18 years.

graduate class of 2011, aero BEngs. :)

that's how long i've been in school.

and today, it has officially ended. 18 years of school. and from now onwards and probably till the rest of my life, the word "school" and all other words associated with it will no longer appear much in my conversations, and probably here. it's bittersweet thinking that how school has been everything in my life thus far and now, it'll no longer be. 

but i have to say, i've kept many dear memories from these 18 years in my heart. 

in the 2 years of kindergarten (PAP bukit batok west), i met my first best friend pearlyn, whom i lost contact once we left the place. i remembered being jealous of her for being able to ride the bicycle haha. 

the next 6 years in keming primary school was just all about childish stuff. "dun friend you"-s and police & thief and singing pop boybandish songs in class. i had my first close guy friend in primary two, he's called patrick and we used to talk on the phone every night at 8pm. it was a routine, and come to think of it, i think i might secretly  had a crush on him. you know, those primary school puppy love kind of thing. haha. but he was a great friend, always told me which homework i needed to do, which textbook i needed to bring, and that was essential because i used to get punished a lot for forgetting things. and ever since we had those phone calls i even became the class monitor the next year. and then we lost contact once we went into different classes in primary four. i think shortly after he changed school and my gut tells me that it has to be a boy's school. haha. anyway, i've been trying to find patrick and thank him proper for those times. but unfortunately facebook has 10129318092 patricks and i've looked at many of those profiles, PM-ed some, and didn't manage to find him yet. maybe next time i'll try harder.

primary 5 and 6 i hung around with close friends that i still keep in contact with, candy and shihwee. in primary 5 i had this teacher called ms vim, and she's the first one who made me realise one year later that she's really someone whom we call a great teacher! when she was around, she used to be really strict and fierce and we didn't like her, but after that i realised how much she actually gave to us and taught us. until now i still think she's an awesome teacher.

in primary 6 we used to be the most enthu kids in class and so our teachers loved us, especially our form teacher ms inpa. i think that was the first time i knew teachers could be so prejudiced and biased, but thankfully i was on the side that received the good stuff and so i didn't had a loss haha.

my secondary school was supposed to be nanhua secondary, like most of classmates in primary school. i chose RV as first choice though, but unfortunately having a score of 251 i missed it by 3 points. nevertheless, my ma appealed the case for me and somehow i ended up talking to the principal, mr tham, in this meeting room where he explained his rational of accepting us who were below the cut off. that was one thing that made me realise the importance of loyalty, as he explained to us in the room how he only chose those who placed RV as their top choice for the two rounds. 

in rv, i joined concert band, the cca of my choice. unfortunately i didn't make it to the section of my choice, flute, as i got kicked out in the 2nd round of auditions and ended up in percussion instead. but turned out that percussion was a far more interesting and cool-er section and until now i'm glad that i went there. (: awesome friends like cy ahmean chong heng and we used to form a clique called the four seasons. haha. i was autumn! we had 4 years of ups and downs over there, since our sheer numbers meant loads of problems when it came to competitions and stuff where they could only choose a select few. but i have to say all those little fights we had were really nothing in compared to the more awesome memories we shared while practising weeks and weeks and performing on many stages. 

sec one and two were the years i had my "laopos", aka JAW, aka jace amy and wenbin. they were the first to introduce me to this thing called "shuaiges" and taught me how to boy-look. HAHA. i can proudly say thanks to them i started finding an interest in this thing called eye candies in my later years. and happened that one of the eye candies whom they used to say wenbin likes and even had a codename associated with some poultry turned out not quite what i expected. i remembered the first time they pointed out him to me in some assembly i went "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" very loudly. and guess what? one year later i was in the same class as him, another year i ended up liking him quite seriously, and for the next 5 years or so those feelings didn't change. it's funny how things go in one big circle. as for the guy, i still see him around occasionally since we belong to the same group of friends. i think he still doesn't know about this but i guess there's no longer any need to hide it anymore since it's very much a thing of the past. but anyway, whenever i watch him play basketball (the most recent being sunig last year) i still get that fangirlish feeling. haha. as for my laopos? i still meet them once in a while. they've become really pretty and i still super love my babes!

