Just wanted to say...today is one of the (really rare) nicer days spent in ICA. No HW, tons of free periods...well, that's only because it's already PT next week, but that's not the point. Was exempted from Accounting PT! YESSS!!! Best event of the day: awarding! The group who got the most points in the half-a-quarter-long Odyssey game is...*drumroll*...Kristine's group!! Yey us! :)
Since I don't want to proclaim my happiness in the classroom for fear of being thought of as arrogant, I'll just say it here (where practically no one will see it). I'm really happy we won; all our hard work from Book 1 until the very last Book 24 has finally paid off! No more competition, no more pressure to read and recite, and especially no more fastforwards!
To my quadrant members: thank you very, very much! I really appreciate being grouped with you guys. Thanks for putting up with my quirks, for caring as much as I do about the points, for getting yields, for being so determined, and for everything else! I wouldn't wanna be in any other group, because you guys are the best groupmates talaga :)
The long-awaited and sought-after prize: mechanical pencils with matching lead tubes! Well, I don't think it's what anyone expected, but they're really cute. Thank you to Ms. Lim and her mum. :) For the longest time I was just staring at the colorful tubes of lead, not knowing what they were...by the time I found out, all the pieces of lead inside one of the tubes had fallen to the floor and several were broken into bits, how sad. :( I have no idea how it happened, since I didn't feel it slipping or anything.
One of the mech pens was acting up too. The lead wouldn't come out, so Maddy had to dissect it, and she found a bit stuck inside. Quite fortunately, Dhio came to the rescue and dislodged it; but then it still refused to work (stubborn lead) so she fixed it again, for good this time. Hm, and it took so long for us to figure out how to get lead inside the mech pen too (in the proper way--that is, not by shoving it from the bottom up). I found out you just had to flick something on top :)
Okay, why am I writing so long again? I don't know...I believe in being thorough? If this keeps up and I update semi-daily, well... Ah, so that's why in Cha's christmas gift with Charity people's grad pics, my caption says "the long writer"!
Anyway, another happy thing for the day: was awarded with best performance in English for the school year, yey! Didn't know there was an award for something like that, and even more surprised to have unexpectedly won, but am very happy about it. :) Received a book for my efforts, "The View from Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg. Excited to read, and will do so as soon as I'm done with the tons of stuff I borrowed from various people...got to finish The Roald Dahl Treasury, an HP reference book, Grandia 2, The Secret Circle 2 and 3, a bunch of DVDs, etc. etc....
Yet more wonderful things of today: that term paper I *ahem* didn't have too much time to work on? Well, I got a 24/25 for it, yeeeeey! And the bookreview I did in a couple of periods the day it was due? 20/20! Ah, lovely. I think I may be blessed with lots of luck, and I daresay that I have by now mastered the extremely stressful art of cramming. I've discovered that apparently, I work quite well under pressure. The only cost is, well, indelible dark poofs under my eyes which are reminiscent of those seen on pandas and raccoons. On them the black spots actually look cute, but I don't think I have to tell you how they make me look.
And that's all, just wanted to share and express my delight in today's recognition of achievements :) I'm not in a writing mood right now, how sad. Words aren't flowing as easily as they should. Oh well, maybe it's because I've been wanting to sleep since the moment I got home. Goodnight world!