| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| Young In The Yellow City (Fiction, Episode 2) |
The Queen was wearing stilettos as usual. Today she wore her brown heels with a fabric upper in a floral print of red, brown and teal over a white background. To match those heels, the Queen chose to don a white floral lace dress, bearing the flesh on her wrinkled and spotted arms. Her lip was dark red, and she wore a pair of big, matching dark red ear studs. Her hair is short, wavy and neat. Her crow's feet are obvious, but she only puts on light make-up, showing no intention of concealing her age. Perhaps that's her true rationale, to make her seniority known to the students, to induce respect and fear in her students. The white Prada bag that she carried completes her graceful appearance, but Ignatius ought to know better. She's like Miranda Priestly, the Devil who wears Prada, although Ignatius was not quite sure if that white lace dress she is wearing now is Prada.
The Queen is Mrs. Rose Ang. She is Ignatius' GP tutor.
And Ignatius has forgotten about the essay that is supposed to be due today. Three questions, one on environmental protection, one on the influence of mass media, and another one on euthanasia. Suddenly euthansia seemed like the only option for Ignatius to take. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but a woman scorned hath no fury like Mrs Ang knowing that you have forgotten to do your homework.
After the daily routine of flag-raising ceremony, Ignatius checked his timetable for the day. Great, the first period at 8 A.M. is Chem lab. Perhaps I could find some cyanide to use, Ignatius thought. He felt queasy, the kind of queasiness one would get when they know that doom is looming.
After spending two hours in the poorly-lit, underventilated and depressing-looking laboratory, Ignatius gets an one-hour break. He mentally add a new item to his to-do list.
Chem lab was dull, especially the person whom Ignatius is sitting next to is Eva Fan. Boring, average Jane from China. her hair is thick and wavy, which reminds Ignatius of Goldilocks, another PRC girl from SCGS. The only difference is that Eva ties the waves on her head in the most humbling way using the most boring hair band one can ever find, while Goldilocks is proud to display her waves in the most exagerrated manner one can imagine. Either she's oblivious to all that snickering behind her, which would indicate a dumb blonde personality, or she just happen to have a bad hair day, every day. Or maybe she's the spokeperson for fashion (not!) wigs.
Ignatius and Eva set up the experiment together. There was no much chemistry between them. They quickly allocated the tasks between themselves and set off to work. They obtained results, recorded their observations, and discussed briefly on how to describe the observation seen when they heat unknown, white, powdery compound Q "until no further change is observed." Miss Grace Chua, the Chem tutor went through the experiment with them. Bell rings. Lesson's over. Ignatius heads back to the class bench.
"Lend me your essay."
"You never do, huh? Haha!" Lim Yan Yun teased. "Yeah, I didn't. I totally forgot about it. Did you do yours? How long is your essay?"
Ignatius' heart sank when he saw that Yan Yun wrote on euthanasia. He knew absolutely nothing about euthanasia. Plus, euthanasia is such a sensitive issue to be tackled in GP, too many grey-areas, too argumentative. He's only good at regurgitating facts, so he needs a sample essay on environmental protection.
"Xin Wei, which essay question did you choose?"
"I wrote on the environemtal protection thinggy." Ignatius' heart lit up with hope again. "Lend me! Puh-leeeeez! I am desperate!"
"Okay.. but don't copy blindly," warned Xin Wei, who cautiously handed over her essay to Ignatius.
Ignatius grinned. He knew exactly what she meant, and knew exactly what to do. He will not plagiarise, and he knows how sensitive the Queen is to plagiarism. She can detect the slightest plagiarism in her students'essay, effectively knowing whether or not her students have been copying each other's work. What he needs to do now is to read through Xin Wei's essay, pick out her arguments, paraphrase them and substitute the examples and case studies with those he had memorised by heart. Wind energy in the Netherlands. Solar energy in Germany. Tidal energy in Southern France. Stupid Xin Wei, Ignatius thought, All she can give is the Kyoto Protocol.
Ignatius' Nokia vibrated. One new message is received.
"ECACO formals at 330. A306." It was from Lucy Liu, the secretary for ECACO, which is the committee that Ignatius is in.
Yet another meeting. Ignatius took a deep breath and decided that he need a break from the homework-copying. Potato wedges from "Asian Fusion" and a small pack of Marigold's mixed fruit and vegetable juice. Bell rings. Ignatius, now with one less worry off his mind, dragged himself to the classroom where the Queen awaits. He made sure that when he enters the classroom he must appear non-chalant, and kept psychoing himself that he has completed the essay -- by himself, so that he would radiate this aura of self-confidence. The Queen is very sharp. She can detect the slightest form of flusteration in her students, so he must really cover his emotions well.
... To Be Continued. Stay Tuned. |
posted by Terence (Hasegawa Masahiro) @ 6:50 pm  |
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