Saturday, March 04, 2006
Went to watch Big Momma's House 2 with ming cia n yang today. Initially it was quite dull and boring but it started to produce really hilarious scenes which cracked all of us up after some warming up. Its a nice show :)
As usual i was blog-hopping and again i happened to come across a very inspiriing post about someone's jc life and experiences but i shall not mention who. The first feeling that came to my heart was that of envy and longing, how i wished i had such a fun time too, that I had enjoyed jc life as much as that person had described. How i wished I had such a bunch of close-knit friends, that i had been able to experience the same things that she put down. So much so that it almost shrouded me from my own experiences.
Almost.
Ironically, just a week a two ago, Mixue (I think) asked me how can anyone truly behappy. And i replied curtly, "When they learn to be content and satisified with what they have and stop comparing."
A short while after reading that person's post, I tried hard to dig out the lost memories in the depths of my mind, in an attempt to recall what i had done in those 2 years that i was in JC. Its then that i found out, that my own experience was in no way less enjoyable, less significant, more dull compared to others. That i had enjoyed JC life much, shared many a great moment with fond memories to look back upon with a smile. That i had made really good friends and strengthed the friendships such that i'm confident they would last me this lifetime. That i had, at the very least, enjoyed my time in JC as much as that person did. Now as i type this out, I'm feeling just a little bit stupid for feeling what i felt.
I want to write this down because i don't ever want to forget these memories. Writing them down makes me feel more secure, like they will never disappear. That should i ever forget anything important, I would know that it'll be written down somewhere to remind me. Much like a picture.
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I'll start with the UWA immersion trip as its simply the bestest best and unique. Remeber the first few days when we reached the campus, most of us can't get used to the taste of the water in the water-cooler (too much chlorine) and went OUTSIDE to buy mineral water. Then there's the canteen, our first lunch there and we go 'wah so much and nice'. Me sk jasp jiayang and a lot others took 2nd helpings even though we're not supposed to. The eerie green lights which shone on the trees at night, spooking some of us at first. Staying up WAY after lights off timing and secretly sneaking into the games room to play pool overnight and in the end a lot of end up sleeping during lessons!
The trip to the farm! Fox hunting, walking a longgggg distance up a hill to catch a glimsp of the beautiful sunset, staying up overnight (again) with sy and ching for stargazing, getting a celestial map from the farmers and trying soooo hard to locate the constellations. Then there was the truth or dare game with cia tengho yang in our sleeping quarters, with the most horrible of dares coming from yang. Almost laughed till we had no voices left.
And who can forget the 'raid' by eko and gang! Taking a camcorder and 'raiding' everyone's room on our floor. Shouts and screams everywhere. Even Mr. Kong played along and was caught in surprise 'changing out of his clothes'! Of course we took advantage of that! haha! He even gave us the master key for all the rooms just for the 'raid'.
Silly and childish things like 20+ 17 year olds playing pepsi cola 1 2 3 at the beach, a forfeit for jiayang to eat 3 LARGE plates for food for losing in a pool game, singing of a VERY EMBARASSING SONG (tian mi mi) in front of the whole school.
Back in school, during J1, there's my J1 class, the ass-niners. I remember the whole bunch of us being late for physics lab always, because mak mak is always late! Then on the the rare occassions that he's early, we would still be munching and yakking away at the canteen. Mdm Lee (aka sy's mum haha!) with her idiotic alarm block she uses for chem test which everyone hates. Then there's Mr Leow and Ms wun, our math and bio teachers who teaches exceptionally well. It is all thanks to Mr Leow that I can revive my dying mathematical capabilities (though its dying again now). To think that when he first came into our class we were like "Liao already la!". Ms Loh's motherly nature and great patience. She's the only teacher who truly endured my nonsense and open sleeping during tutorials. She's a really great tcher n I really didn't want to sleep! But i'm too tired anyways.
Air Rifle club. The club with members seriously split far far apart but which i enjoyed nontheless because of ppl like Tth, gim, candice, ber etc. Can still distincly rememberthe long training hours, us being baked in the oven called range in school. How, during competitions, our jaws dropped when Temasak lived up to its reputation by putting together a row of chairs and stared mugging. DURING COMPETITION!!! How we secretly took Shona Chan's picture because of someone's infatuation.
Not to forget the many times me tth n gim chiong for a late night movie right after training. Or playing laser quest at CDANS. Candice licking the remnants of her cake off the plastic knife used to cut her bdae cake. The water bombs during Rifle camp which we secretly put some flour into. Playing catch around the whole school compound after midnight. The search for Candice's lost chain till daybreak. The stress during Nationals, how some cried for making costly mistakes. The failed chalet (which I think was quite fun anyway). Cycling the wrong way to Changi prison instead of to the haunted house.
Then there's the first 3 mths with great friends like Reina, Jasmine and Yiting. Bad me always getting into trouble with Mrs Leong for being absolutely horrible in math and yet still sleeping in her class, if i'm there that is. Ponning classes and leaving during recess to go ice-skating or to the beach. When Tth's class pon to go sentosa, I can still remember Mr. Mak telling Tth, " Your class go sentosa, why you never go? Never ask me along also." He's just simply the slackest teacher ever but he reaches really well. We all loved him to bits.
The movie marathons..CNY at mak's hse, marche, random stayovers at belle's house, playing Truth or Dare II with cia mingyue belle nic and glen and belle's perverted little brother who's interested in guys!! Mingyue and her scandalous affair with johnny!! And zidane!! Her seriously wierd tastes. Rae and her wild tastes and daring choices for nail colour! Her obsession with Johnny Deep and Tomoya Nagase, absolute nono to ecp, a really fun person to hang out with. :)
During J2, my class was split up by the darn school. And i landed up in S7. Eko!! I'll always be ready and waiting for u to challenge me in badminton anytime! Then there's me and Chinni, dubbed the pillars of sleep. We would be seated around chia hwee, and almost all the time, we would be sleeping and chia hwee awake smack in betwen us, hence the nick. Its also then that we discovered Chinni's amzaing ability to fall aslp at any moment anytime and waking up when ppl look at him. He can be busy smsing or writing in one moment and then, at the very next moment, he would be sleeping (sometimes with loud snoring). Then, he would wake up the next moment and continue whatever he's doing as though nothing happened. Amazing I tell you!
How can JC be complete without Mugging! Ok that didn't come out right. Studied at all possible places like mac, bk, libraries, sch canteen, rooftop cafe, void decks etc with many different people. Always looking to peiling for math answers and bugging the hell out of others with my questions.
If i were to go on its endless! Anyway at the end of the day, JC's worth much more than that piece of paper called cert you receive at the end of the day. I've definitely learned much more than just the books and papers, and gotten from JC things and values more valuable than the results. Things like, friendship, learning to treasure and love my friends which is very important to me, picking yourself up when you fall, memories of wonderful times spent together. So a big thank you to all the friends I've made during those 2 years of my life, and for making them so colourful and pleasant. I wouldn't know what JC life would be like without you guys, and with you all, I've come out a much stronger and better individual than I was before I enter JC.
Tribute to JJ
Wishing...; 3/04/2006 03:36:00 AM
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