the first two years in rv i also had this clique called "6 peers". apparently we were quite famous, i hope it isn't because of the lame name. haha. we had internal conflicts, many of them, a lot of backstabbing and stuff, but at the same time we spent some good time together in the same class. it's just pretty unfortunate that now i can only keep up with jo kawi's life and not everyone else's. oh yes, one of them, xiaojun, is now in mas and i heard that she's met loi and justin already (: NICE.

sec three and four were possibly my best school years of my life. i used the word possibly, because i can't decide which is better, jc or this, or maybe even the uni years. but anyway, i had a total blast there. 3/4g was not quite the usual class, we were rebellious but guai, noisy and ra-ra but very hardworking, and we had all kinds of people in one class. we were the only class without any student councillors, and we loved it that way and hence we didnt vote anyone in in sec four. haha. our first class chairperson was a big time slacker too. pam tells me often how every time she enters the class she gets a big shock cos we'll be doing all the illegal stuff behind closed doors haha. 

we had awesome teachers too, like mr choo, mr suria, and even ms vijay, who always entertained us in many ways. classes seemed like a whole load of fun, and i remember looking forward to mr suria's physics classes cos he used to tell us so many funny things about his life without meaning to be funny! the fondest memory was how mr suria told us about how he talks to his plants and insists that its a very spiritual thing, and how he readily admitted shaving his own hair when we asked why he had this patch on the right side of his head. o.O he never fails to surprise us. and from him, i learnt never to judge a book by its cover. 

i could go on and on about 4g, because we simply did so many things together like getting 2nd for a national day performance, selling roti pratas, bbqs etc etc, but because this is meant as a summary i shall just go straight to the ten of us. the ten of us, consisting of 5 girls and 5 boys, wasn't a clique but it just happened that as we planned class outings after we graduated these are the people who appear the most. i think what's really nice is that until now we still meet up really often, like me with the girls especially, and it just seems weird when we don't see each other for more than a month. i like it that we actually whatsapp a whole load, spend some quality time together on many occasions (like new years, cny, christmas!) and recently get involved in more "unhealthy" activities, or so we call it. and we still talk freely about rvians who know about, our lives, our shared memories, and they are really the group of friends that made me fully believe in the term "forever friends". can never be more thankful.

hwachong was a short two years, but nonetheless an awesome, eventful one. with many rvians choosing to go nj, it was rather peculiar for me to choose hc but i really wanted to know people out of rv. and as it turned out, 05S78 is the awesomest class EVER. while i ended up meeting my ex classmates quite a bit, they're usually the same few and that same cliques, but for 78, it's always a CLASS outing. as zeying would say, 78 is made up of all kind of weird people, and i think this is precisely why its so much fun! we have people like timo and zong who will ease any kinds of tension possible, blur poks like chieh who makes bullying so fun, zai people with all kinds of ideas, normal but not so normal rvians, and a whole load of weirdy pies. it's never stressful being with them, and more often than not i tend to forget all the bad stuff going on in my mind unknowingly, and every outing just makes me happier. 

i think what's amazing about this is that in those two years, i didn't think that we were a class who was very close, and in fact i didn't have faith that we'll meet up often after we leave hc. but it turned out the total opposite - i think we just got closer and closer! i really believe the thing that made everything work out is how all of us takes turns to organise outings, and how we all take the initiative ourselves, and how we make the effort to make things work. and now? we're still an awesome class even as half the class is at all over the globe (plus we even got a president scholar among us!). 78 rocks and we all agree to it. :D

another important part of jc was canoeing, and in fact, that was a huge part of my life! canoeing was where i pushed myself to my limits, attained things i never thought i could've achieved, realised that part of me which i didn't know. it was probably the first time i gave my heart and soul into something i really wanted and was willing to give it my all. i've learnt so much from haoxia, from the sport, and from my teammates that no doubt made me who i am today. and while it transformed me from that skinny girl in rv to that she-hulk at the end of the two years,  i wouldn't exchange that two years of memories for anything. and plus, i loved sprinting. and i'm glad i managed to continue the sport for another 2 years after leaving hc. 

