[* ~Mew Mew Paradise~ *] ~ Where the light shines the brightest and darkness fades from your hearts...
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Yeah! 2nd chapter of the story lol. Haiz... still wondering who got to the same school and course as me leh... My friend suggested I put an advertisement on my blog so... Im from SIM UOL Computer Information Systems!!! Anyone who is in the same course please comment or email me!!! IM BEGGING zzz... Want to set up a guzheng club in SIM, so sent a mail to the 'Contact us'. Not sure whether I'll get an answer. Oh yea, the story... Here goes... --------------------------------------------------
"Hol... Hold On... ! " Karl exclaimed while trying to keep his balance. He wasn't sure whether it was the girl's great strength or it was him allowing her to drag him along. She seemed to have found the correct classroom and mumbled something like, "yup, correct classroom" and dragged the already-stumbling-over Karl into it. The rest of the class, who then realised they had new friends joining the class, turned their attention to the couple and watched them in amazement as Karl tried to shake her hands off his.
"He...Hey!" Karl yelled as he finally managed to get her hands off him. Immediate silence. It had brought about the attention of the whole class, if it had not already did. Whoops.
"Students!" someone shouted.
Saved. The entire class shifted their sight from him to a boy that had just shouted in from outside the classroom. " Please get back to your seats!" the boy continued.
Although they do not have to wear uniforms, Karl could tell that the boy was from the school. He was wearing a tie which bear the crest of the school. The crest had a lion fused together with a bird that looked like a mix between the long feathery tail and face of the silver pheasant and the longer neck or legs of the Chinese Phoenix. Below the crest seemed to have some letters imprinted on it which on closer look spells the word 'Prefect'. The boy does not seem much older than Karl and size-wise, he seems to be pretty much about the same as the rest of the boys in Karl's class. The tie, however, means authority.
"The principal is going to make his welcome speech. Students please get back to your seats." the boy repeated as the speaker system started to beep in unison.
All of the students seemed to have already found themselves a seat and Karl, who apparently got to the classroom late had no other choice left, other than the seat on the last row closest to the window.
Well, Karl have no qualms about it whatsoever, since he did not have to sit next to the female thief. On the other hand, he seemed quite happy about it. Probably because he realised a really cute girl sitting beside the seat that he is going to sit on. On inspection, given her big green eyes, long blond hair and really fair skin, it was likely that she was not asian. Karl wondered why a foreign girl would actually come all the way to this tiny island and particularly this school, which he got in after no other school would accept him, to study. Well, it didnt matter. He walked to the remaining seat and plopped down on his chair and threw a glance at the blond cutie who did not seem to realise.
The principal made his welcome speech. Karl wasn't paying much attention to it but rather, was half-eyeing the blond girl and half thinking about the mystery behind his admission to the school. The principal wasnt addressing anything he wants to know. He was just blabbering about how happy and excited he is on welcoming the students into this historic school and that they "hope we are too" sort of speech and more "congratulations the school is full again!" kind of speech which all other schools like to make in their speeches. Nothing much from the speech...Wait.
The principal mentioned historic school? And 'full again'? How long has this school been standing? How popular is this school that Karl had never heard before anyway? Somehow, Karl seemed to have more interest on the speech.
The speech ended perfectly with the students applauding in thanks. But Karl's "pay too much attention" hadnt paid off. He couldnt sift out anything from the trash the principal had continued talking on and apparently he fell asleep before he could do so. Just as he was waking up from his half-asleep state, someone seemed to have entered the classroom. The applause and conversations ceased as the figure moved into the classroom. Karl lifted his head which had drooped on the table and noticed a silhouette of a woman, which is possibly the teacher.
"Good morning class." the woman said to the class. "I'm Mizuno Emi. I will be your form teacher for this year. Nice to meet all of you."
Wow. Japanese form teacher - some experience not present in other schools. Perfecly fine English, looks perfectly fine. She had long straight hair with curls at the ends, rosy cheeks with a dimple, lovely figure which her flowing dress brought out, dressing complete with silver high heels and flowery dangling earrings and some jewellery dangling from her neck and wrists. All in all - sweet looking and not much problems. The only problem Karl could find was she was wearing spectacles which diminished the size of her pretty ocean blue eyes.
"Miss Mizuno." The girl from morning raised her hand from her seat. "Yes, Miss ...?" Mizuno turned her gaze towards the girl. "Aries, Aries Ho. Im Singaporean." said the girl. "I heard you are one of the finest teachers from the main branch in Japan. Is there any reason for the transfer?"
Main branch? There is a main branch in Japan? "Ah, that." The teacher replied. "I had some personal business over here in Singapore so I asked for a transfer." "I see. Oh yes, another question." Aries replied with understanding. " There were rumours that this school was set up here as a base for investigation of some major crime incident. Is that true?" This stirred discussion amongst the students.
"Where... did you hear that from, Aries darling?" the teacher seemed tense for a moment before changing that to a smile. "It is just rumours dear." " Well class, if you have no other questions I will start taking attendance." The teacher changed the subject almost instantly and unhappy with the reply, the girl called Aries kept staring grudgingly at the teacher for the whole lesson.
Maybe I should continue with my story I wrote the other day, even though it was quite lame. Well, I suppose since I have already started on it I should might as well continue... I'll probably deal with it tomorrow... It had been a busy day today, so I guess I just keep this short and sweet.
Back to reading fiction books hehe... Recently read a title called "Speak Now-Married to mystery" By Margaret Dumas. Very interesting. The story is about a girl called Charley who recently got married to a tall, dark, handsome and mysterious guy she has dated only for 6 weeks. Jack, her husband claims to be a mild-mannered meteorologist that works as a sort of 'weatherman' in his navy, but truth reveals that he is something more. Charley returns with Jack to her hometown and checked into a hotel suite... it is there they discovered a dead woman. As the story goes on, more dead people are found and slowly, they uncover the mystery of the killings and more of Jack's past. Charley will soon find out that the stranger she married to has skills beyond predicting the stormy weather...
