Well.

I've had an interesting day.

At 8.30 am dad and I left the house to go to school (drama practice), on motorcycle. We were going under the bridge, and its always hard to maneuver in there cuz you have to keep your head down, and the path is only a meter wide or less. Off the path just means sand and dirt and stone, but you still don't wanna bump down there. I mean, this isn't an overhead bridge. More like where the road was built over a canal, and motorcycles go under the road, next to the canal, to cut to the other side of the highway. We've gone under that bridge many times, and we've always been fine.

Today, however, there was a lot of water down there because of the rain we've been having. Even parts of the path were submerged. Anyway, I was keeping my head down as usual, so I couldn't really tell what was going on. There are bumpy sections where it feels like we're gonna fall, but we never do. But today when we were nearly at the end, I just remember feeling like dad was struggling with the bike for a split second, and then suddenly we were both off the bike, lying in about 4 inches of water. Yup. As of today, I can say that I've been in a "motorcycle accident". :P

Apparently, the light reflecting off the water had made it tough to see where the path was or wasn't. The bike's front wheel had gone off the path and hit into a chunk of cement somwhere down in the murk. At least we only fell of from nearly zero speed. Dad scratched up his elbow pretty bad, and tore some muscles in his shoulder. Me, I was completely unhurt. Well, I did get a small nick on my elbow and wrist, but there wasn't any blood at all. Just a few skin cells fell off. X) Nor did my leg get pinned or crushed by the bike, like I'd expected it to. Not even a bruise, goodness. Maybe just cuz the pillion usually sustains less damage than the rider. Maybe because I was lucky. Maybe because I'd been praying just a minute before that. Whatever it was, I sure thank and praise God for keeping me so incredibly safe.

Two other motorcyclists who were passing helped us get the bike up, and out to where we wouldn't be blocking that narrow way. I called mom to pick us up, cuz dad couldn't ride. Called Joanna and asked her to tell Mr Philip I'd be late for practice. I only had to go home and change because I'd gotten pretty wet (and so did the stuff in my bag... had to lay that all out to dry as well, lol), but dad had to go to the hospital. We thought maybe he'd fractured something, but thankfully not.

On the way to the hospital, mom dropped me off at the Nation Tower, and I took the overhead bridge and went in to school. I was feeling pretty okay, no probz. Felt like I was ready to jump straight into drama prac, since I was nearly an hour late already. But when I saw my friends and Mr Philip, and they were all concerned and stuff, I nearly cried. I guess that's when I realized how stunned and scared I'd been. Not for myself; I was totally okay, physically. Just that I didn't like seeing dad hurt and in pain.

Ah, and now I understand why, in one scene from our play when Jo is feeling sad, Laurie invites her to "run down this hill with me". Cuz I was having trouble settling down to act. Like, I couldn't talk without my voice shaking. But then Mr Philip asked us all to go take a run around the soccer field, and it felt like a miracle. Within the next few minutes, I was back to being me, and laughing and fooling around and being crazy with my drama people.

We went through our scenes. I think I'm doing pretty well in terms of memorizing; I didn't have to ask for my lines much. It was amazing how great drama made me feel again after the unfortunate, un-routine event that had taken place earlier. Love you guys. =)

The rest of the day, in light of this morning, seem pretty normal and not worth reporting, so I shall end off here. Once again I praise God for His protection. Phew. =}

Sorry I haven't updated for a couple of days. There's been a serious amount of work, plus I've been kinda ill. I've been holding out quite well, actually, in terms of not getting sick. For the past few weeks a lot of my friends were down, but I managed to keep un-sick. Guess it finally caught up with me, during this hectic week. Still not as bad as it could be tho, thanks to prayer, rest, sleep, lotsa water, and drama. Yes, drama class, I do believe. How so? Because it keeps me happy, even when my head feels all stuffed up. =3

You know how it feels when you wanna sneeze, you're gonna sneeze, you're aboouuuuuut to sneeze... and then it goes back in? Well today, I've had that happen at least 20 times. It's TORTURE, I tell you. Not just "no shiok" okayyyyy. It's an almighty, I-could-kill-myself-right-now-if-this-sneeze-doesn't-come-out feeling. Terrible terrible terrible.

