January

The last three weeks have been busy. I could barely keep up.

- I started college. Froze during orientation. Met plenty of acquaintances from my primary school. It's amazing how they've changed, as if they were strectched out or something. My class mentor is Mr. Peter. From the first moment, you know that he's a weirdo. The clothes, hand movements and accent all corroborate. Turns out we have two teachers for further maths. *sigh* At least I'm in the same class as Weng and Hehn. Not alone.

- Weng was elected as treasurer. And since I had a hand in it, he stopped talking to me. But I 'made up' on the bus so he's talking to me again! *bounces*

- The class has 24 people. 4 of which are girls. That is not including the girl who left our class after two to three lessons of further maths. She must have been really scared away by the fact that overall, we have three maths teachers. I've managed to memorise all they're names by the second week.

- I joined the music club and played in a string ensemble for the first time in my life. It was fun! But I could barely keep up because I wasn't use to this sort of thing. I was squinting the whole time because four of us were sharing the same scores for second violin. I now really wish I knew howto play vibrato.

- I've also joined the drama club. And got to meet Karen, the defacto ruler (as the advisor-teaching says anyway). I tried for the post of historian but failed. Didn't expect to win anyway. Not good at popularity contests. But at least I got group leader.

- I met Fiona on the bus and now she sits next to me every morning. I'm pleased that she's into conversation. I've gleaned quite a bit of information from her. Sitting next to the most silent statue would be quite dull.

- Irked with Ming Han.

- Last week, I came into this classroom and some students were leaving it and I saw that the girl who was just leaving the table I was taking had some music theory exercises in her file. So I asked her what grade she was and she said grade 8. I told her that she was playing Scarlatti's sonata in D and the Mozart piece on the syllabus. She was so amazed. Probably thought I was psychic or something. lol. She introduced her name as Suu Yin. Lots of pianists around...

- Two days ago, I got off the bus at the wrong stop (not my usual stop because had to go to my teacher's house) so my piano piano teacher had to come and pick me up. But I played my scales and arpeggios well so she was in a very good mood. Covered lots of ground.

- I've had this headache for four days now. It has got to be the college workload, especially further maths, coupled with the fact that I wake up at 5.30am and return 12 hours later. It seems everyone else is falling sick too though.

- My maths teacher is amazing. She's covered 6 chapters of additional maths standard work in two and a half weeks. And she's already started on the seventh. That would have taken my secondary school teacher 4-6 months. The other teachers aren't slow either. Apparently, my class is faster than all the rest. In the maths teacher's case, by at least two whole chapters! The teachers are probably assuming that we can go faster since we're the nerd class. *tired*

- Almost missed the bus yesterday morning. The bus could have waited though. Every morning, it will hurry us only to stop in front of the Taman Tun bank for twenty minutes. When I go back, I'm huddled in the same van as Joshua, Yvonne and Guan Meng. Yvonne is this girl all the way from Johor who's staying with her aunt who's a few streets away from me. So the four of us are neighbours in the same college intake. Coincidence?

-Watched Memoirs of a Geisha with friends. So-so movie.

- I still get to meet my friends from secondary school everyday because we spend lunch together. Zhu Hahn, Deepy and JL at least.

- Quirky teachers: Mr. Peter who walks around the class silently often and writes from edge to edge of the white board and often cleans the clean white board; Ms Ching, the maths teacher who does all her working from a piece of paper and keeps on asking "you know this, do you?" in this odd way; Mrs David who teaches thinking skills and keeps on telling us, "I'll take my hat off to you if you get an A!" when she doesn't have a hat on; Ms Tang who goes, "those who are arrogant, I like to cut cut cut cut ..." and jokes quite a bit and she told us that if we sigh a lot, we get old fast; Mr Hari, ths physics teacher who keeps on joking around in class and asking "what did I tell you?"; and the chemistry teacher who keeps on staring at the ceiling when she talks and only looks at us when taking attendance (at least she's managed to remember my name).

- And for LAN class/ Malaysian Studies, we have Mr Arivom who's quite funny but with a mouth that just keeps on running. He talks about politics a lot. He just had a debate between two pre-law classes the other day (it's five classes fitted into the lecture hall). Amusing, but essentially a waste of time.

- A slightly remote relative just died of cancer yesterday.

- Managed to get addicted to isketch and then un-addicting myself. Exercise in willpower. ^^

- Realised that Audrey is absolutely guy crazy. She has all these pictures of her close friend with labels like "sexy chest". *rolls eyes* And she has this picture of someone's half open trousers as an MSN avatar whom she asked me to guess who it belonged to. I said Gackt without thinking because she's Gackt-crazy. She said, "no, Gackt has a tighter body." I was bewildered. She's only 15+ and already so enthusiastically lusty! And she asks the weirdest questions like, "do you like girls or guys?" and "he's so sexy isn't he?" ... *rolls eyes a second time* No comment.