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Friday, April 11, 2008

Funny stuff about my class.

1. Noreen can fall asleep while flipping a page! Well, I've heard about people sleeping while standing up, and falling asleep during (math/econs/history) lectures is hardly uncommon in our oh-s0-attentive-and-conscientious 08A13.

Admittedly, I have caught myself dozing off while writing, and it is incredibly interesting to note how suddenly your handwriting slips into sanskrit-mode while you drift into zoneout-mode.

Or the occasional humiliation when you are speaking to the person beside you, and you find to your utter horror (acute embarrassment) that he or she has fallen asleep. Then you wonder it was the topic or you that was boring. Nah, it was the topic.

Well, I was sitting beside her when I saw her flip the page at the corner of my eye, when suddenly, the page just stopped in midair. With an incredulous turn of my head, I realised that she had managed to drift into dreamland, her hand still on the page. ?!?!?!
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2. And it's unbelievably amazing how my class can link every single thing in lit to SEX. I mean, it's horrifying and all, and I'm pretty sure our lit teacher wholly regrets the day she said "Lit is all about sex and death.", but it is also quite amusing in its own way.

Quote: "At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment-houses."
Lit teachers' intepretation: The long white cake represents the institution of marriage, and with the theme of adultury in mind, the violent slicing is representative of the breaking of this institution, a violation.
Class' intepretation: Slices of cake indicate sharing. Hence, with the theme of adultury in mind, the sharing of cake is like sharing of the respective wife or husband with their illegitimate lovers. *racuous laughter sounds*

A mere mention of a woman who goes around looking at people's feet is deemed as a fetish... descriptions of buffets now imply that the adulterous wife is so free with her body?! It really goes to show how innocent and pure-hearted (sex-deprived) the people my classmates are. HAHA. *coughmarissanorvincough*

And quite long ago, someone said in a desperate attempt to link some imagery to sex:
"According to ancient Chinese mythology, the cat is a phallic symbol..."
yeah right.
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3. I have classmates who treat the library like some kind of jungle or hideout. I don't know if they are training for NS or something.. maybe along the lines of camouflage and sneaking, but it is intriguing to see them run between bookshelves, and suddenly duck down, thinking that no one can see their antics at all.

And later claim to be reading about philosophy by Aristotle. -.-
Actually i think my class is pretty cute. hahahaaaa.

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