and finally, i've reached the final part of this - NTU. because the memories are still fresh, i think i can probably write a 10 000 word essay just on this part. but nah, like i said, i want to do a summary. shall just touch on the 3 main parts - aero, hall and polo.

aero had people i grew to love after 4 years, and was a course i didn't quite enjoy as much as i expected. i remembered i had a hard time coping with the largely male population in the first sem, and even cried sometimes because of it o.O but unknowingly i managed to adapt to this environment full of testosterone and ended up making a few of my best guy friends in my life, like the hall 14 boys, kk, jx etc. special mention would be the 14 boys, especially since i spent so much time with them in the final year be it doing projects, fyp, making cheesecakes, eating ikea meatballs, mugging, watching movies, and simply hanging around in hall 14. oh yes, and the night rides on den's bike after every activity in 14. a few years back i would never be able to imagine myself, a girl, hanging out with so many guys and be totally fine with it, but hey, somehow now i can. it's been so much fun and now i'm really going to miss this so much. ): i can only hope that we all will meet often enough from now on.

then there's the aero girls, especially yuenling and deb whom i've been hanging out since the very beginning, and peiying who somehow knows me super well despite us not being able to spend much time together. (: our group has always been known for the biggest female gang in aero, having about one third the total girls. and yeaps! i'll always fondly remember the times we had sitting together in lectures drawing on each others' notes and having many lunches in between lessons :D

and lastly there's kk & kitling who i used to mug together every exam period in different places at school, from library, to benches next to lects, nexus, etc. etc. mugging is fun because of them and i have to say i probably wouldn't obtain such good results without them!

i could write a whole long essay on hall like i did on facebook last time, because hall was such a big part of me - the friends, the people, the things we do together. i don't think anyone can truly comprehend how amazing hall life is without being part of it themselves. the whole idea of complete freedom, the late nights at someone else's rooms htht-ing and drinking beer, the many fun stuff organised by the different committees, shouting across the block to get someone else's attention, lunches and dinners at the heart of all social activity - canteen 9, FOCs, OCIPs and everything else. i enjoyed every bit of the 4 years there, and made super a lot of friends from the 7 batches of niners, some of whom became my undoubtedly best friends (like our very lame come6, a parody of go5 haha).

which brings me to.... come6. this is just a collective name for all of us meant as a joke initially, but somehow it's convenient. haha but to be frank our gang of people contains the core 5 from the first ocip team (where we all got close at!) and other 46 seniors like lim wex fw cheryl. this group of people i can proudly say might be the people i can really truly let myself go and be myself! i think cos we've all gotten close in hall, and in hall you can't possibly show just the glam sides of yourself any longer, which is why we probably know every dirty linen, weird habits and what nots of the each of us. and since we know about everything, we're all able to accept each other as the way we are. like what leen said, there's no judging, and to me, even if we might have differing opinions it's always about having fun. oh yes, and because we are made of quite different people, it's really nice to htht with them cos they always give me all kinds of comments HAHA. and so come6 will be this group of friends i'll always hold dear to, and if possible, meet up as often as i could.

and now i'm at my final part - canoepolo. 2.5 official years as a competitive player, and another 1.5 years of being a recreational player. while at the end of the 2.5 years i realised how i wasn't cut out to play in competitions having all those nervous bouts and without the passion for winning, i wanna say that i had awesome teammates. :) we weren't the closest team and the best one, and sometimes we even had conflicts among ourselves which caused us to fail to unleash our full potential, but i'm really glad that in the end we're still a team :D

i thoroughly enjoyed the late nights out watching soccer with the boys at liquid kitchen drinking beer, prawning at farmart, staying over at shiahzy's and g's, and doing all the stupid things together like sitting at the 24h macs chatting till the first bus reaches. i really enjoyed the company of the few of us, g deb chih jp shiahzy sometimes jingxin yeehan and elvin, because there's always loads of funny squabbles and bitchiness peppered into our time spent. haha. it was really one of a kind i wouldn't get such moments anywhere else :P

as for the cca itself, i'm glad that even though i officially stated to them how i've decided to quit, they always welcomed me back to train with them and even formed teams with me for the competitions ahead! it's really a warm and fuzzy feeling and now i really enjoy going to trainings especially since the stress of performing is now gone (and i think i play better than i used to now!) anyway, nat champs is just this weekend and i'm so looking forward to it!

