Hey.

Today was the first day of the new term, as you all know. School was boring and uneventful, with the first three periods freed up to settle admin stuff. I snoozed for a bit when I wasn't required to fish out forms or whatever, snuck Ribena pastilles into my mouth while the teacher was collating particulars and drew on my baby blue post its. I found today very reminiscent of primary school. Staggered recesses, twice daily temperature checks, having to eat at numbered tables with only classmates during the break. But it felt very controlled. Not the way I like it. The second half of the day, we had lessons, but D&T was mainly just isometric and orthographic drawing and Lit was Mr Zahari trying to explain Animal Farm through his sick person mask. I couldn't really believe it when the bell rang to signal that school was over, because it felt so short.

If school was a bore, after school was the exact opposite. I took 31 with Fiqo, Syadza, Haifaa and Sabrina, got down at Bedok with the first two, saw cute boy from camp at the lower deck just as we were going down, internally spazzed out, followed Syadza to buy her prepaid card, decided to go to Tampines by MRT, scoured the three malls over there, all of us feeling lousy and weird but still enjoying each other's company, bumped into Liyana and Batrisyia, got Syadza a $1 frappe from McCafe with the coupon I found in my letter box just yesterday, and took the train all the way back to Jurong. I had SMSes and phone calls to keep me company throughout the trip, but I think I used up a lot of my prepaid top-up which should rightfully last me till the end of July. Sigh.

It doesn't sound very fun here, but that's because a few key points that really made today interesting I've excluded from this post. In hindsight, I feel like a major no-life loser for having done what I did, but never mind; I will forgive myself. Although I do still feel a little low about it..

In other actually quite related news, I'm thinking I've got to buck up this term. I don't think I will be indulging in too many after-school outings, unless it's to do a little group revision. Tomorrow is most probably scheduled for a bus 31 ride(with some pre-revision reading) with Fiqo and Syadza to Tampines(again) where we will catch up with our long lost friend, dear Mr. Textbook. It irks me to think that I have put to waste a month's worth of time to study. And it scares me that I really don't remember most of what I've learnt last term.

I should get to bed soon. I doubt tomorrow will be as lazy as today.

Sigh.

Goodnight.