So I remember sitting between Yih Shan and Cheryl in Form 1, right in the middle of the class, with, if I'm not mistaken, Chuah and Darren (Lau) in front of us. And I think Chuan Fu was in front as well. Yenn Ling and Su Ann were sitting all the way in front. And Lisa and Sook Wai and the others were at the back.
Anyway, we had Moral and PJ with Delta, and that's how I knew people like Sue Mae and Li Za and Pei Lyn and Kar Mun. Although it really was more of prefects that made me know Li Za and Kar Mun better.
Form 1 wasn't that easy a year. There were... issues with friends, but at least it's been resolved, and there's no need to beat a dead horse, LOL. Anyway, I chose to join the Prefects, because they seemed... I don't know. Cool. I know it's dense to look at it that way, but if you ask Li Za and Kar Mun, they will tell you that that was exactly what they were thinking, too. Anyway. I think people thought that I wanted to be a prefect because my sister was one, but... that's even more dense.
So I joined the Prefects, passed and became a Board of Director, to boot. I do regret the existence of some sexism brought along by certain teachers, but I'm not going to whine about it now, since it's been 4 years and nothing can change it. And YM got kicked out of school anyway, so it really was a "HA, take that in your effing face" moment.
I remember being a very uptight, uncompromising ass when it came to being a BOD back then. Heheh. It was the internal perfection-o-meter that needed calibration.
By the end of Form 1, I've already had a special circle of friends, and have met awesome seniors who would never stop being awesome.
Form 2 was annoying in some senses. And a little depressing at times, because of all the relatives... leaving... permanently. Anyway, I don't recall Form 2 being very eventful, really. Apart from sitting with Min Shen during Moral, writing a story about my class teacher/our Moral teacher, things like that.
Form 3 was a great year, eventhough it was the PMR year. By then, everyone in the class knew each other and were relatively close. OH, but some of the best moments were like singing Hugh Laurie's "I'M IN LOVE WITH STEFFI GRAF" at the top of our lungs around school after PMR. And going to school for no reason at all post-PMR to doodle on paper in the hall.
I also made a promise with Amelia which I thankfully managed to keep (I couldn't say no to that promise. You cannot say no when Yih Shan's cousin is grabbing you by the shoulders looking you in the eye like... uh... LIKE WHEN SACRAMONE WAS TALKING TO BRIDGET BEFORE HER FLOOR ROUTINE DURING OLYMPIC PRELIMS, YES.), and ironically, I kept both her promise, went on to be a BOD and got her post. Hahaha.
Then, Form 4 came. I remember sitting in the hall as the teachers prepared to stream us. First, I hoped I was in Gamma, with at least one of the Melonades in the same class. Hopefully. I wanted to be in Gamma because, well, HELLO. I WAS IN GAMMA SINCE FORM 1, OKAY? But then I wasn't put in Gamma. Then, I hoped that I was in the same class with (If I recall correctly, I can't remember now) Min Shen or someone I knew. Soon, Min Shen was put to Omega (And so was Dhiv); Jen had been put to Delta, the others were put to Zeta (By then I was praying I won't be in Zeta, because I'm not too keen to say that I ended up in the same class as my sister, and I was hoping I'd get Pn Sunita as my class teacher)
And so, I ended up in Sigma. The only people I knew well were Jo Zee (I knew her from British Council in primary school) and Edmond (He's a fellow AJK) and probably Feli (Funny. How DID I know Feli? Prefects, maybe?). Oh, and Mark and Sung. The others? Not so close. Or I didn't know them at all. Seriously. So that made me quite... the word wouldn't be depressed or unhappy - perhaps a little... disappointed?
But, you know what? I grew to love the class. For one, I loved it because we were in the most awesome lab in the school - the Physics lab (We're like vampires. We keep the curtains close and the lights out. The teachers get frustrated, LOL. But we don't sparkle. And our guys don't walk around asking "DO I ~*DAZZLE*~ YOU?"). But I also learnt that everyone was bizarre and a little whacky in their own way. Like things normally go.
