Thursday, 17 May 2007 | 9:30 pm
后悔...
We all make mistakes. We all do things that make us cringe. We all regret. I should know all about mistakes, I make too many to count. Luckily for me, I live by the rule "what's done is done" and try not to worry about things that have been. Live in the moment! What do I regret the most? Letting someone I really cared about go. This was quite a long time ago, but I still regret what I did. But we shouldn't dwell on things like that, because they'll always come back to bite you on the bum. All you can do is hope that in the future, you can make things right again :)
I got immuniminimized today *pouts*. Being the brave young-'uns that we were, we ran to get there during first period so we wouldn't have to think about it for the rest of the day. Some of us, were slightly TOO enthusiastic if you ask me *cofcofKYMBATcofcof*. I heard horror stories about the HPV immunization from people at Chinese school, like how they had a huge bruise and lots of bleeding afterwards. I got in line after Chan and before Ying. Kymbat was crying afterwards! She said it hurted alot. Chan had this weird contorted face when the nurse was injecting her. It was actually quite disturbing and I was super worried, but I told myself it was worth it because I was missing out on an entire period of Chinese and getting a jelly bean to boot. It didn't really hurt when they put the needle in my arm, but when the nurse depressed the plunger, there was this really strange feeling of pressure. It was quite painful and very uncomfortable. I concentrated on wondering how far she put the needle in and got through it fine.
I know we were supposed to sit down for 15 minutes just in case we had an allergic reaction and collapsed frothing at the mouth onto the floor (or some such). I had work due in! So I ran off to hand it in and forgot to come back. I'm still alive and I haven't noticed anything wrong so it looks like I'm fine. Of course, you never know with these things. There could be a blood clot forming in my brain right at this very minute. Or I could develop cancer in later life (not cervical cancer you dumbo) due to some unforeseen, late developing side-effect. Morbidity is a state of mind I like to exercise often.
After recess I had double chem. The rain was pouring down so hard. All the gutters were overflowing (our school is so damn rundown) and lakes were forming on the uneven concrete. I was standing under the shade looking at the grey sky wishing for a little bit of sunlight and Jeremy told me Victor's books were sitting there in the rain. So I contemplated bringing them in. I did, then realized I couldn't check to see if they were really his because my arms were full. Luckily Victor came back and rescued his poor sodden books.
I brought an orange to school today in honour of your 'extracting limonene from oranges by steam distillation' prac. Julian worked with Ruth and I, Mayo worked with Nhu and Ying. I'm so glad we got Julian, Mayo can be unbearable at times. He keeps saying "OMG! We're using bunsen burners today! Make sure it doesn't fall in the sink!". It happened like...AGES ago man, GET OVER IT!
See, it's like this. I'm a naturally clumsy person, it can't be helped, my clumsiness is innate! I accidentally knocked a blue-flaming Bunsen burner into the sink (and knocked over our experiment, letting all the gas we were measuring escape - two separate accidents in one prac, but that's a different story) Obviously I was worried the fire would catch because people throw all kinds of strange things into the sink. I reached into the sink, turned the burner to yellow flame and pulled it out. SOMEHOW...Mayo's version is slightly different. Apparently, I put my hand down there and let blue flames lick up my arm as I fumbled around for the Bunsen burner. YOU IDIOT! You think I would know if my ARM was BURNING. He finds his account hilarious and won't leave me alone. Well at least I fixed it didn't I?!? I didn't stand there screaming "help me! help me! I'm a girl! I can't do anything without breaking my nails!"
Anyway, Julian was very helpful. He did all the work while I just stood there watching water and limonene condense and fall into our measuring cylinder. We did the prac without stuffing up, so proud. That's probably only happened ONCE this year.
After that, I had double free so Chan and I went to Westfield for some shopping. It was still raining cats and dogs, AND I didn't have an umbrella, so we took the long way to Westfield so we could stand at the bus stop with a shelter. I only needed to buy part of my outfit for Rowena's party. The things we do for fashion. Poor Chan, I dragged her everywhere and she didn't even get to buy anything. I got what I wanted and went home, to do....nothing. No homework, just nothing. Well I had Chinese tuition? Does that count as homework?
