am pissed because i was on the phone with pin and no! mom says i have to receive a fax using the pc (too poor to own a dedicated fax machine unlike mdmKhoo who seems to have everything). that was at 1500hrs. it is now 1545 till now, no fax! whoever that b@st@rd is, YOU WATCH OUT!!!

anyhoo, enjoy the following entry:

KDU Wars

Never has the A-Level Course in KDU been more fun! Here are but a few wars that are known to me. Most of them are plain misunderstandings, but wars they are!

War 1: me vs. Lyn

War 2: PiN vs. xiNch

War 3: PiN vs. mdmKhoo

War 3: defending the indefensible
I am absolutely angry. Yes, I buttered up mdmKhoo after PiN² gracefully glided out of class. But that was only a prelude to my making her not pissed with PiN². No use battering a brick wall; better to batter a butter wall, the way I see it. I don't see why I should be singled out. After all, no-one else was trying to defuse the situation and mdmKhoo was on the verge of bursting into either tears or a tirade of trash. What was the rest of the class doing? Being silent. Except for the occasional answer when mdmKhoo asked them about PiN²'s behaviour in CGL (all the better for her to understand PiN²... I roll my eyes).

Anyway, all my plans came to naught when Nisha and friends returned. mdmKhoo immediately switched off her direct attacks on PiN². What else was there left for me to do? Make her restart her painful platitudes? Whatever for, to further smudge PiN²'s name in front of the 10-monthers? So I just kept silent, too. Until class ended and I could get out and vent my anger at nothing.

For I don't see why PiN² should be made to sit out of class if she disagrees with the lecturer. Maybe PiN² prefers it that way, but it is terrible that we are not allowed our personal opinions about class. Isn't that what GP is all about? Seeing things from every possible perspective? Every disagreement about homework/classwork leads mdmKhoo to this stament: "If you don't like my class you are free to leave...". I am not sure why PiN² took up GP, whether she likes it &etc., so I can't comment on this aspect any further. (feedback from PiN² at this point would be most helpful)

Well, mdmKhoo's exercise on how to write conclusions was the spark that combusted that tinderbox of theirs, and looking back at it, it was about memorising the various ways of writing a conclusion that got both of them worked up. That in itself isn't helpful, but the different ways of concluding was indeed most instructive. We definitely do not need to follow exactly the model conclusions.

Anyway, PiN², if you're reading this, I am afraid that defending the indefensible (you, because of the way you handled it; a deeper cut it would have been if you had been prim, proper & polite when attacking mdmKhoo's ideals, not to mention how much more defensible) wasn't a very good thing to do at that point without first getting her anger level down. She would most probably have taken it out on the class in a sob-story which I had no intention of listening to (I heard she pulled one on you fellas during some of the classes I skipped).

I myself have no idea what I'm doing when I write. It all falls in place so naturally that whenever I push/force myself to write, I end up with a crappy composition. That is my problem: the inability to tap into my creativity under pressure (and under the influences of stylists who insist you write in a certain way).

The only reason I attend GP? To write. It's the only subject in the A-Levels that allows me to write (that was before I started blogging). And no mdmKhoo, I am not there to improve on my style or anything as you insinuated to PiN² (when you said, "isn't this why you are here?" to her). And now, I am losing more reason to go for GP, for what is GP without PiN²? GERAMNYA KU!