The carpets for the car have dried, putting to an end Miss Loi’s girl racer illusion once and for all.
The carpets at The Temple have been cleaned and dried too, and now a sweet fragrance of shampoo lingers in the air.
Following that fateful day of The Great Flood, signs of life are slowly returning to The Temple, like beautiful sakura flowers who have returned to bloom across Japan,
Spiraling columns of smoke from joss sticks sessions can be seen reaching for the skies once more, and Miss Loi’s fierce voice reprimanding students who didn’t do their homework echoes through the plains of Novena again.
But some things do change.
Like how the nondescript packet of cuttlefish snack she bought in Holiday Plaza has suddenly overtaken all The Temple’s existing snacks to become the students’ firm favourite.
So much so that, in order to stop them from emptying the jar, distributing its content among themselves, and returning her the empty jar at the end of every lesson inspire them to greater heights, Miss Loi decided to impose a test consisting of 100% premium questions, where only those who score 75% or better are allowed to lay their hands on the coveted cuttlefish snacks.
Change can sometimes be for the better though.
As seen in the ONLY student who scored >75% for the test, who demonstrated his coming of age by saying:
Nah it’s okay … study is study for yourself one … maybe can share a packet of cuttlefish with everyone. That’d be great!
Which was met with a resounding “YAY!!!!!!!!!!!” by all those who failed the rest of the class. -_-
Change can sometimes also be for the worse.
Like how some of her students have apparently been transformed into litterbugs, as seen from the trail of discarded snack packets found outside The Temple. Shame shame shame. Tsk.
But some things never change.
Like Miss Loi’s unwavering popularity with the guys in white and blue.
This time, the guy was too shy to even leave his name.
