Thursday, April 10, 2008
it has been a long time, hasn't it?
in about twenty-four hours, i will be stepping on the same soil everyone else stepped on three months ago. it's odd how things passed by so wooozily. never quite had the time to really slack my time away. and now, it's already my turn to take up arms.
went back recently to see hwachong again. nothing much has changed (duh, it has only been four/five months since we left school!) but it seems all so distant. i can't really believe that we have graduated (have we, actually? we haven't gotten our a level certs yet.), yet the fact remains as such. everyone has started working (i even met liqun and chaoyi in school! imagine how many of our classmates are working in hc now -.-). perhaps that's why hwach (rj people calls us 'hwatch'... does 'tch' stand for the chinese high, lol?) seems so unfamiliar.
i still remember how i (and probably a few others as well, incl ys) used to lament about the school. i haven't quite gotten over the idiosyncrasies of our alma mater, but i guess that that isn't the primary concern for most of us right now.
i like the fact that we were a closely knit bunch. or perhaps, closely knit as a cohort. as i spoke to my rj friend about the culture there, i felt relieved that we weren't that way. despite the competitiveness, we were very warm. not as though anyone had to specifically guard against everyone else. we read one another's essays, we have nice little celebrations around school. it's quite a different environment there - no peer reviewing, no family-like atmosphere (wah the big rj farmily!!! WOO!). and besides, in hc, no one is ever too busy to ignore you! so it's actually nice and comforting to know that the teachers are still concerned about you. lol. well, guess it made me a little more appreciative :D
anyway, that's such a lousy parting post. bottomline: miss you all, would appreciate if someone organises something for 7e/ki class. lol. then we can all catch up with one another and map our milestones (in charm's words, "keeping tabs")! haha. cya all in two weeks... if anyone actually does organise something and i don't run foul in bmt.
went back recently to see hwachong again. nothing much has changed (duh, it has only been four/five months since we left school!) but it seems all so distant. i can't really believe that we have graduated (have we, actually? we haven't gotten our a level certs yet.), yet the fact remains as such. everyone has started working (i even met liqun and chaoyi in school! imagine how many of our classmates are working in hc now -.-). perhaps that's why hwach (rj people calls us 'hwatch'... does 'tch' stand for the chinese high, lol?) seems so unfamiliar.
i still remember how i (and probably a few others as well, incl ys) used to lament about the school. i haven't quite gotten over the idiosyncrasies of our alma mater, but i guess that that isn't the primary concern for most of us right now.
i like the fact that we were a closely knit bunch. or perhaps, closely knit as a cohort. as i spoke to my rj friend about the culture there, i felt relieved that we weren't that way. despite the competitiveness, we were very warm. not as though anyone had to specifically guard against everyone else. we read one another's essays, we have nice little celebrations around school. it's quite a different environment there - no peer reviewing, no family-like atmosphere (wah the big rj farmily!!! WOO!). and besides, in hc, no one is ever too busy to ignore you! so it's actually nice and comforting to know that the teachers are still concerned about you. lol. well, guess it made me a little more appreciative :D
anyway, that's such a lousy parting post. bottomline: miss you all, would appreciate if someone organises something for 7e/ki class. lol. then we can all catch up with one another and map our milestones (in charm's words, "keeping tabs")! haha. cya all in two weeks... if anyone actually does organise something and i don't run foul in bmt.
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