I am a homework factory.


"Okay, I want all of you to hand in this work by Wednesday," the teacher said.
Like any other factory, I have deadly deadlines to catch.

"I want you to to make fourteen graphs showing the shift of a demand curve."
Like any other factory, I have a lot of demands from my customers.

"I want you to specify the uncertainties for all the values you have obtained."
Like any other factory, I have a lot of uncertain, customized orders to suit the needs of my customers.

"I want you to do it again."
And like any other imperfect factory, I sometimes encounter faulty products and dissatisfied customers.

But unlike any other factory, I don't make profits out of making homework.

For the past two months I can barely estimate the number of sleepless days and nights that I have spent doing homework. The workload in the IB is overwhelming - in the sense that it does not give me a sufficient amount of time to relax and unwind in a faraway, secluded beach during the weekends, or go clubbing late saturday night in Zouk (ha ha kidding, I don't go clubbing, I'm still 17) - although surprisingly, most of my homeworks are manageable and doable, and fairly easy.

Okay, it's quite ironical to say that "I can barely estimate the number of sleepless days and nights that I have spent doing homework", and at the same time announce that "most of my homeworks are manageable and doable, and fairly easy." Well, I have recently noticed (take note, recently) that Windows Live Messenger has become an ominous and omnipotent piece of distraction in my academic life. It is the best thing my laptop has in store for me, but it's the worst denouement in my every day life; I begin my night pondering about my homework, but as the moon makes its way across the evening sky, I inevitably find myself immersed under a stream of endless online conversations in msn. Then I go sleepy:

RowLand says:
Hey, im sleepy... :(

Rowland says:
I gtg sleep

Danusha says:
Okie rowly

JOOOEEEY! says:
good night!!

juns says:
nightt

Sleeping Forever says:
:]

Buddhika Warnakula says:
Okies

weijie! says:
good night

mary says:
goodnight rowland!

ChRiStOpHeR says:


Tanya says:
Banana!!


RowLand says:
good night!! :D

And poof, there goes my homework, collecting dust beside the dustbin (not in the dustbin). There's just too many friends online every single day, and it seems like they're magnets attracting me to chat with them until all our eyes and back and fingers get exhausted.

But I still love my friends. I love you all!!! :D


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And don't get me wrong: It's unbelievably fun to do homework. I don't know why, yeah it's weird. But it's fun.