and so, i've finished summarising my 18 years of school into one entry. i consider this apt since i believe i might be reading through this a lot in the future while reminiscing my school days, and perhaps one day i can proudly show my kids this and tell them, "see, ma has made full use of my school years, and i really hope you get the best out of it too." and they can start going about making their own school life awesome. :)

and so with this, i can only say, life is what you make out of it. you make the best out of everything you have, and happiness is something only you can find. i'm glad i realised this early, and while i have little regrets here and there, i'm proud to say i've made full use of my life. and now, what goes on from here will be a very different story, and who knows, i might become a totally different huiwen in a year's time. but i do hope that my future self will remain the spirited person i am today no matter what life throws me, and i'll always be happy and contented.

and finally, just a random thought, i think i could have given a much more inspiring speech as compared to the two speakers yesterday. HAHA.

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852

took 852 from khatib mrt today where feline dropped me off after giving me a ride from debbie's place. passed by many familiar places today, and i realised the many many memories associated with the bus itself, and the places it goes pass. let me recount -

landmark 1: khatib. paintball with canoepolo peeps! my very first experience. oh and gymming with mel and fel and g too.

landmark 2: upper seletar reservoir. national kayaking marathon 2006. 28km of canoeing on a k1. aka my very first k1 'race'! came in 5th out of 8 and brought back many many disgusting bleeding blisters and a brand new experience after that. i remembered it hurt super badly every time the wounds are exposed to water. OUCH. mr500 2007. dragonboating with psgp people who are just a random bunch of canoeists that i see often over at macritchie. we trained quite a few times together!

landmark 3: AJC. 2005. crashed once to find isabel (aka sai) and was super surprised but how jail-like it looked :P watched B.A.D. campus concert at their audi! classssiccccc.

landmark 4: angmokio hub. SU14 2007. kbox for one of the amazing race station for sports camp! amazinggggggg. i remembered we had to sing 5 songs which linked together like the shi zi lu kou stuff. we took super long to clear that! but it was super good. hahaha. it was my first time there can! :P post techcomm crabbing 2008. went to eat at melben with die die must get A! SUPER SHIOK. hahaha i remembered we had some crazy fun eating crabs. post-OCIP 2009. somehow i went there really often to find ocip ppl like aileeeen etc. i have no idea why. pre-FOC 2009. shopped for fright night and treasure hunt log with jessie andden gary and guoping! haha. and for the first time i tasted koi bubble tea. yums!

landmark 5: deblah's place. aka bishan. wii and mahjong with deblah hern and den!

landmark 6: marymount. canoepolo 3on3 2009. not that great a memory, but went there twice to settle the singlets for 3 on 3! ann was super friendly and the singlets turned out greatt. :)

landmark 7: macritchie. hcanoe 05060708 is there anything else that i need to say? (: shiong, insanely long, shockingly early/late (either early in the morning at 6, or late at night till 9), crazy trainings (canoeing, long-d runs, sprints, gym, pull ups, crazy circuits, push ups etc) with the HCanoe people. 1.5 years of hard work and determination with the people i love. 0.5 years with seniors, & another 2 years with juniors, learning how to be a good coach. the experience of a lifetime. and yes, many many awesome after training trips back home with lala. and sometimes amanda & kityeng. (: oh and reading room days with wenyi leilei etc too!

landmark 8: coronation plaza. hwachongians. yongchye, currywok, cute chicken, ntuc, bubble tea. the many things we eat and go to when we mug at the reading room!

landmark 9: hwachong. 05s78, hcanoe, and others. class bench, reading room, runs, random friends, eyecandies, and someone special. 2 years of joy and tears :) but of course, more joy than tears! :D oh and trips back home with cihan! sometimes with ying2 and chieh too! :D great htht sessions!

