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disappointed. He wanted very much for Nikita to go on this space excursion. He got up from the sofa, shook hands with Mr. Arumugam once again and left the office. He was comtemplating the next thing to do to help his daughter find out what is the ultra-warp speed. Ultra or no ultra, he was going to find out the answer, he made up his mind.
    Nikita was in her bedroom, sitting next to her laptop computer. She was busy searching the internet for answers to her quiz questions. She had completed three of the five questions listed on the question paper. She looked at the fourth question. “Compute one divided by zero?”
    “Mmm…, this was not taught in mathematics class. What could it be?” She thought to herself. She searched in one of the mathematics websites and finally found a clue. One mathematics professor concluded this question could be computed and went on to put forward his theory. However, another mathematics professor argued it could not be calculated. He too put forth his counter-argument.
    “One person say can compute, the other person say cannot compute, now what?” Nikita thought to herself. Suddenly she had an idea. She took out a coin from her purse. She would let the coin decide. “Head for professor one, tail for professor two,” she decided. She threw the coin into the air and let it drop. She caught it in her hand. It was a tail. “That was easy.” She was happy with herself for having solved such a complex mathematics problem. She was attempting the last question before Melissa phoned her on the internet. These days, phone calls could be made over the internet easily. 4G telephone technology had enabled the caller’s three-dimensional miniature image to be transmitted over the internet and projected exactly one metre away from the receiver end.
    “Have you finished answering all the quiz questions?” Melissa smiled mysteriously.
    “Nope. I have one last question to go. What is this ultra-warp speed?” Nikita searched frantically in all the websites that were listed on her laptop computer, beginning from the top. It was a long list of websites.
    “Tomorrow is the dead-line for the quiz , I have all the answers except the last question. Do you have any idea what is the ultra-warp speed? Help!” Nikita was getting impatient.
    “I think it is a super, super warp speed able to travel from one end of the universe to the other end using state-of-the-art, star-ship engine propulsion technology,” Melissa was very pleased with her answer.
    “Why didn’t I think of that? You’re a genius!” Nikita praised her.
    “Of course I’m a genius, don’t you know that? I’ll be offended if you don’t know this simple fact.”
    Both girls giggled helplessly.
    Two days later, a large crowd of students were waiting outside the Spaceship Department. They were waiting impatiently for the results of the astronomy quiz to be revealed. Everybody was dying to go for this space excursion. A clerk walked out of the administration office and pasted the name list of the winners on the notice-board. The students selected were Chen Wei, Nikita Lin Hui, Melissa Devi Arumugam, Samuel Kim Tae Yung and Antonio Ingenieros.
    Many students were disappointed and some even cried on the spot. As a result, many tissue papers were thrown on the floor when the students went away. The cleaner was quite angry with those students who littered, making her job more difficult. As the cleaner swept away the litter, she thought to herself, “why can’t they throw the tissue papers into the bin just next to the notice-board?” She shook her head, unable to understand youngsters nowadays.
    Mrs. Andersen stepped into her class and everybody stopped what they were doing – throwing paper aeroplanes into the air – and rushed back to their seats. Her eyes searched for the class monitor and found him.
    “Thomas, what is happening here?” Mrs. Andersen asked.
    “They were practising the perverted form of the ancient art of