I finally get to experience how it is like to feel bored today. This is the first time in the whole school holiday that I find myself with so much leisure time to spare. I know that I am not supposed to have spent the time sleeping or walking aimlessly around Tampines mall but it really beats lying on the floor doing holiday assignment. I still do not know what exactly I have to do during the holidays and I hope that I can finish all my assignment by the time school reopens although I don't know how it will happen if I do not ever start on it.

I can't wait for tomorrow to come. Finally there is band again although it is sectional. I am thankful to know that playing is so much easier than conducting and this time it will be different since there are more sec 4s than year 1s around. The band sound is improving.

Somebody please come for No-So-Silent-Night 2005!

Moving away from me, I am beginning to feel that public transport is losing its meaning. I thought that the main objectives of public transport is to reduce pollution and provide cheap and affordable transport to the people. It seems otherwise now. They are just trying their best to make as much money as possible. Just look at the recent fare hikes and the even more recent implementation of a fine of $50 or so for cheating on bus fares. That law seems to be fair, however, I believe that it is only fair if they also have to compensate passengers the same amount if they are over-charged for a ride. I don't understand why consumers cannot be protected by the law when the companies can be, even though they are still making a lot of profit. In lieu of the new law, I have come to a conclusion that the bus operators are trying to make even more money. This is very evident because in the past 5 days alone, I had to reach out for my wallet 4 times to get my ez link card checked and there was one time where I wasn't checked because the inspector was getting off the bus already. When you compare this to the situation a month ago, where I will not even encounter a single check in a few months, it can clearly be seen that the bus company is trying to make more money through fines and they think that the opportunity cost of employing more inspectors is less than that of collecting fines for fare cheats who at most can cheat a dollar at a time.

Enough said about that. Anyone has any ideas for fund raising? My head is bursting for thinking of ways to fund raise. That reminds me of VJC's concert. NSSN will be held in the usual venue, the performance theatre at 7.30 pm on the 17th December 2005. Tickets are at only $8 each and it's free seating. Please get your tickets soon. Also coming up is Mus'Art Wind Orchestra's concert on the 11th December. Tickets are distributed free of charge on a first come first serve basis at esplanade before the concert starts. The last performance I will be taking part in this year will be on Christmas eve at the Esplanade library at 3pm. I suppose that performance is a free one.

I shall stop here and continue with my letter.

Recently, I have been experiencing a lot of better things that I am no longer satisfied with what I used to be satisfied with. Now I understand why people always have higher and higher expectations. Once there is something better available, nobody will want the lousier thing but yet once they lose everything, they will start to learn that sometimes it is better to appreciate things that are not the best. I wonder why I am saying all these.

Anyway, I want to wish everyone taking the 'O' and 'A' levels all the best.

Before I forget, Selamat Hari Raya to all (although I don't think any of my readers celebrate this). This is the second public holiday this week. I wonder why we can't have yesterday off as well. It does not really make sense to have 2 public holidays and one working day in between. It only serves to create chaos in my sense of time. Now I have problems convincing myself that tomorrow is Friday.

I'm was looking forward to tomorrow's band practice but after hearing that so many people from band are having their project work sessions tomorrow, it just seems to be a session of time wasting. I hate to have to go for activities that clash with band practices but for tomorrow, I won't have a choice. It will be the first time I am going to meet my supervising tutor for the oral presentation. I can't believe that tomorrow will be my group's first meeting with our tutor when other groups from other classes have already had countless rehearsals with their tutors already. I'm not exaggerating but I believe there are some groups with their insights and reflections report done already while my group hasn't even been briefed on what it should be like and what it should include. I am beginning to wonder if that guy with permant eyebags is actually fit to be a teacher. He was supposed to meet my group a few days before the AO level Chinese paper but he went on medical leave without informing us. After that, we were supposed to have a meeting straight after the Chinese paper, but he said that he was at a meeting. Then it got postponed to Wednesday and again to tomorrow. I really hope that he will not come up with another excuse tomorrow. I did not wish to write about all these but I can't exactly hold it back anymore because this is far too much nonsense for me to tolerate.

I've ranted enough for now.