It's Raining!

Happy belated birthday, Elgin!
Elgin's the most efficient guy that I've ever known.

Parents are flying home today from HK!

I wonder if they heeded our advice and bought anything from the new H&M that opened there. Then again, it's not like they love shopping for clothes all the time. Perhaps my dad's younger and, by default, chic-er colleagues would be able to influence and persuade them. Perhaps, as teachers, they would advise against liberal clothing houses and forgo trendy high-street brands altogether. (I can hear my sister screaming in terror at the thought of that.) That said, I hope that they didn't get me any school bag because I want to choose one myself, and (after some thought), I've realize it's all along the duty-free chocolates that I'm after.

I missed the class gathering yesterday. (T_T). Andrea's short but somewhat meditational post rather contrasted with Marcus' enthusiastic ravings about it after choir practice, which may have been an overstatement since Marcus is always so happy, but surely wouldn't every class gathering be memorable and convival? Maybe something tragic happened (with him being the point of reference, since minor tragedies are often relative to the person experiencing it and other people may view it as amusing and to their benefitblahblahblah), or maybe he didn't win the wet t-shirt contest (ok, I jest).

Upon further dissection, we can infer that the time of posting (11:13 PM) was probably right after the BBQ. How many people would still log on to their blogger accounts just to type out a mere sentence (10 words!) after a whole day out, BBQ-ing and sticky from all the perspiration and ash. Furthermore, the lack of proper punctuation, in this instance, a missing full stop at the sentence, may indicate a subconscious but supressed desire to want to type more to further elaborate and explain. Perhaps the blogger may have drafted a longer post, only to reconsider the negative ramifications, leading to the cuts that resulted in the cryptic nature of the post.

The sentence also ends off with the '=(' smiley which suggests sadness and disappointment. Interestingly, the last time that '=(' was used in any regular post was on 15 Feb (which goes by the title: mood-pissed. It was, however, 4 paragraphs long.)

This kind of post is rare, in that it goes against the grain of the recent trends leaning towards significantly longer posts (ave. of 450 words) with about 5-7 paragraphs each. Also, a point to take note is the fact that the last one-paragraph post (March 04) was 95 words long, which is 89.47% longer than this particular post. Content-wise, this post fails to explain or at least offer some reflective thoughts and comments.

Bearing in mind the anomalities and considering the overall mood and tone indicators, the purpose of this post is to, perhaps, let the blogger have the post explain itself. Generally, this post is avant-garde in relation to retrospective pieces due to its minutely descriptive and highly cryptic style of informing, its minimalism in word selection ("didn't really enjoy") and the 'newness' of it in relation to previous word counts.

On another level, it just shows how bad I am at analysing texts and consequently, how bad I am at Literature. -.-