I'm a positively happy person(: Yipeeeeeeeeeeeee!
express yourself {9:07 PM}
Sunday, February 10
Heeeeeeeeeelo! Went out early in the morning to runnnn to ite(: then being the usual pig, I bathed and went back to sleep till afternoon! There was plenty of events going on but lazy me chose to stay home and slack. Tang and bx wanted to go out but was cancelled cos of some reason? Lol. And A101 went fuzzy's house. Shuwen went to pick up KJ. Party party at GERALDINE'S house. Yup, I cancelled everything! Nah, some was cancelled before I could cancel it! So me being a super nice girl decided to go out with daddy to buy thangs for the people who were coming later. Thanks to ME!(: there was a spread. Hokkien mee! Lagoon satay! Shark fin! Yummy prawn! Dumplings! Fruit wine! Ice tea! Chilli crab! Black pepper crab! There was supposed to be chicken wings but as you can see............. I bet everyone was absolutely full! Haha, I'm a good host. I feed my guest till they become piggish! (: Yipeeeeeee, no la, my parents are good hosts(: Tmrw going to dad's friend place. Next week too. Next week is such a fun exciting looking-forward-to-it week! Haha, Lyn and Ris wants to go sakate and we'll drag Pete along!!!!!! LOL(: That'll be sunday and on saturday, we'll prolly be going to colonel wee house! Sound so impressive right! Colonel eh! Lol,,,,,,,,,,,, no la. Eh whatever. Good girl need to go sleep now. Its like 1am now. Late for me(: NIGHT!
express yourself {12:31 AM}
Friday, February 8
I AM SO SAD! MY MSN DIED ON ME): BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I want my new laptop! I have two freaking laptops but neither of which belongs to me! My dad has one, my mum has one. There is two extra!!!!!!!!!!! WHY?!!!?!!? I WANT MY NEW GREEN VIAO LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a very demanding person(: BUT SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!! I WANT AND NEED IT!
express yourself {11:19 PM}
Hello(: First day down! Haha, went for run yesterday with daddy! I pulled him out of bed at 630! Hahahaha, so mean right!(: So I was sleepy for the whole day. Went to ah ma house and I slept there zzzzz so tired la! Hhaahaha, so anyway, I had my energy back and we went to ah ma sister house! It's kinda weird cos I dont really know any of the people there and I see them like EVERY YEAR since I was like zero years old! Yup, so we went to big aunt's house at SIMEI! Near my house(: Haha, fun! We gamble gamble a bit. I took my dad's $$$$ to play and yup, I was losing it for him. Haha, I suck a gambling la. I CANNOT GAMBLE. I will lose all my $$$$$! But I think daddy won $$$$$ la, he so pro(: (: (: I have a pro daddy! Haha, then we wen tot second aunt's house and sit sit awhile and we went to MY HOUSE! Haha, I bet my house was the best part of the day! Heheehe, no la, JK! There was fried beehoon(: chicken wing(: cool fried prawns(: and many many! Hheeeehehe, I'm growing more fat! I'm gonna pull daddy up again tmrw to run so that I'll be less fat! I WILL GO FOR 5K!!!!!!!! Hahaha(: So yesterday when everyone left, I slacked till eleven before deciding that I was too tired and that I should go to sleep. I sleep like a (^oo^)(: till two can! Haha, going out at night! See ya soon!!!!!!
Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life
How to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life
ALL TIME FAV. (:
IT IS LOVE!! <3<3<3
express yourself {4:12 PM}
Thursday, February 7
Haha, Jean extra!(:
I am damnnnnnnnn cute! =.=!!!
David!(:
This is my NAIL! Smiley!!
Outdated pic, but MJC cool people!
Lao yu sheng! Huaaaaattttt ah!!!
