Imperfections that Make Us Perfect

The title is borrowed from Jeremy's blog :P I'll explain later.

First, the famous quotes.

Ms Ho: The one who will always be worried about your whereabouts is...
Class: Your mother
Ms Ho: The one who is always concerned for your well being is...
Class: Your mother
Ms Ho: The one who is always concerned for your results is...
Jeremy: Ms Ho... (class bursts into howls of laughter)
Ms Ho (to Jeremy): Who said Ms Ho?
Jeremy: I don't know. (confused look)
Ms Ho (carrying on): The one who is always nagging to you is...
Lionel: Ms Ho. (even more laughing fits)
Ms Ho: Who was that?

Ms Ho on two friends from Doctor's Word in Malgudi Days, Mr Gopal and Mr Raman--

"Then they get married. And then they have 3-4 children" She honestly has no idea how it sounded, and she was asking, "ya, what's so funny? Ok Jonta, you will explain to me the joke after class."

Then we got to the part in Doctor's Word where the doctor is going to operate on his friend...

Ms Ho: So why did the doctor send his friend's wife over to the neighbor's house?

Class: Because the operation is going to be gory...

Ms Ho: Yah gory. Pho pho pho? 

She tried to ask who the operation would be gory for, then she herself pronounced "for" as Pho. Then the whole class started howling with laughter. And she didn't get it either. 

Daryl reply to the question on who it would be gory for: "The neighbors"

(Even more laughing XD)

Mr Peter Tan on a soccer ball as a model for Buckminsterfullerene:

"I needed a soccer ball to demonstrate. Then, I confiscated one." (more laughing XD)

Mr Peter Tan is so um..... cool. :P

I read something on Jeremy's blog that was quite nice. It was about the "Imperfections that make us perfect". And I totally agree with it. I always remember people most for their quirks and eccentricities. The things that make them different, special. I don't understand why in this world there are people out there who detest individuality and can't accept the differences of people... that's just morally wrong.... 

Now for the sad parts.....

Okay, during C Math, Jonathan Chua attacked Joseph Sim in the middle of Mr Kenneth Ong giving out worksheets. Apparently Joseph asked if he would prefer to be called Jonathan or Keith. So all hell broke loose, and Jonathan attacked Joseph with a stack of worksheets and a math file. Jonathan whacked Joseph's glasses off his face, and was kicking and hitting anyone around him. Then everyone was utterly horrified, especially Mr Kenneth Ong. It took 15 people to stop Jonathan (thanks to all the people who helped :) ). Mr Jarrett Kan and Mr Samuel Sim were called. Then there was apparently an immediate level meeting.

I think a huge chunk of it all is my fault. Firstly, this wasn't even the first time, something like this happened a few weeks ago. I didn't even inform Ms Ho about that incident, just because I didn't want anyone getting into big trouble. I did something so completely irresponsible and unprofessional, making a decision on emotions than logic. So thanks to me something like this that should have been resolved as soon as possible, got swept under the carpet (I feel like a hypocrite now, cuz I tell people that relationship issues and group dynamics should not be swept under the carpet), hardly resolved properly, and 4 months too late.

4 months to do something about it, and I did nothing. I feel so totally irresponsible...

Then today, I think I was hardly helpful. Standing around not doing anything to help, to the extent of someone else having to take control of the situation for me. I was so indecisive, slow, blur. As if I didn't know what to do, after running through all the SOPs so many times during Mr Liang Chew Man's chairman meetings. Told exactly what should be done, then not doing them. Its not like I forgot them, right now I still remember it crystal clear. Its just I didn't do it.

I admit it, I'm a terrible chairperson. Irresponsible and unprofessional. 

They say that the greatest test of a leader is how he acts in a crisis or disaster. I guess I fail miserably here.

Whatever happens now, whatever consequences, I guess I'll follow it through, and I'll just have to put away whatever emotions or feelings I have about the whole thing. That's professionalism I guess...

Then Interclass Debate was extremely upsetting, because it was conducted in a completely and utterly disorganized manner. They started half an hour late, because of not enough judges. They spent ages having to amend the marking sheets because the teacher that judged us did it completely wrong.

Then they messed up the class arrangements, and we were against 3.9 instead of 3.7. And they mixed up Jeremy's name with someone else on the name list, after I had made it specifically clear to them weeks earlier the changes in who we were sending.

So yeah, we won. I got best speaker. Let's hope round two goes as well. 

Oh yeah Jeremy, don't feel so bad about the research and preparation thing. I understand what its like to have a schedule packed back to back, and everyone expecting so much. My calendar application has broken down several times because it tried to synchronize with my other computers but there were too many appointments for it to handle it seems.

So debate ended late cuz it started late. Then ran to the IB bio lab for science research and was in a terrible mood the whole meeting. Then the lab tech (Mdm Reena) said these two words when I came in "you're late". Yeah, thanks for telling me, like I didn't already know. Yeah, really really bad mood.

Well there were lighter moments. Nico's group needed lots of human hair for their project, so they went to a hairdresser and got a huge chunk. Then they spent part of today's meeting washing it. Then Mdm Reena looked absolutely disgusted. Then Hendrick asked "Do you have a place to store it?" She looked like she was going to faint. Then she said "You put it on the floor here. I don't want it on the lab bench." Lol :)

Oh yes, surprise surprise, Daniel Lim is also in SRC biology research. Why can't he just go somewhere else and leave me alone? I thought he was with physics research...

Then guess what happened when I was going home. Right after I got out of the lab I spent one whole hour looking for Ethan. His phone was as usual, off. Then cannot find him. So I call my dad and guess what? He already picked him up (green form - fever) and were on the way home. Then when he SMS me earlier to ask me what time I finish, he didn't even tell me about it. 

Then he didn't tell me that mom was finishing late at 6:30 when she specifically told him to inform me, so I waited and waited and waited wondering goodness knows what the hell was going on not to mention wasting precious time twiddling my thumbs. I called her first phone 6 times with no answer. Then I called her second phone, which she answered. So I left school close to 7 pm, after wasting almost 2 hours of precious time.

In the car I made it very clear that I was extremely upset. And we didn't shout at each other. And we made it up to each other on the way home.

Then when we got home I told dad that he should have informed me of the happenings, then he just started throwing a temper tantrum about the whole thing. The problem with him is that he's too f***ing arrogant to admit and accept that it was his mistake, instead pushing the blame to other people. He's just a stubborn b**** who can't accept for once that he's in the wrong. The whole evening was just everyone yelling at each other. Then I cried.

Its okay when one bad thing happens. Its totally different when they all happen together at once.