We had our 'family', and we built our repertoire over the 2 years. Chooi Si would be overly-perky in the mornings, I may not like it, she will proclaim how mean I am to her, although truly, if I wanted to be mean to someone, I can be really mean and make them run off crying or wanting to call me a b****. So no, I'm not really mean. OH, and Chooi Si and I even ourselves out. She does all the perky stuff and complains about me a lot while I do the whole brooding silence thing. Hahaha. (Also, the weird thing about me is that I sound a lot perkier over the phone. Something Chooi Si realized when I told her about it) Oh, and we provide entertainment to Jo Zee and Xueli, who always watch our antics.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" would be our anthem, singing it between lessons to disrupt it (Of course we were smart enough to do it when we're doing well/to relieve stress/the teacher's not angry/the teacher's feeling particularly jolly), we might even sing "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO [Teacher's name]" and they'd laugh.
The thing that was different about my friends in class and the Melonades was some of the things we'd talk about. Jeremy and Xueli or someone else (Like Joel, hahaha) would randomly talk about... uh... sex, then Jo Zee, being clueless, would ask what we/they were talking about (This usually happens in the Physics lab during Pn Sakinah's lessons, I don't know why, LOL), which basically bring about A LOT of LULZ.
The others in the class, like Tze Cheng and Cheng Lu and Yih Yew, would all be very studious and rather quiet, but you can randomly come up to them for some LULZ. There was once, I can't really remember, when someone was talking about hot athletes from the Olympics, and there was a whole "Michael Phelps, because I don't know any other male athlete in the Olympics who look good" thing, which I totes LOL at 'cause it's ridiculous (Okay, it isn't. It's just that I don't find Michael Phelps very pleasing to the eye. Thorpedo fan you're talking to). Then I remembered someone on ONTD saying the Canadian diver, Alexander Despatie was good looking, so I was like, "I've read somewhere that people like Alexander Despatie", and SUDDENLY, TZE CHENG was like, "OH, DESPATIE. I KNOW THAT GUY. I MEAN, I KNEW HIM FROM THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES BECAUSE BRYAN NICKSON LOMAS (spelling?) WAS DIVING AGAINST HIM" So random, hahahaha.
Nadra brought A LOT of fun when she keeps singing the CAMPFIRE SONG.
Basically, I love my class lah.
Now Prefects... Prefects is a totally different thing. I love them all. I don't like it when they complain and stuff, but who does, right?
Honestly speaking, if I wasn't a Prefect, and I never got into the Board of Directors, I would never think of Political Science as something I want to major in. I also would not think about Management or Business Admin or things like that, because, I feel, the only way you can get REALLY exposed to any sort of management is through the Prefects.
I wanted a change of things, and I asked to be in the Discipline department in my interview (Well, you know how they ask what post you want. It was between PKP, which I felt that had a lot more capable people who deserved the post more than me, and KD. I know that there were awesomesauce people who deserve KD too, but you know, you gotta go for it, right?), and I got PKD, which I thought was pretty awesome. Although I did a lot of weird stuff like handling the notebooks, keeping the paperwork for the Discipline department straight, selling stuff. I enjoyed it. The thing about being PKD is that you do A LOT of things. You're doing the job of an admin, a secretary and a treasurere, all within your own department.
The thing about Si Onn as Head Prefect is that, if you are good at what you do, he sees it. He values your opinions. Although he does values other's opinions more than some (I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It's like in the UN, there's the 5 veto powers, sort of thing), and it's good, so he can get as much input as possible. Of course he was not a perfect leader, but he is one with vision. We never had an easy start, but we got out fine and dandy in the end.
Seriously, if someone asked me ONE THING I will always remember about school apart from my friends, I would say the Prefects.
Another thing about Form 4 and 5: Squash. I managed to convince Yih Shan and the others in Form 3 to join Squash in Form 4, since Squash is cool, training's on Fridays, and Badminton always has a million people wanting to join it anyway. And, see? You've all come out with an MSSS cert, which is not shabby AT ALL. In fact, it's a lot better than an MSSD Badminton cert. Hahaha.
Anyway, as my Mum says, the friends you get in secondary school are the friends you have for life. And I hold that as a truth. All I need to do now is keep in contact, and see that if we still have the same camaraderie when we're 50. Like, LOL, my Mum and her friend (Since Standard 1. If I can keep contact with Min Shen, I'm equal. If I can keep contact with Li Za and Lisa, I beat the record, hahaha)
So ends this post about school which was supposed to be emo but didn't turn out to be... because.
