Eighth day of Term 3, getting used to school again. I arrived at school just in time today, thanks to a traffic jam. And Mr Kwok said that in my batch, 4 out of 5 people who were late even once were found to be in the bottom half of the class academically. I got into class half a minute before the first bell, so it wouldn't be considered late.

Today's Chemistry lesson was quite stupid. Class started with a calling out of groups who had not handed in their homework. I was safe in that list. After she was done with questioning those groups for reasons, she turned to those who had handed up but which she found unacceptable. I was found in that list. Apparently, Ms Yeo had been unable to open the google document page with our work on it due to a "security threat", to which she asked if we were linked to any terrorist websites. It was insanely ridiculous. I just checked and it's working fine for me, so it's not my fault. Other cases included one who copied and pasted wholesale into an email, and another who tried to present with Keynote, which she didn't have, so she couldn't open the file. We were asked to see her after school, which Jia Hui kindly asked to come along with me.

Geography was as usual, full of laughter and learning. The last 15 minutes was spent on a video completely unrelated to rivers. It was about caves which were so dark that any lights seen were merely worms glowing due to a chemical reaction in the back portion of their bodies. These worms hung onto the ceiling and let down a long thread of mucus. Flies in the cave would get caught onto mucus and be stuck there to be the food of the worm. Another cave was shown with 3 million bats in it, and the ground in this cave was all bat droppings, a full 100 metre tall mound of it. This served as food for cockroaches, which were seen everywhere among the bat droppings, and they were the meals of centipedes. The producers of the video had to spend one month in this mountain of bat droppings and cockroaches crawling every inch of the cave, and all they wanted to catch on tape was a smooth recording of the full mound of droppings from bottom to top, which failed repeatedly due to equipment failure and several other factors.

The rest of the day passed in peace, nothing too eventful, unless you count a flooding toilet about 10 metres away from my class which we did not get to see and caused quite a commotion. Biology was where the fun started, again. Mr Teo told us that the pig's heart would smell, but no, there was nothing at all. It was soft and slippery. So we Keng Wee cut through the left ventricle to see the Papillary Muscles and the Tendons, then opened the left atrium for the Bicuspid Valve, followed by the right atrium. The moderator band which Mr Teo expected most of us to break, could not be found in our heart. Faulty Pig's heart much? Nicholas's heart was half black, so we joked that the pig had smoked during it's life time. He went to fill a couple of veins with water and blood came out along with it. After the lesson was over, some cruel people decided to ruin the pig's heart completely by tearing it apart with their knife. Maybe they'll learn how to respect other's hearts when their own get played with such brutality in the future.