Hello and happy new year to one and all! Best wishes(:
Yesterday was one hell of a fun and fulfilling day. Skipped MJ and went to TK (: Hahaha, naughty naughty... Anyway, I woke up late la so I also met them late. Supposed to meet at kallang macs at like what 730? Haha, I met them in school at 930! Haha, I'm such a lazy thing! Oh well, that was BEFORE the new year. Now, it's after the new year(: So, I'm not lazy anymore! Haha, yea right! So da da da, watched the *I must emphasise* B-O-R-I-N-G TK performance and then guess! What's next? (: Lol! Met up with the teachers and pleaseeee! I was so polite and nice and sweet and everything, wishing all my teachers happy new year and everything! Omgggg(: New year new person! LOL!!!!! Haha, tmm is in charge of band again! Actually come to think of it, it was quite dumb to be so naughty and notorious when I was in sec 2 3 4 la. Haha, I bet I gave tmm a damn hard time during sec two art! (: Hahaha. Oh yeaaaa, I saw MRS POON!!!!!! Haha, she was like Joan,!.?!*I didn't know what expression or tone she was using* The class is so quite now! I miss your laughter! Yea right mrs poon, you certainly do. Hahaha damn ironic! She was reprimanding me from time to time for laughing, at her(: memories......... ah, memories. LOL! I sound to sentimental la can (: Is that a good or bad thing? Oh ya, and I want to learn to smoke for essays so my essays will be damn good/nice/etc! haha, I was being random! Ok, so the bunch of TKBB07 went on our little journey and trip to marina(: wanted to catch a movie but no suitable time slots so off we went to play pool. God, I suck at it. Good thing tho, I'll not be playing it that often since I suck so much. I think that pool is a bad game somehow? Haha, IDK! Like all the movies and everything give me the impression that people who play pool are bad! JK! After pool was LUNCH@Thai express. (: Jo and I shared tom yam noodles, it was damnnnnnnnn hot! She teared while eating the noodles la can!!!!! Damn funnayyyy! And secret recepie's cheesecake is yummaaaay! Yup, oh ya, saw fl and ivan there too. So after that we go walk walk and then Jo and I got lost, but be pretended not to be. We saw linda(THE PANG SEH-ER(:!), yan siang, hong wen, quan feng and HOT DM ming wei! Haha, he's only hot on the field with the maze and provided he catches it when he throws it. Otherwise, no no! LOL!
REUNION DINNER!!!!!! (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: Yeah! Haha, the usual three families! Thank goodness they didn't play bball or I'll just faint! We had popiah!(: My fav! I absolutely adore popiah! And curry! Steamboat! The black yummy sauce meat egg, whatever it is called! And and and! Donut factory donut and Thai Express fruit looking and ku queh! Hahaha, I bought those form marina sq and suntec! Nice me right! I told you I was beoming nicer and nicer! Dawn and I helped shi pei paint her nail! I bet they look gorgeous(: Haha, nah, I'm not a certified nail painter! We were all damn gay the whole day esp me! Too tired and everthing so to keep myself awake, I was freaking gay! (: Heeeehehehehe, then we went to the garden(: PSP! Yayyyyyy! Yup, blog about today later!(:
express yourself {8:30 AM}
Wednesday, February 6
Hey. I'm here to bitch now. I feel so fcking bitchy la. Wlao. S _ _ _ _ is damn freaking irritating eh. Wtf?@?!>!!?!!?!!! Its like its not my fault that I was talking to other people right?! What! Its not exactly what I want to type the wrong thing in the wrong place right?! And what? So if I dont wanna say it then dont probe and if you decide to probe and I decide to tell then act interested la can. Wa shit la, I dont really care if you're interested or not la. Just wtf, I bothered to make up a fcking lame story k! And th lame story was kinda true and to placade you la can! Wth. I'm damn irritated la. After all the tales I heard about you I finally experienced it myself. You know what the problem is? You expect too much of others and you give too much. Your expectations of others is like =.=lll I mean, ok la, I'm your friend and everyhing but your not that close and I wont want to tell you everything right? Like I dont even tell bx or wt or rach everything right?! Like seriously la. Its just a friend la. I dont expect so much of any of my friends. Not even my good friends. So who are you to expect so much from the people around you? That's why you feel lonely and sad and everything. Your expectations of others are too high and the people who you regard as your good friends could very well regard you as only their friend. See the different context? I've been observing for a long time just that I felt that it was a very mean thing to say. But since you think I dont treat you as a friend or rather, since you are so overly irritatingly sensitive, I shall not be bothered. Bloody hell, you are a guy. If it was any other guy I knew, I would have punched them for being so irritatingly sensitive and almost gay. The f word. *I was refraining from swearing*
