Friday, November 30, 2007
Eagled-eyed ME
Here's another backtracking one which i wrote after studying in National Library.. Ahah.. Interesting!
Irene & i stayed on in the National Lib after our club's calligraphy exhibition.
Empty seats.. esp those with tables are really scarce on a sunday aftn.
We're lucky to spot 2 empty chairs side by side, at a vacant table -the only occupants were a bag & a black paper bag placed on 2 chairs, so we assumed that the other 2 chairs arent taken.
After some time, the owner of the bag & paper bag came back, he sat opposite me & started to read H2 physics prelim paper answers. So from now on, i shall call him the physics guy.
I don't think he was in a mood to study that day.. sure he put his pencil case & calculator on the table, but he didnt touch them at all. When he left his seat, presumably for a refresher break, he came back with 3 graphic novels & finished reading every single one of them before returning to his physics.
After i returned from my refresher (toilet) break, i saw a guy at the seat previously occupied by the paper bag, before conscience got the better of the physics guy and he placed it on the floor.
1st thing i noticed about him: good looks.. lol duh!
2nd thing: an old, horrid looking bright yellow & green pencilcase with a cartoonish pic of the front view of a mouse on one side & the back view on the opposite side, stained with random, ugly blots of blue/black ink. That pencilcase would look cute on a pri sch girl when it was still new ages ago, but on a not-so-young jc boy? Hurhur..
3rd thing: he was doing maths & writing so furiously that the
whole table shook. Initially i thought someone kept kicking the table, but before long i traced the
epicentre of the 'earthquake' to the Maths guy (shall call him this from now on)
The physics guy's empty mineral waterbottle in front of me was moving too ---- to be exact, it's rotating along the circumference of the bottom of the waterbottle in a steady circular motion.. it looked as though i was watching a
physics experiment in Science Centre. ^.^
I asked Irene about the shakings on our way home & she said the pro maths guy
stress her by working so fast. Coincidentally, she was also practising maths (me too actually.. just that i chose to ignore that unbelievably pro maths guy). He merely scanned the question & began answering.. -like dont need use
brainpower, use
eyepower enough alrdy.. and he punched the buttons of the graphic calcuator with such familiarity that it made his GC look like his alternative mobile phone keypad. Well.. the maths guy gave a new definition to the term
'chionging maths' LITERALLY.. chiong1 and pia3 like there's no tomorrow arh!
Another thing i noticed, perhaps it was due to the maths guy's
extraordinary speed in solving maths, he cant seem to be able to write between the lines of his foolscap. I wondered why he bothered to use a foolscap without the intention of following the lines. (@.-)
When he took out a *gasps* CD walkman aka discman, took out a CD from his CD album (so maybe he lugged at least 5 CDs with him) and replaced the CD. Wow! Which teenager still uses the discman these days?? So i stared at the
alien on the table for awhile, saw a prominent red sticker with the words 'DRUG ALLERGY' printed in bold (like those they stick on patients' cards in polyclinics & hopsitals) pasted on the discman. (-_-''')
I could hear the music he was blasting faintly, but i cant tell what music was that. It sounded kinda classical, but i would call it 'bombastic instrumental music' Haha.. cos no vocals & lyrics, just instruments.
The physics guy soon after reading 3 graphic novels & stoning in front of his physics paper.
Irene & i left at 5pm, leaving the maths guy all alone ---to
rock the table with all his might.
yunn. at 11:42 PM