Wednesday, November 29, 2006
alright, in response to kat's entry, here's mine for them. no, this is not an emo entry, so dont read it in an emo way, even though its a super long entry. maybe you should open kat's blog and listen to the song while reading this entry because thats what im doing when i was typing this. i think it really makes a lot of difference with and without the song playing in the background because i tried reading it without the song, and it was altogether a total different feeling. in any case, the song is wu ke qun's ming tian guo hou. try watching its music video at night because its really very sad.
okay, so lets start off with the first person i met when i came into the school. (not considering those who were in the same primary school).
kat
yupp, onesix was the class where we all met and we were assigned to our respective orientation group, so mine had this girl called kathleen. its still so fresh in the mind what she first said to me at the stairway, was..
kat: "hi, my name's kathleen ng. you can call me kat for short." *sticks out her hand to shake*
me: "huh?" *sticks out my hand to shake back*
try repeating what kat had said in like... less than 3 seconds? buay tahan, i really didn't catch what she was saying then. but what went through my mind was, "heng ah, got one person as fat as me in the orientation group." oh boy, how wrong was i. she's so much more slimmer than i thought she was.
same orientation group, so she could be considered the pioneer friend i made in the class then? other than sm km xiner. she was my partner for 2oo3 and we did as much silly things together. not forgetting im always getting her into trouble even though i was the one who started the talking. haha. im still really very sorry, kat. xP
of course as we moved on to sec 2, she was my walking partner around the school. she was ng-tan's favourite! it was such a habit for her and i to walk around the school, especially the 5th storey where all the sec3s were at that time. every change of lesson was our stroll. of course, its not surprising if we had missed at least 15mins of lessons. but we cant help it! there are people upstairs we wanted to see! hahaha.
so much happened within that 2 years i would say, even though we weren't the bestest friends of each other. but at least we still share some common interests which are able to last us till now. x)
yingzi
hahaha. huang yingzi! i guess it started all the way back from the comics and hamsters. i was asking around who was reading this particular series of comics so that he/she can lend me the rest of it and tadah! huang yingzi had it. so we started sharing comics and gradually about our interests such as hamsters and food and gossips about other people. i should say that we can talk about anything under the sun even though we only knew each other less than half a year.
oh she loses her things easily too. she can make the people around her so worried, just because she dropped her wallet or ezlink or keys. its not surprising that she had lost her ezlink 3-4 times in a year. haha. well, that's her! and it's all her fault that i couldnt catch the ending of "the league of extraordinary gentlemen" because she was making a big fuss that she lost her ezlink. so we started searching for it like some mad dogs in the dark cinema, only to know that the ezlink was kept in her front pocket!
she shared the most problems and darkest secrets i had for the past 4 years, or rather she's always the first one i would look for whenever i encountered any problems. so thats good alright! though she's slightly older than us, but it's nice that i dont feel any age gap between us, probably thats what childish is all about? xD alright maybe not, she does give great advices about clothes and problems.
same ipw group. all thanks to her who accompanied me through the hectic night. i guess she was the only one who had seen me in the worst and best times, be it going crazy, crying or whatever, she was always there when i needed someone to listen. probably thats how she knows whatever im thinking when i do anything, my movements gave it away somehow or rather. like what she said, she's my du zi li de wei chong" and ya, she's not lang de xu ming at all.
its still fresh in mind that she was the one who do all the silly stuff with me, like going around to other people houses to be postmen. xD alright, that was only last year when i went around to post the christmas cards. haha. but yz was willing to do all these with me! alright, may be she don't mean that but at least she said that!
okay, it's really nice when she's nice, but it can really get so bad when she's in a terrible mood but most of the time, its me being in the bad mood rather than her. thankfully, she's still able to tolerate all my unpredictable nonsence up till now. hahahaha. overall, she's still the sunshine that light up my life la! yucks man.
jessica
hmm should i say that our friendship is a unique one? i dont really remember how we started to hit off but i guess i must thank cutiesweetiebee because of her, thats why i went out with jessica for the first time and yupp, we started to talk about many things on the bus home, things that i would talk to yz about and that was during the second half of our sec2 i guess.
