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I was looking at IMDB's National Lampoon's Van Wilder: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283111/ if you're too lazy to do a websearch.

Anyway out of curosity (since it's assumed Vanessa Heng/Wilder had watched this show) I went to look at the ratings (it was M18 in Singapore) and to my amusement Malaysia:Banned was proclaimed merrily amongst the relatively low age ratings.

I clicked on the link and to my immense amusement, Ally McBeal was the first thing I saw on the 'banned' list.

See it here: http://www.imdb.com/List?certificates=Malaysia:(Banned)&&heading=14;Malaysia:(Banned)

Nestled among the downright 'evil' (or rather, understandable) South Park and Zoolander (one of the characters in the movie insulted Malaysia) lay innocent looking titles like Barney, Babe: In the City (I hope it's not because the majority of the population is muslim, or is it it's banned to watch movies of forbidden animals?)(note, I wasn't being sarcastic).

Even Friends, Bruce Almighty, Shrek and Spiderman is banned!

The biggest irony is, get this, walk into Holiday Inn in Johor Bahru and you get find all these titles for RM8 along with other more hardcore banned things like Sin City and Kill Bill.

There is no moral to this story. Except maybe the only ones who win in the end are pirates.

Saw flightplan on Thursday with Jacinth, Grace and Mansheel (:

Left school a little later than planned because I had to see Miss Bong to change my CME mark (She gave me a 'D' because she thought I didn't hand in my project, everyone kept on saying that: "Melodie has no morals!") and she kept talking to everyone she met and kept on slipping between the doors of the staff room. Aaaah. Typical type I: very socialble!

We ended up taking a cab to Orchard Cineleisure and caught the 2:55PM show. Mansheel, Grace and Jacinth ordered food from the cafe which they sent into the cinema for them. It was very amusing watching them stuggle to eat with utensils.

The movie was quite nice, though I find certain parts a little implausible: like how there's a difference in some being pushed off, thrown off, jumping off and falling off a building. Something about a force being exerted on an object, like the Sindee Neo death. Oh well, non-physics students aren't meant to understand physics.

School has finally ended (: but I still have to go back tomorrow and some other days for remdials. Oh well. At least I don't have to wake up super early at 545 anymore (:

Ahh, what strange day yesterday was.

After finding out there was no chapel, all of us from 3B3 changed into our black class t-shirts to get ready for floorball. Ughhh.

First match was against 3B2, they were very nice and kept on apologizing during the game for no reason o.O they won, naturally.

The second match was against 3A3. Ow ow ow! They were so rough and freaky man, hitting the ball here there, everywhere and one girl unintentionally bashed her stick against my knee in an effort to hit the stupid hole-y ball.

What really took the cake was when the same girl (I think) whacked the ball so agressively that the ball flew up and smacked me right in the lips. Owwwww! My lips started to swell really big and became numb but I continued to play for the last 30 secs (they won, naturally).

I ended up having to go around with a bag of ice on my lips and sat out the last match (not because I was 'injured' though) it was the most inane and absurd expierence of my life with girls staring at me with my friends making fun of how 'sexy' my lips were. Ha ha ha.

Oh well, they're alright today though there's a little wound where the stupid ball impacted. 3A3 was so guilty that they apologized, though I can't imagine why they even felt guilty in the first place. It was an accident, was it not?

I also finally found out my SS+Hist mark: 60%, quite good considering it was the singularly least studied subject on my part, so that raises my overall percentage a wee bit, though I have a sneaky feeling my MSG (mean subject grade) is still a dismal, oil slick over the water-esque, C6.

Today we had christmas service and I volunteered to help collect the white gifts (money) for Faith and I walked around class after putting my donation inside. Wa lao eh! I was so disappointed when some just threw a bunch of coins in. I collected like, $20 of notes and around the area of $7 in coins.

Considering that I myself gave more than $2, and my class numbering at 30, that's pitifully little. Oh well, it's the thought (or lack of it) that counts, right? Right?

Then we had to rush off after the service to change into our outfits for the etiquette class, the theory was so excruciating because there was no food and my tummy was rumbling away. Ahhhh.

Everyone was happy when the food finally came (:

The view from the 33rd level of the OCBC building was really nice, though why one would want a building with such panoramic possibilites, but facing nothing but a bunch of capitalist (and one in the midst of being constructed) buildings obsecuring the view of Marina Bay, is far beyond my scope of reasoning. Adults are weird.

Oh yeah, I finished the HP6: The Half-Blood Prince finally! Took me 6 hours-ish to finish it :D But my thoughtful and kind friends enlightened me so much in the topics, twists and teasers of the novel that there was absolutely no surprise, suspense and scrutinising of the clues on my part. Pfffft. Morons and their spoilers.

Ah, I still need to find someone with the HP4: The Goblet of Fire that'll remember to bring the book to school and lend it to me :( Can't really complain since that's one thing that I've been guilty of far too many times, thought admittedly I'm often too lazy to walk upstairs to retrieve the book or simply do not want to lend it to the intended borrower.

I hope my friends (the ones I asked anyway) aren't doing the latter.

Have a nice rainy day!

What can I say that has not been already said?

I wish I tried harder, pressured them into accepting my help. But no, I didn't.

I wish I took heed of Stephanie's words, didn't dismiss it as quickly as I did. But no, I didn't

I wish I had followed her off when I saw her slipping away from the crowd. But no, I didn't.

I wish I had searched harder, gone out into the rain instead of shouting from the shelter. But no, I didn't.

I could have done so many things, but instead I chose the be complacent and ignorant. It's all my fault.

And when I looked at the informal class picture, my heart broke. There she was, right next to me smiling away. If only she knew what would happen in just a few months time.

Thank God she's safe now.

I never knew exactly how big MGS was until I ran around for one and a half hours, how many dark hiding places, how many possible high points. I feel so emotionally drained and depressed for all the events that happened these past few days.

I can't imagine a Sec 4 year without those 4, why did't I help them? Why didn't they accept my help? And to top things off, the scholar in my class might lose her scholarship and be forced to return to Malaysia.

It's not fair. It's not fair! I should be happy that I'm not one of them, not even an advancee, but how can I be happy knowing that they won't be there to brighten up my day in Sec 4?

Just ignore me, I know I sound very emo now but I really want to let everything that's been bothering me for the past few days out.

I shouldn've, I could've.

Waaaaah :'(

Today I got back my Geog, Lit, E Math and Chem papers. I really scrapped through Chem with a on-the-dot 50%, E Math was a wonderful 52.5% (hallelujah for the acceleration question! ineptituide is very good!). I was quite happy since I expected to fail both.

The real disappointment was Geog and Lit. I got 33/40 for my MCQ section which really pulled my marks up since I got 55.9% in the end, if only I read that stupid 9 mark vegetation question properly!

After going back to class in a depressed mood, I was further depressed when Jacinth told me my Lit marks, 50.7%. I really wrote and wrote all my thoughts out till I was mentally and physically exhausted for my Lit paper, but alas, for naught. Apparently quite a few girls failed, the passage based question was the killer.

This means so far my percentage is 52.3% I really can't afford to fail anything, save chinese which hopefully my English and SS+Hist marks can salvage, that is unless I failed SS+Hist. Bio was really bad too from what I heard from the A band classes, if so many of them failed what hope do I have? I hope I can pass, even 50% is good enough for me. Ay.

Fat load of good etiquette will be if you're flunking out. Pffft.

Hohoho. What a nice past week it's been. Flag raising from Monday to Thursday and heavy (not to mention a little strange) exams throughout the week. what a joy! Thank goodness it's all over.

Flag raising was exceptionally bad for me since it is my innate nature to worry incessantly about many things. After being re-taught how to tie the flag properly, Jia Hui and I sat down on the quadrangle steps and watched all the girls mill about upstairs, when the bell rang we stood up to take our positions in front of the flag posts. Unbeknownst to us, the white power (which I assumed to be bleach) which I saw earlier in the morning lying all over the steps had stuck to our skirts. Nice white asses for the whole school to see.

