Wednesday, April 02, 2008

was overwhelmed with nostalgia after reading blinkymummy's entry on sngs and the fun fair. i miss the school so much! 11 yrs there..i practically know every nook and cranny by heart..how to get fr father barre to staff room, how to go fr canteen to music room, new extension, chapel, how to go fr hall to specs stand..fr roof garden how to walk to home ec room..how to get up to the pond..the secret staircase tat led fr the principal's room to the canteen (dun ask me how i know, i jus do ok..n it wasnt cos i was bad *defensive mode* hehe)

how i spent days in my classrooms..hiding in the balcony so no one would spot us when they locked up the classrooms so we can stay back and decorate the classrooms..and how we would jus climb over the wall to get out.. how the lower concourse would be really muddy after it rained.. or the 20cents wanton and 25cent chicken..and how happy we were on thur cos they sold fried wantons then (we weren't allowed fried food in the canteen last time) and how school bells arent those annoying firealarm riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing sorts..they were hymms like thank you lord and alleluia. and how there were mirrors everywhere u went so tat sorta encouraged narcissism. or how i discovered how to safety pin my belt fr to my uniform so it would look exactly lke i sewed it on but i can take it out whenever i wanted.

and how mondays we'd haf flagraising in the field and do the family dance, and tues we'll have assembly in the hall and each class takes turns to present on a particular theme and how we stayed back to prepare and rehearse for it and how my home was a convenient rehearsal/store/supplies place cos it was so near school. and how we had free icecream or pizza for the whole school if we did really well in track or exams. and how mrs hwang told us how brave the drinks stall uncles (i only rem uncle muthu) were for chasing away robbers or intruders the night before (they stay in the sch grounds, sorta like our inhouse security guards). and which parts of the school were supposedly haunted but i felt much at peace in the small chapel next to the music room. how i avoided going past the gym..or using the gym toilets.. and was secretly damn glad we got to use the new home ec rooms in the new extension cos apparently strange cold winds blow into the old one in the evenings even tho the trees never moved.

and oh how i teared when mrs hwang left.. she could be mean mean mean..but how she influenced all of us to be who we all are today.. i rem us being called to her room at like 11pm one night expecting to be scolded cos we werent supposed to be staying back..but cos we were rushing for one of the bigger proj for the school proj bo bian..hafta stay back.. she din scold us actually.. said she'll treat us to macdonalds bfast the following morning. tat was quite a big deal cos we werent allowed to even go to macs then.. will kenna booked one.. read wat the new principal said about sngs girls now..her take on how sngs girls shld be..but the only thing tat will stick in our heads is prob gonna be that infamous 温文尔雅高贵大方， 入得厨房出得厅堂。

so i will miss that place i called home. and how 大宝， 二宝， 三宝 will cease (or probably already ceased) to exist but to serve to bring on smiles in our distant memories.

and i'll still be one of the few who can recite the sg pledge in both english and mandarin..jus cos she made us do so while we were under her care. and cos she wanted us to be 'effectively bilingual'. miss the idiosyncrasies much.