Geminate Post

Doublepost! Anyway I got too carried away with crap that I forgot to post about the main event of yesterday.

I've been neglecting blogging about the things Ive been busy with, and only caring about introspection. That's lame, I know, seriously lame. but anyway yesterday was one gruelling day of art and craft. Gathered at church with thai trip people to do the gifts for the thai children. So mainly tasks were classed into three different catogs the good the bad and the ugly the drawer, the cutting and the sticker.

So the drawer was incharge of keeping things you really don't want exposed drawing lines. Then the cutter would cut along those lines, and then finally the sticker would stick. It wasn't a complicated process and since I have no pictures, (and no intention of writing a thousand words to compensate one), it's pretty hard to explain. But heck, you get the picture. (no pun intended), Im not gonna explain, you're not going to know.

I started off being the drawer. Wooo, I had yellow papers that I have to cut 8.5cm by 3.0cm rectangles. sound's easy? Quite, but I have like one whole big stack of them to draw. So it's not gonna be easy. There weren't any photocopies so we had to draw all of them manually. After awhile of measuring, measuring and measuring, I realised I could do better. I could be more efficient. I decided to trace. If only papers don't slant, or they don't move when you try to trace. I tried paper clipping them together, but it happened that it makes the paper uneven on flat ground (or table) and it will make the tracing more inaccurate. Futhurmore, the pencils (which weren't mechanical) were getting blunt, so errors are definitely inevitable. (and hopefully, pardonable).

I don't know why I'm narrating this.

Then I moved on from being a drawer to become a paster. Me and Bryan double teamed to paste stuff. One would glue, the other would stick. It was super duper efficient and less energy consuming. It was like giving out cards in daidee, but I had to do that "finishing palm" technique to stick all of them properly. Wooo. It was fun, while it lasted.

Then finally I became a cutter! It was so exciting cutting papers at first. Many left due to fatigue, and I was still there cutting strips of paper. But it was fun and there was this arcane sense of accomplishment. Maybe, art and craft suits me. Nah, for someone who can't cut on straight lines, I can produce art that is worthy of the garbage bin. But perhaps art is about perception. One man's meat is another's poison. But there is something particularly disturbing about the statement. Why not " one man's poison is another's meat ". Sounds the same initially, but when you think of it, they are VERY fundamentally different. I'm getting carried away here.

So the day ended, like 3pm-8pm, it was certainly an artistic adventure that ended with a high note (or a screechy one) with my hands engulfed in crayon markings. (certainly not a very nice feeling). There was this satisfaction. I don't know why.

I forgot what I did yesterday morning. Serious.

Went for dinner last night at somewhere (I don't really take note). I think it was Cathay but im not very sure. It is probably not my first time being there but I think it is Cathay. If i'm not wrong. But actually it doesn't matter since I'm only there for dinner. It's my mum's belated birthday celebration.

The food was well, decent. I was hungry. Infact, super duper hungry. So anything tastes nice when you're hungry. Don't like to give ratings for food (especially all these really 'art of the doppelganger restaurants'), or is it my insensitive tastebuds? but either way, when Im hungry, the ratings will go up, and when im not, the ratings will go down. no way I can be professional in critiquing food. And also, to me, the most amusing fact is that waiting time matters. A hungry man is afterall, an angry man. Fresh meat....AHHH.

I don't know why Im digressing and narrating so much unimportant stuff. But heck, it's sunday evening now. And tommorow is Chinese A's. Just give me something that is respectable, and if respectable have to be defined. Let's say, give me something that is more worth it than the effort I put in. Because I totally put in zero effort for this. I am relying on pure luck. More of, give me an emo topic so I can emo my way through and get better marks for my compo. I thin for the first time in my life, I shall quit doing my Chinese papers in a total of 1 hour (upon 3 hours of time given). 3 hours is very sickening and detrimental to the welfare of my mental health, especially chinese words have to be deciphered one by one.

I bet I can read music notes more fluently than I can read Chinese.

Chinese is just so foreign to me, but I wonder if I can make a mockery out of the education system this way. Either way, no matter what happens, I must not take chinese next year. I am taking it serious but not hard. If serious have to be defined it means it's 10% of effort and if you're curious to find out what comprises the 10% of effort that would be not sleeping two thirds of the allocated time.

Alevels or not alevels. promos or not promos. Aren't chinese papers all the same, unimportant.
But still, tommorow's paper has a very intimidating tag to it.

My aim would be simple, a B. And that's all I expect from myself. Thats if I get lucky and ain't all the higher chinese Imbal freaks out of the leauge already. That saves me some trouble. But seriously, my aim is really a fantasy, unrealistic. To be down to earth, I would say I would settle with a C.

C for chinese isn't that bad. Infact, it seems better than an A because Chinese starts with a C.

Before I stop making any sense, I should actually stop posting anymore.