Storms rock. There's the sunshine afterward to look forward to.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Fractions
Misleading title, eh? Coz it's not fractionS, just one fraction. But one fraction that's very very significant at this point. What am I talking about?
This morning, during assembly, almost all the scholars in TJC were very tense. Why? They hadn't done some of their homework (typical!!!) in a desperate lazy gamble because they were predicting something would happen today based on information we had gotten over the one week study break. And so we waited with bated breath.
Mrs. Loke, our dear principal, came to the mike and launched into a long speech about the good A level results and how well our seniors did and the contributions of the tutors and congratulations to them. Not that we didn't care, but there was a more important matter at hand. And because of that, we just wished she would confirm our hopes.
Confirm it she did.
"And because of the spectacular results of the college which proudly displays the Temasek Excellence," she proclaimed with a flourish, "The college has decided to give you all a half day!"
And amidst the loud cheering on all sides and hoarse screaming combined with the high-pitched shrieking, the scholars silently stood for a moment to smile knowingly to each other, breathe a sigh of relief, and join in the chaos.
Hence my roomie and I now blog at this table, with extremely similar laptops. Mirror images of each other, twice the electronics, during this half-day.