Inspired by my friend's blog entry (http://charmedfantasy.blogspot.com/), I've decided to create a similar list of my own. But since there are so many, I chose to focus on school for this one. So, here goes...
I miss...
1. My good friend Jason back in Newton Kindergarden eons ago. However, the only thing I remember about him is his name and that we were close pals. Wonder how he is now...?
2. The times I spent with my friends from the Pei Chun primary Chinese Orchestra.
3. The first time I got on stage in a Chinese Orchestra performance as part of the school's 60th anniversary celebrations.
4. My pals from primary 5 and 6, whom I dun keep in contact nowadays, sadly.
5. The first time I got 1st in class in primary 5.
6. The art classes I took at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts since I was in kindergarden, but stopped in primary school.
7. All the story-telling competitions I have been in, both English and Mandarin.
8. The time my classmates and I won the Chinese lyrical competition in primary 6.
9. Mdm Lim, my secondary school Chinese teacher who passed away 2 years ago from leukaemia. She was the only one who genuinely cared for me, who recognised my potential and was never judgemental of me.
10. The time I got selected into the AJC CLDDS committee.
11. The first time I directed a play in JC.
12. The first time I acted on stage, also in JC
13. Finally, the first time I was lead actress in a play just last year.
I don't miss...
1. The primary 5 camp which was more like a torture camp than anything else.
2. Mathematics the subject!!!!
3. Physics and Chemistry also!!!!
3. Anything to do with CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School, except for my close friends and Mdm Lim.
What's your list?
4 comments:
I miss:
1) Everythg abt my kindergarten days, those days where school consisted mostly of playing, singing, and more playing.
2) My primary schooldays, esp those days where I got to go to school with my sister, go for recess with my friends, and go for lessons as the teacher's pet.
3) Bitching, joking, and chatting with my sec sch pals after school/ during recess.
4) The freedom and flexibility of being an undergrad (I could skip classes whenever I want)
5) My Spanish lessons in SMU - Estoy enamorando con Espanol!
I don't miss:
1) My JC days (especially GP/HCL/Math C classes), with the exception of the time spent with some close friends.
2) Exams and tests
3) Finance and mind-boggling math sums
4) PE Lessons and those stupid annual Physical Fitness tests/NAPFA
Ahhh... Peiyin, how could I have forgotten the dreaded NAPFA! Yes!!! I DO NOT miss that one!!!
strangely my kindergarten years and primary school years were so uneventful and happy I can't remember any of it! However it was years later that I found out I was quite popular during my primary six year and rumours about my supposed infatuation for a fellow classmate was the talk of the school, and I didn't even know until a decade later. But I do miss my primary school in the sense it was co-ed school and I have many boy-friends as in male friends. Secondary school was all girls' school, learn nothing about boy-girl interaction.
I also had an enemy during my primary school, hated her and she hated me for reasons I can't remember.But it was in primary 4 I think I met my best friend, still my best friend now. That weird very fair and yet pale girl who never had McDonalds' before in her life, very quiet and sitting next to me. I was very chatty then. NOW, she could scream "oi! Handsome! Bill please!" right across the room!
Secondary school was more eventful. I met my other 2 best friends there. Very funny incident which I found out after I left school when I casually asked "Eh how did we all meet ah? We were never in the same class!"
They said "We were , in form one!" and frankly I didn't remember. Till now I don't remember. But one of them said that I was sitting at the left, end row and they were right, end row. My head somehow never twisted towards their direction for the entire year! Then 2nd year we were all in different classes and yet we met and became fast friends because we shared the same canteen table! How funny life is! One of my best memories, my friends.
But one of the worst was finding out that someone actually back stabbed me, not choosing me into her project group and encouraging others not to choose me because she said I did all the work, take all the credit. I thought I was always NOT there you know so I was quite surprised. But I was very hurt when one of my other good friend was in that same group and she never defended me. I think we drifted apart after that, but recently I met her again, a mother of 2 still with a killer figure. Eesshhhh!
What else? I think most of my friends drifted away during primary school because like my best friend then, I still remember her name was dating someone and she was like 12. She spent her time looking at him and I guess I didn't like that and we drfited away. Many others too during secondary school, talking about boys and I didn't join in. Quite sad actually. I am sure most of them are married with children now.
Funn, it's a wonder how the mind retains, forgets, and even distorts our memories, isn't it? It's always an amusement to stop for a while, look back and see just what we remember and/or fail to remember and simply relive the senses associated with those memories. I'm always amazed at how my some of my memories can feel so real sometimes.
I must admit that I am very bad at maintaining friendships. Many of my good friends from primary school and even secondary school have kinda drifted away. I have contacts of some of them, and do occassionally get updated on them once in a while by friends of friends. But other than that, we do not share that same closeness as before.
It could be thought of as something of a natural occurance, but sometimes I would think: how nice it would be to, perhaps, take one day off and revisit the happy memories of these friendships.
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