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Saturday, August 23, 2008

11:19 PM

damned mimosa thorn. scratched(you could say SLICED) my right heel when i was playing soccer in a field. shall elaborate later.

went for social studies lesson yesterday, supposedly from 8 to 10, but mdm rosy had to leave for something urgent to be settled in school at about 9.30. left us to play basketball for 30 minutes. and then. she returned back to class at exactly 10 am. damn accurate, i'd say. to send us off? i think not. she was wanting to finish another SBQ question about reliability. Surprisingly, i (kinda) understood what was being taught. oh, well. it's SS, remember?

reached home at about 11.30, then slacked. as we went to my grandmother's house, it rained. it's actually quite surprising too. it usually NEVER rains when i go to my grandmother's house. notice i use the word USUALLY. it's because of this exception, that i used the word. so i really slept through the 30-minute ride to telok blangah (not banglah. my cousins, my bro and i were using the word accidentally while deciding on something).
So, i was pretty tired when we reached her house. might as well. the television that was connected to the Xbox was spoilt. cathode-ray tube must've gone haywire. oh, well. we're using the television for 4 hours a week. as in every saturday we'd use the television for playing xbox. 4 hours straight. it's no wonder it spoiled. watched the Olympics for some cycling thing. that Julien Absalon from France ruled. had the whole track to himself. he had a 48-second lead on the chase group, and maintained it for quite a long time. did i tell you one lap was approximately 18 minutes for Absalon? another fun fact: his number tag was 1. very fitting for a champion. the second was another French. altho his was 11. and the chase group was (i think) about 2 minutes away from the champion when he completed the 8-lap race.

i actually went to sleep for a while. it's another surprising thing. i usually NEVER sleep in the afternoon. only when i'm ill. and i can tell you i'm not ill, sick, or whatever. i had only an allergy for dust, and it never acted up since last month. I'll blame the weather. and the lesson that morning.

so (i think) 15 minutes into my sleep, Jia and Yang started making noise. so i had to wake up. and i was fresh, so it meant 'bye-bye' to my sleep. in the end, we decided to play soccer downstairs, altho the location wasn't decided yet. the 6 of us (jia, yang, me, my bro, lewis and matthew) went down. we were deciding where to play. and the blangah rise primary school field was locked, damn. so we went to some field with a proper fence to play soccer. to think i actually wore slippers, three-quarter jeans, and a shirt that was obviously not meant to be worn while perspiring downstairs. with my handphone, wallet, watch, and earpieces for my handphone while listening to music. blame me for thinking that there would be a bench for us to put all our stuff.

so we went onto the field. i had to take off my slippers, take off my shirt, and pull my pants really high to avoid the mud and all. i guess i really failed at those measures. as matthew kicked the ball high up, i tried to receive it. it landed in a huge puddle of mud. my pants were dirty. as i tried to get the ball into the goalpost from a corner kick taken by lewis, it hit my chest. as i tried to run for the ball, i got scratched by the damn mimosa thorns. Damn them! it stung for a while. although the thorn didn't stay there, the wound sure hurt as hell. as i measure it now, it's like, 5 cm long. down my right heel, while about 2 cm of it's actually an open wound. and there's sone black thing in the open wound. i wonder what it is. it's like ink. it wouldn't come off when i try to scratch it out. but enough of that.

it rained really heavily after that (it actually was showering/sprinkling when we got there. now it really was pouring. so we decided to go back to my grandmother's house. when we got back, we bathed, ate and talked. somehow, our topic got to the olympics. and we were actually debating whether Usain Bolt could've gotten the gold medal for the 400m men if he participated. then it got to schoolwork applications to work life. then my aunt was like "i know vectors quite well, as i know it's the ideal angle to the ground to throw a javelin. i also know my permutations very well, so i can apply it to 4D" then she went "calculus such as differentiation and integration is useless to me. it's more for those who do enginnering than for doctors"

well, it's all i remembered during there. did i mention my wallet was soaked, my earpieces were waterlogged, and my handphone was wet? well, they're relatively dry when i left the place. my da gu was telling us that our 'lam pah kiu zui' or something like that. it meant that our balls would shrink/waterlogged. damn funny sia.

i'm guessing it'd be a huge post by now, so i'd just stop here.

~BenjaminTAN