express yourself {12:15 AM}
Tuesday, February 5
Today is a TUESDAY! Which means a long long day in school. But, amazing as it may seem, today wasn't that tiring I was expecting it to be(: Yayyyyyy! Haha. Started off the day with PE. We played basketball today and I have to say, its damn hell better that running/gym! Yea man. So the usual shower people went to bathe. Marissa's body shop soap smells damnnnnnn nice! It's like strawberry(: It smelt a little like yuan jun's perfume back in tk, but yup, its damn nice! We all smelt nice after we bathed with her yummy soap(: Plus I have my new dove deod(: It smells exactly like the dove moisturiser soap la! Niceeeee(: Hhaahaha, bathing is the bestest thing to do ever after a hot and sweaty session of PE! I think I like huanities period better than science/math periods whether it is tutorials or lectures. Its like during lit or ki I can just sit there and think about whatever the topic of interest is and what I say can never be absolutely wrong, or right. Plus all these thoughts come naturally so it's not taxing. Like today, we had 2 lit periods. Time passed so fast! 2 periods = 50min x 2 ! Haha, oh yea. Zana was a sheep, Jocelyn was a plankton, Sheryl was a plank, Hazel was an orange, Lyn was a gorilla and low and behold, I was a screw driver....... What!!!! Haha, Mr Wee was teaching us to play with metaphors and stuffs. Very fun and interactive session(: I LOVE LOVE LOVE <3 <3 <3 LIT!!!!!! (: (: (: Then there was math. Maths is not that bad actually la, because I actually get it. I just have to pay attention and use up a little brain cell. Mmmmmmmm so maths is still ok! Econs is ok, its like maths and like geog elect and like about people. Abit confusing, but I hope that I'll get it soon! Last, the KILLER. CHEMISTRY!!!!! I must be freaking nuts to take chem! Plus it is only H1! Bloody. I'm struggling like F*CK la can. Its like during lectures the lecturer talks and I'm like %(*@(873#!*(09@^)9&*@ what?!??!?!?!??!!!! So you get it, I really suck at chem. Its like I was not only in comb sc, I was also in kee hoe's comb sc remedial la can! That is how bad I was/am. What the.... Yup ): So thankfully I'm not the only comb sc student in my chem class. There's lyn(: and bryan! So the chem teacher voluntary offered her help to us and so, Lyn and I went to look for her after school. The series of event about to happen is absolutely hilarious. We were contemplating to call her cos we weren't sure if we wanted to go for extra lessons. So with integrity, we finally mustered our courage and dialed her extention number. No reply. Stupid me went to call more times. Like 6 times. Finally a teacher answered: if no one answers means the teacher is not in! ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Omggggg, so jacked!!!!!! We laughed our ass off and yaaaaa omg, damn funny! So it seemed like it was fate for us not to go for the extra lesson. Then, having decided to be good students, we gave miss aisha a ring. No answer. We were convince that it was fate that didn't want us to go. Just then, as we turned to leave, I saw a familiar figure sitting on a bench not far away....... F! It was the chem teacher! So Lyn and I was like cursing and swearing away....... So damn freaking suay la can. Ok, that one not suay yet. Hahahaha. So we walked to the benches. We were in close proximity to the benched and paced back and forth for 5 minutes before deciding that we wanted to go to the toilet and since she did not see us, we were going to RUN AWAY! Hahaaaaaaaa, all went wel..... my ass. We walked towards the toilet. Then, a voice! Hahaha, eh damn suay la. She suddenly decided to go back to the staff room which was en route the toilet. Wtf right! So we resigned to fate and went back to the benches. Ananda was there and there was this cresent girl. Lyn pronounced cresent wrongly and that girl flared up! LOL! After so much of cursing behind her back and making faces at each other, she then apologised. Haha, but the chem session really helped la(: I understand volumetric analysis the back titration now! (: Yayyyyyy! But we were damn loser. We did 2 questions in like one half hour. Freaking loserish!!!!!! Ahhhhhh chem. Lol, but I think I'll still continue with chem although I seemingly suck at it! (: Seeeeeeeeeeya all soon! This was a long post. Oh yea, tmrw is either 1. I go back tk and go out after that or 2. Go mj and go out with parents and jean. Yup, so IDK yet!!!!! Byeeee(: (: (:
express yourself {10:25 PM}
Monday, February 4
The song everyone (MIRANDA) is apparantly absolutely bombastically crazy about.
