Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Author’s Note: Erm, signing in for the first time in about two weeks, I have discovered a new blog under my name. I am vaguely miffed and amused. Who says it’s Gerard?

After about two weeks of inactivity, my blog LIVES!
(Cue evil laughter, lightning, the works.)
This year has been rather okay so far, not much friends in the same JC as me, Loretta’s really nice and good, and she’s the one who helps me out, meets me in the morning where I am snoozing in the canteen, while Joyce drinks her milk happily.
I swear Joyce comes to school just to drink HL milk.
But she’s really funny and we talk about much things like our screwy timetable, wondering about homework in general and how much we really want milk at 6.30 in the morning.
Mostly, I’ve been moving around, technically not eating anything during break, reading Calvin and Hobbes in the library, sneaking drawings here and there, and basically not really studying.
Okay, I got study la.
Here and there, the mad Biology test which Mani got everyone hyped up for, then was a slight let-down and I was damned for not recognising the Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum, and thought it was vesicles.
Bleah, and she said Golgi body was not wrong and I considered it but rejected it as the body was long and thin and made of cisternae or whatever.
And to think I actually wrote out SER in pencil when considering what the heck that picture of many Blobs was.
I got 7.5/10. Wow! A-grade!
My poor friend from India was supposed to get 8 but because she didn’t put her MCQ answers in the brackets, she got 4 marks off and she got all the answers correct for the MCQ!
She was utterly depressed.
That’s one bit.
And our class is quite quiet, there’s like only 4 guys out of 23 people, which means everyone else is a girl. We don’t know each other well yet, but we still stick together when it comes to PE and the coaches grill us and make us run 8 rounds every time just to train for the Cross-Country marathon next, next week.
I am depressed with Chemistry. Actually stoichiometry isn’t that hard, because even though I’m not too sure of the formulae, I mysteriously get correct answers. Woot.
Well, most of the time that is. We’re learning how to do Redox reaction equations. Something about an acidic medium, then another medium, and then you add electrons, then you mash them together like simultaneous equations and voila, you get the whole equation thingy.
So yes, I am okay with that.
And I think our library’s a rather interesting place. They’ve got cool textbooks and even cooler books, and comics, which is ultimately cool.
The biology textbook is about one and a half times our Sec 4 Chem book and some of my friends are considering the notion of buying it. And I still haven’t gotten the deposit for my Graphic Calculator. One of my classmate has brought it.
It looks bulky.
Oh and my Math is like argh. Our teacher is Doreen Lau on testosterone and steroids. He is fast, he loves it when kids ask questions and jokes about the fact that his name is Tham and thus born to love Math, which is another spelling for his name.
Binomial Theorems are scary!
Now on to more happy stuff.
I’ve been getting DNAngel manga online, and XL I guarantee you, they are much, much, much better than the anime! There’s more Dark and Riku evidence for one, and there’s some really hilarious scenes like when Daisuke’s father comes home and Dark is currently residing in Daisuke’s physical space, Daisuke having retreated really far back and refusing to talk to anyone. Kosuke was really confused for a while, thinking that Dark was Daisuke and that Daisuke was technically fourteen and Dark didn’t look fourteen… Or the fact that Dark got to spend one day, most coincidentally White Day, as Daisuke in his body and pretty much wrecked havoc to the entire female population in school before going to Riku’s rescue, who was trying to get away from the scary Student President…
Yeah, and I’ve gotten slightly hooked on FMA, and Bleach and such…
And someone wants the DVDs from me…?
The songs are nice~!
Oh, today I had this rather long break, and I read this book called the Encyclopaedia on Mythology or something. Very cool. Recognised a lot of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, and wondered briefly about why Jupiter (the planet) is called Jupiter, not Zeus, when Zeus is a much cooler name, and then some.
And I discovered something. I knew that Achilles, the guy who was invulnerable with his weak left heel and everything, was really attached to this friend of his, Patroclus but I never, ever knew or suspected that Achilles was gay!
The book was very clear about it, because they mentioned something about being companion and another word which didn’t make me doubt his relationship… oh they used the word relationship.
I think I can guess why he’s gay.
See, Achilles had a very cool mum, called Thetis and she was some really pretty sea nymph which the gods were like arguing on who should marry her or something. In the end, she chose some mortal king and all the gods were like ‘Damn we lost to a human?’
So Thetis gave birth to Achilles and she heard of a prediction from Chiron, was it? I don’t know, can’t remember but anyway, she heard a prediction that her son would die in battle and was afraid for her son and thus, wanted to make him immortal. She dipped him in the underworld river Styx which flowed over his body, making it invulnerable except for where she held his left heel, the only bit of him that was still mortal and weak.
So then once, Odysseus, this really smart and witty king, wanted Achilles to help him in a battle. Thetis was scared of the prediction and hid her son Achilles amongst this bunch of girls, disguising him as a girl as well. Odysseus, being the smart fellow, tricked Achilles into revealing himself by pretending to be a merchant of wares. He displayed stuff like jewellery and gems and then had this section on swords and armour. When all the other women were admiring the gems and such, Achilles ran straight for the weaponry, forgetting that he was a girl and thus revealing himself.
Odysseus is smart, man.
Thus, I feel that that was what started Achilles’ funny behaviour with his… companion, Patroclus. The Greeks have very, very weird relationships. I mean, there’s this queen who had an affair with a bull! I ask you.
And there was something about Hermaphrodite, who is some goddess’s son… Oh some nymph fell for Hermaphrodite, who’s this really pretty boy and while he was bathing, she was there watching him (pervert) and wished that she could be with him forever and erm the gods granted her wish and she was together with him…physically.
Or Artemis, who’s this virgin goddess who runs and hunts and plays and hates hunters who kill stags, her sacred animal and once cursed this hunter who saw her bathing, changing him into a stag and letting him get torn apart by his own hounds.
They are very free, and very scary.
And Zeus is this really sick playboy. He goes after women; I understand that- he actually had a reason for going after Heracles’ mum (Hercules’ mum) which was to find a mortal hero who could beat the giants. And then he just had to go after this pretty boy (again) called Ganymede.
Who became his cupbearer.
As if Hebe wasn’t enough already.
Anyone lost yet?
I am currently very high on DNAngel manga, FMA ending song, and erm… fanfiction in general. Go me!

Posted by norbert at 1/24/2006 11:10:00 PM