Friday, April 11, 2008

A literary reputation?

Nothing can beat this! First, one psychotic girl from my lit. class borrows my lit. paper. She returns it.
Yay! Then, my friend comes to me and asks if she can borrow it. I say OK.
I give her the test paper.
A few days later,
Me: Could you return it?"
Pal: OK, Sometimes this week.
Then back in class, a classmate says my pal got her to return it to me. Only Girl number 3 says:"can I borrow it?"
AAARRRGGHH!!!
I give my astounded assent.

Lalalalala...
during ed. board duty, one of the form 4's goes up to me and says,"Hey, Fyodor! How's lit?" We go on discussing lit, and the Form 4 goes:"out lit. teacher says you wrote like THREE PAGES for the ending of Naukar! That's so long!"
THREE PAGES???
"I only wrote one or two pages!" I protested. It consisted of the rickshaw-wallah dying and Julia Bannerjee attending his funeral. Damned unimaginative. But my lit. teacher is really appreciative of writing skills.
"That's so long!"
Oh, well. I certainly did not write THREE PAGES. I believe she said so becasue I normally write long essays for lit. and she assumed it was the same with Naukar. Or maye she exaggerated. Exaggerated incidents are more fun, anyway.
The next day, I went and asked my Form 4 pal, "What rumours has our teacher spread about me?"
"Oh, you write really long essays."
My essays tend to be idealistic and passionate and expressive. If possible. Or else, analytical.
My pal at add math tuition goes and discusses lit. with me. Apparently, said my pal said:"I showed my friend your test paper. Now my friend is ga-ga over you." And my mathematical friend goes and borrows my test paper!
It must be retribution on me for borrowing people's test papers last year. Judgement Day has come. Do what you expect others to do unto you. Oh, My God.

1 comment:

pnyong said...

Sounds like you caught me there!