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“Summer has come and passed…”

August 31, 2005

At last, the end of summer has finally arrived. This means time to go back to school. Time to constantly keep my tie up, shirt tucked in, and wear the infamous Harrovian boater. In addition, it’s time to start A-Levels – similar to Harry Potter’s N.E.W.T. levels [and IGCSE's were like his O.W.L.s] – and the hard grueling hours of constant work and revision. Anyway, will get into detail for that bit later… First of all – August. This month has been quite a fun month filled with so many things, e.g. people’s birthdays [Pat, Nun, Boom, Prang, etc], going out for some people’s birthdays, visiting RIS, and having our long-waited IGCSE results to come out. I’ve decided that I’ll update the pics up from Nun’s birthday, Boom’s party, and the RIS visit some time later since I have no time. So, here’s how the month of August went…


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August 10 – RIS Visit
Went by RIS to see how their Sophomore year is. Several changes around the school, including the horrible canteen now and the cancellation of the long-used Block system. So basically went to Tanya and Lee’s Homeroom then followed Lee to Math class before I was chased away due to the fact that “there weren’t enough seats” and was offered to go to the library instead. Well, the library didn’t appeal much to me and I saw Mandy on my way out so she took me to her math class instead where I was allowed to sit [and do a Math Diagnostic test, too].

After Math was break and I went to wait in front of Ms. Walker’s room where I will be attending Biology lesson. This class was fun and had lots of fun looking through a whale’s eye, disected pig, rat bones, an armadillo, an EXTREMELY huge spider, etc, etc. Heard that Prim was crowned as “Top Cat” for that class since she got the most correct out of 50 [I think she got 32], so that means she can skip a quiz in Term 1. If you got all 50 correct then you won’t have to do any work, quizzes, or even tests and you’ll get a straight A! Now, I would want that!

After Bio was lunch and I got to get a taste of the new canteen. One word: crowded. So crowded it took me 10 minutes just to get a plate of carbonara. And they’re now using a card system where each card’s worth about 100 Baht. Interesting, but it just slowed everything down since the canteen workers weren’t use to using this new system. Also, the food was rather cold. Jirayuth told me a few weeks later that people just order food from outside [e.g. pizza] or just go and eat at the RIST canteen, which is way better, as they said.

Later, I went to Spanish class with Lee and had some fun remembering how it was learning Spanish 7th and 8th grade – even though I probably forgot half the things I learned! After Spanish, I went to English with Jenny where they were learning about Lord of the Flies, which I read in 8th Grade for English Plus. If you’re planning to read it or anything, I’ll just say this: It is very boring. Not something you would like to read during your free time.

Lastly, I went to Lee and Ray Fong’s Biology class, with a different teacher of course. Similar thing as Ms. Walker’s class but with more detail and scientific stuff. Ray Fong and I were paired and had to do this activity with two other girls, one who just moved from Harrow [Nami was her name]. When I told her that I knew Yuka and Kanae, her friends from Harrow, she started getting excited, which sort of surprised RF and the other girl. After Bio, just basically went to the Montri bus and got on the same bus as Erk and came back home. That’s it for the RIS visit – nothing much… Oh, and Julie also came and visited from Korea and had some fun talking to her.

August 11 – Nun’s Birthday at Major Ratchayothin
For this day, I met up with Nun, Por, Kitti, Raghav, and Nun’s sister at Major Ratchayothin to celebrate her birthday. First met up with the guys, who were playing this driving game [Raghav kept crashing his on the side] to buy some presents for Nun. Kitti bought this big Hello Kitty doll and Por and I shipped in and bought Nun a bear-looking thing with angel wings [we weren't even sure what it was!]. Finally, at 1:15 PM, we started to call Nun to find out where she was and realized that she was already at the karaoke room! So off we went to the Karaoke area where it was extremely crowded since there was some sort of Karaoke competition going on for TV… Well, because of that, it took us awhile to get there and we realized that Nun wasn’t there! Then Por remembered that Nun said she would be at the Karaoke in the Major Bowl section. So off we went to Major Bowl and found her there in the private room.

Into the Karaoke room we went and Kitti and Raghav got this big singing mode that they went on singing for ages. We also ordered some food and ate as we sang. At one point, the Karaoke thing turned on Happy Birthday but then we switched it since we thought it was a mistake. However, we realized later that it was MEANT to be turned on so that the Major staff can bring in the cake. Anyway, we ate the cake, sang some more, and it was time to leave. The others decided to stay a little longer for bowling but I had to go. So I said goodbye and that was it for that day.

August 18 & 25 – IGCSE Results
IGCSE results. All of you probably remember me when I had my IGCSE exams and we were just studying, studying, and studying. Here’s an entry that I wrote in July about it…

MAY – Written: June 15, 2005

I.G.C.S.E. – Those five letters were something that always gave us the chills whenever we hear it. “Intensely Gross, Crappy, & Sickening Exams”, as we called it, was the international standardized exams that all students in Key Stage 4 [Years 10 + 11 a.k.a. Grades 9 + 10] have to take after they finish the IGCSE course at the end of Year 11 [Grade 10]. IGCSE exams came and went so fast we didn’t even realize that it was May. Let’s see, for me, 17 exams to do was a hell lot. Some people had the same amount exams as me but I guess the person with the most exams in our Year would probably be Toy, who had 20 exams. How was she able to do it? I don’t know! Anyway, about one month before the whole “IG” period, you can begin to see people stressed, carrying all their books home, staying up late all night, and doing many other things you never see throughout the whole year, well, except for the Mock era where we had to bury our nose in books, too. Yet, people were getting serious – worried – anxious – and of course, sleepy. During that time, we began to adapt and become use to the many nights of sleeplessness and staring at a pile of books and notes as we try to stuff everything into our heads.

Now, when the first exam came [May 4th], which was Thai, everybody freaked out. Well, not that much, but everyone was worried, because, hey, Thai isn’t an easy subject to study for or do for an exam. You have to make sure you get straight to the point, write up in paragraphs that are divided according to opinion and content, spell correctly, and make sure you don’t put irrelevant information or something that’s not related, e.g. Harry Potter and how he saved Buckbeak the Hippogriff into an essay about Greenpeace and their “Save the Earth” campaign. So, you see? It is hard doing Thai. For our first Thai exam, we had to write three different essays: one about the way Thai students act in the social community, one analyzing why they behave so, and one in which we write about Greenpeace. Our second Thai exam [May 6th], which was two days later was a continuous writing essay between 350 to 500 words about any topic we want from the 9 given choices. There were topics on sports, your life, cultural stuff, and many other things. I chose the topic, “Is war the best solution for solving a problem?”. Reason? It was the easiest of all and we can add anything related to it in there – so because of that, I added in all these history-related stuff with world wars, Hitler, Treaty of Versailles, Cuban Missile Crisis – basically, if you didn’t know the topic, you would’ve thought I was writing a history paper and analyzing the wars! Anyway, after the exam, I realized that all the other History students did the same thing, too! At least I’m not the only History freak! I think I wrote about 600 words, which isn’t too much…

After we had our Thai exams, our Study Leave began where we are not required to come to school unless we have an exam on that particular day. Also, we are allowed to leave after our exam, if it’s in the morning session, or come to our exam in the afternoon, if it’s the afternoon session. So, after May 9th, which was when Study Leave started, the real thing was here. The really hard subjects were on the way and we better get rolling for them. For the people who were doing Geography, they were unfortunate and had their exam on May 9th while others didn’t have to come. Thank God I didn’t do Geography or my whole week will be full of exams! On the 10th, we had our Science Paper 6 [Practical] exam in the morning and History Paper 1 exam in the afternoon. Science Paper 6 was quite easy and I think I did OK. Surprisingly, it barely had anything on Chemistry, which was what everybody studied for since we had to remember all the color of each element if we add it with sodium hydroxide or put it in a flame test and all that stuff. For the first question, it was about plants. Plants – something that none of us expected and we had to label the “Stamen” and the “Ovule” of the flower. Luckily, I kind of flipped through it as I reviewed it. As for History, well, just like the Mocks, we had to write a lot and I think I wrote approximately 6 or 7 pages. We had to answer three different questions, which each had three minor questions in them that we had to answer according to the points [5 pts – half a page, 7 pts – three-forths to a page, 8 pts – a page to a page and a half]. Surprisingly, all the topics that we learned were on it – instead of the usual 3 out of 9 topics! As soon as we turned the paper over, we were shocked since it had every topic and we spent so much time reviewing certain topics! Anyway, History was so-so. So much writing that my hand ached like hell.

On the 11th, I had to do English First Language along with History Paper 2, which are the killer subjects since we will have to write so much we could cripple our hand. So, English. For this one, we will be given two different excerpts, one was from “The Hounds of Baskerville”, which was a story about Sherlock Holmes, and another one was by Anita Desai, which was about a girl who lives in Botswana. The first two questions was all about “The Hounds of Baskerville” where for the first question, I had to write an article for a Travel Magazine about the creepy cave in the mountain’s forest that Dr. Watson went to. Ok, this would be fine if they actually gave us more information besides two out of five paragraphs that talk about the area! The second question was about how the author expressed fear and the use of sunlight. The use of freaking sunlight. Now, fear and pathos would be easy since it would be clear and we all prepared for it. But no, there wasn’t a question on pathos. So we had to get all dramatic and imaginative with the way the sunlight and sunset was used to describe Watson’s feelings. One thing my classmates said I realize is now true, “When you’re doing English First Language and English Literature, you have to get all imaginative and think of how something like a saw can symbolize life, as in Robert Frost’s ‘Out-Out-!’ poem.” Well, I didn’t really expect us to be asked about the sun’s rays. Anyway, writing the essays itself wasn’t that easy either since we had to organize the paragraphs by the different topic and opinion, and we can’t get them mixed up or we would get deducted points. Argh, how frustrating! The last question was related to both passages, which was a compare/contrast essay where we have to show what each of the character was searching for and if they found it. I found something funny as I looked at the two passages – For “The Hounds of Baskerville”, it was mentioned in the book I just read, which was “The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime”, and it was the main character’s favorite book. As for the Anita Desai one, the setting was in Botswana, which was the country Chris and Raghav had to represent during the IASAS MUN Conference in Singapore. I don’t know, they just seem like a funny coincidence to me. In all, three essays and about two pages for each essay. Anyway, after English, we had the last History Exam, which was Paper 2 where we have to analyze different sources. Same as English, we have to use all our imagination to see how something like a vampire and bats can be related to the Big Three during the Treaty of Versailles. Funny, eh? Anyway, one of the really big coincidence in this particular exam was that one of the source, which was a picture of the Big Three holding a guillotine, was a source that our teacher used to teach us on how to answer source questions! So, there were about 8 to 9 questions in all and I wrote 8 or 9 pages. And yes, my hand was practically shaking by the end of the day due to the overuse.

The 12th. We had two exams, again, but this time they were both in the afternoon session, one [Business Studies Paper 1] at 1 and the other [Edexcel Mathematics Paper 3] at 4. The reason was because the Edexcel Maths belonged to the Edexcel exam board and they wanted to let all students all over the world take the exam at the same time. I wonder how those in Japan do it since they’re 2 hours ahead of us! Anyway, Business was ok-ok. Easier than the past papers but also hard in a way. At least this was just short answers that only worth 2 to 6 points. After Business, we had a few moments to relax and study for Maths, which would be later and I have to admit it, Maths was easy! Easy as pie and I think I could score quite well on this particular paper. Poor Masa forgot that we had the Maths exam then and he went home after the Business exam. We had to call him up and had came half an hour later. Well, he finished on time and didn’t need the extended thirty-minutes that he missed, so no worries. By the time we were done, it was around 6 and the sun was about to set so we didn’t have much time to talk since we were chased out of the library, where the Boarders were hanging out at.

Friday the 13th. Wasn’t that scary for me since I didn’t have Geography exam, which everybody said was really hard. I just had to go there because I had Edexcel Mathematics Paper 4 at 4 again. This paper was a little bit harder but quite easy. People kept on mentioning that there was a mistake in the exam paper where we had to find the radius [r] but at the answer box, it said “C=_______”. One person actually crossed out the “C” and changed it to a “r”! Anyway, as long as my answer is correct!

16th. There were no exams for me and I was so happy since it was the day for the Survivor: Palau Finale. Yes, I know I should’ve been studying but hey – this is Survivor! Anyway, I spent the rest of the day studying…

17th. Double Trouble – Science Paper 3 [the Theory Paper] and Business Studies Paper 2 [Case Study]. Both hard subjects on one day. Science was hard. I have to admit it. There were practically no questions on Chemistry, which was what we all studied for, and there were tons of questions on Biology – no, not on the body and organs, which we all prepared for, but on plants. Plenty were also on Physics, which were sort of ok. Lovely – just hope it comes out ok. Then we had Business, which was not easy and not hard. Too much writing though and it’s not just common sense like what you think. You really have to go into the theory and possibilities since it isn’t black and white. It isn’t clear and obvious. There are possibilities that something might happen to that particular business, e.g. if we increase the price, we may lose customers, if we decrease the price, we might not be able to pay all the costs, and if we keep the price the same, we might lose customers to competitors. Argh, the complicated world of business! I can never join “The Apprentice”! It ain’t easy like what you think!

18th – English Literature – Open Books. For this day, only those doing English Literature had to come, which was like, only 13 people or so. Thankfully, we were allowed to bring in our books since some parts were needed with text and we should use quotes to back-up our argument. In all, we had four texts – The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan, All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, and Poetry in the Touched by Fire book Section E. I basically avoided Poetry since it was done last year and I really just don’t get poetry. Again, this time we will have to write an essay [two pages] for each question. There will be three questions for each of the text we choose and we will have to choose one question to answer, where at least one of the three questions we answer must be a context question. So I decided to answer the context question with The Bonesetter’s Daughter where we have to read the Epilogue and say why it is such a good way to end the whole story. For this question, I tried to add all the relevant quotes into my essay since I tend to write essays that lack quotes from the text. For All My Sons, I did the question on whether or not Joe Keller, the protagonist, did the right thing in selling faulty machines to the army, which killed soldiers, but not admitting it and framing it on his co-worker in order to save his family reputation and business. This question was quite hard, actually. Lastly, for Twelfth Night, I chose the empathic question where I had to pretend to be Malvolio just after he confessed his love to his boss, Olivia. This was quite easy, actually, since I had to play him for our class play. So… Literature – I hope I did well. At least a B will be great!

19th. Cambridge Mathematics Paper 2. This was another exam board from the one I did previously and is the harder one. Our teacher got us to practice them by doing all the past papers and grading them. If compared to the beginning of the year, I think I improved in my Maths past paper scores but we’ll have to see with this. This particular paper was easier than what we expected [had a little calculator problem when I wasn’t able to find it and had to borrow Joe’s extra calculator] and I think I did quite ok, or if possible, good. Some of the Year 10 students [e.g. Deer, who is really, really good at Math as Kitti said she never got lower than a 90 in the Maths past papers.], who are supposed to be really good also had a chance to take the exam, too. Only exam for this day.

20th. Had our last English Literature [Unseen] exam. This exam is a little tricky since we would have one hour to analyze a prose or poem that we’ve never seen before. All of us prepared so hard for Unseen Prose since it was much easier than Poetry and we were expecting it to be a prose since for the last few years, it had always been a prose. As we walked into the exam room, sat down, and turned our paper over, we all gasped and looked around at the each other immediately. POETRY. Crap, we all thought. Anyway, we only had an hour so we better hurry. The question, which is always the same or in similar style, was about the author’s writing techniques. This time, it said, “Describe the author’s use of language and literary techniques that shows the mother’s care, love, and grip.” So off I went jotting notes all over the paper, highlighting, and seeing how they the use of language adds any effect. In one line, the author mentions about how she carefully turned the child over like cloth being turned in a washing machine – I got a little carried away and started using a little Biology and saying how that quote can symbolize the way the baby was in the mother’s placenta or amniotic sac during the pregnancy period and how it swam and turned around in the womb. Yes, I know it’s really weird. Then we had to use all these words that describe the baby and describe them of how they add effect. In all, I wrote two pages, which is what other people did. Except, amazingly, Tina wrote like seven pages!! She said it was because she analyzed every single line – wow, even I can’t do that!

23rd. I had two different exams – Cambridge Mathematics Paper 4 and ICT Higher Paper. For Maths Paper 4, this is the harder one since we would have to show all our working and we had to write them on pieces of paper along with the answer. I bet students in Thai schools can do really well at this since they have to show every step of their working while we tend to just write down the problem then the answer with the help of the calculator. So this was different from what we usually do but at least we had some practice with past papers, which really helped. Anyway, Paper 4 was quite ok and I think I did quite well on it. In fact, all of my friends said that it was pretty good and they thought they did quite well, too. Yet, this dawned a new problem – if most of us found it easy, this must mean that the mean will be higher and the range will be high. Oh, crap. This must mean that instead of a 95 being an A* and an 83 [or something] being an A, it could become a 98 as an A* and a 92 as an A. Oh no! I hope this doesn’t happen! For the afternoon session, we had ICT, which was all on the theory of computers, internet, hardware, software, operating systems, user interface, and all these really confusing technology stuff. I thought I did quite good and honestly, I know no crap about computers… But say, I’m hoping that I get a B since my coursework has gotten me an A already so it’s likely that it’ll pull my final grade up to an A.

24th – The last day of the exams!! Well, for me and the majority of our Year at least. For this day, we had Science Paper 1 [Multiple Choice]. Some of the questions were easy, some were difficult. But overall, I think I did pretty well. Right after this, we were all so happy that our IG’s were over. Some people, like Nun, who take French have to wait until June to finish their exams but we are done!

I hope the results come out good… The results will be coming out on August 18th [for CIE exams, which is the majority of my exams] and August 25th [for AQA and EDEXCEL exams, which is ICT and Maths].

The day after my last exam, I decided to visit RIS right before they have their finals. Believe me, your finals are nothing compared to this – these were really hard and I am hoping that I pass… If we get lower than a C on a certain subject, we will have to redo that subject again. And if we don’t pass five subjects, we will have to redo Year 11 again. Oh God, just to think about it is painful. Anyway, went to RIS and had lots of fun meeting all of you and catching up on things. Glad your results for your finals were good.

The next day was the 26th and I went out to Siam with some Harrow people and lots of people came [Pat, Nun, Joe, Donut, Leng, Blue, Ta, Jeeb, Gaf, Syne, Tan, Julie, and myself]. Although some of us separated to go watch movies first, but most of us [Pat, Nun, Donut, Blue, Ta, Jeeb, Gaf, Syne, and myself] went to eat pizza and took some studio pics. I look totally hilarious. Anyway, too bad I had to leave early so I wasn’t able to watch Star Wars and eat MK with them afterwards. Pity. Anyway, we should go out again!

On the 31st, my mom got tickets for us to go and watch Miss Universe 2005 at Impact and it was great! Glad Canada, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Venezuela made it to the finals, though I kind of wanted Thailand [of course, since I’m Thai] to make it to the semi-finals or final 15, at least. I really wanted Venezuela to get in the top three though… Anyway, glad Canada got it – not USA… USA looked rather bouncy [no, not her breasts] in the swimsuit walk. But jeesh, talk about Latina power!

Anyway, that was what I wrote in June after we had the exams. On those two days, that I went to get the results, saw quite a lot of people, those who are leaving and those who are staying. Just to sum up, here’s my actual IGCSE results and my Mock Exam [Trial results] results. Please note: My mock exams results were really bad.

Subject Real Exam Results Mock Exam Results
Business Studies B C
Coordinated Science BB BB
English Literature A D
First Language English B D
First Language Thai C B
History A A
ICT [Computers] A B
Mathematics [CIE] A C
Mathematics [EDEXCEL] A* -

So overall, I did quite good [Except for Thai] and I either scored the same as the Mock exam or better [except for Thai, of course]. Remember that I mentioned earlier that some Year 10s did the Math CIE Exam, too? Well, Deer got her result and she got an A* [The highest grade to achieve, something like an A+] for it! That’s one smart girl! Anyway, I passed into the sixth form and will be starting my A-Levels very soon!

August 20 – Boom’s Birthday Party at Patsiree
After a tough day at ROTC [R.D. a.k.a. Military Training], I went to the dentist and got ready for Boom’s 17th Birthday party that evening. The restaurant was somewhere around his house, which was in Soi Ruamrudee, and right across from his house. In all about 20 people [Por, Kevin, Prang, Aom, Cake, Prang, Nithi, Mek, Mew, Praew, Ping, Kwang, Mim, Tanya, Kid, Poom, George, Boom's friend from his old school, and obviously, Boom] came to the party, all at different times of course. Got there around 6 and saw that several people were there already but I wasn’t late, I think. So we ate, talked, had some fun, wrote some funny messages on the board for Boom. Around 8, we went across the road to Boom’s house and watched some Academy Fantasia before the cake came and we played some pool and some sang karaoke. The thing lasted until 11:30 PM but I left at around 9:30 PM since it’ll be about an hour and a half drive to get to my house. Well, the party was fun and it was great to see all of them before they moved onto England, America, and colleges here in Thailand. G’luck to everyone that’s moving abroad or into university and have lots of fun!

August 30 – Sixth Form Orientation
Sixth Form Orientation was one day before school. We met up in the library, listened to Mrs. Keys [Head of Sixth Form], and did some little advisement activities to get to know our fellow sixth formers. Note: The sixth form is made up of Year 12s and Year 13s, so a lot of us do not know the others in the other year. In addition, we got to meet and get to know the new students that are entering Harrow and the sixth form, too. Later, we did some activities on language learning and learned about the Sixth Form Award program and how we can earn credits from the different activities that we’ll be in, in which we will have to earn approximately 500 credits at the end of Year 13. At lunch time, I had to go and see Mr. Herbert, the Head of Drama, about the upcoming Drama production that will be performed at the end of January, which will be the Shakespeare play, “Twelfth Night” [in which I and some of the Year 12s learned in our English class]. We were basically told the different roles we’ll be performing as and will have to come and practice every Tuesday for an hour [now I already have two credits that I'll get per week!]. Here’s just some of the roles I remember…

Character Actor Description
Orsino Me A lovesick Duke in love with Olivia
Olivia Prang A “mourning” selfish Countess
Viola Kate A shipwreck survivor disguised as a man
Sebastian Chris Viola’s believed-to-be-dead twin brother
Antonio Nithi Sebastian’s saviour who seems to be “in love” with him
Malvolio Raghav An annoying steward who embarrasses himself
Sir Toby Golf Y. 11 A misbehaved “knight”

There are several more characters but I’m not sure who’s playing them. Kitti is also in it but he forgot who he was playing, though he said he would be playing a girl. [Hahaha] Anyway, after lunch, we went to the new Sixth Form Common Room, which used to belong the creche center [Pre-K/Nursery]. There was plenty of space and we had the entire first floor to ourselves. We had two relaxing rooms, one study room, a careers office, and Mrs. Keys’ office there. For the rest of the afternoon, we did a little role-play on bullying and our group, made up of me, Trin, Chris, Plai, Julie, Yuka, Toy, Bow [Y. 13], Charlie [Y. 13] and Nop [Y. 13], was asked to perform again, however, with a more pleasant ending. At the end of the day, Mrs. Keys gave some announcement on the uniform and the “privileges” for Sixth Form students, who can wear business suits if they want. Also, we have learned that from now on, we only have to wear the boater on Mondays [Hoorah!] In addition, because Thursdays are House Days, we will have to wear our House color shirt on those days [So green for Byron]. So, today was a great day and it was fun getting to meet the other new students [there were about 9-10 in all] and school’s starting tomorrow!

As for the A-Level subjects, I decided to take five subjects [like the others] and am doing Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, and Critical Thinking/English. I’ll probably have the toughest schedule since I have all three Sciences, in which people said are really hard. Oh well, we’ll see how it all turns out… I actually wanted to do History or ICT or even Psychology but then it clashed with the Sciences and Maths [didn't really wanted to do Critical Thinking but we had to choose SOMETHING in the last column and I would be really bad at Further Maths and I passed both IGCSE English and Math so I wouldn't need the retake.]. So far, I know that I have some classes with Kitti, Trin, Bifern, Tina, Toy, Raghav, and many other people. Can’t wait to let this year start!

Crap… Talking about school – I better get to bed now since I’ll have to wake up at 6:30! And it’s already 1! Oh, and I changed my mobile number already because I broke my old phone and stuff. If you want the number, ask, but I think I emailed it out to all my friends already. Anyway, here’s an entry so don’t complain! See you guys later…

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Harrow Fair & Last Day of Term 1

December 19, 2004

So, the closer it gets to Christmas, the colder it gets and this means that we all (well, maybe not all) will have a nice long winter vacation. Oh, wait, that also means that my mock exams (practice exams) and real IGCSE exams are coming up… Oh God, don’t want to think about it. Well, from my last entry to today, a lot of events have happened because it was Loy Kratong, Harrow Fair, the Last Day of School, and I went out with some people to World Trade. But before I go on to tell you guys about the events, please just take a quick moment to stop by this SITE and vote for my sister, Lynn, for “BEST THAI BLOG”. It only takes a few seconds. And her site name is “BRAIN FARTS”, ask her for an explanation of the title… Don’t forget to vote now… So, continuing the blog entry, here are pics from each of the events… Hope you enjoy them. (This entry won’t be as long as the previous one, trust me ). NOTE: THERE ARE ABOUT 117 PICTURES SO IT MAY TAKE TIME TO LOAD.

Loy Kratong

Not many pics for this day because I didn’t bring the camera to school… (Only two pictures, actually) But I had to get the pictures from Nun (a.k.a. Pat), who was very nice to give me the pics… Thanks, Nun! Well, Loy Kratong – Besides being forced to dress up in Thai costumes, we had lots of fun that day because there was a “Fear Factor” competition and hey, this was REALLY like Fear Factor… Try eating grasshoppers, worms, scorpions, raw chicken feet, red ant salad, and some other things I don’t remember. Well, the winner? A kid from The Language Center (TLC) – Leila said that the TLC section won for three years already. Hmm… Wonder what they teach there… Well, it was pretty fun watching the students and teachers struggle trying to put the disgusting food down their mouths! Haha, I should have brought my camera that day. Oh well, always next year. Here are the two pictures I got from Nun.


From left to right:
Girls (Front Row):
Julie, Masho, Donut, Nun, Bifern, and Blue
Boys (Back Row): Ta, Raghav, Me, and Ben (Not “Big Ben”)


This is the Science Set 1 class… From left to right:
Standing:Ta, Kate, Siree, Champ, Trin, Kid, Mim, Kenishiro, Kwang, Ping, Bifern, Jeeb, Nun, Sai, and Pear.
Sitting: Pat [Pronounced as "PUTT"], George, Toy, and Julie.


Harrow Fair
Harrow Fair – Something like RIS’s Fun Fair but I have to say, Harrow’s is way more crowded and actually has a lot more activities. Well, it seems like it’s mainly focused on selling things here… Not really on the games… But there was also a fashion show that students were in. In addition, there were the normal activities similar to RIS’s, Dunk the Teacher, Tin Can Alley, etc, etc… There was also foods from all over – Thai, Western, Indian, Japanese, etc. It was a very fun day and also very tiring. Oh – I didn’t scan the sticker pictures in. Well, you’ll probably see that another time… So – I got there and met up with some others (the guys just came back from ร.ด. – Millitary Training – I will be in it next year in case you were wondering). Well, not much to say about the day but that it was fun and had lots of activities. I’ll just let the pictures describe the day to you… As they say, a picture can tell a thousand words… And this time, there are way more pictures than the Loy Kratong ones, because I brought my camera with me that day.


Tina and Siree gathering up a crowd for their cotton candy game. Their rule was that you pay 20 Baht and you can spin your own cotton candy for twenty seconds – whatever size it is, you get the whole thing. That’s Mr. Wise with his portion of the cotton candy. When I arrived there, Mim was doing it and she got a REALLY BIG cotton candy.


The Fair just when it started…


One kid trying to make his cotton candy.


Gaf with a lightening speed move as he spins and spins his cotton candy up. He paid 40 Baht so he got an extra 20 seconds – but the bad thing was his cotton candy fell apart while doing it so he wasted time trying to put it back together. Results? Same size as the 20-second ones…


Nun at the Walk Ralley as she tries to solve the riddle. “Rearrange the following letters to make one word.” It’s very easy actually if you think carefully. The answer is right in your face! Can’t get it? Read the riddle carefully – “Rearrange the following letters to make ONE WORD”. Now, can you get it? It’s “ONE WORD” – how simple is that!


Bifern – the Tennis Master – as she tries to hit the tennis balls into the tiny square box on the ground.


Pat bring back the tennis ball.


Gaf and Pat trying to throw the darts right at the center. Actually, while the guys were practising so hard to make sure it hits the center, Bifern, who just grabbed a dart and threw it, threw it right into the center! Wow…


Raghav relaxing after the walk ralley.


The poor dartboard that was our victim…


That’s Ben (Big Ben) in the Fashion Show… Along with somebody…


Boom and Fa.


Sky and Champ.


Champ and Fa.


Junko.


From left to right: Pun, Praew, and Junko.


Don’t really know who these people are – but they’re from a younger year – just thought the picture looked nice…


Paras and Poom.


Aom.


Jane, Poom (Another Poom), and Prang.


Jane and Prang.


The models up for one last bit.


The models again…


From left to right: Jeeb, Nun, and Raghav.


From left to right:
Guys: Raghav, Gaf, and Me.
Girls: Nun, Bifern, Toy, Jeeb, and Tina.


From left to right:
Back Row: Gaf and Me.
Middle Row: Nun and Toy.
Front Row: Bifern and Jeeb.


The Harrow Fair environment.


A way leading to the area behind the TLC building… Notice anything weird in front? (Just joking – it’s Bifern!)


Going to the games area – that’s Gaf’s head sticking into the pic – sorry for the bad pic, Gaf… But that’s for all the spam messages! (Just joking!)


Well, we all decided to play with kites (don’t think deep) and well, a couple of times (many times, actually), the kites ended up getting stuck in the trees… So we had some trouble with them…


Stuck again…


Sky along with some other people trying to raise some money by putting up a game for the visitors.


Here’s a scene from “Dunk the Teacher” – Apparently, it was the Head that was being dunked! Thanks for taking the pic for me, Pat – I wouldn’t be that quick… I felt bad for one teacher, who went on the Dunking thing and after EVERY SINGLE ROUND, he would get dunked. I mean, one right after the other… I could say – he probably got dunked at least 15 times? Unluckily, one of the balls actually hit his face too (and they use a BASKETBALL, not a tennis ball or baseball like RIS) so it must have hurt a lot…


Around 3 PM…


The Head posing for a pic.


Just spotted this painting by this artist – looks really nice…


Bifern with all the stuff she got that day…

Last Day of School
The last day of school was a day everybody was waiting for. This would mean that it was the end of Term 1. This would mean that it was time for our liberation. This would mean that it was time for our reports to be sent home. This would mean that it was time for a full one month Christmas break. This would mean that our mocks and IGCSE exams are getting closer. This would mean – Ok, I think you get the message how important this last day was for us… Well, here’s just a quick overview of that day… We had usual classes for the first 6 periods (the periods before lunch)… But Tina and I got to skip classes because we were doing the reading for Carol Services that evening… (Something like reading bits from the Bible – but it was paraphrased so it wouldn’t be as confusing.) After the classes, we, Year 11 students, had a Year 11 Party just right above the Dining Hall. That meant that we didn’t have to wait in the long torturing lunch line. So we went up and had pizza, KFC, Pringles, Ice-Cream, canteen food, and some other stuff. After feasting, we turned on some music and several people were dancing – some went really wild. We tried to make a disco environment by switching the lights on and off – but pathetically, it failed and didn’t even help to create a disco environment. Well, after the party, we had our last Science class – Biology for me. Luckily, instead of having to learn about how the kidneys work, we played a little game of charades related to Christmas. After that, we had one last assembly with a little performance of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” by the Harrow teachers – really funny. After that, we had the Finals of the Inter-House Football matches. It was fun watching the teams compete. Later, we returned to the Dining Hall to have our Christmas Feast with our House and after that, we went straight up to the Carol Service. After an hour or so of the Carol Service, which ended around 7:20 PM, we finally went home. It was a fun and tiring day. So, here are some captures of the events…



Year 11 students forgetting our manners and diving straight into the Pizza boxes and KFC buckets for our food.



“It’s a chicken!” Says Por.



Pat eating the whole bucket of KFC chickens – just joking! He didn’t eat the whole thing… It was already empty by the time he got it.



Por enjoying his chicken.



From left to right: June, Tina, and Nun.



Gaf slowly disecting his chicken. That’s Sky on his left.



Tina, Nun, and Tan relaxing after eating.



Raghav enjoying his noodles.



Oat and Ant.



Champ and Jeeb getting the crowd stirred up for the dancing.



Jeeb getting into the music (I believe it was “Destiny’s Child – Lose My Breath” that was on then.).



From left to right: Fa, Praew, Ploy, Raghav, and Jeeb. Poor Raghav was forced to dance because it was claimed that he danced really well on a fieldtrip last year…



The guys chilling. From left to right:
Back: Boom and Kevin.
Front:Joe and Por.



From left to right: Praew, Kid, Raghav, Tina, Nun, and Oat.



The girls planning on what to do next.



From the back of the group. That’s only some of them there.



Getting ready for some party. From left to right on the opposite side: Bifern, Siree, Gaf, Boom, George, Pun, Tina, and Junko.



Clockwise order starting from the left side: Nun, Fa (Half of her), Tanggua, Mim, Gun, Toy, Tan, Ms. McClintock (Head of Religious Studies), June, Bifern, Siree, Pat (a bit of him behind George), Boom, George, Pun, Tina (the top bit of her head), Junko, and half of Kid.


Clockwise order starting from the left side: Nun, Fa, Leng (a bit of his head behind Fa), Tanggua, Mim, Omm, Toy, Ae (Her back), Plai, Nuch, Ping, Lookkade, June, Bifern (a very bit of her), Siree, Gaf, and Maek.



Nun working on the radio to get something more upbeat.



Clockwise order starting from the left outer-ring: Toy, Siree, Nuch, Ping, Lookkade, June, Bifern, Por, Gaf, Leng, Maek, Boom (behind Jeeb’s head), Mew (also behind Jeeb’s head), Nithi, George, Pun, Pat, and Gun. In Center: Jeeb and Raghav.



Clockwise order starting from the left outer-ring: Maek, Nithi, Pat’s head, George, Tina, Junko, Gun, Sai, Kid, Oat, Raghav, Joe, Nun, Mim, Omm, Ploy’s head, and Toy. In center: Champ and Jeeb.



Clockwise order starting from the left outer-ring: Sai, Kid, Champ, Oat, Joe, Nun, Pun, Prang, Fa, Raghav’s upper head, Tanggua, Mim’s head, and Omm. In center: Jeeb and Mr. Machin. The poor Head of Business Studies and Sixth Form teacher was pulled into the dancing circle. Haha, funny watching it though…



Clockwise order starting from the left outer-ring: Ms. McClintock, Toy, Siree, Plai, Blue, Ae, Music, Ping’s head, Takuto, and Mr. Machin’s back. In center: Oat.



Calling upon the “master” – Mr. Herbert – the Head of Drama.



Clockwise order starting from left outer-ring: Ae, Music, Ping, Por, Sai, June, Bifern, Gaf, Maek, and half of Kevin. In center: Jeeb and Mr. Herbert duel-dancing.



Clockwise order starting from left outer-ring: Half of Ae, Music, Por, Ping, Nuch, Trin, June, Leng, Maek, and Kevin. In center: Mr. Herbert and Oat duel-dancing after Jeeb failed… In the end? Mr. Herbert won. Reason? Oat wasn’t able to stop laughing, just like Jeeb.



Starting from the left side: Mew, Por, Trin, June, Bifern, Gaf, Maek, Leng, Kevin, Boom, Jeeb, Pat, George, and Fa in the very front.



Clockwise order starting from the left outer-ring: Toy, Ae, Tan, Music, Ping, Lookkade, Por, Mew, and Siree. In center: Nun and Oat behind her.



Cleaning up the garbage after the party.



The teachers of Nehru house doing the First day of Christmas bit in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song. Spot anybody familiar.



Nun’s reward for completing the AIDS Awareness Quiz – looks pretty neat, eh? Those “flowers” are actually condoms… Nun, who didn’t know said that she’s going to change it with Pat, who got a cup from “Cabbages and Condoms” – Hahaha…



The soccer field where the houses were about to have their final soccer matches.



FROGGY – The Byron House Mascot (The cutest of all, too.) Froggy was stolen during the half-term break and it was gone for about a month and a half until somebody found it in the Sports Hall Changing Room – Uhh, how did it get there in the first place???



Suriyothai’s House Mascot – a fat cow… And hey, it really IS fat! It’s really big and really heavy!



Tina after she shot the penalty ball straight in, thus making Suriyothai the winning house for the KS4 Girls.



Here’s the Common Room of the Boarding House.



Here’s how Gaf’s Boarding Room looks like… Looks very homey…



Another bit of the Boarding Room.



A view of the soccer field area from the Boarding House.



The crowd gathering up for the final penalty shoot between the KS4 Boys teams – Nehru and Keller.



Pat – the goalkeeper for Keller.



Por – the goalkeeper for Nehru. The results for the day were as followed for each game…
KS3 GIRLS – Keller VS Sonakul – Winner: KELLER
KS3 BOYS – Byron VS Nehru – Winner: BYRON
KS4 GIRLS – Suriyothai VS Churchill – Winner: SURIYOTHAI
KS4 BOYS – Nehru VS Keller – Winner: NEHRU


World Trade with the RISians
On Thursday, I decided to go out with some of my fellow RISians at World Trade (Now known as “Central World Plaza“). The original plan was to have Pim, Tanya, Tent, Ice, Jirayuth, Kevin P., and Me to go out. However, Jirayuth said that he had some symptoms of pneumonia while Kevin P. had to get braces for his lower jaw. So it was down to Pim, Tanya, Tent, Ice, and Me. We met up in front of CD Warehouse then we went on to the Ice Skating Rink. At first it was empty because it was a school day and it was around 11 AM. But later, around noon, elementary school students came swarming in with their teachers followed by students from Thai schools. Well, Tent, Tanya, and Ice didn’t have any trouble skating… But Pim and I did – we were struggling. I don’t know why but my legs wouldn’t even move – I had to end up pulling myself along the side and slide my legs through the ice. It looked really sad since all these little kids were skating past me as if they were pros and I was holding on to the rail and moving very, very slowly. Well, after some skating, we left the ice skating area and headed for the restaurant we built a very well reputation with – MK. The last time I went out with them to MK, we were, um, should I say, loud? Noisy, loud, followed by several curses, and well, you probably get the idea. But that MK was at MBK, this time, we’re at World Trade – so it won’t be as bad. Oh wait, but this MK was much quieter than the one at MBK – so that means we must be quiet too. So, after ordering four of each at the beginning of our order, we found ourselves overloaded with all these food around us. The pile of food for the suki was as high as the Empire State! Like last time, we all had a battle for the food we wanted to eat. You see, there were five of us and they usually brought 6 of each food. So we would get one each and for the last piece, we would fight over it. Wait, actually, more like Pim, Tent, and Ice fighting over it. Tanya and I didn’t interfere with them because they were searching for the shrimp (this is an example) all over the suki pot while it was boiling and splashing all the soup everywhere. When one person gets it, the other two will use their chopsticks and pull it out. Sigh, and we call ourselves 15 year-olds… After the battle in MK, we went down to Swenson’s and had a few ice-creams. Later, we made a last-minute change to do Bowling instead of wandering around. Well, Tanya and I didn’t bowl because Tanya wasn’t allowed to and I ran out of money (because I didn’t know that we had to end up spending 250 Baht for our lunch – each – and I didn’t know that we were going to go bowling. So I didn’t bring extra cash.) So, after watching Tent, Pim, and Ice bowling for an hour, we went to Kinokuniya’s and began acting nerdy as we went through the books. Tent had to buy Romeo and Juliet for his English class and the girls were trying to decide which Chicklit they should buy – either the Shopaholics, Can You Keep A Secret (which they all borrowed from the library), Jemima J, I Don’t Know How She Does It, P.S. I Love You, etc, etc, etc, and many more books. I was just walking around the store and by the time we were done browsing the store, it was time to go. It was fun getting to come out with my fellow RISians again. Next time, Jirayuth and Kevin P., make sure you guys can come because it’s been a blast hanging out with these four and I bet it would be even more fun with you two, too! Here are some pics of the day…


Tent skating around.


Ice trying to become a pro at ice skating.


The ice skating arena. I know, it looks oddly yellow but this time, it isn’t my camera’s fault, it was already yellow like that. I guess the light makes it yellow? Because even the rest of us were looking sort of yellow – too yellow, actually.


Some more of the ice skating arena.


Tanya and Ice trying to skate backwards.


Tent. He said that his sweat was turning into ice!


Pim took a hard fall climbing into the skating area through the wall.


A very blurred pic of Ice.


Tanya – Our shooter!


Taking a quick break.


A last bit of the arena before we leave.


Looking eight stories down…


Ice, Tanya, and Pim ordering their dishes.


Lovely veggies for our bodies.


Just the plate, glass, chopsticks, and pot.


Ice, Tanya, and Pim – Full and Happy! (Right?)


Banana Boat… Thank you very much for taking the cherry and cracker, Ice and Pim…


Pim throwing her bowling ball. The poor ball, everytime it goes down, there’s a loud BANG to it.


Ice throwing the ball professionally.


Tent throwing his ball – everytime he’s going to throw it, he bends really low and then throws it.


The bowling alley.


More of the bowling alley.


This looks like in the Thai Horror flick, “Shutter”… No, it’s not a ghost, it was just Ice’s reflection!


The bowling master taking a break.


The three contestants taking a look at their scores.


First place – TENT, Second place – ICE, Third place – PIM.


Tanya as she sits and relaxes while the others play.


Last view of the bowling alley.


Tanya and Ice skimming through Chicklits in Kinokuniya.


Tent taking a look at the kids’ section.


One last pic of them before we leave. We were going to take some more but then the guard came and told us that we can’t take pictures in there…


Getting Christmassy for the Christmas Holidays…


Just on the way out – Exactly everything that Bangkok is here in this pic – Filled with traffic, pollution, noise, and a sense of feeling home.


A last peep of World Trade (or Central World Plaza).


Oh, recently, Chris moved homes and guess what? His new house is now right across the lake from my house! What an odd coincidence is that? Well, hope you don’t mind, Chris, but here’s a pic of your house…


Nice house you’ve got there, dude.


Well, got to go and sleep now – it’s 1:10 AM! See you later…

Currently Listening: Open Your Eyes by Alter Bridge

Currently Watching: House of Flying Daggers starring Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Andy Lau.

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RIS Visit & Bellefire

November 13, 2004

Let’s see… For the past few weeks, a lot of things happened. Some very good, some very bad. Some fun, some tiring. Well, here are the few events that happened throughout that period of time that I didn’t update… Basically, between my last entry and this one, I visited RIS, had Mandy visit Harrow, was in the hospital for about 5 days [since I got dengue fever], and went to a little Bellefire concert at Siam Center Point. Overall, as said earlier, good times and bad times – had fun and was sick… Anyways, here’s the entry… NOTE: THERE ARE ABOUT 61 PICS SO IT MIGHT TAKE A LONG TIME TO LOAD.

I finally visited RIS, my old school, and met all my friends. Man, you guys changed a lot. Luckily, it was a No-Uniform Day so I wasn’t the only person in a black T-shirt and jeans, or else I would feel very odd having everyone staring at me. Again, luckily, it was also the same day as the Cultural Show, which was really great, you’ll hear more about it later. However, unluckily, it was supposed to be the same day as the High School Dance, which I intended to go to. But the dance was cancelled, so I was there at RIS for only a few hours, from my original plan of being there until 8 PM. Arrived there at 12:20, 20 minutes later than my scheduled time with Rose and the others since Dad took the wrong turn and we were sort of lost on this under-constructed-muddy-and-damp road, which was pretty hard to make a U-turn at. So, got there, met all of them, went into English class with Pim, Jenny, Rakshet, etc and had to do a very horrible speech, went to Math class with Pim, went to meet all of my wonderful but strict Middle School teachers, and finally landed at the Cultural Show. Here are some pics (Well, not really SOME… about 30…) Sorry if the quality isn’t that good… Don’t know what’s wrong with them either… Will try to make them better next time.


From left to right: Pim, Amara, Rose, and Tanya.


From left to right: Mandy, Emily, Pang, and Gift.

The Middle School courtyard in a big mess since they are having the attempt to build the long-requested elevator. Still, I don’t think it will be that good since there isn’t a ceiling for the center of the building! What if it rains?

Kathy in Godbout Hall, which is the Gym and the Theatre…

Rose. No other description… Sorry for the bad shot, Rose. But it’s “revenge” for the photo of me you put on your “other” site.

The Chinese Dragon – A sign that the Cultural Show is starting!

Our two MCs, the President and Vice President of High School Student Council, Peech and Amy.

The first act was “Amazing Thailand” by the Thai classes – one word: WOW. Very beautiful, exciting, different, exotic, surprising, and glamorous – Kinda like Thailand itself. It got loads of cheers.

Sorry for the darkness and unclear quality of the picture, since it was really dark and if I dodged it even more, it would be all fuzzy and hazy. Anyways, the Thai performance began showing the different ways of fighting, e.g. sword-fighting, “Muay-Thai”, and some sort of “Giant-like” fighting as in stories such as “Ramakian”. Here is the sword-fighting bit.

Unclear again, but this is a pic of Gary and Hirun fighting – Muay Thai. At one part, one of them actually jumped and used their feet to step on the other’s hand and kicked them. Hmm… Be careful Beijing, we might send them over in 2008!

A little bit of Giant scenes from Thai epics. Great performance and a great ending. “Amazing Thailand”.

This was a little performance by, I think, Bangladesh. Some drum beating and singing and dancing. The big banner says “GLOBAL KATEOW” – isn’t it supposed to be “GUAYTEOW”? Well, it means World-Wide-Noodles. Interseting theme for the Cultural Show.

A little performance from the Japanese club – cool. They mixed modern music along with some sort of Japanese fighting moves. Again, cool.