To top it off, I was so nervous during the National Anthem that I mentally erased one whole verse of Majulah Singapura and the Singapore Flag flying exceptionally high for the second verse bore testament to that. It was so freaky! I felt like everyone was staring at me (and they probably were seing that my skirt was white and I was raising the Singapore flag) and my legs felt like they were reduced to jelly.

I had Chinese compo (no lao hu!) and then Geog. Ugh. I misread another question again and hence lost 9 marks. When will I learn to read my Geog questions properly?

Tuesday was English 2 (comprehension) and Chemistry. English 2 went pretty well, except I kept (and still do) agonising after my choice of words for my English summary, "abysmal lack of it(communication)". Chemistry was well, Chemistry. I find myself rather apathetic to it now, a combination of utter depression and a ferocious teacher. I hope I pass at least, though I doubt it, knowing myself I'll probably fail by 1 mark or something.

On Wednesday I had wonderful E Math. But before the most wonderful of all my required subjects, I had a totally wonderful flag raising (I know you can't hear the inflection of my voice, but I hope you've been smart enough to sense the sarcasm)!

It was raining when I got to school and it continued to drizzle when the time came around for Jia Hui and I to collect the flags for flag raising.

"Is it rain positions?" we asked the lady at the counter, "Is it rain positions Mrs Sim?" asked the lady at the counter. "Yes, it's rain postions because it's raining" came the reply from the smartly dressed principal.

Simple enough? Oh no. In my fantasically deluded mind, rain positions = flag poles at bamboo courtyard (ie: the old poles about 50m away from the ones we were supposed to use). So I took both flags from Jia Hui and hid them snugly in my jacket so avoid getting them wet and we ran through the drizzle to the bamboo courtyard.

For some innate reason we didn't start hoisting up the flags immidiately but chose to sit around on the wooden platforms (some that would pay off later) and talk. When we noticed the Pa systems was nowhere to be seen and that we hardly saw any MGS girls about, I started to get this very bad feeling, especially when the bell rang and nothing changed.

After a few minutes, I couldn't take the strangeness of the sitation anymore and got Jia Hui to run back with me to the main flag poles at the quadrangle. Oh my! I almost died when I saw the WHOLE SCHOOL staring down on us as we ran. T minus 2 minutes to assembly!

I frantically gave Jia Hui the MGS flag and quickly attached the flag and raised it befre tying it up, unfortunately Jia Hui had trouble attaching her flag and was delayed. It was still raining. T minus 15 seconds!

I ran over and started to help her hoist up the flag and tie. T minus zero seconds! And that is how I ended up standing infront of the MGS flagpole in the drizzling rain, with my skirt at an angle, with my jacket on the wet ground. Fun fun fun!

After the command to be at ease was given, Jia Hui and I ran to shelter where we should have rightfully been from the start. D'0h! It was very funny though. I still think of it and crack up. It didn't help that Mrs Sim gave a devotion on phobias: flagophobia, the fear of flag raising.

Afterwards we apolodised to Mrs Sim and she was really nice about it and Jia Hui and I scarpered off for our E Math paper.

I was cold during E Math and my jacket was damp from the ground and I lost 24 marks. One 4 mark question was on acceleration, thing is, we weren't taught about acceleration! Wa lao eh. All the physics girls knew and the bio girls didn't know how to do it! Grrrrrrr. Not fair!

Biology was simply the strangest paper I ever sat for.

Thursday was Hist elect and Math. Math was bad, I ran out of time yet again. Hisotry was alright I guess, I hope I do well though my essay question for 12 marks was answered mostly based on my general knowledge. Sigh.

I didn't have to do flag raising on Friday! Hah :D I got to go later for my Lit paper since I don't do A Math. Lit was quite alright but my arm felt like dropping off and my head was spinning after the paper.

Weekend :D took a much needed rest while everyone else crammed for A Math and Physics! Hehehe.

Nothing really eventful happened except that as I was about to get to the stairwell to climb the stairs to church, I tripped over the step and flew headfirst towards the toilets -.- I managed to grab the corner of the wall, preventing myself from falling down but letting the Ong brothers and Neh Neh Nail see my go flying. Argh.

Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle ran Hogwarts.