Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Eh... oh well... Its been so long. My laptop has been confiscated by my dad thanks to my sister's PSLE so it took a while for me to find an alternative... Ah... I've been busy. Im supposed to write out this Zhan Tai Feng Piece for Chinese Orchestra for the performance... Heheh and I still havent write finish yet heheh. Anyway, I watched the entire series of Naruto le and now waiting for the Naruto Shippudden 27 to come out. I've bought a Sasuke Pocket watch yeah! It costs about $20. I bought it in Comics connection and it was really nice! I was thinking of buying the Kakashi one because the inside was artistic but the picture outside was Kakashi without any expression and I thought it might be better to buy the Sasuke one even tho the inside was abit cartoonish... Ah well... enough of all this. TO the Story!
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It was the first time Karl toured the school with a friend... well... at least with some company. Aries seemed excited about this and she was not, and has not done anything annoying yet so Karl didnt mind her company. It could be the best time for him to get to know his new school better too.
" Hey Aries. " Karl started the conversation.
" Yeah? "
" Err... Do you... err... know... anything... about..." Karl stammered abit. "... about... about this school? " He wasnt proud he didnt know anything about the school. He was expecting Aries to give a surprised look too, but it seems Aries, somehow or rather, was expecting the question.
" Hmm... Lets see..." Aries stopped by a bridge above a small pond. " Well, this school is formed 12 years ago. The main school was formed earlier though. The main school is situated in Japan Tokyo and its called 'Tokyo school of Rare and Practitioned Arts'. There had been rumours about a major crime incident which took place there and this school was probably set up to either deal with the chaos or probably set up here for investigation. Ah but you do not have to know that. Just rumours."
" Then, do you know what we will be studying in this school? " Karl felt really stupid asking these questions. Everybody should have known about this...
" You dont know? Well, I guess its abit complexed, but you've asked the right person." Aries still did not look surprised, just abit 'trying to show off' sort of attitude. "Everything we need to know will be taught in the first year so theres no need to worry. In the second year, we will be training on our specialties so that we can be streamed to where we want to go. There will be 3 main streams. Sports stream, arts stream and science stream. If you feel that you do not solely belong to one stream, you could choose the mixed stream. It is a stream which many look down upon though. However, theres another stream which is the combatter's stream. It is unique to this school only. It is a stream which only elites, top of the elites, can enter."
"Combatters stream?"
"Yes. Its sort of like commander training or what you call army training or something like that. Usually, students of other schools are only allowed under strict circumstances to enter combatter's training after completing the four years of education. They have to obtain top grades in order to enter. The normal route to enter is to complete tertiary education and get in through an entrance exam. So this school is very special. It is granted permission to set up a combatter's stream so that 14 year olds can enter."
"Its a strange school." Karl murmurred. He had never heard of such streaming, well, of course he hadnt since this was a special case. Usually boys in Singapore enter the army at 18, well, if tertiary education meant the polytechnics, they go in at 19. But still, entering the army at 14?
"Yeah it is." Aries agreed. " Oh, tell you something interesting." She smirked.
It caught Karl's attention. "What?"
"Do you know the first and second year student campus is separated from the third and fourth's? The combatters stream students also have their very own separated campus? The third and fourth year's campus is a few times larger than ours and the combatters stream's campus is the largest. It is a few times larger than the third and fourth year's campus. The whole school is so huge that even its students might get lost in it."
"Wow." Karl could not think of any other things to say. Besides, how big is Pulau Tekong anyway?
"And so, they laid down a special map of the entire school. Due to previous students taking it and made a mess out of the third and fourth year campus, they kept all the maps and hidden it somewhere in the school. Its such a waste. I wanted to see it." Aries complained. " I wonder where it could be hidden?"
"Well, why dont we just tour our compound first?" Karl didnt seem interested. "It seems we will take some time to tour our school too. We could have already graduated from year two on to year three before we could even familiarise ourselves with this compound. Theres no need to hurry."
Aries gave a grunt and continued walking on with Karl. She didnt seem satisfied with the response but she did not complain. They continued on the touring with Aries silent all the way. And when they were walking towards the school's activity centre, something, or someone seemed to have caught Aries' eye. It was a boy. He had grey eyes and long silver highlighted hair tied up in the ends and he was leaning cross-armed against the wall. He seemed to have thrown a glance at Aries before disappearing into the shadows of the corridor. Karl had not noticed the boy since he was busy inspecting the school's facilities and admiring the view.
"I'll be back soon!" Aries shouted cheerfully and suddenly to the unexpecting Karl and sprinted away in a flash before the surprised Karl could even turn to face her, leaving him wondering what had happened.
Meanwhile, in the darkness of an alley, two shadowy figures met up at a junction at the same time. It wasnt long before the third figure appeared. The first figure, supposingly a boy started to speak, "You... Its going too fast."
The second figure, supposingly female, replied "I think its fine. He wont notice. The faster the better."
"No." The third figure, a man, finally spoke. "No. Go according to plan. No extras. Understood?"
