2 posts ago was Post no. 210.
1 day ago I played music for the ballet exam. I forgot to mention, but there was an exercise (something and pivots) that the examiner offerred the candidates of Grade 4 to give a miss (which means they'll get the full 5 marks for the exercise) because she thinks the exercise is too hard for their standard.
All of them backed out in the end except for number 3. I felt number 3 was doing the right thing and I can't help but wonder what the examiner's motive behind it was. Maybe to test their honesty? I was wondering that all the way till the end until the examiner actually spoke to my teacher about the exercise and said number 3 was really foolish for passing up the chance.
I told her I felt what number 3 did was right because of the honesty factor. I mean, the people of the Organization chucked the exercise in so that they can do it. So why not? It's not very correct to get grades that do not reflect your true prowess (even though the exercise might be hard).
Today was the SAFMC practical round...er...actual flying date. Our first try landed us in the 16th spot with a distance covered of 9.72 meters. We then cheered for the rest of the teams and the judge (whom we originally thought was a cold-hearted b****** [starts with 'b' ends with 'd', you guess) let us into the arena to cheer for them instead of just standing outside. So we did. We did 'Say Ra', then the North South East West one, followed by 'Bring 'em Down'. We had 3 other teams from RGS other than us participating so we had to have so many...
Anyway, theirs wasn't too great, but still, much better than some of the NUS High ones which kinda either stalled superbly or nosedived notoriously. I think there was a bit too much air resistance against their wings on the wrong surface...
There was a primary school participating too. The school was great, I tell you (they had a plane that flew over 15m [I think] and many others over 10m during the second launching), but they probably had lots of teachers to help them and guide them along the way while we simply did ours on our own with...misleading guidance, sometimes. There were other times when the improvements suggested were so obvious we didn't need anyone to tell us but someone did...
Oh, during lunch break when we were given time to modify our glider, someone snatched the glider out of my hands (or was it Rachel's? Or Sophia's? Or Chun Hui's? Or Mel's?) and decided to throw it to test it out. The someone flicked his/her wrists in an attempt to launch the plane and expectedly (I mean, who flicks wrist trying to launch straight?) crash landed not a meter away at Mel's feet.
The wing broke. Earlier on, we were testing a little and we moved the adapter back. We launched it with our hands and it flew quite awesomely, if I should add a touch of ego to my speech. The flight path was almost straight and it wasn't jerky. It sort of rode on the air, so to speak (well, it IS meant to do that...).
Then Rachel decided to try throwing the plane. She somehow lost her touch today (she did throw the planes quite well last time...) so the plane nosedived about three meters into the flight. The wings got a little screwed and cracked. We fixed it but it was never as good as it was. But still far better than...(shall not say...read below)
Back to where we were. The front of the wing almost chipped off completely (well, a part did, but fairly small) and we had to tape it back but even then, it wasn't too good. The wings were thrown forward a bit too much and that caused the tape to be brutally peel off into a mass of yellow paper and sticky bits. Then someone stated the 'obvious', "Your plane doesn't have enough lift."
BE WARNED OF PETTY CURSES AND SPATS FROM THIS POINT ON.
I was so freaking pissed! Not enough lift my foot! Who was it that broke our plane, huh? Who was it that FLICKED his/her wrist and ended up killing what work we had done to patch up Rachel's mistake? How could anyone not know that would totally destroy the plane's nose? Who was to blame for having it nosedive so unglamorously? Who was it that made it have not enough lift? I mean, what the heck!
My mood remained black until I decided to go along with it. I just couldn't blow up at the person who caused the mishap. I didn't have enough authority. I'll get killed if I tried that. And that was the first time I ever felt such a burning hatred and urge to break a neck. It's the closest I've ever been to getting into deep shit... (BEWARE OF NACISSISM) My self control rocks. (END OF NARCISSISM, CONTINUATION OF RANTING)
It's making me wonder and reconsider my statement that I didn't exactly like the SAFMC... Seeing the way I almost lost my temper probably meant that I DID care about the SAFMC, I did think that it was important, well, at least valuable to me. I mean, I spent so long on the plane! Technically, I didn't, but I did a lot of the modifications and patching up! And it was all ruined in a single split second of dread! ARGH!
I know now I seriously treasure this plane (if not the competition). The only time I ever got near to being as pissed was when my parents refused to let me go to the Linkin Park concert 2 years ago... and perhaps when my sister didn't bathe and simply fell on the bed, crossing the invisible line separating my side and hers without a single care in the world...
END OF PISSED OFF RANT
Anyway, I had to seriously work on suppressing my fury (for there would be dire consequences if I yelled at the someone) and listened to Miss Siow's advice (-_-") on how to better patch up the plane. She suggested using duct tape which had terrible sticking ability but was 'smooth and had less air resistance'. So we decided to use it to cover up the uneven ends of the duct tape instead of using it to secure the positions. Worked MARVELOUSLY...
