19/5/2010 Post Exam Activities Day 3

Please read this post before perusal of this blog.

http://mo810122naes.blogspot.com/2010/05/disclaimer-post.html

Today's post exam activity was awesome. We had a debating workshop organised by Lorna Whiston Study center ( an English language tuition center that I used to frequent when I was younger ), and it was the best Post exam activity yet. Our teacher was "Mr Nick", a UK national and a Singaporean PR who had been in Singapore for 10 years.

He spoke about how powerful debating was as a tool in daily life, and told us how to leave a lasting impression on people. Unfortunately, as I'm penning these words on thursday night as I was in no mood to think from Wednesday after school till now ( an event that happened that day triggered my Disclaimer post which you should have read by now ), my memory has grown somewhat hazy. I do recall that in the last activity, I was complimented as being the best speaker out of a group of 6. Unfortunately, my group lost in the full scale debating exercise ( the last event ) because of sheer bad luck; my team members were Qiu Jing and Zi Jian, and though they had fully valid points and splendid reasoning, they were not so used to public speaking in English. The opposing team was MINGwei, Arif, and Yong Jen; English was their 1st language. Oh well.

As I was finishing the above paragraph, my mother interrupted me and asked me why I was blogging. More or less word for word:

"You know, lots of people have gotten into trouble for writing down things in anger and gotten distant from their parents."

Me: " What makes you think I'm angry? "

From there I dunno how it escalated, but I remember I wasn't very angry.

Me: " You know, I was just writing down a few thing perfectly neutrally, but now that you're scolding me about this, I'm actually getting angry. " (I felt quite wronged)

From here on I don't quite recall what she was saying, but I know I didn't say a word more than that.

She: " Okay, I try to tell you constructive advice and you get angry! I'm not talking to you for the rest of the month! I won't give you anything!"

I was still blogging and ignoring her, since I had to finish the "debate" paragraph.

Then my father asked ( from his room ) what was going on, and my mother said ( intending me to hear, I guess )

She: " You know Sean got into trouble for ( mercy relief stuff which is quite long ). So I tell him not to blog and he FLARES up at me and says he's angry! I can be angry too! NOTHING to him for the rest of the month unless he APOLOGIZES, and maybe I won't accept it!"

I'm still here blogging, so you know I'm still alive. She retreated to her room right after that, and turned off all the lights, including the ones that allow me to sit here and type to you. Of course, I turned them back on after she left.

You know, women are so irrational and emotional sometimes. She got so worked up. I just feel somewhat frightened.

Maybe I shouldn't have talked back to her ( I normally don't; Ian does ) but I'd already come to terms with the Mercy Relief stuff , and when she started talking as if I'm some sort of idiot who can't learn from mistakes, I felt quite affronted and wronged. Well, now I know what it's like to be wronged.

Ok, through the reflection I did in this post, I decided to go and apologize. My father began to scold me based on the impression my mother gave him, and when I explained, he understood, and said " Oh. " and dropped it. My father rocks, as the people in my physics projectile project team know. Then when I tried talking to my mother, she told me to get out. *Sigh*

And so I'm back here, typing this. Once again, I beseech anyone not given permission by me to read this, who is reading this, to read my Disclaimer post

http://mo810122naes.blogspot.com/2010/05/disclaimer-post.html

Oh crap. I've left the title so far behind. Sorry, and don't mark me down on content!

EDIT: Oh, it was PMS! Turns out today is the day of the waxing cresent, and I'm not sure what that means, but it has to be that. Mood swings, and all.
http://kalender-365.de/lunar-calendar.php