Monday, July 31, 2006
♥ To hell with Green Club

Hi people. Today's Monday, my favourite day of the week. I always loved Mondays, although it means it's the start of the school week and I've to start waking up early and going to school. But it's something to look forward to nevertheless. And it keeps me going, like a drive to move on and get on with life. Something like that.

So, today started off pretty well. I understood Physics, could do the Physics worksheet, and got an A2 for EMaths Paper 2. (I'm trying very hard to not remember I got F9 for the bloody AMaths paper...) And yada yada. English lesson was nicer than usual because Honey Heng hardly talked. Or maybe she did but I just wasn't listening. I was busy drawing in Priscilla's handbook and wowing over a jotterbook.

Yea. A JOTTERBOOK.

You remember those blank yellowish pages and a brown cover book you had in Primary schools? I used to have them in primary one and two. Man, I so miss jotter books. I used to have spellings in them. Ah. I always feel great when I come across things that bring up the very past past. Nah, I'm just feeling nostalgic. So, I was saying, I saw jotterbooks and I got Priscilla to buy jotterbooks for me for Christmas.

I know Christmas is still far away. It doesn't matter. It's the wait that makes receiving what you always wanted happier. At least that's what I believe in.

Anyway, back to the day.

Today continued and it was still a pretty good day. The weather's nice, breezy and all. I like it to be cold. We get to off the fans you know, which is a good thing, because we're saving the electricity and cutting the usage of our school, which in turn reduces the amount of electricity the country uses, which in turn reduces the amount of fuel burnt to generate the electricity.

There, I am so green I should join the Green Club.

SHIT.

I shouldn't have made fun of Green Club. That's a really awful sin. But it's too late for regrets already. The Green Club knows it, and they'll do all they can to get back at me.

Well, not they actually. I meant HE.

Yes, you know who. When I say Green Club you say _____. Yes, him. Thanks to him, my Monday didn't turn up to be a fantastic Monday in the end.

Even though I could do the Physics worksheet, even though I saw a jotterbook, even though Mdm Has didn't come today and we had a free period for SS. Yes, HE SPOILT MY DAY.

By. Planting. That. That. That. Forest.

WHO NEEDS A FOREST IN SCHOOL?!

In fact, I think I'm SO green I don't need anymore greens. I love eating veges (okay actually I don't) and I eat at least three cups of vege a day. Fine, actually I eat less than a cup, but that's alot already. And I'm definitely a green person because I cross the road only when the green man comes up.

Okay fine, actually I don't. I jaywalk 9 out of 10 times.

But at least I wait for the green man to come up during that 1 time I bother to cross at a traffic light. That's like, 100% of the times I cross at a traffic light okay. Which goes to show I'm a very green person.

Alright, those things have nothing to do with the environment and saving the goddamned important Earth. Fine, then let me list you more evidence on how green a person I am.

I use only 982164 plastic bags a week, which is very little compared to my family who uses 982165 plastic bags a week per person. That's a major feat okay. And I'm kind enough to dispose those plastic bags properly. I usually throw them out the window where I sit back and enjoy my little demonstration of how parachutes land. There, I really recycle plastic bags okay.

Other than that, I never ever pluck flowers from the streets. Because there never are any nice flowers for me to pluck. I pluck leaves though, because I love the green. And I'll shred the leaves into tiny beats and laugh at myself for wasting yet another 3 minutes of my short life. That's uber green on my part because I'm making space for the young plant to grow more leaves. The leaves can get pretty overcrowded sometimes, and I'm just doing my part in making the plant grow into a better one.

Also, I never fail to always throw pieces of paper into the big recycling bins all round Singapore. In fact, I've grown so fond of throwing papers into that red bin that I've started printing papers by mistake on purpose so that I can throw those papers into the bin. Isn't that just so considerate on my part. I'm just so afraid that Mother Earth doesn't get enough paper to recycle. There's a period of time I went SO crazy over recycling that I started throwing in unused A4 and construction paper in. I'm just so passionate about SAVING THE EARTH.

