urghh, a new day of a holiday!!

You might think I am crazy to despise this beginning of aglorious holiday but think of all the burdens of homework which tag along with it: RTA play, history ACE project, geog ws, chinese ws, SMO (okay, that is quite fun), 200+ storis to read by the Guy and the Henry, Projects Day, and my Malay ACE. Come to think of it, it is actually not much! (For those who are less sensitive, PLEASE NOTE THE SARCASM IN MY VOICE. thanks) . Yup, thats all. Actually, now, I am ploughing through the 200+ stories by the writers which, based on the brilliant calculations ground out by my brilliant brain, adds out to a sum of at least 6.666666666666666 stories read everyday. Luckily, the real sum of stories needed to be read is 198 so I only need to read a measly sum of 6.6 books per day. WOOHOO! a saving of 0.066666666666 books per day! Behold the power of math!

Speaking of math, tomorrow is the SMO!!! Due to the immense pressure heaped on me and ming en by our Math Olympiad teachers Mis sg Weeh Geen gee  and M Rang La Ichi Ang (real names will not be named due to privacy) to kick us out of Socrates Club if we do not get into second round, we have been mugging for this important competition by discussing math questions on the phone for a measly amount of 2 hours 6 minutes. Just to ask, who has been as lazy as us in preparing for this SMO? (please tag)

Besides this, now I will summarise the stories that Mdm Lim has told us to read. I have read a grand total of five, counting, and here are the respective endings (mostly twists):

Girl: From the story it seems as if Mr Hartly wants the hand of Vivienne, which ends up with Hartly just asking her to be his chef.

Little Speck in Garnered Fruit: After all the fuss the Kid went through to get the peach, his misstress announced that she just might want an orange, which was brought up many times by thegrocers the Kid patronised.

Next to Reading Matter: This story just speaks about how pepole will come up with fake stories as marketing ploys, and shows how eloquence triumphs over beauty/handsomeness.

The Guilty Party: This is a story i do not quite understand. I think the children playing on the porch were imagining themselves as grownups who kill one other due to their unloyalty to each other (as in marriage)

The Rose of Dixie: Another story I am not sure of, but if I am not wrong, it is about a magazine editor from the south and another from the north arguing about whether to include a person's article whom he did not want to reveal who turns out to be the president of USA,

What You Want: This is a story about how money might just not bring whatever you want.

According to their Lights: Two men who wanted money, and when offered chances to have them but in some kind of condition, both rejected the chances although both would have accepted the conditions the other had rejected. This was a result of acting acording to their lights, or more of their ways of life.

An Adjustment of nature: This gives the idea that the man Kraft wanted Milly to himself so he would benefit for money in the end.

the Admiral: an even more confusing story, when the Admiral of the "navy" is never used. Maybe this illustrates the white elephants of every country, people who have no use.

The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes: here is a woinderful story about a detective whose observational skills are brilliantly brilliant. Perhaps he is an ancient sort of Sherlock holmes, hence his nearly similar, jumbled name. 

And Finally, Boule de Suif: This is a relatively long short story (which took me 45+ minutes to read) about a woman who was firstly kind to her "friends" but was supposedly abandoned by them in order to leave because in order for them to leave the women, Boule de Suif had to be mistress to one of the Prussian soldiers there.

Yah, I think that is all I would like to summarise. Reading these stories are straining to the eyes, not even counting the Boule de Suif which was still counted as a short story![outrage]

Yeah, just 187 more stories to go! (187=11x17, so I will be able to finish them if I read 11 stories for the next 17 days! Woohoo!)

ng Yi Pin.