岁月无情

16 years of my education has ended around 2 months ago. Looking back at my secondary sch and college photos, i can't help but to feel "how young i was" back then...........i wun be surprised people will have a hard time attempting to spot me from the photos, esp those taken during secondary school (close to 10 years ago)

This shot was taken during Sports Day 1997 when i was in sec 4. this photo was not found until several of us went back to our school for its 25th anniversary funfair last year. when we went to ransack the school library's photo collection without the teachers permission...^^. we actually had to plead the students to scan this shot for us so that we could keep this digital copy. 可见它有多珍贵哦!

Check this out, this is the only time when the whole class got together to take a class photo. formal shots of the class photos were never complete becos there were always absentees. Look at all the innocent faces, now, few of us are already married, one is already a mother, and another one is going to be one at the end of this year too. The occasion this photo was taken will always be remembered by me. i remembered so clearly that it was taken on 28th oct 1997, at the AVA room, after our GCE O Level Chemistry Practical Examination during quarantine. Everyone seems happy after the exam though.

the AVA room does carry a special meaning for the class. 10 years back, my class was considered privileged to have this air con room as our classroom. isolated from all the other classes becos it's not located at the classroom block, and also becos it's enclosed, we always had fun during recess time. There were few times after PE lessons that many guys would stay in the room to change our dirty T shirts behind the room. my frens and I were so playful that we switched off the lights while everyone was in the room and we started to attack our poor female classmates with our 充满男人味 and sweat 的 T shirt. even up till today, i still dunno who were the 'fortunate' gals who were attacked by me. FYI, my class comprised of 28 gals and 15 guys, so basically, the guys were envied by many becos of the high gal to boy ratio. "p

This shot was my JC class photo. JC days were fun and memorable too. Reali 怀念 the days when we skipped class to play mahjong and bowling. and the notorious gang which i belonged to when we were always the noisiest during class, adopted the 'sitting at the front row to talk and sleep strategy' during lectures which worked! this theory works in such a way that the most dangerous place will always be the safest place, that the lecturer will only have eyes and ears for people sitting at the back and will never notice those sitting in front. of course there were times in which this theory did not work, and there was one occasion when i fell asleep during the Physics lecture and i was caught by the lecturer.....guess wat i did....i feign sick and i managed to get away with it (with sympathy from the lecturer still)..............I will also remember our 北斗七星阵 strategy which we used during class tests. coincidentally our gang consisted of 7 people. and during tests at lecture theatres, we sat at the 1st row, with the most intelligent students sitting at the centre, and relaying the answers to the people at the corner (unfortunately i rarely sat at the centre except during chemistry tests)

The memorable days from JC also included my days in the Softball team and Chinese Dance Club. My batch of players were unique becos 9 out of 11 players were all from my secondary school, though only me and eug were experienced players. Trainings then were much tougher than trainings now and i was amazed by how i could actually pull thru those times: Holiday trainings were scheduled 3 times a week, every training starts at 9am, pause at 12pm for lunch, resume after 1pm till 5pm. My back and shoulder would have broken if i were to train like this at my present age.......so, treasure the days when you were young........

Our days in the Dance Club was a legendary......cos 6 guys who had ZERO chinese dance experience were being pulled into the college team for the National Chinese Dance Competition and Singapore Youth Festival Competition and very luckily, the team did well for both competitions. we were only given 4 months of crash course to prepare for the dance. becos of that, for the 4 months, we had bruises all over the body, from falls, lousy body flips and some of us (including myself) used handkerchiefs as paddings at our waist to lessen our pain while we practiced our "snake roll" for the dance. Again, we were envied by many guys becos we got to mix around and carry some beautiful gals in the team =p

Looking back at things, my teenage days were so memorable and enjoyable. So do treasure your friendships and time while you are still at this enjoyable age.........