CHINESE NEW YEAR :D
I'm so thankful for the long break even though I've barely started work. How ironic that after 12 years, I've only fully understood everything that goes on on the other side during these 8 days.
Mr Loh came to us yesterday when we were all in the photocopying room, and said he dug out the remnants of our very first project with him. It was so long ago that we couldn't even remember which module that was! My most vivid memories of him were biomolecules, and of course him lugging a guitar to class and singing a song about acids and bases.
It turned out to be the cell project from IS1104: Pranks to Bangs, which was ages ago goodness. We spent so much time at the back of the classroom bending wire and connecting lightbulbs to weird looking bits of plastic that we called golgi body or rough ER. Mr Loh still keeps that particular cell under his desk :D We ended up helping him to throw away the posters. He waved a white straw board in front of me and I told him that looked strangely familiar. haha it was my group's cell project presentation board, the one Jia and I spent hours glitter-glueing the edges of the information sheets. Four years has been a really long time!
Chinese New Year celebrations today, sat in for the celebrations and spent the rest of the time wandering around school. To be more precise, wandering around school trying to obtain our CCA records for USP application. Walked from the PE department to the GO back to the PE department back to the GO back to the PE department back to the GO to find the appropriate people, all to generate a copy of our records. That was so frustrating.
Left school to look for Ms Heng, late. Well, she arrived early and we found her sitting on one of the benches, "terrible ah you all, make me wait for half an hour" :D Went to Food Republic for pseudo-lunch, and talked with her for 4 hours. Because we're no longer her students, there were alot of things we could suan her about. Going home early and brisk-walking out of school, for instance. And coming late for class :P
And of course, gossiping about everything under the sun :D
She mantains that we're being paranoid and she has confidence that we'll do alright. Of course, I still don't have the heart to believe her. Annie and I were wondering what teachers actually talk about in the staff room. heh one could vividly picture Ms Heng resisting the urge to tear up Econs scripts, especially mine, because well my Econs scripts mostly turn out to be crap and worthy of a 5/25.
I miss her classes. I remember the class being so amazed with how she shot out an entire string of words faster than Japan's bullet trains and knew her stuff so thoroughly. That was the time Econs kept me alive after a long day of lessons. Sounds insane, really.
After entering the working world, there's so much more about being a student that I realize I've never truly treasured. Cheaper concession fares, for instance. haha it's just so funny that our bus fares tripled because we grew one day older. Life as a student was so much more carefree, stressful as the A Levels were. There were alot more things I never had to think about. What university to apply to is one thing, what I really want to achieve in life is another.
For now, I'm determined not to let exasperation get the better of me. As Ha said, will work harder for these few weeks to get through those applications or I'll really regret it. That's a promise. It's a pain going to work everyday knowing that I should have spent the previous night doing my essays but didn't because I fell asleep.
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR :D The joyous occassion of pigging out on pineapple tarts that take 6 rounds around the track to burn off and loveletters and chocolate cookies because there's an excuse to do so. Awesome (:
