Sometimes, I can't help feeling I live in a zoo. The perpetual stampeding, hoots, chatter, insane bursts of monkey laughter. I don't mean it in a derogatory way of course. =) It's just a part of my life now. And as with zoos, the animals go on display right? So I'm exhibit C18. At least my lair is. Every now and then, they'll be prospective boarders' parents with their prospective PLC kids touring the place, checking out the rooms, stumbling in upon me practising piano/reading/eating.

Better still, when a whole parade of old collegians decide to come for a stroll down memory lane by touring the BH inside out, and ooh-ing and aah-ing and being excited and everything, with us boarders looking curiously on.

Is this what being a private school is about? Marketing. It's all marketing and publicity. Like the promotional video they want to make of us boarders from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China. So they can show happy, smiling, local faces exhorting them to send their kids here when they go on their promotional tours to these four countries at the end of the year.

Now I know the answer to the question I kept getting at one point of time.

"Why did you come to PLC?"
"PLC had better marketing strategies." (Which, to some extent, is true.)

Meanwhile, stewpeed Optus. Got a message today from them people saying international SMS rates will be jacked up to 35 cents as of September. Drat. Right where it pinches most.