WON'T GO HOME WITHOUT YOU - MAROON 5
I asked her to stay but she wouldn't listen
She left before I had the chance to say
Oh
The words that would mend the things that were broken
But now it's far too late, she's gone away
Every night you cry yourself to sleep
Thinking: "Why does this happen to me?
Why does every moment have to be so hard?"
Hard to believe that
It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you
The taste of your breath, I'll never get over
The noises that you made kept me awake
Oh
The weight of things that remaind unspoken
Built up so much it crushed us everyday
Every night you cry yourself to sleep
Thinking: "Why does this happen to me?
Why does every moment have to be so hard?"
Hard to believe that
It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you
It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you
Of all the things I felt but never really shown
Perhaps the worst is that I ever let you go
I should not ever let you go, oh oh oh
It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you
It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you
Only the chorus is nice laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
express yourself {9:47 PM}
You are not going to believe what I'm going to say.
LOGICAL FALLACIES ARE SO FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Omg, like seriously. (: Go read up on it. Its fun(: Its like classifying the way we speak and the way we make sense of ourselves! Hahaha, the fun part of KI(:
express yourself {8:32 PM}
I think of the past and my throbbing heart hurts with excruciating pain. The solemly sad past...
Oh whatever~ No one should indulge in the past. The future is what we're concern about. After all, it's the place we're gonna live in for the rest of our lives. See! I convinced myself in such a short span of time(: I think I can control my emotions better now. Yup, that's a good thing yo! Anyway today went early to school for fat programme. I'm not gonna be fat soon!(: (: (: Haha, i ran 4k today, yay. Maybe I'll go again tomorrow for fun. I kinda enjoy jogging now. I wanna go back TK on cny! Maybe I'll pon school to go, yup! I'll promise to do all my work i.e. tutorials etc etc after cny! I promise promise promise! (: (: (: anyway, see you all soon!
express yourself {7:08 PM}
Sunday, February 3
That, was the KI text Mr Wee gave us to read(: Its kinda nice! Haha, but come to think of it, almost everything we do falls under either or any or all of these categories. Hasty generalisation, missing the point, post hoc, slippery slope, weak analogy, appeal to authority, ad populum, ad homineum, appeal to pity, appeal to ignorance, straw man, red herring, false dichotomy, begging the question and equivocation. Isn't that weird? So it's like we commit these mistakes everytime we speak. How wonderful. We are all mistakes.(: Hahahaaaaa, so the loser wasn't wrong when he called me mistake was he? Ahahaaaaa, just that now ALL OF YOU are mistakes too! Whatever la~ haha, anyway, KI is interesting la just that I still think that I should take it. By sayinng KI is stupid, I was making a hasty generalisation. Not all topics in KI are stupid. But still, I don't see a point in taking KI. Yup, I think that KI contradicts with life and make life miserable. Life in itself is full of mysteries and these mysteries can never be solved. Otherwise, would it even be called mysteries? Hmmmmm, I'm making a mistake again by saying that. I think what I just did was appeal to ignorance. Hahaha, SEE!! This is what KI does to people. LOL(: This part is fun la. Its called logic. Yup(: But then again, I don't think that the KI people in MJ are extremely good or whatsoever. There are like many many many other good people out there especially in RJ? They're not only good in english but also good in logic and everything. Super widely read, I can say. I dont think that english has a major part to play in KI. That's what I think. So I'm 80% sure that I'm not taking KI. No one can be absolutely sure of anything. Haha, stupid KI(: I'm not taking you!
express yourself {3:39 PM}
Love is a Fallacy
by Max Shulman
Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute—I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And—think of it!—I only eighteen.
It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example, Petey Bellows, my roommate at the university. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. A nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender oneself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it—this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Not, however, to Petey.
One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis. “Don’t move,” I said, “Don’t take a laxative. I’ll get a doctor.”
“Raccoon,” he mumbled thickly.
“Raccoon?” I said, pausing in my flight.
