Last week was pretty intense. In addition to two field hockey games two days in a row (which we won 1-0 v. Agincourt and 2-0 v. West Hill, thanks to our top scorer Mily Chen!!), the new season of Glee started (the first episode of which provided Colin and I with material for a legendary argument), the Ontario Universities Fair had a fantastic start, I finished that annoying analogy essay with seven minutes to spare, there was a cold epidemic with an epic Tree of Blame.
FIELD HOCKEY is deadly.
The first two practices were inches away from hell... but now I have an excuse to spend an hour at the new Timmy's having Girly Girly Gossipfests with my girls. And we're so much more in shape now! Nothing gets your legs going like the competitiveness on the field. Plus, the two wins top of the season helps boost morale too!
Agincourt was a learning team, so it was nice to see how our mostly-learning team played against them. West Hill was... very competitive. They were kind of ferocious, haha. And major kudos to those girls who got hurt but kept playing like champs!
GLEE! Brings me such glee! Oh my goodness, I loved how they talked about Asian camp--it actually exists. All us Asians from 8 to 18 gather together and do lots of Asiany things: including traditional Chinese calligraphy and arts & crafts; traditional Chinese yo-yos; Chinese spinning tops; shuttlecock; jump-rope tricks; traditional dances, often incorporating fans, ribbons, and parasols; an end-of-the-week camp extravaganza featuring 12-year-olds dancing with swords... ironically, the only non-Asian thing there was the cafeteria food!
If you know me and/or Colin well enough you'll have heard of or been witness to one of our legendarily heated arguments about really petty things. (I think we're both OCD and love to be right.) Anyway, our most recent L.A. was about Rachel Berry's increasing skankiness. He argued that the writers made her slutty all of a sudden and he didn't like the direction they were taking her. I argued that she was always an "attention whore" so the uh... gradual disappearance of the first part of that title was bound to happen, especially with the attention she's gotten since joining Glee Club both on- and off-stage. We started at 9:00. We ended at 9:40. And about halfway through, we actually forgot what we were arguing about:
maggie. IMPROVE YOUR YEARBOOK says (9:26 PM): Wait. What on earth is this
argument about?
xD
I forgot halfway through.
Colin says (9:26 PM): I don't really know...
Anyway this was our conclusion: Rachel's attitude and evolution from fashionably-challenged and seemingly innocent to brash and almost wanton in appearance were all external manifestations of her internal insecurities. She has progressed from a type of awkward insecurity in which she covered everything up to a more open insecurity where she openly welcomes any kind of attention to reassure herself that she is valuable.
Agree? Disagree? Think we're ridiculous for spending 40 minutes arguing something like that? (I agree...)
OUF-BOY and BUTT-BOY
At the Ontario Universities Fair the morning before Shifa's birthday:
[1] OUF-boy
Patricia complains about how difficult University will be and how her future may already be in tatters.
Maggie: "Maybe you should just be a trophy wife."
P: "Good idea! In that case, all I have to do is stick with Jasun--his family's rich and he's gonna be a lawyer."
M: "Unless he gets a hot secretary..."
Colin: "I hope you're up for threesomes."
*Guy in front looks back at the THREE of us*
[2] Butt-boy
Patricia is midway between a dramatic, expressive exclamation about how she's fed up with all this University drama. As she lifts her hands to gesticulate, she pushes forward underhand and grabs a random boy's buttock. Quite firmly. The funniest thing was that he didn't even react. As if he got that kind of attention all the time....
So this is where the Analogy Essay is supposed to go according to my introduction. But insteaad, I'd like to take the time to wish a FIRCKIN AWESOME belated happy birthday to my BESTEST BUDDIES and FIELD HOCKEY SISTERS, SHIFA ABBAS and CHRISTINA SPINELLI.
Happy birthday, girls! I hope you both had FANTASTIC times (and I know you both did ;D ) and that you both LOVE your gifts! (One's future-tense, one's present-tense :P)
THE COLD EPIDEMIC
Oh my goodness, EVERYONE is getting sick! It started two weeks ago when Terence first got sick. And then Mily, I and some others also got sick. And then that just snowballed until nearly everyone was sick! During the math test, there was pretty much a sniffle or cough every ten seconds. It was enormous.
And then, fingers were pointed and witches were hung. Who started the epidemic? Suggest your blame trees below!
THE MENAGERIE
And, lastly, that deadly essay. Is it just me or is coming up with a lengthy analogy rather tricky? I had the hardest time trying to get everything to flow together. Mine was about the most annoying emotions that are hard to control vs. personized animals in a personal menagerie.
A couple shout-outs to some of the best analogies I've read, though!
Ashwin Baskaran -- Prejudice vs. a Wall that protects? Or imprisons?
Terence Ho -- Parliament vs. a Farmyard in which hens peck at political issues without accomplishing much of anything
Patricia D'Silva -- Fashion & Media vs. a God that twists little girls' minds and tortures them with the demons of Anorexia and Bulimia
Colin Gallinger -- Political Parties vs. Packs of Wolves warring for One More Tree!
Mily Chen -- Life and Motivation vs. Rowing a Boat on the Sea: some days the tide is with you, other days it's against you but either way, you've gotta row to get where you want to go.
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