A voice was heard in Ramah.

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A Peck On The Cheek.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

10:20 PM

I must thank CA and councillors present for the wonderful lunch gathering yesterday afternoon at the canteen extension. For being so kind and understanding when the waterworks came on, because of my disappointing grade. Thanks Clare for listening. Thanks Joel for the jelly. Thanks Frippiat and Audrey for the hug (: And Majella asked me a question which I couldn't answer.

Let's be objective. It's not about grades, but rather what they signify. It's ambitious to strive for the impossible, despite Adidas' claim, but hey. I should take it into my stride and work from here. Crucial period ahead, no more brooding over spilt milk. As for you, well, I have decided that it's completely pointless to be annoyed because it's not going to resolve anything. I just want to focus on the one and ultimate goal now, and I hope my emotions will not come in the way. Focus focus epicentre focus.

I went to the home in the morning. And was plesantly surprised that Mary still recognised me when I greeted her. She doesn't know my name, but she knows my face. Then we went for Novena where I bumped into Miss Ratulangi, my former English teacher (: From there, Jason Joshua and I headed for Jason's place. Lunched there, and watched mind numbing Spongebob before I headed for tuition. I feel quite sheepish for not attending UPTLC Night today, even with Radha's text :/

I'm watching a Tamil movie now called Kannathil Muthamittaal, translated to A Peck on the Cheek. Shot in war-torn Sri Lanka and contemporary India, on how this family breaks the news to their daughter on her ninth birthday that she was adopted from a freedom fighter in Sri Lanka. It focuses on the emotions and thoughts running through the girl, Amutha, and how she wants to find her biological mother - amidst Mani Rathnam's usual flashback pasts and gripping narratives.

I was just thinking - notice the word "lips"? When uttered, your lips come into contact with each other, as if in parallel to the physical process of kissing someone. And the word "part"- first the lips come together before they part as well. Since parting arises from a former meeting. And "crazy" -the eccentricity of the "z" consonance. Is that why Ah Bengs and Ah Lians often punctuate their lingo wih the alphabet- to show they too, deviate from conventions of society and are in nature crazy in some way or another?
So random.

Oh and thanks to Toon too for the remembering to bring pomelo twice this week.