“I want a raccoon coat,” he wailed.
I perceived that his trouble was not physical, but mental. “Why do you want a raccoon coat?”
“I should have known it,” he cried, pounding his temples. “I should have known they’d come back when the Charleston came back. Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I can’t get a raccoon coat.”
“Can you mean,” I said incredulously, “that people are actually wearing raccoon coats again?”
“All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where’ve you been?”
“In the library,” I said, naming a place not frequented by Big Men on Campus.
He leaped from the bed and paced the room. “I’ve got to have a raccoon coat,” he said passionately. “I’ve got to!”
“Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are unsanitary. They shed. They smell bad. They weigh too much. They’re unsightly. They—”
“You don’t understand,” he interrupted impatiently. “It’s the thing to do. Don’t you want to be in the swim?”
“No,” I said truthfully.
“Well, I do,” he declared. “I’d give anything for a raccoon coat. Anything!”
My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. “Anything?” I asked, looking at him narrowly.
“Anything,” he affirmed in ringing tones.
I stroked my chin thoughtfully. It so happened that I knew where to get my hands on a raccoon coat. My father had had one in his undergraduate days; it lay now in a trunk in the attic back home. It also happened that Petey had something I wanted. He didn’t have it exactly, but at least he had first rights on it. I refer to his girl, Polly Espy.
I had long coveted Polly Espy. Let me emphasize that my desire for this young woman was not emotional in nature. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.
I was a freshman in law school. In a few years I would be out in practice. I was well aware of the importance of the right kind of wife in furthering a lawyer’s career. The successful lawyers I had observed were, almost without exception, married to beautiful, gracious, intelligent women. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.
Beautiful she was. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt that time would supply the lack. She already had the makings.
Gracious she was. By gracious I mean full of graces. She had an erectness of carriage, an ease of bearing, a poise that clearly indicated the best of breeding. At table her manners were exquisite. I had seen her at the Kozy Kampus Korner eating the specialty of the house—a sandwich that contained scraps of pot roast, gravy, chopped nuts, and a dipper of sauerkraut—without even getting her fingers moist.
Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction. But I believed that under my guidance she would smarten up. At any rate, it was worth a try. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.
“Petey,” I said, “are you in love with Polly Espy?”
“I think she’s a keen kid,” he replied, “but I don’t know if you’d call it love. Why?”
“Do you,” I asked, “have any kind of formal arrangement with her? I mean are you going steady or anything like that?”
“No. We see each other quite a bit, but we both have other dates. Why?”
“Is there,” I asked, “any other man for whom she has a particular fondness?”
“Not that I know of. Why?”
I nodded with satisfaction. “In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?”
“I guess so. What are you getting at?”
“Nothing , nothing,” I said innocently, and took my suitcase out the closet.
“Where are you going?” asked Petey.
“Home for weekend.” I threw a few things into the bag.
“Listen,” he said, clutching my arm eagerly, “while you’re home, you couldn’t get some money from your old man, could you, and lend it to me so I can buy a raccoon coat?”
“I may do better than that,” I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.
“Look,” I said to Petey when I got back Monday morning. I threw open the suitcase and revealed the huge, hairy, gamy object that my father had worn in his Stutz Bearcat in 1925.
“Holy Toledo!” said Petey reverently. He plunged his hands into the raccoon coat and then his face. “Holy Toledo!” he repeated fifteen or twenty times.
“Would you like it?” I asked.
“Oh yes!” he cried, clutching the greasy pelt to him. Then a canny look came into his eyes. “What do you want for it?”
“Your girl.” I said, mincing no words.
“Polly?” he said in a horrified whisper. “You want Polly?”
“That’s right.”
He flung the coat from him. “Never,” he said stoutly.
I shrugged. “Okay. If you don’t want to be in the swim, I guess it’s your business.”
I sat down in a chair and pretended to read a book, but out of the corner of my eye I kept watching Petey. He was a torn man. First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. Then he turned away and set his jaw resolutely. Then he looked back at the coat, with even more longing in his face. Then he turned away, but with not so much resolution this time. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning. Finally he didn’t turn away at all; he just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat.
“It isn’t as though I was in love with Polly,” he said thickly. “Or going steady or anything like that.”
