~The Road Less Taken~

Friday, June 20, 2008

i know it's 3 days before the start of the holidays, which means we're about to go into "rush homework like madmen as we always have even though we're supposed to have 4 whole weeks to do it but yet we never learn our lesson every year and teachers think we're freer than happy meal toys so the sunday before school reopens becomes 'go-mad-over-homework' night/morning, i.e. extending into the hours of monday and allowing us to refamiliarise ourselves with the 'sleep late, wake up early' motto students such as us swear by and make us feel oh-so-cheery-and-enthusiastic about school" mode.

but in spite of all of that, i'm really itching to do some things:

1) watch a movie. any movie.
2) play pool/tennis. been wanting to play them, but...
3) go out with friends. to do fun things.

so if any of you out there are similarly inclined (and similarly prepared for a right old ticking-off by your furious teachers who thought that in the course of 4 weeks of supposedly carefree and stress-free and whatever-else-free holidays we would have time enough to do their work, which we did but just didn't want to do it or conveniently had it slip our minds), please, regard it as saving a friend from ugly withdrawal symptoms, and let's arrange a suitable time.

...

i said that half in seriousness, half in desperation.

problem is, my saturday is almost fully gone (thanks to a 9 to 5 workshop at sungei buloh, exactly diagonally opposite on the singapore map from where i live, and as far as possible from my house) and my mother's sister is currently visiting from down under, so i'm obliged to spend time with them.

somehow teenagers seemingly have one extra obligation than their parents: to maintain friendships by regularly meeting their friends.

or is it just me?...

I stopped to rest at 1:01 AM

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...