Over-ripe bananas

Common Tests are over!

And I can testify to the accuracy of my gut feeling, borne of 16 - no, no, 17 now! ARGH the inexorable passage of time - 17 years of critical judgement - because something told me to mug for chemistry, not biology, even though I have been consistently doing worse in bio than chem - and tada! The test papers proved it, there was no need to mug DNA genomics like everyone else did, hee hee.

Biology, for me, turned out to be the trickiest paper. Greasy bag of fries!

There's nothing for it, exams are all over and done with for now, and I actually felt HIGH after finishing the exam. It's something I haven't felt since sec 2...since exams in KL were never a challenge anyway, I didn't need to work and thus they didn't matter.

Our impromptu class outing went from two people - Tryphe and I - to 5 people! Hamtaro Virunardu (sorry, Zan and I came up with this cool jap name for you. Sounds like a dungeon warlord!) Zhilbe. We asked the other guys, but = shrug= they left, the Dog to mug in the library! 'For end of year promos!' he protested when we laughed him off. Continue dogging away like this, his ears will just grow longer and hang down like a labrador retriever's - he already has the side burns, the face, and the doggy mannerisms.

Elang just went 'nope', inciting some perverted soundling laughter from Shaun. He's epic, I tell you. He kills people by stripping. JJ and ZY disappeared.

Keh! Well, we didn't need them anyway, we plopped our noisy selves down at Swenson's and the five of us laughed ourselves sick at Hamtaro's shameless posturing about his PW group member (one of them, specifically) and the inevitable expansion of his stored triglycerides.

Hamtaro : Now, which lucky girl gets to sit beside me?
Guys : ...BWAAHAHAHAAA
Tryphe grabbed the seat beside the Dogtor
Me : (sits down besides Hamtaro with ill grace) Hopefully some of my stuff...my..sense...and morality...will diffuse over to him.

Hamtaro sat down, taking up nearly two tables' worth of seat space!

Me : Eh walau move la, I got no space...
Hamtaro : Please, not me! It's our bags...
Me : Yeah...you eat abit more, those bags gonna be like the size of your expanded triglycerides...

Hamtaro : You know, in primary school I was a prefect!
Me : Wow, the tie musn't have been able to fit around your neck...
Virunardu : Yeah man, especially (mimes a giant swell in front of him)
Hamtaro : Oi!

We were appropriated outside Swenson's by a buxom wench, who fast-talked her way straight through two dozen bushes to tell us that people all deserved a chance to study, including those that, like her, can depend on neither parents nor government subsidy to pay for school fees; and that we, as students ought to show our support of this by donating money which would go to herself for furthering her own education (I think).

It was rather affronting to be confronted with a statement like 'So you guys can't help me out here? Not even by giving a dollar each?' in a tone of incredulous digust - polite and polished, but incredulous disgust all the same; and after Virunardu and Hamtaro gave in and chipped in a dollar each, she gave the customary 'thank you', thrust a pen at us and whirled off to approach another, preferably wealthier and looser-handed person.

Really, what brazen, unabashed cheek! The cut-to-the-chase of it is that she wanted money from us!

Virunardu said, after giving her the money, that he didn't think it was legal to go around like that, and I agree, although it didn't hit me till after we'd walked away. I would have pointed it out to her and to heck with the 'not nice-ness' of it! The way she larked over it, you would have thought she completely deserved the money because she was disadvantaged in terms of financial support, and that we should have supported her because as students it's a common interest.

Of course, everyone does deserve a shot at education, but if they don't have the money, demanding it off random street people definitely isn't the way to do it. I'd like to commend the novel idea of selling this 'education for everyone' slogan as a means of 'earning' money off passers-by, it is rather innovative - but I can hardly approve of it. Strike me down with lightning and thunder, but if she had the looks, the voice, the temerity and the confidence to approach strangers like this, the intelligence to come up with such a marketing strategy - there were other ladies like her, all doing the same thing- then she's far from helpless, and there are better, more reliable and less controversial ways of earning money - such as getting a job.

'I'm gonna be frank with you guys...the money will go to me for my studies", my overripe black spotted bananas! It was nothing short of shameless, if eloquent, begging.

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