The Return to Reality

School has started again, and homework that I never knew existed began to appear, like Chinese... Six essays, a couple of comprehensions... This would hard enough already as English, but in Chinese... Can't imagine what the situation would be like if I decided to be lazy and not do any of my other homework.

Mr. Lam's sense of humour seems to have grown over the holidays, unfortunately tipping toward the sick end of the spectrum. Check this out
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Lam : Joel, tell me, are the wires of the solenoid insulated or not??
Joel : Err... Insulated
Lam : Correct, it must be insulated, with rubber. We are safe people, must always use rubber protection
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Lam : Now, we have a few ways to magnetize a magnetic material. One, a traditional favourite of boys here, is called stroking, where we use one magnet to rub against it. Then we have the method known as double stroking, where we use two magnets to rub against it.
Someone : Is double stroking faster??
Lam : The number of hands does not matter, you still get the same...effect.
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To try and relax, I decided to skip the selection trials for Sec 1's (It was optional, and it was raining) Chris and company to play table football. Problem was, Bryant was torn between going with them or going home to do his homework and Monty didn't want to go to HBD Hub because it was too far from his house, and we debated on what to do in the CC cafeteria while Daryl took a crap and Mojo ran back to school to buy graph paper

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Bryant : See, I really have to get back home and finish up the @#*#ing Chinese..
Chris : Just come with us, you can copy off mine. Well, I left a few blank, but those are the harder ones, you can try them out yourself.
Bryant : Arggh, what to do?? Cheng Heng, what do you want to do?
Me : I....Think I'll just flop over and go to sleep.
(Flops onto the table and goes to sleep)
Bryant : Absolutely useless in a crisis...
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Eventually, Bryant decided to follow Daryl to HBD Hub to help him kill time before he met up with his other friends, and I tagged along. After lunch, we went to MacDonalds to so Daryl and Bryant would have a more a conducive environment to do their differentiation holiday homework in. Having done and handed up mine long ago, I sat there with my McFlurry and helped them out when they needed it, which was pretty often. Flipping through Bryant's Batgirl comic in between rescuing them, I came across a tile with Batgirl and Oracle hugging each other. On a bed. Sam would explode if he saw that. He was went crazy enough at the though of Oracle and Huntress in a mud fight, in bikinis, and requesting to Gail Simone that she include such a situation future issues was on his "To Do" list when we met her at the Writers Festival.