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Lectures can’t be any more boring with Miss Seow’s teaching. [Fake names are used.] Think about it: the first time I ever fallen asleep in a class. I do have to admit it’s just 4 minutes according to Xiao Yuan’s timepiece. I don’t fall asleep in class, with a simple reason - I simply can’t.

With the lecturer talking and talking, I really wonder Seoww folks like Li Feng and Xiao Xiong can just drop dead on the table. Well, I guess when there’s a will, there’s a way. The other problem is the lecturer’s watching that awakes me. I can’t sleep when this lecturer is surveying the classroom. Miss Seow’s lecture has only 16 people, and out of 16, only 14 turned up.

Miss Seow speaks very clearly. With an accent. I can’t really tell but it sounded American. To be exact, it sounded like Days of our Lives. She speaks melodiously. In Singapore, I am very used to monotone lecturers hence she’s quite unique in a way.

She reminds me of my past English tutor - Mrs. Yeo. Mrs. Yeo does speak like her in a certain sense. I find Mrs. Yeo’s speech captivating. It keeps me awake. [Plus Mrs. Yeo is quite funny herself.] I won’t fall asleep in her class.

I guess slight differences do matter. Miss Seow’s class is boring, even with her voice. Xiao Yuan complained that her accent is “very fake”. I can’t really agree or deny with him. Miss Seow probably studied overseas before and imported that way of speech.

My eyes surveyed the class. Xiao Xiong seemed to have drifted into dreamland. Another down. Just Seoww do these people sleep?

I looked at Xiao Yuan’s time piece again, the lesson has only past 30 minutes and it seems like an Seowur already. My eyes grew weary monitoring the digital watch refreshing every second. I feel my strength is departing me. I rest my head on my arms, shut my eyes slowly.

I slept… [only for 4 minutes.]

My class was welcomed into this semester with lots of breaks. We hired Tailor Neilson Sofres to conduct a survey on the popular activities to perform during such break times. The results are surprisingly not so surprising.

Here is the 2003/2004 brief report:

• Official card game: Dai Dee
• Official lunch location: Food Court 1
• Official sports: Badminton

Survey by Tailor Neilson Sofres

Events are only considered official when more than half of the class participated before.

Dai Dee tops the survey for being my class’ most popular card game. A Chinese card game where 4 could play, Dai Dee is a competition of wit that requires a standard set of poker cards. The introduction of Magic: The Gathering to my class by pioneers Yong Liang and Shawn has failed to threaten the survival of the well-loved card game. New players in the field include Initial D card games. Although these Initial D cards failed to ignite much excitement from the class in the beginning, pioneers James andZhi Yuan continued to do much promotion by performing public game demonstrations. Will Dai Dee’s position finally be toppled? Analysts do believe strongly that Dai Dee is ruling for at least another 10 years.

Food Court 1 manages to top the charts despite the renovation of Food Court 3. Food Court 3 undergone major re-branding efforts by adding better selections of local food to student. Food Court 1 seems to be underestimating the current competition. Analyst conclude that the only factor that cause Food Court 1 to be the undisputable winner in this category is its location. Located at the very end of Singapore Polytechnic, students with shorter limbs would certainly prefer a nearer choice.

Badminton see its popularity dips on the fourth quarter of 2003 but made a successful comeback in first month of 2004. Revived by Feng Li and I just yesterday, badminton once again reclaim its title as the Official sport of my class. With the entire class population playing badminton at least once, one can deny not that the Official sport has indeed lived up to its name. Various sports, such as tennis, has attempted to surpass badminton’s mark on the surveys, however novelty to such sports died down within weeks.

Much for the analysis, a few other worthy mentions though. The ridiculous break conditions has force the class to sought other method of entertainment. It has been popular for my classmates to dine outside despite the ever-glooming local economy. There’s much hype on Initial D 2 arcade machines from some boys in the class recently. A newly introduced arcade machine called “Out Run 2″ is popular too.

Finally, due to the clear unpopularity, the school library is not included in the nomination list.

Note: This post is not written to mock the surveying skills of market giant - Taylor Nelson Sofres - I think they’re a fine and pink company. Very pink logo.

It’s been two days since I last posted something. Wait, let me change my resolution from 1152*864 back to 1024*768. I was doing some editing of Flash1 stuff some a while ago. I was creating a prototype, better known as template, for my Molecular Genetics project. It looks pretty good. I shown it to Ben, who’s from my group to, his reaction is like “no big deal”. That’s pretty upsetting. I shown it to Cui Xia too. At least she commented “nice” and “nice color”, although I have to admit that her somehow-appear-to-be limited vocabulary doesn’t make me so happy. But at least I am sure it’s a positive comment. Ben, on the other hand.. well.. let’s just forget the other hand..

Anyway, it’s my long-awaited term break. And I have lots of things planned to be accomplished. I planned to play some games. Namely Final Fantasy 9, Jedi Academy2 and Republic: The Revolution3. I am stuck in Final Fantasy 9, due to bad ISO. Also stuck in Jedi Academy, the force is apparently not with me. Stuck in Republic, game is too CPU consuming. How exciting.

So, no games for me. I went on to my electrophoresis assignment. I glanced at my monitor for familiar terminology. The monitor shone angrily back at me. I must have switched on the computer for too long. I simply do not understand about it. I give up.

I watched a couple of D.N.Angel4. Pretty funny. Had a few good laughs. But I grew weary.

I slept for an hour.

I woke up and start scanning my trusty refrigerator for food, or rather scanning my trusty refrigerator for missing food. I notice my apple-flavored Mentos is gone. My biscuits are gone too. The sight of the cake doesn’t interest me. So what’s left is my Ricola Pearls and Post breakfast cereals. I ate the former.

Then I sat in front of my computer again. It appears she’s in good mood this time. I switched my resolution of 1152*864 and start creating my Flash prototype. I always wanted to do that, but my muse was on this Hawaiian vacation to Honolulu [Aloha!]. Without her, I can’t think right. Now, she’s back giving me ideas. She’s of great help. I’ve done quite a lot today. I try to do a lot today, I heard she’s planning on a trip to Japan [Konnichiwa!] to try out some hot springs at Hokkaido this week end. Better finish my flash thingy fast. May the force be with me.

1) This refers to Macromedia Flash, a web animation program.
2) One of those Star Wars games.
3) A political game, which I thought is pretty interesting.
4) It’s a Japanese animation. Yes, again. I watch quite a few.