Right. So, tomorrow I'm going to Cesar's house to swim. I forgot how to swim. And I passed my Gold. Oh well. I haven't actually swum since I started preparing for the major exams last year, so what did you expect? And I'm surprised and some of the grammar I'm seeing on American forums. They speak English, don't they? It's even more surprising that someone like me would be the one to spot the errors. Hey, I'm Asian. Hey, my English probably sounds weird to native speakers (at least I'm sure the accent does). Ah well. People have no respect for language these days. Or maybe my expectations are too high. But hey, English is their native language! They could at least speak it properly.

I swear her mom is nuts. Or biased. Most probably both. Hey, Marvin does nasty things to us all the time and she pretends not to notice. Always at her to 'do this', 'do that'. I've never even heard her speak a sharp word to Marvin yet, and boy does he deserve it. You know, sometimes I feel like telling both her parents to shut up and take a look at what's really happening. They keep thinking about what she hasn't done. Okay, sorry, the good she hasn't done and the bad she has. Does it ever occur to them that she hasn't yet chucked a vase in their faces? Does it occur to them that she hasn't told them to 'f*** off'? Because if my parents did that to me, they'd get a whole legion of curses, English, German, Japanese, Russian, Greek and Latin even, falling on their heads. Oh, and a knife in the ribs into the bargain. And does it occur to them that she does help with the chores, teaches her brother, cleans up after Marvin, and helps her grandmother? Probably not. Like I've said before (not in here), sometimes I think that we're just accessories to them, so that they can tell their relatives that, 'Oh, my girl is so intelligent, see, she can do this and that...' A whole pile of bullshit (excuse the language). Take a look at what they say to our faces.

Right. Enough angst, vulgarities and badmouthing people (even though it's the truth). I had a nice sms conversation with YJ yesterday. Mee sua does exist after all. Will never forget that time... "Sir, there's mee sua on your head, sir." Whack. Gangster falls down. After performance - "What the hell? Mee sua? Where on earth did that come from?" (courtesy of our very eloquent Tien). Yeah, and the silly test we did... Kurama knows YJ well, huh? Oh well. She likes him. I told her yesterday she was singing his praises and she said she couldn't actually sing praises. Which is true, and what I was expecting. Not the first time I 'read her mind'. I remember - "'School culture? Oh, you mean Yakult?' 'Ya.'" Anyway, she's extremely creative when it comes to swearing.

Tsuyomi once brought up the horrific prospect of him and YJ dating. Of course, I wouldn't let him touch my best friend (sorry, best school friend, but I will shorten it to 'best friend' for the sake of brevity), but I must admit the thought quite scared me.

Tsuyo-nii and YJ both think of me as a little-sister type of person, and I guess I like that. It's a change from having to look after people, which I must admit has almost always been the case. One reason why I liked Sawa - I didn't have to play big sister. Although I don't like it when they try to do stuff themselves. It's as difficult for them as it is for me, never mind that I'm quite a bit smaller, etc.

Oh well. Someone tell me what MAR is? I have an idea, but it seems YJ is having her senile dementia again (another inside joke). Can't seem to remember what she told me about it...

Okay. Got to do stuff for my mother again.

Signing off,
Aerin