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Treasurer's Profile of 4/12 (Part I) 
...... we shall start with my very own group....... 
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 Eunice Yeo : Potential Miss Sandman to be involved in SLEEP all the time. 
                      Excellent bone structure, not surprising since they are constantly at rest. 
                      Characterized by blue and green TATTOO sweater which looks like pyjamas 
                      anyway.  (Hey! Why does everything about her involve S_ _ _ _ ) 
                      Favourite Movie: While i was Sleeping. 
Cheryl Chan : Potential candidate for most spastic person on earth with her "gei2 wo3 yi4  
                     dian3 chi1 de4 ba4" expression and saliva drooling out of her mouth  
                     consistently. Of course, you would not see the saliva until it lands on your shoe  
                     (the lowest part of yourself) due to some vertical problems. Also, beware of 
                     this bootlicker who constantly sucks up to the English and Lit teachers....... 
Angeline Soh : A bright future in the sound engineering line as an amplifier. Please take note 
                       that this amplifier can never be turned down. It remains at a constant LOUD 
                       and blaring volume! When doing anything that does not involve noise, she turns 
                       off immediately, becoming a stoner. 
                       Favourite brand of clothes: STONES. 
Olivia Tan : Future ambition to become an omelette, sunny side up, baring teeth and  
                    constantly hopping up and down. A hyperactive egg indeed! This little egg also 
                    has plans to marry a human being named Aniki Ching whom 'it' claims to be the 
                    most handsome guy on earth. 
                    Favourite Song: Oh dear, what can the matter be? (not surprising since eggs don't 
                    have matter.) <--they dont?-syn 
Evangeline Poh : Simply .... Perfect! (Gag!) 
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Poach's Entry 
10/4 
 Dear everyone, 
                         How's life? How's Love? How's everything? U noe, we shldn't deface é journal so much like Mindy said. Coz...ummm...there's a lot of abstract art around, uh...very distracting lah. 
                   Are you people stressed? D'you know time is flying past, slipping away & soon we'll never see one another again. 
                   Work hard & play hard OK? 
                                                          Love you guys 4ever & always, 
                                                                                           Poach 
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Mindy's Entry 
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Dear Journal, 
            People nowadays only know how to vandalise, but they never write proper entries. Tsk, tsk. So I shall try my humble best to write something proper and intellectual, in line with my wonderful image. 
            First, my elbow hurts because I scraped it on the pavement yesterday. (Oh oh. I can already see that this entry is degenerating.) You know why? 'Coz we found a dog in my estate called Name ('cause he had no name - gettit, gettit?) and he kind of pushed me down and i scraped my elbow. 
             Second, do you know I actually went for Air Rifle yesterday?! I hate Air Rifle. it is really, really, really, really, really, etc. boring. I hate it so much I've forgotten why I joined it. And my stupid teacher wants us to make up for not going; and you know how many times I've not gone, right? Sigh. i feel like breaking my finger so I'll be excused permanently. not that it makes much difference to my accuracy whether I shoot with my healthy finger, a broken finger or my toe. 
             Whoops! Mrs kwan is here for AAARGH A Maths. Gotta run! 
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Dear Journal, 
                I'm trying to learn from Mindy by entering a proper journal entry. Cindy is blabbering about dogs next to me. Having Chinese again. Stupid lesson. They should abolish Chinese. Got test tomorrow. Sigh. let Cindy take over....  OVER TO YOU CINDY! 
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Dear Journal. 
        I wonder if those pple at the seminar are having fun. Hmm, lessons today are a little sleepy. Good lor, coz no stress. Wonder what Joey is doing? Is An making noise or trying to gas Cheryl. 
            hee, Cindy
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Nat's Entry 
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Hi everyone! 
          Nat here....we just had Chem prac....made esters! Don't worry, those who weren't there for prac., you didn't miss much... All we could smell was the "banana" one... the rest all smelt basically of nail polish remover... It's geog now, Mrs Yap is wearing her "patch"-dress... We're doing the stupid popn  pyramids now...  i think doing geog is dumb. Come to think of it, studying is dumb... I mean, how is dy/dx gonna help me when i grow up? It's not like I'm gonna measure the gradient of the slope that I'm gonna climb, or something...hmm...well, I shouldn't depress myself thinking about it... I don't understand these pyramids...arghh... 
