Dearest HFC members who are reading this article in this blog:

Well, I couldn’t email the blog’s address etc. to all the HFC members, but I did try my best to contact them, by sending truck loads of letters and calling them on their phones and also by emailing them. I just hope most of you find the HFC blog on your own [by accident/ by fate] and read it and erm… comment on it. Oh yeah, those who think, “Hey, is this the HFC from MCS that there was this wacky DUMBledore and that Sprout figure they were drawing all over the place on the white board and all the crazy things they used to do and the magazine idea of theirs that kept circulating round the classroom and was so bloody irresistible?” YES – this IS the one.

Well, what inspired this article out of me was the fact that Yi An [Poppy Pomfrey]
returned me my Pr. 6 English file after keeping it in her house for one year. Inspiring, eh? Well, I was reading some of the story chains that we wrote [as a class] and some were pretty interesting while some were pretty dumb and some were pretty ridiculous and some were… ok.

I guess the theme was “A special event”. After all, that’s the title of almost every story chain. For example, the first one was this really simple plot but it was held up by the vivid description and the really lame end. We first see Cassandra, [the leading actress in the whole story] going to Paya Lebar Airbase to fetch her dad, who had been in Quatar for two years. [I think they had a spelling error. It ought to be “Qatar”] When she sees her dad, she screams and clings onto him like he was a lifeboat. Then the father asks Cassandra who she was and states that he didn’t have a family. Funnily, her dad has Commandos protecting him and she finds out that dad lost his memory in his Quatar visit. Then she brought him home saying “Dad, if you don’t mind, let me bring you home, you might remember us,” [This is seriously funny cause the man’s face “hardened” when he asked Cassandra who she was] When they got home, “her mother welcomed them home with a big hug. She had also prepared a big feast.”[This leaves me thinking: “Does the writer know a cousin word for big?”] Then Cassandra poured out the whole story and both mother and daughter start “whimpering”. Cassandra’s father then laughs and shouts “April Fools!” and the story ended like THAT.

That’s really retarded. But I thought the beginning was quite good. And the rest of the story was just crap. Xin Hua, Madhumitta, Sangeeta and Pei Qi wrote it. Not a bad accomplishment, I must say. Oinky wrote: “A funny twist to an otherwise sad story.” Obviously they hadn’t invented wheelchairs for lame people then.

The next one is titled “The Christmas Joke” it’s really stupid and the authors were clearly far too ashamed of their “masterpiece” to claim it, so they didn’t write their names down. The third one was done by me, Gethsemanie, Jolene and Sunanda. Its one kind of dumb, thanks to the ideas contributed by a CERTAIN person, so I shan’t talk much about it. The fourth one was titled “Story Chain” but it was quite nicely summed up so I have absolutely no complaints. April Fools’ Day, whole MCS rebelled against Orangutan, whole story revolves around Mrs. Tan trying to play a trick on the children and the smart kids in our year, for example, us, and we playing the pranks. I love the ending sentence; “Yet another triumph for the students of Marymount Convent School.” Oinky didn’t comment on it either… Probably she wished that would just happen. Started and edited by Beverly, Eileen, Joy and Lydia. Wish I could thank them for this. The next one was done by Anuthama, Xin Ying, Yi Chieh and Jertaime. It’s quite dumb, I must say. But it’s fiction. Too fake, in fact. I don’t mind the next one, but its one kind of dumb. Somehow or other, I became Spongebob Squarepants. Wow. I can really imagine myself living in Bikini Bottoms and having a yellow head which is seriously porous and goofing up and having two front teeth like Bugs Bunny. Wow. Remarkable. Written by Eva, Megan, Hwee Yin and Joleen. It’s quite WRONG. Take the last line, for example. “She [Roshni] unplucked Michelle’s costume; she instantly turned into Mrs. Ong!” That sounds wrong. How do you “unpluck” someone’s COSTUME? Ok, that’s just nonsense.

The seventh one is about romance, and I think it’s absolutely rot so I shan’t talk about it. I hate the next one. It’s quite ridiculous. Done by Alicia, Shermaine, Clara and Qing Ru. All HFC members. Gosh. I’ll quote this one. It goes like this: “Suddenly, I remembered that day was my birthday.” That’s totally dumb. I mean… hello? I SUDDENLY remembered that it was my birthday? Well, I guess it sounds ridiculous to me, cause I spend the whole night before my birthday dreaming of what I was going to do the next day. I like the next line… It’s so funny. “I went back to my room to slump into my bed but it was gone!” I wonder what I would have written if I were asked to continue the story from there. I think I would have written something other than “It was there a minute ago!” which is coincidentally what the author has written. Ok, so the story’s about the dad and the mum divorcing each other on their kid’s BIRTHDAY. I think that’s just ridiculous. Then the dad says: “Your mother and I are going to divorce as we found out that we are not compatible. And I have the custody of you! So you and I are going to live in the new house in Houston! Isn’t that exciting?” Seriously, this dialogue is totally rubbish. I mean, you just realized that you’re not compatible after 12 years? That’s posh. If you read it out loud to yourself in the fruity manner that these punctuation marks suggest, you’ll know for sure that it was written by a person whose parents have not divorced.

The ninth one is about some April Fools’ joke which is not a very funny joke that I can’t bear to write it down. Done by Yi An, Alethea, Yuen Kei. Somehow, I feel that we didn’t really have much imagination then. I don’t know about now, though. I don’t like the next one and I am not going to write anything about it, except that it was written by Jolene Gwee, Hui Jun, Dhanya and Gayathiri and titled “The Christmas Yule Ball”. I didn’t mind the introduction, but the rest of the story is bull shit. I’m going to end my article with the last one. I liked it and I thought it was crap. I found it funny and I found it lame. Halloween – Fadark Lord [formed from two lords: Dark Lord and fart Lord] came, Dementors – supporters of Fadark Lord also came as well as Dumbeldore and McGonagall. Fadark Lord was turned into a pretty pink pig by McGonagall. It ended with a “Fadark Lord was sent to a nearby pig stall to be slaughtered and Halloween returned to its normal, colorful self". By Cassandra, Pearlyn. Wen Yuan and Roshni.

~~ by Minerva McGonagall