"Understood.", a unison answer by the girl and boy and the three figures immediately dispersed.
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[~Mew Mew~]
10:59 AM
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
"Hey... Sleeping beauty..."
Apparently, classes have already ended and Karl had fallen asleep. The class has already disbanded and the teacher had left the classroom. Karl would have gone on in his state of unconciousness if not for some "minor disturbances".
"Hey..." a voice echoed in Karl's ear.
"Ah... ha... ...?" Karl lifter his head half-heartedly and then let it droop back onto the table again, ignoring the voice.
"Ah ha no. Come on... You're not pretty nor a beauty anyway... so stop sleeping." the voice continued although Karl is still ignoring it, "hmm... unless... you ... want me to..."
"Ha... ?" Karl slowly opened his eye drowsily and found a shadowy figure hovering above him. He didnt realise it was slowly getting closer and closer to him. When he finally realised what was going on, the figure had already gotten so close that its face was directly infront of his.
It was Aries. "What...?" Karl backed off a little still unconcious of what was going on. Aries' eyes was closed. " Wh...Wha... ?!" He finally awakened. She got closer and closer...until it practically made him so tense and unable to breath "...wha....?!"
At last, Karl could not take this any longer, "Wha... What are you doing?!" This time his face turned completely red. He jerked her away from him startled. Karl's heart practically skipped a beat. It could be the reason he pushed her away. Well, what would you expect from a hot-blooded growing boy in his teens?
Creak. Oh dear.
Apparently, the impact from the jerk tipped his chair... and sort of brought it off balanced... and... lets see... Lets do it in slow motion...
S...
L....
A....
M.
There you go. It crashed. Well, Karl was able to spring back up immediately though, to give a classic "Ouch!".
"Serves you right for being so clumsy, hehe. " Aries giggled. " Oh there's something you might want to know..." , a dangerous smile surfaced, "...Heheh... I saw whats under those pants of yours when you topple upside-down..." She made a grin and continued, "...Superman's. Except hidden." Grin widened.
Karl's face had undoubtedly turned bright red this time. Is she really a girl?! "What?!" Karl clenched his fists in frustration (and in embarrassment) as he yelled. It wasnt the first time he got teased by a girl... but... This girl had calibre, or just total opposite of Karl. "It was your fault anyway, What do you think you were doing? Getting...err... so close to me?" Some more blood shot up.
"Just trying to wake you up..." the girl replied in a tone which got to his nerves. "You were the sleeping beauty, and I'm the handsome prince." Aries did an 'I'm handsome' classic no.7 pose.
"What...?!" Karl partly sighed partly gasped. He's so convinced she's not female. "Now look, do that again and you'll get it from me."
"Hmm... Get what?" Aries teased. "You wanted "it" really badly don't you?" she smirked, gazing at the wide-mouthed Karl with amusement.
"Ah well, while you were asleep..." Aries seemed to be satisfied with the teasing, "... the teacher asked us to collect our hostel keys from the student affairs office during breaktime, which is now. Its ready for collection. So if you want a place to sleep, get going. As for me... I'm heading there now. See ya!"
Karl plopped down in his seat still wide-mouthed, watching Aries as she skipped and sprang out of the room cheerfully.
The day's activities have already ended and what's after breaktime is touring of the school. Karl, however, did not seem excited. He had gotten his keys and checked into his room. First years are not allowed single rooms and so Karl was allocated a double room. But when he got inside, nobody was there. Had he gotten in earlier than his room-mate? He put down his baggage and smoothen out the bed before sitting down on it. It was a double level bed. It could sound dumb, but Karl thought that it would be more 'cool' to choose the bottom level, and so he did... Well, it could be an excuse for his fear of heights. It wasn't much of a height though, but still, he prefered to be below.
Knock knock. Someone was at the door. The other room-mate? He could have just opened the door with his key. Karl stood up and walked to the door. And when he's about to reach for the handle...
Bang. "Oops sorry!" It was Aries at the door. Karl had sort of forgotten he had not locked the door after he came in.
"Ouch..." It was Karl's unlucky day. "Aries, what are you doing here?" Karl squinted his eyes in pain, still feeling blur and unsteady after the hit.
"Hmm... Im your... room-mate... ..." Aries said as she eyed the surprised Karl. "...heheh... just kidding!" Karl's face changed from the 'surprised' look to the 'What the hell was that?' look.
"You're so slow! You know, I've already checked into my room and greeted my room-mate and after that greeted all of my neighbours, had some tea and snacks for break and then made the trouble of asking around finding out where you were staying and found out you were staying here and..."
"Alright thats enough. What do you want?" Karl stopped Aries who apparently would continue rambling if he hadnt stopped her.
"Oh! I came to get you of course!" Aries said enthusiastically. "Lets tour the school!" She yelled excitedly while reaching to grab Karl (who couldnt think of any other reaction except to dodge) who didnt manage to dodge in time... and so... got dragged away by Aries again...
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[~Mew Mew~]
9:30 PM
