you'll always be a part of me
we had lunch at au petit cuisine (??the little french place beside island creamery which sells authentic french food at a super super reasonable price) after our SATs reasoning test yesterday, to catch up. she's felicia my best friend from secondary 2 hahahahaha. it's fun to see how our respective schools have moulded us into different people but how at the core of it we're still like the same. we talked about both our schools and the social scene and i think i'm quite grateful, being in hwachong. i mean it's been 6 years and i'm sick of seeing the same people all the time and i'm sick of the things they sometimes do but they're all generally nice people who eventually mean no malice, not too much anyway hahahaa. i think rj has made her more outspoken and confident and gregarious too, which is nice. i think i make the effort to catch up with her because after all these years, even though we somehow drifted apart since we went to different classes in sec3, i'll never forget how much she influenced me to stand up and be my own person 4 years ago when i first stepped precariously into a new school, to not be afraid of staying true to myself, of making a fool of myself, as long as i'm happy. i owe quite a bit of what i am to her, really, even though i'm usually all sad and mush these days, a result of growing up. : >
okay and SATS were totally alright. but after sharing the vocabulary with liwen and jiawen they commented that the standard has been raised significantly, it used to be way easier...and also like the maths was definitely a little bit harder than in my BARRON's sat preparation book. but the comprehension was much more readable, though the options were, as usual, ambiguous as hell. the worst thing was that it was freaking long (5 hours), but we had breaks and in-between breaks we could discuss the answers (they said no talking in hallways but WE TALKED AND EVERYONE TALKED AND NOBODY CARED) which was a major loophole huh, and the invigilator spoke funnily, but okay. hahahahaha.
later that night i had ny homecoming!!!! which was not bad because there was a large variety of food! it was seafood buffet, we collected the raw food at the big tables then went back to our own tables where there was a boiling pot of soup waiting for us (i helped myself to the prawns and squids and mushrooms and eggs and dumplings and PIG INTESTINE), i like how the prawns make the soup so so much tastier! (: and there was entertainment as well, yichan and derniese and lifern and mr tan and i went on stage to attempt making the shortest popiah, but our group lost by 5cm haha :< we didn't strategise, just lumped all the ingredients into the skin and compressed it as much as we could into a ballll. afterwards took alot of pictures i think everyone was quite high, aileen went around pasting nanyang girl stickers on our handphones hahaha and i met up with pimple sister too (HEYHEY tea soon please)
i guess we were the rare few who went back for homecoming because of our class: 407 will always have a special place in my heart, as nanyang will. we left the school at night and we were reminiscent at the sight of nanyang at night. the auditorium area was so beautiful. but they removed the tyre swings i don't know why, that was quite a memory too. and of course, how we'd always carry the big big carpark sign to put in front of the automated gate so that it'd open for us because every other gate was locked. hahaha. i miss it alot, but it's not like i want to go back in time, although i guess i was happier then, 'cuz everything usually went so well, but i took alot more for granted. hwachong on the other hand taught me how to fight and be strong and move on. i guess nanyang is more of a oh yes it happened once and i loved it, a beautiful memory. and hwachong...well, half a year more to prove my mettle and um, really make it (i don't want to be a loser at life with no As for A levels haha) and even though hwachong will never ever compare, i guess, they're still both beautiful in their own ways.
hmm. so here's to one of the best classes i've ever been in. (:
