Thursday, August 03, 2006

News from the Trenches

The enemy approaches. Just barely visible at the end of the horizon, all tall, dark, hulking with a menacing sneer visible several hundreds of miles away, covered from head-to-toe with the latest look from this month's issue of Men At Arms with all the necessary accoutrements - grenades, firearms and all manner of barely legal weapons guaranteed to dismember anyone within a twenty metre radius.

Oh. And not forgetting the various dangerous MCQs and viva questions that flay the flesh with the ease of hot knives through melted butter.

Early this month, my loyal compatriots in Notroh Woods have fired their own salvoes during their brief skirmish with the enemy leaving no reports of casualties as yet. As far as I know, Lanky Lex and Skanky Skot still live amongst the other outcasts in the hidden woods of the North. Now the enemy turns his evil jaundiced eye towards me and I'm left oddly despondent, unable to make the decision whether to make a strategic retreat or courageously stand and fight till the end.

Literally fight or flight.

Swords and sorcery
Exams never looked this good!

With the enemy marching closer each day, the manifold reasons I once had for staying behind seem to dwindle into the dust. Hunkered down in the trenches cold, wet and hungry, it's hard to recall exactly why I chose this intrepid path. Why the hell am I doing this? For fucking fame and glory?! For the good of mankind?! It would be so terribly easy to just abandon my post and run fleeing for the nearest manned fort ( with the shopping malls there! ) without putting up much of a fight. Certainly much less tiring too.

Several bullets zing my way but with a little bit of luck, I manage to dive for cover in time. Several past year questions get slammed onto the wall behind me, sizzling with deadly poison. Talk about far-reaching Weapons of Mass Destruction! Reaching for my trusty backpack, I find myself literally aghast.

Bloody hell, I'm armed only with little sticks and stones!

12 comments:

quicksilverlining said...

sticks and stones. ahahahahahah! why not stroke the sticks to fire the stones? ahahahahahah!

Ganymede said...

Waaa. Dem de drama right? :P

MrBunnyBan said...

Heh. You too eh? Typin with one hand whie holding a book now. But no exam just yet.

Kihu said...

oh exam... grrr.. i had enough of it.. mine will be coming in 3 months time.. uhmnn

Anonymous said...

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words are WMD's.

nyonyapenang said...

check and see. maybe some weapons are hidden among the sticks and stones.

hrugaar said...

Hey paul, they're only exams, and within your chosen profession (I think). If you do the work you should be okay. Think of David and Goliath, heh. :o)

OTOH, if the work is proving really troublesome, best have a serious chat with your course tutors about it soon and see what they say. You might be doing better than you know.

Xavier said...

rub the stick and it shall be the excalibur...

tickle the stones and it will be the sheilf of Impenetratable...

armed with the sharpest sword and toughest sheild, you will fight with good chance..

may the elune of Nastrope shines upon you all the way from the highhills of the Notroh Woods

Emma said...

Ooh, check out the hottie with the swords. I feel it's my responsibility as an archaeologist to strip him down and make sure he isn't wearing any artefacts. Because er... that would be bad. So.... I should do that now. Alone. With him. Uh huh.

Annie said...

Focus Paul. Don't let little distractions change your mind about what you want and where you're heading. It's never easy to walk the path least taken. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Just focus and take it one day at a time.
Anniie, who forgets to take her own advice.

Kiks said...

*gay inhale!!!*shriek*

I LURVE Onimusha.

Anywhoo... you're a smart doctor. You got a great job and bagged yourself a hot boy to train your doctor games and anatomical knowledge on.

C'mon. You really trying to imply you can't do it?

savante said...

Tried that. It didn't work, quicksilver.

Definitely drama lah, defiant.

Deep breaths, daniel.

We're having the exams at almost the same time actually, famezgay.

Exams are life and death. Surely some drama is warranted, kyle.

True enough, ed.

Tried looking through the sticks and stones.. couldn't find any, nyonya!

Yeah, ru. taking it cool enough.

Yeha, need all the miracles I can get, xavier.

Yeah, he is kinda hot, isn't he, Roxie?

Am trying to focus. Some distractions are hard to resist, annieeeee :)

Ooh, did you get the action figures! They look real cooL, kiks!

Paul