We move along to the West and hear some French opera from “Carmen” (or something) by Bach (?). This performance was really colourful and was quite interesting to watch the students doing ballroom dancing. Also, the four singers were really good, since they were able to do OPERA.

INDIA! Performed by the Indian club, Indian students, and those who appreciate Indian music and culture. This performance went on for at least 10 to 15 minutes! Still, it was very fun and entertaining. Rumours said that “Dhoom, Dhoom” by Tata Young was going to be used for one bit but they changed their minds since it was “inappropriate”. That’s Jasleen in the middle (you can’t see her face though).

Some more performers from the Indian Act.

Another pic of the performers.

Let’s switch to a little Salsa from Spain. Oy… I’m hungry now… Yo quiero Taco Bell!

Performance from Pakistan. Very nice mix of the guitar and the voice.

A collaboration between the Japanese “Shamizen” and two guitars. Very cool the way they mixed the traditional instrument with a modern piece.

All the performers lined up onstage. One thing that I really liked about RIS: It IS very international and has students from all around the world (actually, I mean mainly Asia).

RF (Ray Fong) taking a quick turn from the camera as we leave Godbout Hall.

Julia, Miss Ninth Grade Rep.

Amy – took us awhile to get her to hear us calling her.

Our backstage man, Maytee! He didn’t even know I was pointing the camera in his face until I pressed the button. Hahaha…

Candy – The Jellyfish.

Outside Godbout Hall (I used to think it was “GODBUTT HALL”, haha…). From left to right: Rose, Candy, and Prim.

Ying – excellent at Math.


Ice (left) and Maytee.


This is the RIST building – NOT a part of RIS, so don’t get confused. It’s considered as a different school for Intensive English students. Built last year, likely with our money, but we never got to use it. The most, we use their gym and the mini-theatre. Sigh…


The other RIST building. Feel bad for Montri Bus students, they have to walk all the way here to the back of the school everyday to get on the bus.

Alright, as for the rest of the day, I had to go home on Montri, thanks Erk for dropping me at my house after that! Anyways, Mandy came and visited Harrow the Tuesday after and she had a fun time walkin! Yup, the school is big and it could get tiring walking from the Sports Hall back to the Secondary School building. Didn’t snap that many pics, but here are some of them…


Mandy trying on the infamous boater. It was a little too big for her.


Climbing the steep steps of the Harrow bridge. Scary, eh?

Mandy acting like a tourist as she takes a pic on the bridge.

There, told you there aren’t that many pics since I was too busy taking her around the whole school. Basically, barely had lunch that day. But it was fun. She would have stayed longer but she decided to leave since she thought it was rude to leave in the middle of class. But it was fun! Some of you might have heard, but some of you didn’t even know, that I was in the hospital for 5 days. Why? ไข้เลือดออก. Dengue Fever. Now, it’s KAI with a “Mai-Toe” not KAI with a “Mai-Ek”. If you thought it was ไข่, like Pop did, oh God, it would have been painful and horrible! But no, it was ไข้. My sister had food poisoning the day before and I was in the day after. But I had the dengue fever too, so things got worse. I had these little red spots all over my right arm. Thankfully, it wasn’t a very dangerous case. Phew. Well, here are two pics…


My poor left hand that was chained to the IV fluid. Looks painful, eh?


My after-meal medication. 6 of them after each meal! That green one there isn’t a candy, it’s Vitamin E.

Well, 7 pills each meal, 6 injections into my arm to get my blood sample (3 of them were done at 5 AM in the morning!), 5 & 1/2 IV fluids, 5 days, 4 nights, 3 proper and complete meals a day, 2 U.S. Presidential Candidates, and 1 dengue fever later, I was out of the hospital. I didn’t get to wash my hair for at least 3 days since the IV fluid was connected to me. On the fourth day, they took it out (Thank God!). Curses! I can’t believe BUSH won the election! Like, how stupid can America get? (No offense guys.) How can they possible elect Bush again after Fahrenheit 9/11, abductions in Iraq, invading Iraq for imaginary Weapons of Mass Destruction, capturing the wrong person (Oh right Mr. Bush, Osama Bin Laden looks exactly like Saddam Hussein!), losing 3 tons (or was it 300 tons?) of something (forgot what it was), and all the other things he did? Jeesh, I was watching the election in the hospital and wasn’t able to believe my own ears and eyes when they said Bush won. Well, let’s just hope Bush doesn’t make another idiotic decision to go and invade a country for imaginary reasons that his imaginary friends in his head told him about. Ok, enough of politics, let’s go into entertainment. Did you guys know that Bellefire came to Bangkok for a mini-concert? Yeah, so on Wednesday, right afterschool, I sped into Lynn’s car and, yup, changed into normal clothes in the car. It wasn’t that bad since there wasn’t any traffic when we were driving on the freeway. Still, it was hard and painful since my head kept on bumping the window or the top of the car. So, we reached Siam Square and went to Center Point. What… Not started yet? Waited in the hot and humid heat for 30 more minutes when Bellefire finally came. They performed six songs in total. They were in this order…

1. You Were Meant For Me
2. Say Something Anyway
3. Damn
4. Can’t Cry Hard Enough
5. What Hurts the Most
6. Spin the Wheel

So here are some (actually, a lot of) pics of the concert in the middle of hot and humid Center Point, Siam…

From left to right: Ciara, Kelly, and Cathy.

Ciara

Kelly

Cathy


Me and Bellefire…
Yup, you guessed it, it’s PHOTOSHOPPED .

The mini-concert was really fun and they all sang really well. They’re not like Britney who lip-syncs or Ashlee Simpson who says that she always sings live but actually got caught lip-syncing on Saturday Night Live (that was a funny incident). Bellefire has really great voices – high, medium, and low – and are very active in their concerts. Perhaps the heat was a little too harsh for them, but at least they had water! Man, I wish I was that water bottle! So, check them out and try and listen to their songs, they’re really nice and can go with whatever mood you’re in. Some of you may not know this but next week, I’ll be going to an MUN conference in Singapore at Singapore American School with my school to represent Harrow International School. Ahh… Can’t wait to go! I’ll be there for 5 days and 4 nights. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I’ll be back on Sunday afternoon and the entry about the trip should come up… a few weeks after that … So, I’ll see you guys later when I’m back from Singapore. If lucky, I might get to go on MSN while I’m there and will leave some comments on how the trip is and stuff. Got to go now, it’s 2 AM right now. See you guys later, bye!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO P’ KYM!

Calender of Upcoming Events

November 17th – 21st – MUN Conference in Singapore
November 18th – Gaf’s Birthday
November 19th – Lynn’s Birthday & Harrow Swimming Gala
November 23rd – Pop’s Birthday
November 27th – Harrow Fair

Currently Playing: Rak Koan Me Jao Kong by I-Nam

Currently Watching: Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock