Monday, August 08, 2005
Not quite a great start to school

Maybe its my rusty brain, or my frozen engine, with a broken accelerator and my foot jammed hard on the brakes. My body is not ready for school. Neither is my mind. I got up on the wrong side of the clock, thinking that lectures start at 9am, when it was printed clearly on my timetable that lecture was at 8am.

Lucky I had my Science friends sms me in the morning to confirm the time. Plus, I had the venue printed wrongly on my timetable as well. I know! How screwed up is that?!

But I wasn't late, since I live like 20mins away from NUS.

Luckily.

Lectures were B-O-R-I-N-G, or maybe my system isn't up and running just as yet. Instead of listening to the lecturer, I was busy taking notice of the behavior of the people around me. I always do that in a new environment. To see how things function and stuff. This mostly happened in the Calculus Lecture, which, the lecturer had an accent which was a cross between chinese and japanese. He was hard to understand.

So anyways. It was highly amusing to take notice of the way people around me behave.

1) the cool latecomer
This is the kind of guy/girl who comes in fashionably late, walks across the FRONT of the LT, says "hey!" to the lecturer and take his/her seat.

2) the eater
The kind who comes into lecture as if its a mini picnic. Usually fully equipped with coffee and snacks enough to open a second co-op

3) the chatter
Comes into lecture and starts chatting with everyone. Loudly.

4) the friend attention grabber (me)
Waves like mad to a friend on the other side of the LT to grab her attention.

5) the attentives
Usually PRC scholars or just scholars (( no offence la okay )), seated comfortably in the first 3 rows of the LT. Eyes on screen 100% of the time.

6) the wannabe attentives (me)
Eyes on screen for the first 45mins, after that, eyes begin to close or wander around to look at other people. Then eyes look down all the time, busy messaging other people.

7) the furious copier
Eyes on screen 100% of the time, hand copying away vigorously.

8) the wannabe furious copier
Hand moving, but upon closer inspection, he/she's either doodling, writing song lyrics or planning what to wear for the rest of the week.

9) the kiasu laptop boy/girl
Seated, listening to lecture, with an opened laptop; wallpaper of a scene outside his flat or something. Duly connected to IVLE or CORS ready to bid for tutorials or download lecture notes simultaneously as the lecturer is talking.

10) the wannabe kiasu laptop boy/girl
Seated with an opened laptop. But chatting to someone else on MSN.

11) the construction worker
Always sleeping. Poor thing, late night at the construction site huh.

12) the cute-people watcher
Eyes wandering around to catch a glimpse of cute looking members of the opposite gender.

13) the fidgetor (me)
Always fidgeting, scratching, moving butt every minute or so. Very restless.

14) the nerdyy-nerdyyy.
Goes for lectures with 20 people max. Studies about boring stuff like satellites and boasts to friends about how cool satellites are and that they can name every single satellite and its creator.(thats why the lecture has only 20 people.)

Which one are you?