Of Badminton and CCAs and eccentric characters and St Nicks frens

After watching the NZ badminton finals last week, i had this great urge to play badminton. Not that i'm an enthusiast, but our some of our boys were pretty fascinating to watch... they could move faster than light, and seemed to have elastic arms that could swing backwards to the other side... u gotta see it to know what i mean. Anyway, i was inspired... and today, i finally played!

ok... i didn't manage ANY of those "stunts". in fact, i didn't even manage to win. 15-8, 15-3, and no energy left for the third set. Plus, i even tore off a piece of my skin due to the friction.

Yeah. Xiao-jie skin la. cannot wring dry clothes, cannot play guitar, and now, cannot play badminton for an hour. Dunno what's with me these days... i used to think i was quite tough during my hockey/ ODAC/ diving days.

Speaking of CCAs, sometimes during choir i think back abt my choir days and i really wanna laugh. Dunno why Ms Monica toh tolerated JL & me for so long... our JB-toilet trips, our hysterical laughter during practices, and uncontrollable giggling and "vibrating" during performances and competitions. Ha, sometimes when i look at the Chorale, i know deep down that actually they already are more serious about Chorale than i was back then.

But then, how not to laugh?? Ms toh really was a character... how not to laugh when we have to watch her face all the time? Her hyper-expressiveness, strange scoldings, forcing us to vomit to clear our voices and hitting us if we admitted we didn't, waking all of us up on the plane and asking each one "you-mei-you-da-bian?" (got shit anot?) How not to laugh??? But then again, everyone else managed to act as if her actions were normal...

hee.. like one of the songs our boys are singing... "suddenly the voices sing...everyone was a bird...." something like that. i was like "What???? everyone was a bird???" but none of the boys reacted at all!!! ok. perhaps it's just me.

anyway, Ms Toh was a real memorable teacher. After so many years, it isn't the normal-nice-predictable teachers i remember, but cranky ol Ms Toh, and even all her strange habits and phrases.

And of coz, all St Nicks gals of my era will remember our eccentric xiao-zhang Mrs Hwang-Lee Poh See. She's legendary. Unpredictable, long-winded, charismatic, plays strange games with us, super affectionate, makes strange announcements over the PA system "tong xue men, mu ji shen dan le!"... i miss her!! she's one-of-a-kind. Ok, Mr Simen is a close competitor.

oh.. and meeting up with the gals on sunday was great. rebecca's back, n had a great time w JL, elaine, Sarah, HP n jean. hiak hiak... intoxicated Sarah accidentally. oops. muz remember to make a separate drink for her next time.

and talking abt drinks. the rashes happened again. ha... i keep testing and testing, and the results consistently show that i have developed an allergy, yet i keep denying it. Aiyah... dun care. this weekend test again. =P