Today nothing much happened cos its one of those 'very academic days', but I did manage to find out a little of what the RCCOSTPUAH-TDHBFS I have been seeing so much of means, haha. So curious...

Then after school was really fun, cos we went to the Parliament, a place that I never imagined I would have a chance of ever going lol. I went with Shaun, BenChin and ShengWei from 3T and the whole of 3P (apparently, their form teacher forced them to go). We went there and first went through rounds and rounds of security check, getting all the passes...taking off everything...in pockets. So wasted quite some time before getting in. There was a very funny female education guide their with us, and she's like so funny, making comments about us. But I didnt get her as my guide, got another person, an older guy who is boring...

Anyway, watching them talk about the parliament stuff was very fun and exciting, cos they are things about your own country, and whats more, they discussed about Mas Selamat today! We watched Mr Wong Kan Seng make his statements and trying to answer questions from the other MPs. He...was not very good in his answering and sometimes didnt answer the questions at all...but of course there were also some insightful ones made. Heard that Mas Selamat escaped through the ventilation system at the detention centre! So people were asking, how was that possible? Even our houses have window grills lor, thats a security facility by the way...

And I also saw many ministers in person! ok, sort of cos its from behind a glass pane. Some of them look quite different from when they are outside, so it was quite an eye-opener. Also realised some trends and differences between how different people speak in the parliament, very interesting. Oh yes, we had to bow each and every time we entered or left a room (the MPs too), and we went into 3 different rooms for a variety of views. So that makes 6 bows haha. In those rooms we could also listen to the translated version of what the MPs are saying cos they have translators there. It can be wierd listening to the translated version, haha. I wonder how they listen, translate then say the words out at the same time? Theres also someone recording down whatever is being said in the parliament, and he needs to be able to write 150 words per minute! Thats fast...if I could write like that, I would have so much more time to think through my essays before writing them, haha.

Theres also a mace oin the centre table of the parliament, which separates the people into two divisions, the ruling party and the opposition. But for obvious reasons both are now mostly taken up by the ruling party members, haha. Gnereally, Ruling party on the right of the speaker of the parliament (the biggest person around there) and the opposition on the left. Back to the mace, it symbolises the power of the person who is speaking and the authority of the parliament. I wonder what they will do if its somehow not there?

Anyway, it was a really fun and eye-opening trip to the parliament! The MPs so cool, lol. Someone even 'took' what he called Parliament toilet paper and brought it home as souvenir...lol?