Anyway, I don't think I'll be getting much less busy over the next few days or next week. I haven't even been on msn for a couple of days. So I may not blog often, but I'll try to. (Keep checking tho, in case I do. =))

I'd better get to sleep now. Tomorrow, from 9-12am is our first drama "run", meaning we go through all the scenes we've practiced thus far, but without scripts. Kinda feels like a test. :P But I'm quite excited for it, because since we're forced to not have our scripts, it's gonna free up our actions and stuff, and therefore hopefully give more life to the characters and play. Oh, this week we were trying on some costumes and stuff... I'll see if I can get pictures of that in the future. Costumes are fun, fun, very fun. Esp when we all look at each other and laugh, fluffing those huge skirts around, and try to be all lady-like. ^^^^

Ta~!

Let's start the post with a smiley face!

:)

Cuz there're awesome weather- cool (cold, actually) and windy because it just rained- and I've had a real good day.

So far, the last few weeks since school started, Monday's have always kinda been my longest days. Aside from the fact that they're Mondays, I mean. Just something to do with the way my Monday's classes are arranged or smth, perhaps. But today, it felt faster than a normal day. And as the saying goes, time flies when you're having fun.

First and second period weren't too heavy, but they didn't drag either. So very quickly, I was on to break, and then drama after that. 4th period was Mandarin, and even that was a little faster than usual. Plus now I'm getting to know Minjee more cuz I sit next to her. =)

Then lunch! Mr Philip and Mr Jim got our student council to tell us our prayer requests, and they prayed for us. Then down in the cafeteria, I had a good long conversation with Nat about his Buddhism, and Christianity. He really is such a nice guy. Gonna keep praying for him. I'm so glad that he's open to conversation and discussion.

Fifth period was Jchl2, and as usual, Mr Robert had funny stories to crack us up with.

After school we had drama practice again. This is what had happened before, tho: The original schedule says that Mon after-sch prac was for a scene involving a lot of people (2.6), and Wed in-sch prac was just a scene (3.8) with me and one other actor. We swapped those two, for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, that guy in 3.8 wasn't around when we made the announcement for the swap. So today he suddenly told us he had sports practice. Since it would've been pretty weird (and an inefficient use of time) to let me practice a scene alone (lollll :P), we decided to practice 3.1 instead [the REJECTION SCENE, dun dun dun dunnnnn]. That meant making Caleb stay back for practice after he'd been told he didn't need to stay back today, but oh well.

With just the two of us, practice went so well and Mr Philip was so happy with it that our 1-hr practice (Monday's are 1 hr, Tues and Thurs are 2 and a half) ended in half an hour! :D Not to say I'm happy about cutting practice short, but I'm just real happy that our teacher/director thought we did that well. Much encouraged. =)

Then I was about to go home with dad, but when I walked to the elementary building to get Jana, I saw Ruthanne, Joanna, Becky, and Caleb all playing bball, and I had to join in. ^^^^^^^^^ It felt like what the drama should be, with Laurie laughing and horsing around with the March family. ^^^^^^^

I'm in terrible shape though. I played for 8 minutes (that's just one quarter of a game), and then I was glad that it was time to go home. XD Better buck up on my fitness before bball season comes around. Even my dear skinny little Sarah Seah can run 10 km! (And I'm very proud of you. A li'l jealous, and put to shame as well, but yeah. Hehehhe. :))

Came home, did homework, yadda yadda, so on and so forth, and am now going to sleep and enjoy this beautiful, amazing weather. :D Ciao~

Didn't go to church today, but I heard this from dad, who did go-->

Aunty Janice went up there as the mc, making BCF history as the first woman to mc. And her opening line is: "In case you're all wondering why I'm up here mc-ing, it's because last week I signed up to be an usher, but I signed the wrong slot."

HAHAHA. XD

And then later on, "As the worship team comes up, I'd like to read a passage from scripture... *opens Bible*... Oh shoot, I forgot my glasses."

Lol!!!! XD

So yeah, stayed at home the whole day. Partly cuz of this cold that's been coming on, and I need to rest it away before it gets worse, because I can't afford to be sick this next week. Partly cuz I had things to do, and partly cuz after church dad had a church leaders' meeting that lasted for a long time. Did homework (AP WORLD HISTORY TAKES FOREVERRR TO DOO >.O), finally got to work on Aunty Gwen's sheep pen logo thingamajig, watched part of the Emperor's March (that penguin thing).... I love emperor penguins! I mean, I've always thought penguins were hilarious, but MAAn, you gotta watch that documentary. They're funnier than I ever imagined! :D

This morning Jana was wallowing in bed. She's so tiny. Srsly one little ball when she curls up.



Not much to say today. Oh, apart from that it REALLY IS GOOD to make Sunday a day of rest. =) Not chionging to finish homework and stuff. Cram on Saturday, chillax on Sunday. Okies, time to sleep, buhbye~ ^^