Nice book. Nice plot. Loves Jack - Cool and hot at the same time, sexy, super smart, can cook, best bodyguard you can find... What's not to like?
"School Of Magic - Branch II" will be the title for now until I find a better name for it. My English is horrible so just take it as a draft for further amendments. The blog is a good place to save drafts in as it doesnt require much space. ---------------------------------------------
(Chapter 1)
"Ring...!" It was the first day of secondary school (or high school) and the long missed alarm sounded through the hallways and long corridors of the school as Karl dashed through the front gate of his new school. Although it is the first day of school, dashing schools of students are still a common sight especially for this school that Karl is studying in. Karl was quite surprised at the piles of people still dashing into the school despite the time they are supposed to reach the school has already passed.
'Pulau Tekong School of the Rare and Practitioned Arts'. Surprisingly, Karl had no idea what this school is all about nor does he know anything about this mysterious school he is admitted in. The name itself is already sufficiently mysterious and for it to be situated on the remote island of Pulau Tekong, an offshore island in a Super small country of Singapore, it does not seem at all normal. Not only did Karl have quite a hard time getting to the school because it was situated offshore, he was quite doubtful about the existance of the school whose name he has never heard before and also, he had never known that there was anything there at all besides camps for young training army men. None of his previous classmates or relatives, have actually heard of this school. But strange enough, there seemed to be an alarming number of students attending this school despite it being unheard of. "It could be a new school which have just recently opened..." Karl thought as he pulled out his letter of acceptance from his bag and relooked at it again. He never knew that letters were sent out instead of distributed out in class, which is the conventional way. His friends all received the results and their secondary school allocation in the result booklet. He has got no allocation to a secondary school because he got horrible grades in his Primary School Leaving Exams. He has been pondering for quite awhile about how he managed to be admitted into any school at all but at least his mother would not complain and nag at him for a while.
"Homeroom in Class 1-1." He read it out loud while searching for his classroom in the unfamiliar maze-like corridor he had been walking for quite a while.
"Hi friend!" Someone from behind Karl greeting him as Karl felt an intense slap on his back. From the voice, he could tell that it was a girl that had greeted him. Curious, as he does not remember having made any female friends because he was from an all boys school, he spun around and his vision had caught a familiar face. "Hi!" the girl came up beside him and started walking at his pace. She had long, black straight hair tied up in split plaits, big and light brown eyes and signature rose earrings. It took some time but he still figured who she is.
"You!" Karl shouted at the girl who was grinning at him. It happened a few days ago while Karl was helping out in his mother's fruit stall. It was lunch time and his mother was out for a quick lunch and he was left there to tend to the store. Suddenly a girl came up and started picking the fruits. Karl looked warily at the girl while she fills 2-3 basket with piles of fruits. After a while, the girl seemed to have realised that she was being monitored and looked up cheerfully. She then slowly raised her hand and pointed to something behind Karl asking, "May I know how much is that?". Reacting to her question, he turned around only to find nothing behind him. Realising it was a trick, he quickly turned back to find the girl grabbing one of the baskets and dashed off giggling. Deciding that it was an unforgivable act, not only for stealing from him but also tricking him and being laughed at, he went after the girl without thinking. To his shock, after going after the girl for a short distance, two other children approached his stall and grabbed the remaining baskets and ran off in the opposite direction. Stunned, he stopped in his tracks deciding whether to chase after the other two children instead. His dilemma, however, allowed all of the thieves to get away. His mother knew about it and was not very happy. He got quite a scolding after that (of course). Well, he did not think that he would actually meet her at school, and he never imagined that she was even studying in the same school as him and would greet him so openly like nothing ever happened.
"I knew we would meet again when I saw you the other day." She whispered to him as she inspected his suprised face. "Hey! You're the thief from..." Karl was about to give her a piece of his mind when he was cut off by an announcement made by the principal who is about to make his welcome speech.
Looking at Karl's irritated face, she quickly spoke, " I think we should hurry. It's this way. I'm in the same class as you are.".
Not waiting for Karl to respond, she grabbed his hand and dragged him hastily down the corridor...
Ahhh! Lots have happened during the time I didnt blog... Well... I've been busy searching for a degree course which will accept me after NUS and NTU rejected me... And so I settled for a computing course in SIM which is a course from a recognised school from the UK - University of London. Well, though i was really upset I couldnt study together with my friends in the same school, but at least I got a place in the university this year. *A note to all parents: Try not to have children born in the year of the dragon if you want to avoid this congestion...* Now that I have settled almost everything, I'm left with only waiting for the acceptance letter from University of London (Im accepted by SIM but I have to wait for the UOL letter still...) Im sure it would be successful anyway...
This few weeks I havent been working at all... All I've done is probably go online and watch animation and surfing the net or talking on msn... Im reminising the past by watching the first favourite anime I've watched - Sailor moon ^^. I cant find this series in shops anymore so I have to watch it online. I've also watched Land Before Time, Disney classics Bambi and all... and Im searching for Lion King now, but to no avail. Well, and currently, I am into Bleach and Black Cat and Nanoha Strikers and some other anime. I've got lots of time since my school only starts in September. I'll probably just waste this time away watching online animation...
Being bored yesterday, I pulled out my fullscap paper which have been stagnant there for quite some time and did up a fantasy story. Currently I've only done abit and its not impressive at all, but still I think I should blog it down for remembrance lol. (And to show how much my English has deproved over the years X_X).
