The 'Survivor' Course

Haiz... A few ppl have dropped out of the EL Y2S1 batch this trimester.. first Min Fong, then Rajina, later Chau Hwan, now O-Wen being the latest casualty.. Now, our batch has only 30 ppl left.. 2 guys (me & Eugene) plus 28 girls. Our course is branded as the 'Survivor' cos there are few ppl who can't survive thru the 3 yrs

A flashback
In the beginning, we have 35 students in our batch for the first semester... but, Cindy Lee is the first one who has withdrawn from the course cos she's got an offer from UMP (Universiti Malaysia Pahang). Then, Jen May broke her right arm in an accident and has to defer.. but glad to see she returned to her studies as our junior. During week 7 or 8, two girls came in.. Kim Yun and Yee Wei.. making the number back to 35 again. But at the end of Y1S1 semseter, we're left with 34 students due to the shocking withdrawal of Lim Julie. The number remained 34 (4 guys & 30 girls) for the Y1S2 semester.
Earlier this semester, Min Fong suddenly decided to withdraw. Ok.. now back to 33 again.. then, Rajina chose to defer cos her final exam results of first semester was terribly bad.. not b'cos she din do well.. juz she was admitted to hospital during last few weeks due to appendics.. her coursework marks were low cos she din pass up he assignment (can't blame her though, she was in the hospital). but she came back to sit for the final exam.
Chau Hwan has been mysteriously missing from class from the beginning of this semester.. he came for the first 2 days.. then, nobody has seen him afterwards.. we thought he wanished in thin air.. but it turned out that he's away for participation in a football competition. we wouldn't know where he went if he hadn't gave Monica a call.. he also said that he will return after July 3rd, that after Week 5.. we required to have at least 80% attendance to be eligible to sit for the final exam.. but he has been absent for more than 5 weeks.. if he came back, he will be barred from exam.. anyway, he withdrew.. saying he's no interest to study.. I wonder why he chose the wrong time to be absent from classes.. kinda surprsing cos he has better results than me.. if he has no interest of studying, why he was here at the first place.. I dun understand

Speaking of the latest person to drop out from our batch, O-Wen... he is quite a nice guy.. but lately, he's been acting strange.. when Mr Wong ended his classes earlier (even much earlier than Ms Cheng, lecturer for Structure & Grammar 2 but she finished her evening classes earlier so we can leave earlier), he straight away went to see Mr Krishnan, HOD of Linguistics and Language who was also our lecturer for Critical Reading & Thinking last semester.. dunno what's wrong with him.. too bad Eugene, our course rep, wasn't there to stop him cos he's sick..now, O-Wen dropped another bombshell.. dropping hints saying that he wanted to join the juniors cos their course structure is flexible, not like ours.. but that would cause him more trouble.. he has to take a few more subjects, inclusive one from ours... talking abt the reason he gave make me furious.. wanna know what he said? There isn't any male counterpart in our batch, he said. We learnt his case thru Mr Paul who mentioned a meeting which was held last Thursday and this was one of the agendas brought forward.. and Mr Paul's & Mr Wong's names were mentioned.. I'm not sure what happened during the meeting, but...
WHAT THE HECK IS O-WEN TALKING?
NO OTHER GUYS in the batch??
He's treating Eugene & me as if we don't exist at all. HELLO.. r we both transparent and invisible? I dun really understand why he gave such a stupid and illogical excuse. Doesn't make sense at all. No wonder he wanted to join our juniors to prepare materials for the ELS exhibition next week. When he first announced that, we're totally taken aback.. is his mind really corrupted or what? I think he really needs a break.. and most of the time, he said things without thinking

Now that he has withdrawn from our batch, the first tutorial group needs to choose another class rep as he was the class rep for that group.. wonder who will be bold enough to step up to replace him.. not much choices though.. 16 girls to choose from: Betty, Shao-Chin, Wai Fong, Hannah, Ann, Jan, Ivy, Joey, Yi Ling, Manmeet, Subatra, Mei Yun (Pamela), Renjie, Seoh Chen, Helena & Yin Mun (Grace). No matter who's the one being chosen, I hope she will carry out her responsibilities and duties well.