The second time we launched it recorded a distance of 10.68m which placed us 19th out of 59, which is very good, the top 33.33 percentile...damn, the other schools also improved, but by such a huge margin...aw shucks...
We stayed back to cheer for the teams, but in between, some RI guys decided to punch through our launching slots so we decided to cheer for them anyway (not like we had much of a choice, the MC was asking the 'girls' to cheer for the 'boys'...seriously). But it was still great. Rachel reported that one RI group landed 7th place...ARGH! So irritating...why are guys always better?
I think we did great for teamspirit. We cheered on our school mates. Our seniors looked so lonely so we stayed behind for them too. After cheering and all, we went to take a group photo at the back. Some man helped us the 3rd time round, I think.
It wasn't bad overall, seeing that even though it was only 19th, our team still did get into the top 20, so Miss Siow decided to tell us her husbands surname. I was like: 'DOES SHE EVEN HAVE A HUSBAND?!?!?' When did she even make the deal in the first place? There came some joke with her surnames but I'll decide to leave it aside. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to disclose it...
Anyway, lunch was MacDonalds. I ordered 2 cheese burgers instead of the Fillet-O-Fish almost everyone else ordered. Kinda figured out that 1 burger would fill my stomach... We originally thought we were supposed to pay for it, but then Miss Siow told us that it was free, so we were all very happy (especially me. I mean, FREE lunch, FREE).
After the competition, we all decided to doodle on our plane as autographing memories down and leaving them behind (AS A LEGACY! [RGS130, remember?]). We started signing and randomly drawing stuff on the plane's wings. A little while later, Sophia added our 'motivating statement' (It's not flying...YET) at the back of the plane as it represented it pushing us on from behind. Others came along to autograph too. We kinda forced our seniors to put down their signatures too. XD
We had Miss Siow and Mrs Teo sign also, wouldn't want to miss out on the teachers, would we? (side note: -_-")
I went back by MRT with Rachel on the red line. One the way (I think it was somwhere before Kranji), I noticed a river (canal?) that looked really nice in the sun so I told Rachel to look, before commenting as the thought came to mind that the river was SPARKLING. I then made the connection to Edward Cullen. There was a lot of 'sparkling in the sun' jokes around our class after all...
Then Rachel mused on what it would be like if Cullen (Edward, I mean) sang the song Sophia and I caught over a television that was on display when we walked back from the Science Center on the 13th. It went:
Woke up in Singapore City
In a funky cheap hotel
She took my heart
She took my money
...
We didn't catch the rest so it stopped at there. Both Sophia and I found it pretty hilarious, especially when the subtitles flashed line after line at the 'heart' and 'money' part...lolz.
Anyway, I pointed out that Cullen wouldn't come to Singapore because he'd be SPARKLING all the time (every fangirl goes 'ooh!'). It was followed by a question if I knew anyone who fell in love with a fictional character. I said I didn't, Rachel said she did. Anabelle, apparently. She likes Cullen.
Er...
The conversation somehow led to cheesy pick-up lines where we tried to remember all the pick up lines we've ever heard. Here goes some I remember even now:
1.
Guy: Are you tired?
Girl: No, why?
Guy: You've been running through my mind all day long.
2.
Guy: I wouldn't want a raisin but I would like a date.
3.
Guy: I have two words to say to you.
Girl: What?
Guy: I love you.
Girl: That's three words.
Guy: I know, but then again, I and you are one.
4.
Guy: If I could rearrange the letters of the alphabet, I would put 'I' and 'U' together.
Er...how cheesy can that get? Rachel's mother said she would be fetching her dad so she could give me a lift therefore I went with Rachel and exited at Sembawang station. We sat at the bus stop and waited and that was where most of the cheesy pick up lines sprang up.
This has no relation to whatever I was talking about but I'm putting it down anyway. I arrived at the Science Center super early and there were only NUS High guys so I decided to plonk my stuff on that sturdy hand rail at the extreme ends of the walkway and sat on it. I think Sophia came next, followed by Rachel. Then Chun Hui and Mel came along. We sat around for a while until someone from another team (I think) suggested we waited at the Anex for Miss Siow.
So we did.
We entered the Anex not knowing we had to register first to gain legal entrance so we were ushered out to get our team registered and attain a small slip each. Wrist bands (more like patients' identification tags) came after we explored the tables/cubicles (IT"S MY FIRST TIME NEAR ONE! [other than the ones in my mother's office] I"VE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO ACTUALLY USE IT BEFORE!) and were told to move tables because the seatings were wrong.
Anyway, the flying arena had nets hanging all the way from the ceiling downward and the nets were so fine Sophia said she couldn't see them when she was sitting in the middle during debriefing. Lol.
GO SHUFTI!
