it’s been a while

I realised that I haven’t updated in about a month and now that my holidays are coming to an end, I do feel quite nostalgic and sad to leave. (incidentally, I’m leaving tomorrow!) 3 months have come and gone so quickly and there are still so many things that I haven’t done. I guess these things just hit you when anything comes to an end. When I first came back, I still had 3 months. Then on Sunday, I had 3 days.

Yesterday I went back to rg with Oafie and the 2 of us had an absolutely awesome time. We wanted to go and have lunch and eat xia mian tang, something that I haven’t eaten since I wasin sec 1 and was really fat and disgusting. But that’s another story :) so yes but when we arrived, they were closing the store so the 2 of us were wondering what we were going to do about lunch, so we decided to go to stall 1 and buy all the tidbits and a nice big drink. The uncle and aunty still recognise us! :) clearly we were very good customers. It’s hard not to be. When we get our food at lunch, we’ll buy a drink. After we finish our lunch, we’ll buy a snack for dessert and before recess ends, we’ll go and buy some more food from them to bring to class and eat.

While we were walking around J block, we ran into lu lao shi.. our chinese teacher in sec 2! At first Oafie and I didn’t know whether to say hi, but then after a while she said “hi lao shi” and asked her whether she remembered us. She looked at me and said that she remembered me! I was rather touched, but this was shortly followed by a -.- feeling, as I will explain in a while. She then turned to Oafie and looked at her for a long time and said that she had put on weight. Then she turned to me and asked me, “you were the one whose chinese wasn’t very good right?” -.- bleh. what the heck man. after that she brought us to see toe, who was super happy to see us. every ms zhang saw us and was happy to see us! Oafie remembered that she made us run 2.4km when she got mad at us.. I vaguely remember dying during that 2.4 because that was when my 2.4 timing was still about 18 mins. HAHA. It was very nice talking to toe though. He really is very nice to us, despite all the horrible things we used to do to him. I do feel rater guilty, but then it made secondary school life more.. exciting.

On a completely different note, I went to the band corridor because I wanted to go to the band room and I saw all these juniors there and I didn’t recognise a single one of them. I was looking at the board and I saw last year’s band photo and I also realised that I didn’t recognise anyone in the photo either, other than Mr. Oura of course. Then I noticed this list of performances of all the performing arts CCAs on the band board and I saw that the band was scheduled to perform for this performance in 5 April called Rhythm 22. and I was like !?!? wth?! What happeend to Cadenza? After that I went to the band room and peeked in and I just saw a lot of unfamiliar faces and I didn’t really want to go in, at least not without one of the mafia around. From what I saw, the white board had disappeared. My section instrument cases are still taking up a lot of space, it’s nice to know that things like that dont’ change. :)

But I felt so sad. I think that so much has changed in the past 5 years. After pouring all my heart and energy into band for my time in rg, it would have been nice to be able to go back and say hi and talk to the juniors, like what Yolyn used to do, and we are 6 years apart! But right now, it just seems to foreign. I don’t know anyone and I really miss that part of my life. Actually, correction, I think that band was my life in secondary school. I remember how the corridors were always full of band people after school doing indiv or just bumming around, but yesterday, they seemed quite empty. The only reason why there were people around was because there was some student leaders’ investiture rehearsal. -complains- and I just thought about the band that I knew and was disappointed by what I see now.

Another thing that struck Oafie and me was how young all the rg girls are. I was asking her whether we were like that and she said that we probably were. It’s funny how when we were in sec 4 we felt so old, like we ruled the school. Well, technically we did :) but it was really strange to go back and see these primary-school-looking girls running around.

Oafie and I had a nice time though. We went to the GO and were looking at the list of teachers and then ms wong came out of the GO and she recognised Oafie! :D and me too I think. She said it’s because we were her first form class :) after that, Shaun finished his meeting, then he gave the 2 of us a lift to bishan.

I had a nice time going out with Oaf. It brought back a lot of pleasant memories from secondary school. Especially sec 2 :) I love 208 society!! :D