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*P.S. Who's Jonathan Pflug? 
         Sorry lah, I know I'm very blur! 
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Okay, gonna pass the journal to Dawn now! 
  See ya babes!
                            Natasha
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Dawn's paranthesized take on the trend 
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Hi journal, hi 4/12!! 
              The Geog Sentosa thing just had its deadline extended to the 20-something of April, courtesy of mrs Yap. It's still Geog (i.e, Thursday Geog) and Mrs Yap is now in that funny blue thing of hers. Apparently, we're doing migration next week, which she (Mrs Yap) says will involve a small sketch (whatever that may turn out to be). I'm not lookin' forward to it at all. And Nat's got a point too. Will I go to New York City when I'm grown up and say, hey, urban migration is taking place here? Noooo. Will I ever have to calculate (uh, figure out) the chemical composition of the Great Wall of China? No, no and nooooooo. Lower Chinese (uh.CL2, dat is) prelims in 9 days time, ya ready yet? (Ha, stooopid question). I'm just ramblin' in black (a colour greatly reflective of one's mood), which everyone seems to have a huge tendency towards using lately.... (ref. page before this) 
               Yipes, Miss Yeo's here threatening us with some subversive article. Gotta goooooo.... Over to >>somebody else...<< 
                 Dawn
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Talkg Point is having this Migration Thin' --apparently 
America's isn't welcoming many immigrants...hmmm Dawn? 
Louise the great.
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Minz. unpflugged 
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 An Open letter to my not-so-tolerant class 
 (done on Federal company paper as usual) 
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Dear class, 
            It sorta came to my attention that you all are mad at me. About Jonathan Pflug. (Why? He's so adorable & lovable!) Anyway, since you can't get me to shut up about him, maybe it'll help if you learned to like him. (you will, he's too ke3 ai4) 
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maybe i should start on something else.... 
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I LOVE KENNY PERREIRA! 
Luv,  MINZ.
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Darling Poach 
           You're totally amazing & spastic but I love you anyway. Thanx for putting up with me for the last 4 yrs. I especially appreciate the hunt for a certain gentleman's house at Grange Rd. You're good. Think of me at HCJC. But if you get the PM Book prize in 1999 & I don't, I'll hate you. How now I'll just miss you. 
               Luv, minz.
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Epilogue 
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hi everyone. joanne here. sitting in class on 21/10 (if my watch still works, that is), on a monday, 6.45am. its the last day of school and funny thing is : nobody's around. normally dawn's around, but i think you all have done a funk on me and all not come to school. hmph. hateth u. and i'll have to clean the whole bloody class by meself. yuch. mebbe i shd go b4 mrs chan pops in and makes me clean the toilets too. uggh. *shudder*  so where is everybody going? (figuratively) soon, in a matter of weeks, our classroom is going to be very empty. as in (ooo everyone's here now) we are all going our separate ways, to start another new chapter of life. what will fill out class ever again? as i look at it, a picture of dust and gloom, soon to be less than a shadow in our memories. i mean, look at it, how many of u actually remember all ur primary school mates (with fondness, of course). soon, we'll all have to start scrubbing the area, erasing every trace of out ever being here. can we then say that we, as a group, 4/12, have left our mark around? *sigh*  *depression sets in*  after scrubbing and sterilizing and dehumanizing our area... our area which we have had so many fond memories and experiences... our area which we have changed and "evoluted" thruout these years... its like a dog sniffing over its property, then knowing it by the familiar smells of it. ok, maybe im exaggerating a leetle bit. but very soon, and i can see it looming and hulking nearer, out of the corner of my eye, the dreadful sterilization that will befall our beloved class. will be let our dreams, memories, fragile memories be washed away, by deluges of water? plain, old, physical water? for no! we will not! we will stand firm, and once the dirt and grime is washed away, our hovering dreams shall settle peacefully oer the class, and will forever be there. the next class, the next 4/12 shall feel our shadow hovering still around, and shalt be comforted by our presence. and they will tread lightly, and carefully in this hallowed class, for, they will be treading on our dreams.  
Joanne            .
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im sorry i babbled and took up an entire page. and i can plagiarise Arthur Yap cuz he plagiarised some other poet. yes he did. Muahahah.  
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