beng didn't come school today. here's what happened yesterday.

after pe, where we played soccer under the hot sun for an hour, where beng allowed spencer to score and got blamed in jest (though understandably), where we did push-ups and squats afterwards, 4K went for recess. we all sat at the tables nearest to the hall, next to the vending machines. most os 4K occupied one long table, whereas a few stragglers like me, weeping, shanzhi and beng sat at the sparsely occupied next table. beng was the first to occupy the next table, sitting in a corner. the rest of us, aka me shanzhi weeping sat further away from him, so at one time beng was sitting alone. i think he was joined by some people afterwards though, not sure.

after i finished eating, i remained at the table and talked cock. then suddenly, i realised beng, who was nearly done with his spicy pineapple rice (as in [spicy][pineapple rice], not [spicy pineapple][rice]), was in tears, behaving in the sort of hiccuping manner i saw him do so so often before. all this while drinking justea. not before long the whole class knew. some people went over to ask why, though he didn't say anything. ryan was trying to make him laugh though judging by what others said i think he was going about it the wrong way. in the end beng went back to class alone, in silence.

when i reached back to class, beng had changed his seat from next to spencer in front of the class to the opposite corner at the back of the class, reading the newpaper while sobbing at the same time. then, mooty walked in and promptly got hit in the head by the door, immediately, raffles players-esque, collapsing onto the floor, his face an unfanthomable image of either pain or pretence. before long we began speculating on whether he was faking or not. i said he was. not before long he uttered a certain f-word which confirmed my guess. after a long while, he got up and the first words he said while smiling was,

"I think I need to go home."

since hong lou meng test was next. lol. anw, back to beng.

he sat at that place for chinese, for history lesson at the LT he sat alone at the corner as well, not saying a word. after that the day ended. the next day aka today he didn't turn up.

i'm wondering what happened that caused him to cry in the seemingly situation of normal poportions, change his seat, dao the class for the rest of the day and not turn up the next day. he's definitely emotionally weaker, having cried twice last year in class, once after getting hit by a rubber band and the other time getting hit by either a soccer ball or hockey ball. as in, who cries after getting hit by soccer balls and rubber bands? its not the norm, i don't know anyone who reacts like this. there are many possible reasons as to why he cried, perhaps its the spicy food he was eating which was too 猛for him, or maybe it was the 1hr of soccer under the sun and he was too tired, or maybe it was the 20 pushups which he couldn't do, or the fact that he was eating alone while the rest of the class was sitting together at the long table. i really don't know, it may even be for a reason not listed here. beng is a very unqiue person.

or in other words, wierd.