21:22:59 - 2001-01-27
school#1----graduation day
(A) Graduation day:
___Friday,chosen to end the week for students,was graduation day,a special
ceremony set by the school whereby awards of different purposes were handed
out to the respective students(who might not deserve it or might not even
like it)for them to bring home and frame up upon a wall for visiting guests
to admire and "it's a great conversational piece!".the general idea of the
graduation day is the farewell assembly whereby students some sad some glad
some forced to hang around,say either in the face or silently in their small
little hearts the "long lovely goodbyes and poignant tears like petals of
withered wild flowers falling" ....."alas! goot-bye" to their teachers
gathered in the school hall for a soapy three hours of clapping at the award
winners walking awkwardly up the stage,who are supposed to bow,every each one
,and then songs proclaiming love for friends and forgotten aquaintances are
sung and there are even teachers holding roses and reciting poems.
(B) The morning rises:
____Far away in Toa Payoh,fyodor awakens,rising out of the dust of his
floor like a sleepy giant.fyodor rejected his comfy puffy little bed,ridculed
by his mom for developing a monks spartan existence,going on in life,small
storms of isolated existence and boiling rebellions against his past obsession
with neatness,"sailing to the heart of the lonely storm".(the diamond sea).he
scratches his hair and lumbers like a big rugby player to the bathroom.
____meanwhile kafka awakes groggily from his bed and goes to the bathroom to
let out that morning pee.
___shawn stayed in his bed for a while,a long while after the alarm clock
screamed its shrill cry,comtemplating the day of the week and what else will
happen when he steps out of bed.he gets up with a final movement and goes to
the bathroom to brush his teeth.
____frances throws a pillow across her head and tries to sleep admist the
sounds of the rest of the household waking up and preparing to go to work.
with a women's instinct,she decides not to go to school because a)she was
awarded the total number of zero prizes, b)she was tired of clapping, c)
attendance would not be taken despite what the teachers said and d)her
presence would not be sorely missed anyway.
*******she continued sleeping.
(C) Happenings in the school hall:
____imagine,just imagine the sound of tired,patronising handclaps.
____Each award winner of prizes such as commendation for performing well in
the eca,award for studies,award for House,award for performing beyond the
call of duty,award for courtesy...etc...were glad that they have received
their prizes and were reminscing about their past two years in the school as
they sat in the hall,the papers held limply in their sweaty palms.
___meanwhile,the students sitting down were cheering with real gusto,pumping
their fists in the air like leaders at a rally and taking photos as the line
of award winners filed through the stage and bowed expediously and then there
were memorable magic moments of singing songs and general hugging of your
idiotic neighbour.
