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-best known as May Ching-
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Monday, December 24, 2007, 10:16 pm
And today is Christmas Eve.Don't know why I bother writing this, it's not like the traffic on my blog is overwhelmingly exciting or anything like that.
Heard a rumour yesterday that OGLs have a Maths test this week. Will not disclose any further details lest I get done for leaking secrets. And we all certainly don't want that to happen, now, won't we?
Spent my day hanging out in school busy with play rehearsal. Now if only I can get the entire cast together in one room... The only time that'll happen is the actual day of the play itself, sometime next week/year.
Speaking of attendance, that is one quirk here that really seems to annoy me. People always, always always show up late. For some reason.
In a country where time is so important, being one of the few resources it has, the people seem to have plenty of it to spare. For example, when the time to meet is set at 10 am, it's considered perfectly normal to show up at 10.15 am without an explanation. Indeed, I have known people, supposed to meet at 9 pm, call at 9.20, saying that they'll be there at 9.30 and finally show their sorry faces at 10.15 pm.
I am definitely a punctuality freak. I'm not ashamed of it. I once told off my friends for arriving for a meeting 15 minutes late. But I think that agreeing to meet a person at an appointed time constitutes making a commitment, and making a commitment isn't something that you take lightly. I'm an anal-retentive, tight-arsed wound tight as a miser's pocket. But would you rather have someone who is there 10 minutes before the appointed time and tells you off for being 5 minutes late? Or someone who finally shows one hour late with minimal apology for making you wait. (The latter really happened to me, the former is... well, it's me.)
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