My apologies for not updating for so long, but life has been extremely tiring and stressful for me ever since school reopened.

Firstly can I just say that the entire june holidays were taken up by the taiwan trip, although we were only there for two weeks? Before that, we had to prepare, and after we came back, we had to take time to settle down again and all. One trip, and we have so much work to do before and after that.

And before we even had time to rest school starts again. Wow, I can't believe it but it's been two weeks since school reopened and I haven't been home before 8pm yet. These two weeks have been so tiring and time really flew. These are times when I wished there were more than 24 hours a day so we can have more time to sleep! First week was spent on SYF opening ceremony and right after that, we have the taiwan buddies to take care of.

For these two weeks my mood was totally cranky and everything just pissed me off. Let's just say that I get cranky once I'm tired and stressed. It's kind of like my nature? Or maybe everyone's. The school totally sucks. We have so much homework and shit to go through everyday. Wow and three tests next week when we have taiwan buddies to take care of? And when they're leaving only on Sunday? Do they know how tiring it is for us to return home as late as 10+ pm just so that we can take the buddies around? And wow, we can't rest the moment we go home, because we still have bloody homework to do. I dun think alot of us were very keen on bringing our buddies around because we are so bloody tired out ourselves. Wow and when we tell the teachers about all these they just dun care. Or rather they pretend to understand but they tell us they cannot do anything about it and then add on that teachers are just as busy as us. Oh wow really. Pardon me if I'm wrong but that's your job and you chose to be a teacher and you earn out of it. That's just your responsibility isn't it? Which reminds me, isn't it a trend among teachers and students to like battle against each other? I know it's quite weird to say it like this, but if you think about it carefully, it is true isn't it? Like the teachers will give us homework and all that, and when we students finally had enough of all that crap we just refuse to hand in or at least some of the more rebellious and vocal ones will not give a damn. And the teachers are then angry that we are rebellious and then they reprimand us and give us even more homework and the whole cycle repeats again. I mean students nowadays are hard to teach. That I admit. But sometimes I guess we really have the rights to say what we feel. Especially when school is bloody taking away our life.

Alright I shall move on to the taiwan buddies part. I guess this batch of students who came are not well mannered at all. So we were quite turned off by them? Why bother going through so much and sacrificing our sleep for people who don't even say thank you or offer to pay for themselves. Luckily for me my buddy is not like that. But after hearing some of the stories of other people's buddies, I must say that if I were them I'd have been super relieved that my buddy is gone today. They think we owe them all these? Having to pay and all that. At least be appreciative and show manners, even if they do not want to do that to us, but at least our parents? I'm quite disgusted by the attitudes of some of them. We may have not been enthu and all that on the taiwan trip, but hey at least we were well mannered, that I'm sure. And I guess I agree with jazz that it not only depends on us, the hosts, but definitely also on the buddies to make such an exchange programme successful. Who the heck would want to keep talking to someone who doesn't even bother replying/looking at you. And when they just expect you to pay for them and dun even say thank you. Come on we dun owe them anything. If singapore turns u off so much just stay at home okay.

Okay this entry was just for me to rant a little. I finaly have time to sit down and type all these out. Well I guess it's going to be very noob for not going to OBS. Definitely going to miss out on alot of fun. But still, thinking on the bright side, at least I can stay home and rest. I feel quite bad for not spending time with my family like I did last time. I don't want them to have the feeling that I only return home just to sleep at night. I don't even have much time to talk to them anymore, to have a hearty chat and like share my experiences in school with them.

Alright I have to catch up on my homework now. So many things due tmr. I'm so dead man.