“That’s right,” I murmured.
“What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?”
“Not a thing,” said I.
“It’s just been a casual kick—just a few laughs, that’s all.”
“Try on the coat,” said I.
He complied. The coat bunched high over his ears and dropped all the way down to his shoe tops. He looked like a mound of dead raccoons. “Fits fine,” he said happily.
I rose from my chair. “Is it a deal?” I asked, extending my hand.
He swallowed. “It’s a deal,” he said and shook my hand.
I had my first date with Polly the following evening. This was in the nature of a survey; I wanted to find out just how much work I had to do to get her mind up to the standard I required. I took her first to dinner. “Gee, that was a delish dinner,” she said as we left the restaurant. Then I took her to a movie. “Gee, that was a marvy movie,” she said as we left the theatre. And then I took her home. “Gee, I had a sensaysh time,” she said as she bade me good night.
I went back to my room with a heavy heart. I had gravely underestimated the size of my task. This girl’s lack of information was terrifying. Nor would it be enough merely to supply her with information. First she had to be taught to think. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey. But then I got to thinking about her abundant physical charms and about the way she entered a room and the way she handled a knife and fork, and I decided to make an effort.
I went about it, as in all things, systematically. I gave her a course in logic. It happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts at my fingertips. “Poll’,” I said to her when I picked her up on our next date, “tonight we are going over to the Knoll and talk.”
“Oo, terrif,” she replied. One thing I will say for this girl: you would go far to find another so agreeable.
We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak, and she looked at me expectantly. “What are we going to talk about?” she asked.
“Logic.”
She thought this over for a minute and decided she liked it. “Magnif,” she said.
“Logic,” I said, clearing my throat, “is the science of thinking. Before we can think correctly, we must first learn to recognize the common fallacies of logic. These we will take up tonight.”
“Wow-dow!” she cried, clapping her hands delightedly.
I winced, but went bravely on. “First let us examine the fallacy called Dicto Simpliciter.”
“By all means,” she urged, batting her lashes eagerly.
“Dicto Simpliciter means an argument based on an unqualified generalization. For example: Exercise is good. Therefore everybody should exercise.”
“I agree,” said Polly earnestly. “I mean exercise is wonderful. I mean it builds the body and everything.”
“Polly,” I said gently, “the argument is a fallacy. Exercise is good is an unqualified generalization. For instance, if you have heart disease, exercise is bad, not good. Many people are ordered by their doctors not to exercise. You must qualify the generalization. You must say exercise is usually good, or exercise is good for most people. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. Do you see?”
“No,” she confessed. “But this is marvy. Do more! Do more!”
“It will be better if you stop tugging at my sleeve,” I told her, and when she desisted, I continued. “Next we take up a fallacy called Hasty Generalization. Listen carefully: You can’t speak French. Petey Bellows can’t speak French. I must therefore conclude that nobody at the University of Minnesota can speak French.”
“Really?” said Polly, amazed. “Nobody?”
I hid my exasperation. “Polly, it’s a fallacy. The generalization is reached too hastily. There are too few instances to support such a conclusion.”
“Know any more fallacies?” she asked breathlessly. “This is more fun than dancing even.”
I fought off a wave of despair. I was getting nowhere with this girl, absolutely nowhere. Still, I am nothing if not persistent. I continued. “Next comes Post Hoc. Listen to this: Let’s not take Bill on our picnic. Every time we take him out with us, it rains.”
“I know somebody just like that,” she exclaimed. “A girl back home—Eula Becker, her name is. It never fails. Every single time we take her on a picnic—”
“Polly,” I said sharply, “it’s a fallacy. Eula Becker doesn’t cause the rain. She has no connection with the rain. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.”
“I’ll never do it again,” she promised contritely. “Are you mad at me?”
I sighed. “No, Polly, I’m not mad.”
“Then tell me some more fallacies.”
“All right. Let’s try Contradictory Premises.”
“Yes, let’s,” she chirped, blinking her eyes happily.
I frowned, but plunged ahead. “Here’s an example of Contradictory Premises: If God can do anything, can He make a stone so heavy that He won’t be able to lift it?”
“Of course,” she replied promptly.
“But if He can do anything, He can lift the stone,” I pointed out.
