It's a great start to a fine ending week. Although it was tie day, we were given leeway during the major talk of the day to take it off in our favour. And now, I am treasuring every period in school that is kept away from studying, so I'm quite happy with the post exam schedule as it's all talks. Last year I'd rather have lessons, this year, I prefer them.

The first period today was started off with the confirmation and finalization of Exam Results. But before that, Ms Leng mentioned about our Conduct grade. By default, everyone has a grade of "Very Good", which will be demoted to "Good" should the student be faulted thrice. She added that 2 people in our class had gotten "Excellent", one whom had been given that because he did his job well, and another for honesty. For the former, Ming Xuan thought that it was Kaiser. She elaborated on the one who was honest by saying that it had made a difference of 5 marks in one of his papers and was thus recommended by the teacher for his conduct grade to be promoted, and immediately Ming Xuan and Darrin looked at me because they knew about the loss of 5 marks in my Physics paper which pulled down an already unsatisfactory grade to a borderline pass. Well, now we have a strong feeling that it's me, but we can't be sure until the report book comes back on Friday. Kai Xun felt prejudiced as he had lost 7 marks in his Higher Chinese Paper due to miscalculations as well.

I didn't care about the marks displayed on the sheets of paper. We had 35 minutes for 38 people to sign and confirm their marks, so we lacked time as some busy bodies also enjoyed comparing their results by pondering over the sheets of paper for extended periods of time in such an inconvenient environment. Also, what's done has been done. I'm not going to bother about the current screwed up combined results, I've gotten motivation from her to do better in the future.

After signing on the 6 sheets of papers, we were brought to the TK Low Hall for a talk on commercials. The teacher in charge felt that the 3 classes present were really quiet and encouraged a little bit of noise. Well, the commercial talk was really funny. He started off by telling us that NASA had recently found a moon which was full of cheddar cheese, even the surface was liquid cheddar. I almost believed it. Then he let us imagine scenarios in which more powerful people told us that same thing such as the principal and a news broadcaster. Under which circumstances would we believe that story? The news broadcaster is the most likely one. So that's how commercials started.

We were shown several commercials in local TV which he criticized to be "bullcrap". Then he showed us Thai advertisements which he felt were really creative and true enough, the one about the Cheers Beer advertisement was incredibly epic. He edited out the part where the beer came in and I thought the purpose of the advertisement was encourage people to be happy. He explained afterwards that the happy people portrayed celebration, and where celebration comes in, beer is involved. Thus, the significance of the people's excitement was important in the advertisement. Well, the link is here. Cheers Beer Commercial.

Recess, at 9.20am. I went to the Canteen, saw an empty queue in every single stall and went to buy my usual Chocolate Bun pair. Then I got scolded by DK. He said "Who gave you permission to buy food?" Well, he was in the wrong at the end, and he didn't apologize. But then, I had run back to class and just eaten the food there. 1 hour recess, Kevin was blasting music on his mac.

At 10.20, we made our way to the Shaw Hall where we were told that we could remove our ties for a more comfortable environment. It was a school forum talk where we could suggest improvements for the school. I did not listen to the elaborations of each student much, but I could roughly guess where they were heading. Suggestions such as air-conditioners in classrooms, allowing PE-singlets to be worn even after recess, not a compulsory rule to wear the PE-singlet. I'm surprised no one asked for Mixed School (OK, not really surprised), and I don't want it anyway. One of them even asked why his friend was not elected president of the student council. Although that wasn't a suggestion to improve the school, it was really daring of him to suggest that. It's like asking Obama why McCain isn't the president of the US. And Ming Xuan's friend, asked if it was legal to play poker in school, to which the reply was obvious, after which he pointed randomly (I think) into the crowd and said that they were playing poker. I don't think it was true as the teacher confiscated nothing.

Anyway, for the fun of it, I told Ming Xuan his own handphone number. A couple of seconds later, my handphone number came back. Darrin asked him what his number was and got it recited back to him. Not to be beaten, he asked for his house number, and got in response the correct string of numbers. I was baffled by that, but he then told us that those were the only numbers that he remembered.

So that's that for today. We were stuck in the hall until 12.10pm. Tomorrow... we will be looking at a Film Critique?? And a... what's this, Etiq talk? OK.... sounds fun?