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the situation was rather tense during.. esp during chinese class...
ndp ndp ndp...
after all we're all passing out soon... i think the best thing is to let the parade flow smoothly...
haiz... i used to think that since all the CCA leaders are good frenz, or maybe juz frenz, with 1 another.. such conflicts wun happen..
but whu noes?
anyway.. rather tired... the speech day rehearsal took up so much of our time..
& after that ms goh made me & siyun sit down & watch the fancy drill...
well.. reached home @ about 6.45...
almost a day gone.. & my stomach was growling.. hahaz...
well.. shall end my entry here.. haf to do some physics & maths...
*pray that all goes well*
travail \truh-VAYL; TRAV-ayl\, noun:
1. Painful or arduous work; severe toil or exertion.
2. Agony; anguish.
3. The labor of childbirth
intransitive verb:
1. To work very hard; to toil.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
But they stand out in even sharper relief when considered together -- when, for example, Jefferson's instinct for the lyrical is matched with Madison's impulse for the specific, or Washington's ease in office is matched with Adams's unceasing travail.
--David M. Shribman, review of Founding Brothers, by Joseph J. Ellis, Boston Globe, November 12, 2000
Every sport entails physical and mental travail, but the decathlon is a veritable factory of pain.
--Rafer Johnson with Philip Goldberg, The Best That I Can Be
For all his travails and tragedy, he remains boyishly delighted with all life has to offer.
--F. Kathleen Foley, "Kron Returns With Spirited, Touching 'Ride' About Family," Los Angeles Times, January 20, 2000
The author of the Book of Jeremiah, for example, notes the "cry of a woman in travail, the anguish of one bringing forth her first child, gasping for breath, stretching out her hands crying 'Woe is me!'"
--Donald Caton, What a Blessing She Had Chloroform
I had travailed for a night, a day, and the better part of another night before I birthed the baby.
--Julie Fay, "In the Houses of the Good People," Feminist Studies, Summer 1999
group1 soared @ 21:33
xoxo