okay i had a really interesting day today :D
here's just a short commentary about stuff.

i went to temasek poly's open house with heather to, yeah, check things out.
im keeping an open mind, in case sh** happens during the Os.
so today, i posed as a currently unschooled student who's simply waiting for the Os results to come out.
just to see how people'll treat you if you're a potential poly student.
no, i don't look down on poly students, i truly believe there ARE a good number of them who make certain jc students pale in comparison.
those who's make it big in the world.
so we strolled around the HUGE campus and looked at prospective courses offered.
heather was keen on the veterinary course, so we detoured to the science block.
the booth had a display of a dog's heart which had worms in it.
the girl manning the booth explained that those were heartworms, and that the dog died due to that ailment.
forgive me for sounding nerdy here but that's the whole gist of it.
i was horrified at the sight of the display, really.
the poster on that ailment scared me further too. zz
the heartworms are transmitted by mosquitoes, the larvae is carried in the mosquito and it being a vector, injects the larvae into a dog's bloodstream where it migrates to the heart and takes up residence there.
this ailment may also affect humans, and THAT freaked me out!
the worms aren't those half an inch in length, each are at least 4 inches long.
this only served to intensify my fear of mosquitoes.
mind you, i have a morbid fear of mosquitoes, the sound they make drives me up the wall.
i remember once there was a mosquito in my room at night, and i was so freaked by it that i ran over to my sister's room to sleep. HAHA
and another time i ran over to my parents' room to bunk.
don't laugh! it isn't funny if it's you.
haha :D
i felt disgusted and squeamish and queasy after staring at it, so much that i actually turned to one side and retched real violently.
my eyes were practically watering but i could see several people having a good laugh at my expense :S
it's just SICK.
i can never be a doctor in future or i'll probably puke all over my patient. LOL
GA-ROSS! =X
okayokay, i shall quite being so whiny =)

this somehow reminded me of the time at my family chalet.
there were like, too many people bunking over one night, such that i didn't have a place to sleep.
so i told my sis' friends who were sleeping on the mattress at the corner, that if you aren't careful, ants will crawl into your ear and eat your brain ( that corner's rather dark, so there're probably potential insects).
the looks on their faces were PRICELESS!
she spent a lotta time fretting cuz she slept in that corner the night before.
so that night, everyone stayed clear of the corner LOL!
and i had the corner all to myself :D:D:D
OKAY i know it was an incredibly mean joke to play on the poor innocent kids but hey, i couldn't resist :D
technically, it's impossible for you not to notice if ants crawl into your ear because the pain when they gnaw thru the eardrums would be too incredible for you not to take note.
so... i told them the truth in the morning, but they didn't wanna believe me... x)
:)

anyway, i had a real dose of the feeling of being looked down today too.
i met an elderly man on the bus to tampines mrt station when he turned and talked to me and heather.
check out the following conversation, the entire convo was actually in chinese x)

him: excuse me... does this bus go to tampines mrt station?
me: yes, my friend and i are alighting there too, so we'll let you know when we have to alight.
him: ah okay thank you.
(i was carrying the temasek poly brochures in my hands)
him: you're waiting to go to poly?
(i glanced at heather and grinned)
me: im keeping my options open.
him: oh i see... i think you would really admire my son, he scored 5 distinctions.
me: really? that's great!
(i had 7 distinctions :D)
him. yea! and he got 10 points for his Olevels. what did you get?
me: (pauses) 26 (actually it's 8)
him: oh! (laughs) so i suppose jc is no option for you then?
me: well i guess so...
him: my son is really smart, he was given a scholarship by MOE, did you know that?
me: really? so i suppose he went to a really good school?
(i had the ESIP scholarship too)
him: of course, do you even need to ask that?
me: i was just curious.
him: people who go to poly have little or no chance of making it into a university, if you had studied harder, maybe things would have been different! you probably would not regret scoring so badly you know?
me: (silence...)
him: especially for math, i think it's a real waste you didn't score distinctions for both maths, math is the most essential and the easiest to score in. too bad you let that chance pass you by.
me: well i think it's a matter of interest, i don't like math (which is the absolute truth) so i find it hard to work on it.
him: (laughs) well i guess it's your choice, as long as it is not my son, i have little concern.
me: (laughs) okay i guess you are right, i don't have much of a say since im not as smart as your son.

then he left.
im surprised that people still have the thinking that poly students are inferior, it is so not true and the thinking is SO yesterday.
i didn't let the convo progress the way it did with intention to mock him, i was simply curious to find out what people thought of you if you're of a different status.
some things never change, social status, as i have discovered, is still of uncanny importance.