landmark 10: KAP. hwachongians. same same la.

landmark 11: Al-Azhaar/Ameen. numerous suppers with distinctively different groups of people at different times. (: 4g, polo, niners.

landmark 12: Liquid Kitchen. now gone. but still, past midnight soccer watching with polo guys + g! :D and then htht-ing at macs till the next morning. rocksssss. we should do that again sooon!

landmark 13: MY HOUSE! and htht-ing with candy every time i see her at the bus stop! :D

landmark 14: Keming Primary School. my pri sch! :D made some "forever" friends like shihwee and candy :) and formed some wonderful memories as well! i miss the 6aa peopleeeee.

landmark 15: Bukit Batok MRT. tooo many to mention seriously! largely with candy/shihwee tho. oh and west mall! many lunch/dinner dates with friends everywhere. haha.

seriously, too many. i didnt expect my list to be that long. but you know what i mean, i really love 852! it's been my favourite bus since jc days and has always been so (: i've always specially waited for them even though it can take pretty long to come. you know, the drivers generally are f1-wannabes. they bring me back home or to the place i wanna go at a super fast speed! hahaha. like today's ride from khatib took 45min. could have been much worse if i took a train. and 852's POWER-ful too! :D :D (ba-wu-er. repeat 10 times FAST.)

just a random entry. hurhur. shall update proper tomorrow instead. too lazy now!

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OWARIMASHITA!

was supposed to blog in the 78 blog by order of the supreme leader of 78 yesterday while catching up with the (fake) commun*st, but i guess i couldnt resist the temptation of updating here.

oh gosh i think i'm losing momentum when it comes to blogging -__- ahhh.

anyways, as i was reading through the 78-ers blogs again (like i always do, using my google reader), i'm really really glad that i went hc during my jc years. it was like the best decision i ever made in my life. (: seriously i don't think i'll be happier anywhere else, not to offend anyone who isnt from hc, but hc really gave me an ideal environment to play hard and mug hard and enjoy life at its best. i wouldnt have enjoyed my prime years so much. in rj i would have died trying to be part of them, in nj it would just be a mere repeat of my rv years (which was of course, enjoyable as well) and that i wouldnt even considering joining canoeing over there (i'll prob have the same opinion as everyone else - "siao ah"). in sa it would have been fun, but it wouldnt spur me enough to mug as hard as i did.

and of cos, thank you 78 soo soooo much for making my jc life so fun (: and i'm so glad that everyone's been making the effort to keep up with each other - with those overseas and in singapore.

and yeah. i still find it funny how throughout my sec 2 and 3 years i've decided on rj, yet in sec 4 i suddenly changed my mind. oh wells. but talking to kennethkoh and kitling (rjcians) all these time while mugging for the eggxams was fun. we had different experiences in jc, yet we enjoyed them all the same. and they made me realise how lucky i am to be in hc, the best jc in singapore together with rj. i'm really proud to be part of the elite (but that doesnt mean i'm a elitist okay!!!)

okay that's it for the jc bits. now for a short summary of this recent papers. HORRIBLE. but fine at the same time. horribly hard, but i think i could do a decent percent of the paper to pull off at least an average of B+. which mean, i think can keep my 2nd upper! :D but i'm not sure about the results though. ah well, i shall only think about it nearer to the devilish date :P ranking by confidence:

1. Japanese Level 4 (cos i S/U-ed HAHA!)
2. Math 4
3. Aeromaterials
4. Aircraft Design and Manufacturing
5. Working in 21st Century
6. Aerodynamics I
7. Thermodynamics 

SEVEN PAPERS. i've started on the 14th and ended on 29th. 15 DREADFUL DAYS + 1 MONTH of intensive mugging. and i'm still alive. quite amazing HAHA! but since it's over now, what is MORE IMPORTANT now is HOW should i make the rest of my life more eventful :D so i've decided to blog about HOLIDAY PLANS! 

firstly,  let us understand fully the characteristics of this summer hols:

1. although it starts on 29th April 2009 1130am technically, but given that there's EID (which herny smartly says - "die" in reverse. hmm does that mean LIFE then?), my EFIL starts on 6th June 2009.
2. i still have hall ocip to go for! which means i'm gone from 11th June to 24th June 2009. 
3. FOC senior camp and the actual FOC itself will prob take up 3 weeks before school starts....

so that leaves me with really really really little time. and seriously, the EID and OCIP robs me of any possibility of commiting into something that requires full time. arghhh. so here are the things i'll do and hope to achieve! :D

1. take up hiphop again, hopefully with grace chong!
2. canoe with hc juniors and maybe prepare for ncc...
3. learn how to cook some yummy stuffs from my mum
4. get a electric guitar and learn how to play it properly
5. have loads of stayovers!
6. sew a cover for my ipod
7. celebrate birthdays with the people i loveeee
8. write letters and send parcels to overseas friends (chiehhh dee cihan kimbo pammie and other peeps!)
9. SKYPE
10. make a habit to run everyday at the park (and become slim hahahah! goodbye flabby arms fat thighs and tummy!)
11. pack my room and throw away any useless stuff (eg. sec sch rubbish)
12. wash my dirty slippers and bags haha
13. go mambo ONCE
14. fix my hp laptop and my ibanking thingy
15. catch up with all the drama/variety shows :P
16. clean up my computer (as in, the data...)
17. train hard for nat champs (duh)
18. study japanese vocab and maybe start picking up a little korean

and thats about it i guess. if i think of any i'll add in again! :D hahaha. there's some first-times here so i really really hope i'll be able to achieve them (: 

and now's a SHOPPING LIST! you know, after exams i really felt like spending. i tried to think of something to buy so freaking hard but i just couldnt think of any!!! so i've decided. i will work hard to think about it NOW.

1. whiteee basic shirt
2. nice tunics
3. denim shorts
4. wallet
5. SHIT I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE

OKAY. i think i really don't need anything -___- shucks. neverminds i'll continue to think about even more things to put on my shopping list! :D

okay this is a freaking long entry already. time to end the pain. BYE! and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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i'd like to visit the moon.

after realising that fangxiang looks like a sesame street character (which jessie thinks might be big bird) and searching to find out which, i had an urge to search for sesame street videos on youtube (: and it proved to be really rewarding! missed the days i watched sesame street and barnie daily. times then were so innocently fun! :P and yeah, here's my ultimate favourite clip from then - bert and ernie's i'd like to visit the moon! its like super touching la. more random clips below!

and this is damnnnn sweeeeeeeeet!

and who can forget count dracula?!

and our favourite kermit the frog! he's so emo in this one!

super cool stuff. :D will upload more next time! :D if you wanna look for a song that brings back old memories, check wikipedia up! (: ahh i'm so in love (:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_from_Sesame_Street

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those were the days: primary 2

primary 2's a less eventful year as compared to primary 1 maybe cos the novelty of being "in school" has sorta worn off. oh well, i cant remember much, shall just write what i can (:

at the beginning of primary 2 i joined chinese dance [as in really out of interest]. there was 2 boys in there but they quit after 2 sessions. dance at that time was really a girl thing so all the boys who came quit really soon :X i remembered practises initially felt weird, but soon i made a friend one year younger than me who later became my best friend in dance.

i could still remember how practises was like. first hour would consist of lots of stretches, sit and reach style, put leg on top of railing stuff, and then other dynamics where you run run run jump and spread your legs diagonally across the hall, or keep doing splits diagonally across the hall too. at that time i could do nice and sweet splits :P we performed during chinese new year and national day. i was of cos some small fry because i was only pri 2 -.- but my first dance required me to use that long long cloth thing. makes people look elegant hahaha :P

my form teacher was the same as p1, so i was still under torture. chinese lessons was made up of two half classes, and that was how i knew my best friend in my later years - shihwee. shall talk about her next time.

oh and i scored top for chinese once. 79/80! but i was dishonest. the teacher marked wrongly for compre and the sentence thingy but i refused to tell him -.- cos i liked the feeling of being top in class and there was another guy who got 78. i was a bad kid then :P but i never repeated the same mistake twice :D

i got 2nd for some math quiz too which involved the whole level. won some lame tiny whiteboard set thing :P i still have it with me now hahaa. and during some assembly i was called up to talk about my holiday in thailand in front of the whole school -___-lll oh gosh.