“Yeah,” she said thoughtfully. “Well, then I guess He can’t make the stone.”
“But He can do anything,” I reminded her.
She scratched her pretty, empty head. “I’m all confused,” she admitted.
“Of course you are. Because when the premises of an argument contradict each other, there can be no argument. If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. Get it?”
“Tell me more of this keen stuff,” she said eagerly.
I consulted my watch. “I think we’d better call it a night. I’ll take you home now, and you go over all the things you’ve learned. We’ll have another session tomorrow night.”
I deposited her at the girls’ dormitory, where she assured me that she had had a perfectly terrif evening, and I went glumly home to my room. Petey lay snoring in his bed, the raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. For a moment I considered waking him and telling him that he could have his girl back. It seemed clear that my project was doomed to failure. The girl simply had a logic-proof head.
But then I reconsidered. I had wasted one evening; I might as well waste another. Who knew? Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind a few members still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope, but I decided to give it one more try.
Seated under the oak the next evening I said, “Our first fallacy tonight is called Ad Misericordiam.”
She quivered with delight.
“Listen closely,” I said. “A man applies for a job. When the boss asks him what his qualifications are, he replies that he has a wife and six children at home, the wife is a helpless cripple, the children have nothing to eat, no clothes to wear, no shoes on their feet, there are no beds in the house, no coal in the cellar, and winter is coming.”
A tear rolled down each of Polly’s pink cheeks. “Oh, this is awful, awful,” she sobbed.
“Yes, it’s awful,” I agreed, “but it’s no argument. The man never answered the boss’s question about his qualifications. Instead he appealed to the boss’s sympathy. He committed the fallacy of Ad Misericordiam. Do you understand?”
“Have you got a handkerchief?” she blubbered.
I handed her a handkerchief and tried to keep from screaming while she wiped her eyes. “Next,” I said in a carefully controlled tone, “we will discuss False Analogy. Here is an example: Students should be allowed to look at their textbooks during examinations. After all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have briefs to guide them during a trial, carpenters have blueprints to guide them when they are building a house. Why, then, shouldn’t students be allowed to look at their textbooks during an examination?”
“There now,” she said enthusiastically, “is the most marvy idea I’ve heard in years.”
“Polly,” I said testily, “the argument is all wrong. Doctors, lawyers, and carpenters aren’t taking a test to see how much they have learned, but students are. The situations are altogether different, and you can’t make an analogy between them.”
“I still think it’s a good idea,” said Polly.
“Nuts,” I muttered. Doggedly I pressed on. “Next we’ll try Hypothesis Contrary to Fact.”
“Sounds yummy,” was Polly’s reaction.
“Listen: If Madame Curie had not happened to leave a photographic plate in a drawer with a chunk of pitchblende, the world today would not know about radium.”
“True, true,” said Polly, nodding her head “Did you see the movie? Oh, it just knocked me out. That Walter Pidgeon is so dreamy. I mean he fractures me.”
“If you can forget Mr. Pidgeon for a moment,” I said coldly, “I would like to point out that statement is a fallacy. Maybe Madame Curie would have discovered radium at some later date. Maybe somebody else would have discovered it. Maybe any number of things would have happened. You can’t start with a hypothesis that is not true and then draw any supportable conclusions from it.”
“They ought to put Walter Pidgeon in more pictures,” said Polly, “I hardly ever see him any more.”
One more chance, I decided. But just one more. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. “The next fallacy is called Poisoning the Well.”
“How cute!” she gurgled.
“Two men are having a debate. The first one gets up and says, ‘My opponent is a notorious liar. You can’t believe a word that he is going to say.’ ... Now, Polly, think. Think hard. What’s wrong?”
I watched her closely as she knit her creamy brow in concentration. Suddenly a glimmer of intelligence—the first I had seen—came into her eyes. “It’s not fair,” she said with indignation. “It’s not a bit fair. What chance has the second man got if the first man calls him a liar before he even begins talking?”
“Right!” I cried exultantly. “One hundred per cent right. It’s not fair. The first man has poisoned the well before anybody could drink from it. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start ... Polly, I’m proud of you.”
“Pshaws,” she murmured, blushing with pleasure.