I should get going now. I'm really tired and my eyes are drooping. Goodnight!
With love,
Mel
I got immuniminimized today *pouts*. Being the brave young-'uns that we were, we ran to get there during first period so we wouldn't have to think about it for the rest of the day. Some of us, were slightly TOO enthusiastic if you ask me *cofcofKYMBATcofcof*. I heard horror stories about the HPV immunization from people at Chinese school, like how they had a huge bruise and lots of bleeding afterwards. I got in line after Chan and before Ying. Kymbat was crying afterwards! She said it hurted alot. Chan had this weird contorted face when the nurse was injecting her. It was actually quite disturbing and I was super worried, but I told myself it was worth it because I was missing out on an entire period of Chinese and getting a jelly bean to boot. It didn't really hurt when they put the needle in my arm, but when the nurse depressed the plunger, there was this really strange feeling of pressure. It was quite painful and very uncomfortable. I concentrated on wondering how far she put the needle in and got through it fine.
I know we were supposed to sit down for 15 minutes just in case we had an allergic reaction and collapsed frothing at the mouth onto the floor (or some such). I had work due in! So I ran off to hand it in and forgot to come back. I'm still alive and I haven't noticed anything wrong so it looks like I'm fine. Of course, you never know with these things. There could be a blood clot forming in my brain right at this very minute. Or I could develop cancer in later life (not cervical cancer you dumbo) due to some unforeseen, late developing side-effect. Morbidity is a state of mind I like to exercise often.
After recess I had double chem. The rain was pouring down so hard. All the gutters were overflowing (our school is so damn rundown) and lakes were forming on the uneven concrete. I was standing under the shade looking at the grey sky wishing for a little bit of sunlight and Jeremy told me Victor's books were sitting there in the rain. So I contemplated bringing them in. I did, then realized I couldn't check to see if they were really his because my arms were full. Luckily Victor came back and rescued his poor sodden books.
I brought an orange to school today in honour of your 'extracting limonene from oranges by steam distillation' prac. Julian worked with Ruth and I, Mayo worked with Nhu and Ying. I'm so glad we got Julian, Mayo can be unbearable at times. He keeps saying "OMG! We're using bunsen burners today! Make sure it doesn't fall in the sink!". It happened like...AGES ago man, GET OVER IT!
See, it's like this. I'm a naturally clumsy person, it can't be helped, my clumsiness is innate! I accidentally knocked a blue-flaming Bunsen burner into the sink (and knocked over our experiment, letting all the gas we were measuring escape - two separate accidents in one prac, but that's a different story) Obviously I was worried the fire would catch because people throw all kinds of strange things into the sink. I reached into the sink, turned the burner to yellow flame and pulled it out. SOMEHOW...Mayo's version is slightly different. Apparently, I put my hand down there and let blue flames lick up my arm as I fumbled around for the Bunsen burner. YOU IDIOT! You think I would know if my ARM was BURNING. He finds his account hilarious and won't leave me alone. Well at least I fixed it didn't I?!? I didn't stand there screaming "help me! help me! I'm a girl! I can't do anything without breaking my nails!"
Anyway, Julian was very helpful. He did all the work while I just stood there watching water and limonene condense and fall into our measuring cylinder. We did the prac without stuffing up, so proud. That's probably only happened ONCE this year.
After that, I had double free so Chan and I went to Westfield for some shopping. It was still raining cats and dogs, AND I didn't have an umbrella, so we took the long way to Westfield so we could stand at the bus stop with a shelter. I only needed to buy part of my outfit for Rowena's party. The things we do for fashion. Poor Chan, I dragged her everywhere and she didn't even get to buy anything. I got what I wanted and went home, to do....nothing. No homework, just nothing. Well I had Chinese tuition? Does that count as homework?
I should get going now. I'm really tired and my eyes are drooping. Goodnight!
With love,
Mel