Heyz again. Posted earlier this time as apparently something interesting happened today so I might as well post about it. Today, I had to return to my Class Manager (someone who manages the class affairs) duties even after leaving Secondary 4, which should officially mean that I am no longer a Class Manager in the first place. Duty calls, nothing I can do about it. Actually it started late last night at about 11.35pm. Choon Wei and I were having a race trying to get up to the top of Patience Woods again (MapleStory stuff for those who find this alien). Hehe I managed to get up there twice but sadly Choon Wei gave up the attempt. It was getting late anyway. Nevermind Choon Wei, try harder! Practice! Haha anyway, there I was minding my own business concentrating on avoiding floating puff balls that knock you off the small platforms if you get hit by them when I got a call of Kim Fang. Well, I now learnt that if anyone calls you somewhere near midnight it isn't going to be good news. He told me that Jue Chen wanted to talk to me about the class magazine page I handed it a few months ago. Guess what? It was REJECTED. Yes, you heard right, rejected.

Imagine what would be the first thing that would come to your mind when someone told you that the class magazine page that you have contemplated for the school magazine was not accepted and you had to do a better one. Well, if this information reached me during the morning or afternoon I could still take it calmly. However, it was already 15 minutes to midnight and I was already planning to call it a night. I must admit my anger got the better of me, something that you do not usually see. Being me, I like to suppress my feelings and I try not reveal my true emotions. Usually its me formulating a plan for the next course of action.

Jue Chen told me that the publishers said that the picture quality were not good. I cannot argue with them there as it was true. The right border was a bit messed up during the printing. My friend printed it a second time but it was still in the same state so I decided to hand it in anyway as the deadline for submission was close. Next comment on the magazine page. It was slip-shot work. First thought that ran through my mind was... Excuse me. I put in a lot of effort in finishing up that page. My friends too put in effort in getting their seperate tasks done so that the page can be completed... But if you want it in the most original form... WHAT! Third comment on it was that it was boring. Ok. That is quite true if you were to compare it with others. Ours had too much words and it simply didn't look as nice as theirs. This was not my initial thoughts though. Never you mind what I thought about it... hehe...

After having like 15 minutes to debate this in my head, I am torn in two extremes. On one hand, I am pissed off that the magazine page was rejected and that everything I hear about it was negative comments. On the other hand, I am very thankful and grateful that the publishers bothered to inform the teacher-in-charge about the problem instead of just continuing with the printing anyway that may result in me hiding from my classmates. Its obvious now that the second mindset was the right one to follow but at that point in time, both sounded logical to me (never listen to your anger... it never brings about any results... learnt that lesson).

So we did a new class magazine page. Actually it was 2 pages. One had a shortened poem on it while the other had a mass of class photos. I really hope that these pages are good enough for the publishers and they will turn out alright in the magazine. Or else... (do no think about that now) Well the new pages we produced were the best ones we could come out with considering the short notice and only having a few people to work with on it. I sincerely hope that it will be OK as we really put in a lot of effort into it (If discussing about the new pages at around midnight and producing it eleven hours later is not effort... I don't know what to say) All I can hope for now is that the magazine pages will be accepted by the publishers.

On a brighter note, the posting results for the Provisional Admission Excercise (PAE) into JCs for the first 3 months is finally out. As a matter of fact, it was a;ready available before the mentioned time. I went to the website and entered my particulars before clicking the button. YES! Posted into the JC I wanted to be in. Let's see, my feelings at that moment? There is a quote in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone that could summarise that. "Malfoy got detention! I could sing!". Hermione said that in case you were wondering. Anyway, the next good news was that Choon Wei made it too and so did several of my other friends. For those who weren't posted in the same JC as me, it was really nice knowing you in secondary school and I hope to see you around someday. For the others, see you next year then!

Some of you might have seen in my tagboard that there was a TJC band concert today. Too bad I couldn't go for it. Its just that it was too late. I have my curfews too. It would have been nice to go there though. Hear some "live" music for a change, not that I listen to music frequently in the first place. Really sorry I can't go for the concert Aiysha.

As a side note, I also noticed quite a number of my friends going overseas (well duh it is the holidays) . Haha... You can say I envy them slightly but I have MapleStory and Pokemon Emerald to keep me company (speaking of MapleStory I haven't played today >_<). There's always tomorrow, although "tomorrow" is coming to a close soon. Well, you can't have too much of a good thing. Azri signing off!

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