See, all these show that I'm capable of doing green stuff and loving the Earth and I don't need some great man that comes around asking us to participate actively in green activities PLANTING A FOREST IN THE SCHOOL GROUND.

Actually, I had no hard feelings for this guy in the past. He can be rather interesting you know. With his cape and he went standing on tables at the quadrangle presenting the Fabric of Anderson which looks like something I threw into the recycling bin. And I wouldn't have minded his over enthusiasm about that few Coke cans we wash and send for recycling. Not until he planted the forest, AND caused our school grounds to become a WORM INFESTED HELL.

Taa. What else did you think can spoil my Monday?

Take ONE round, just ONE round round Level one of the school compound and count how many worms you pass by, including those on the pillars, walls, ceilings, staircases, drains, railings, windowsills, EVERYWHERE. You name it, they've been on it. It's PLAGUED with worms, worms, worms, worms, more worms, more more worms, even more worms, many many worms, extra lots of worms, super duper more worms, extra dosage of worms, worms, worms worms AND MORE WORMS. They're EVERYWHERE.

I took the stairs and went looking for Fiona in 3/5 after school today.

It was the most horrifying journey of my whole life. Man, I could have died.

Fiona says, a trip from her class to the toilet and back had a worm count of 21. Mighty 21. There are at least 6 or 7 on the wall outside 3/6, and 3/6 is SO plagued with worms from tomorrow onwards I'm going to salute Yi Teng's courage for having survived in 3/6 for that long a time.

During lessons time, Fiona recalled having some goon by the name of Brendan who took the Racial Harmony card holder and caught a worm and brought it to class to scare her. I'm so glad I aren't in 3/5. Brendan should be glad that I'm not in 3/5 too. I'd have forced him swallow that worm down his throat.

That's not the end of the horror stories, not yet.

Another friend of Fiona, Dinah rears not one, but TWO such worms in the box under her desk. They elope one day, fortunately, but another two came and live in it. I almost jumped onto the table and scream and have half my head gone because of the fan until she assured me there're no more worms in that box of horror anymore.

If that's not bad enough, one day, Halim was conscientiously doing his work when suddenly there's one of those creatures on his arm.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I was really upset by all the worms around. If what they say about the school being your second home is true, I'll run away from home and never ever return.

It was then The Green Man appeared, obviously surveying his ever so important piece of green land he's in charge of. And I went out to have a talk with him. In a not so polite way. Basically I just told him there're far too much worms around and if he doesn't do anything about it, I'll cry.

And he told me "Uh, the counscillors will try to do something about it."

... Right. Eat the worms?

I don't quite blame him for not being able to come up with a good response. I must have seem like a crazy woman shouting and screaming at him about petty little worms. And he seemed quite shocked when I called out to him and said I wanted to speak to him. All those talk about "If you've any problems in your school life, you can always approach me and we'll sort the problems out" before the presidential election was fake alright. This is obviously the first time any Sec 4 had bothered to talk to him. But it's not without reasons.

I think I'm seriously traumatised. If this goes on, I may not even find the courage to go to school. Or I'll start crying everyday, because I'm stucked on 4th floor everyday. And I wouldn't dare go home, or for that matter, come to school at all.

I'm serious. My phobia of worms is so great I myself can't comprehend it. It doesn't make sense to be afraid of that small thing that won't do a thing to harm you. I know I know I know. But it's not something I have control over. You just have to bring a worm 30cm away from me and I can really cry and die in front of you.

I hate being so controlled over something like this. I'm afraid to even walk the corridors outside the general office now. It's that scary, to me. And I hate it because I can't do anything to make me less scared and not be afraid of the worms.

So, before Yenqi does something about the situation, I'm going to bother him each and every single time I see him. HE MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE WORMS. I don't care what he does. Eat them, drown them, mass destroy them, I don't care. He's just got to do something about them.

Worse come to worse, I'll just come home crying like someone killed Jay and get my whole family to march to the school and complain to the principal how Yenqi's little forest project has resulted in me being psychologically wounded. Yes, I'm seriously contemplating that.

To hell with Green Club. I'm not going green from today onwards. Your green has made me red.