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AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY Friday, October 17, 2008

We are not amused.
On Friday, yesterday, for the first half of the day, there was this sec 1 drama presentation thing on a picture based on WWII. (Ok, so it's just rationing, but still...)
Sec 1 Purity, Diligence and one other class whom I forgot presented their plays. The first class's play, the "Portraits of War" stuff, wasn't too bad, and I don't think I could pick out any historical errors...(although you don't use those sort of automatic handguns that look too futuristic for their own good during WWII).
Oh, yeah, there was this good one where she forgot her lines. "In early August 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima..." think think think, can't remember "nagasaki"...continues, "In Japan".
TWO atomic bombs dropped on HIROSHIMA alone?!

The second one, Diligence I think, involved an Oprah show and lots of drama. The first couple, "Brandon Pitt" and "Melody Lohan", were so lovey dovey that they were really really overdoing it. And there were quite a few BIG problems.
For instance, (this one I may have gotten mixed up with Diligence's one, I can't remember anything anymore) during one scene the husband and wife are relaxing in their house during the war (about 1939-1940 maybe) and the TV sits in front of them. They switch it on or something and the news reporter starts saying, "THE GERMANS ARE MARCHING ONTO LONDON" or something like that.
Number one: TV service was cut off during the war, from 1939 all the way to 1946. So they can't even watch TV.
Number two: The Germans never reached London. Hell, they never touched any part of England except for some grotty little islands off its coast. (Of course it may've been "Poland" and I might've heard wrongly, but anyway...)
And then there was the ultimate logical loophole.
After that TV incident the husband goes off to fight in Africa or something. The wife becomes a nurse in England, helping the victims of the Blitz. And one day another nurse comes in and tells her "there's a very fatal injury in ward 43" or something like that.
No. 1: NO WARDS.
No. 2: Fatal's already like, definitely going to die, what's the point of saying "very fatal"?
So she goes to ward 43 and see's it's her husband, with his war wounds and all and he died.
No. 3: I thought he was fighting in AFRICA?
(Now, if you were to argue that he was evacuated, it wouldn't work. 'Cause they wouldn't have evacuated him if he had a "very fatal" injury - he'd just die in Africa.)

The last one was the one with a few logical errors.
Then, in another scene, a grandmother with her kid opens the door to her past and the boy's like "There was a war in Singapore?"
He must've been supposedly at least ten years old...How can ten year olds not know there was a war in Singapore?! (And just for the record, the British do NOT wear brownie scarves around their necks.)

And then we had the Malay heritage centre visit.
I passed my house along the way!
Sorry, that's digressing.
Anyway.
Pretty fun and everything, I guess. Although during five stones the stones kept dropping out so I couldn't play properly.
But Silat was very funny, and we were all going "hahaha" (To those who were there, no pun intended).
You see, there was this chap that was drilling us, i.e. shouting commands and in one we were supposed to go "ha!" everytime we brought our hands down.
Now, we weren't very enthusiastic and just went "ha..." in a very soft tone whenever he asked us to do it.
And when the girl on the stage demonstrated, we all went "huh?" (Which, in case you don't get it, sounds a lot like "ha!")
And we went "ha, ha, ha" when he shook his head and muttered something about us being the "haha" class.
Ok, all very confusing, I know.
But that's not the point, really.
THe point is that they only let us off at 13 30 when they told us on the timetable we would be realeased at 12 30.
And after that I had to stay for some stupid survey which took up ten more minutes.
And we didn't have recess, just some break with bee hoon and very, very sugary donuts, and I only ate half a donut and half the bee hoon, although I did eat the whole squishy jelly thingy.
So I was pretty hungry after that.
But at least I got to eat KFC after that.
Ha.

~Today in History~
1944: Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.

~Quote of the Day~

"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note, stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that consequently this country is at war with Germany."

-Neville Chamberlain, eating his infamous "Peace in our Time" speech almost a year ago.

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