there's something else that happened in p2 but i really cant remember! darn.

okay. that's all for nowww. gah

those were the days: primary 1

heh i decided to do what glori did 2 months ago! to update about my primary school life :D and seriously its really interesting :P i think i had a very eventful primary school days XD and so i shall name all these coming entries as "those were the days" for easy reference for myself next time :P

the first day of school we assembled at this little classroom-size empty corridor together with all the other p1 kids. i was in 1T, the very last class in the whole cohort so my class was sitting right beside the wall. my dad came with me but left after i found my class and my form teacher came. and so i met my very first form teacher, whom i found myself hating her soon enough, Mrs P. Tan [full name not exposed so that she can be protected :P]

anyhow, that time she was still a nice angel in my little innocent heart. anyway, she got us splitted up into two rows, one row with all girls and the other guys. and so i met my very first friend there and held hands with the very first guy [other than my dad and my bro]. haha :P we exchanged names and subsequently he became one of my bestest friends in my first two years of pri school life. he's name is tay yicher and we still keep in contact now (: [and he has become a harry potter freak XP]

anyway, just thought how amazing how little we hesitated when we held each others hands. we were all so young and innocent and simple minded. no one would have realised the meaning of holding hands between opposite sexes then. haha.

i was also very close to this friend called michelle chan. we often share our lunchboxes and hung around together at the canteen. she was very nice to me. there was once i was feeling sick and couldnt finish the stuff in my lunch box due to a terrible lack of appetite. afraid that my mom will scold me for not finishing my food, i offerred her mine and she kindly ate the rest up for me. subsequently during chinese lesson, i fell sick and mr lin [my v nice teacher who taught my sis as well] showed concern for me. but michelle fell sick too and mr lin doesnt seem to realise. i felt a bit guilty and told mr lin that michelle's sick too but he didnt seem to have heard. and i just left it that way. poor michelle had to suffer alone while the teacher was taking care of me. and now, i realised that i was the one who actually passed on the sickness to her yet didnt allow the teacher to take care of her :X i'm a meanie.

after the june hols, i heard michelle left for another school as she moved house. i was too young to remember to get her phone number. and very sadly i've lost contact with her since. but i can still vaguely remember her face. she's really smart too.

my second best friend was malorie. she was the pretty girl with the ponytails. we hung around together most of the time, and she sat beside me right at the left front side facing the noticeboard. i remembered there was once she felt that she was myopic, and so both of us who wink and attempt to read those very small letters on the noticeboard. she started wearing glasses the next year and i was very envious.

Mrs. P. tan hated me and another boy who i can only remember by his nickname now - fartking. his nickname didnt come for no reason - he often farts and somehow we could smell this weird stench when we're beside him. actually he's largely ostracised. both fartking and i couldnt remember to bring our homework and or even do them, so most of the time we'll be punished by either standing at the back or outside the classroom or whacked by the plastic 15cm ruler. mrs tan was really angry at us and she hated me. my conduct was "fair" then - the lowest it could ever get. there was once i didnt do my PETS worksheet and mrs tan was so angry. [i remembered she was sitted beside this large stand with the large PETS storybook beside - storytelling it seems] she asked me if i have any siblings and i said yes, a brother and a sister. then she asked me which class they're from. i told her my sis is sec 1 already. she was furious but there was nothing she could do. embarrassed, she told me to go back to my seat [on the floor] i was secretly happy that my sis aint here anymore.

oh and malorie and i frequently pee-ed on our seats because we didnt dare to ask teacher whether we could go toilet. especially mrs tan and mr lin. but malorie pee-ed more often than me so i was secretly happy about that too.

there was another time when we were playing behind the assembly area and i fell into a deep drain. one leg was on land and the other in the drain. i suffered a deep cut which left me a scar all the way till sec school. it disappeared now though.

that's all i can remember about my primary one life. watch out for p2 as life gets more exciting.