Quote of the day, and Rag

"The Best and most Beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched. They must be felt with the heart..."
--- Helen Keller

Today I just received an email from one of my ACJC teachers, who won an award for his spirit of community service. I remember friends telling me nice things about him although I don't know him personally. He ended his email with the above-mentioned quote.

Okay, he was actually quoting William Arthur Ward in his email, whom he supports, "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

On another note, about Rag...

(Lazy to explain what rag is about. Guess. Will explain if someone asks.)

Today I stayed at the SRC from 1.30am till 2.30pm like that for the sake of guarding/transporting the float and supporting the raggers.
Rag-helping is quite fun, especially when u see the people transporting the platforms looking like pirated-cd-sellers who're escaping the police. Hahaha. And also especially if u're involved in the rush in a less stressful way (like screwing on/off the beam for the front part of the float).

From observing the other floats since like 3am, I thought KR had a good chance of winning. But when the results were announced, all the other halls keep winning: eusoff, sheares, eusoff, ke7, eusoff, wth. Oklah. I really do think that they were pretty good too. Eusoff's under-the-sea colours are nice.. sheares's engineering for all their moving parts is amazing... ke7's ship, esp. the back part, is also very pretty... but still, KR's is very different from the rest and very detailed and nice too kay..

first heard KR's name for the Flag fundraising amount. (we raised like S$50k+ in a day okayy.. it was sooo tiring that day... oh. and i'm surprised that quite a lot of people gave like S$1 and S$0.50 coins, especially the older aunties. Not as kiamsiap as I thought Singaporeans would be. But the young working class people are still very kiamsiap.) ..

okok. back to rag... so then.. they announced the best Rag performance/presentation/what-is-the-difference-laaaa goes to.. not-KR-i-can't-remember... again where's KR??? Aiyah. Got no small awards, no chance for big awards already lah... got no mood to cheer edi lah.. and then when the last award - the overall thing which is the chancellor's shield i think - was announced.. everybody just cheer for the sake of cheering lah.. and then .. and then.. we wonnn! yay! wahahahaha.. makes the waking up early.. and the rag rushing worth it.. makes the seniors' 3 month effort damn worth it!!! WE DEFENDED THE CHANCELLOR'S SHIELD!! which is no mean feat kay.. before this, it was like an alternate year thing.. KR won a lot a lot 3 years ago.. and totally lost 2 years ago... and last year won a lot a lot... and this year.. well.. the pattern was indicating that history might repeat.. until the results were out!! haha. got a McD treat from the hall master at the end of the whole tiring thing.

oh bytheway, about the sun tan on my face... there're K and R patches of tanless-ness! Lesson learned: Never never paint your face when you're out and about during a hot day! aiya...

on another note. my room is really smelly. because i dropped my megahuge-dynamo bottle.. and the cover broke.. and the detergent spilled at the area around my doorstep.. and i think i didn't clean it well just now because i was tired and hungry.. and i have not cleaned it properly because i'm going to sleep and getting dirty before sleeping ain't a good idea....

but now. i regret. should've cleaned it properly eventhough i was tired and hungry.. it's so smelly... i'm leaving a big gap in my room door for better air circulation. sleep with door open.. -_- me no like. but better than smelly room. haihz.

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9 Aug 2009 edit: Okay, I slept with door closed last night. I think the smell's from outside my room. I realized that because my room is now very well ventilated but it still stinks for like a few minutes at a time (Reminds me of MGS's wakaf).

12 Aug 2009 edit: amount raised during flag. paiseh. remember wrong.

**pardon the messiness, this is, after all, a rummaged bin.