“You see, my dear, these things aren’t so hard. All you have to do is concentrate. Think—examine—evaluate. Come now, let’s review everything we have learned.”
“Fire away,” she said with an airy wave of her hand.
Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a cretin, I began a long, patient review of all I had told her. Over and over and over again I cited instances, pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without letup. It was like digging a tunnel. At first, everything was work, sweat, and darkness. I had no idea when I would reach the light, or even if I would. But I persisted. I pounded and clawed and scraped, and finally I was rewarded. I saw a chink of light. And then the chink got bigger and the sun came pouring in and all was bright.
Five grueling nights with this took, but it was worth it. I had made a logician out of Polly; I had taught her to think. My job was done. She was worthy of me, at last. She was a fit wife for me, a proper hostess for my many mansions, a suitable mother for my well-heeled children.
It must not be thought that I was without love for this girl. Quite the contrary. Just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned, so I loved mine. I decided to acquaint her with my feelings at our very next meeting. The time had come to change our relationship from academic to romantic.
“Polly,” I said when next we sat beneath our oak, “tonight we will not discuss fallacies.”
“Aw, gee,” she said, disappointed.
“My dear,” I said, favoring her with a smile, “we have now spent five evenings together. We have gotten along splendidly. It is clear that we are well matched.”
“Hasty Generalization,” said Polly brightly.
“I beg your pardon,” said I.
“Hasty Generalization,” she repeated. “How can you say that we are well matched on the basis of only five dates?”
I chuckled with amusement. The dear child had learned her lessons well. “My dear,” I said, patting her hand in a tolerant manner, “five dates is plenty. After all, you don’t have to eat a whole cake to know that it’s good.”
“False Analogy,” said Polly promptly. “I’m not a cake. I’m a girl.”
I chuckled with somewhat less amusement. The dear child had learned her lessons perhaps too well. I decided to change tactics. Obviously the best approach was a simple, strong, direct declaration of love. I paused for a moment while my massive brain chose the proper word. Then I began:
“Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. Please, my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless. I will languish. I will refuse my meals. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk.”
There, I thought, folding my arms, that ought to do it.
“Ad Misericordiam,” said Polly.
I ground my teeth. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me; at all costs I had to keep cool.
“Well, Polly,” I said, forcing a smile, “you certainly have learned your fallacies.”
“You’re darn right,” she said with a vigorous nod.
“And who taught them to you, Polly?”
“You did.”
“That’s right. So you do owe me something, don’t you, my dear? If I hadn’t come along you never would have learned about fallacies.”
“Hypothesis Contrary to Fact,” she said instantly.
I dashed perspiration from my brow. “Polly,” I croaked, “you mustn’t take all these things so literally. I mean this is just classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school don’t have anything to do with life.”
“Dicto Simpliciter,” she said, wagging her finger at me playfully.
That did it. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. “Will you or will you not go steady with me?”
“I will not,” she replied.
“Why not?” I demanded.
“Because this afternoon I promised Petey Bellows that I would go steady with him.”
I reeled back, overcome with the infamy of it. After he promised, after he made a deal, after he shook my hand! “The rat!” I shrieked, kicking up great chunks of turf. “You can’t go with him, Polly. He’s a liar. He’s a cheat. He’s a rat.”
“Poisoning the Well ,” said Polly, “and stop shouting. I think shouting must be a fallacy too.”
With an immense effort of will, I modulated my voice. “All right,” I said. “You’re a logician. Let’s look at this thing logically. How could you choose Petey Bellows over me? Look at me—a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Look at Petey—a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from. Can you give me one logical reason why you should go steady with Petey Bellows?”
“I certainly can,” declared Polly. “He’s got a raccoon coat.”
express yourself {3:37 PM}
Saturday, February 2
MJC ogl camp!!!!!!!!!!!!! Funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!(: (: (: Ok la, not all parts of the camp was fun but like it was fun most of the time. Everyone was like DAMN DAMN high la can. Screaming cheers and what not, the game were fun too(: Apart from the sleeping late and waking early and pt. Yup(: haha I gotta get my beauty sleep now(: Byeeeeeeeeeee!
Besides my geraldine!!!!! I would have stay up with you all night.
express yourself {8:57 PM}