its even better when she was still in badminton then because we used to slack around in the court together with jt sl despite her being one of the better singles. morning trainings were still the best and most memorable, guess it was because the company then, brings back so much joy. x)
was supposed to quit badminton with her in sec 3 for some unknown reason but due to some unforeseen circumstances, i was still stuck in badminton and she ended up in green club, was kinda guilty then because we said to quit together. oh which reminds me, i once had a awkward conversation with her on the bus home after the school's cross-country and of course, jessica was our runner champ that year. dont remember what was it about, think it was about congratulating her coming in first.
anyway we started to hit off so well, so much so that we can chat non-stop at the school bus stop for many hours after trainings and school. even if the sky had already turned dark, we still had so much to say, many common interests you see.. xD
despite we were never in the same class before, but we still had so much to say as the year passes, which is surprising. our topics vary too, we hardly gossip about other people unless it's someone that we had to gossip about like blahblahblah. but most of the time, we would talk about life philosphies kind of stuff which is good! i can't do that with just anyone cause everyone will say im siao. so it's soooo shiok to find someone to talk about that with me, and that's jessica!
though she does irritate me so much because of her stubborness and buay zi dong-ness but thats always minority of the time. but as the day passes, i would usually forget what i was irritated for and ya, she is still there to joke around. so it's kinda challenging to get mad at her for a long time. still a great buddy to share my problems and accompany me to do all kind of stuff! thank you la, xie zai.
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okay, that summaries the flying flowers which was named just few months ago in the world of gunbound. haha. though it doesnt really fit the whole appearance but who cares!
alright i wont talk about weiling cause i had a whole entry for her before, so im just gonna skip her. dont mind la, hor?
so as i moved on to sec3 where i was the only one among them who got posted to 3/4 (not considering brenda and ann), while kat yz jessica got into 3/5. to make matter worse, we were situated at the worst location, far away from the other sec3 classes. i tried to do a mutual swap with people from 3/5 like jiajun jasmine cryil with the help of so many people. but in the end, im still stuck in 3/4 with so many unfamiliar faces. i so dreaded to gg school then, it was like the end of the world for me. crazy thinking then. =
but as the 2 years passed, it wasn't that bad after all. it was just probably me and my stupid thinking that i will die in sec3, assuming that kat yz jessica were in some other planet that i wont see them anymore. but how big can css get, they are just few steps away or a phone call away. anyway i still met alot of new people, people that made me happy throughout the 2 years.
lets start off subtle societal.
tzer
zhu nai nai, doufu dui zhang, lin daiyu etc, so many names were given to her. she has this pair of big eyes that can kill you with one look and a smile that hide all the knives behind it. her best moves are from that pair of hands of hers, i dont know if her wrists ever get tired or what, she can just keep "paddling" them non-stop. dont touch her shoulder or she will just scream at you and attempt to bite you.
she's still mysterious as ever, or rather i dont know her well enough but it isn't surprsing anyway. she once said she doesnt needs anyone to know her so well. beneath her cool and quiet appearance, she can really be loud too, so loud till you can literally hear her voice screaming in your ears.
i really wonder if it's her long hair that really affects her hearing because she cant seem to register anything i say to her. either she cant be bothered or probably to her, im just talking in some foreign language. otherwise, she is getting old and fluffs are starting to accumulate in her ears. sheesh.
be nice to her and she will be nice to you, or else just leave and dont provoke her. i dont know how i got to know this scary person but it's alot of things to discover from someone as mysterious as her and it's always a new feeling when you get to know some stuff that others do not know about her, or even see a different side of her, the feeling's always different. as much as she claimed to be not a bodily person but hey! i got a hug frm her still!
and please, stop saying that you're fat for heaven's sake. dont force me post your ezlink photo here!
lixuan
the one with the best temper. she isn't like me nor tzer who start screaming at things we dont see eye to eye. not that lx won't get angry or what but i guess she just bottled everything in her and as long the stuff doesn't concern her, she just dont-give-a-shit to them. which is good in a way, because she wont just flare up at all the stuff.
sometimes i tried to adapt to that attitude of hers, but i cant help it. it's so diffficult to keep my damn mouth shut, so it takes great skills to have an attitude like hers, which only lx is capable of doing of. alright, maybe brenda has that skills too.
lx was the one who introduced me to soccer which i hardly even touch the ball, she taught me how to kick at 90degrees and maybe some other tricks which i can never get them right. maybe im just not cut up for soccer and team sports. as she once said about me, im more of an individualist.
she was the one who wanted to form this group and i was kinda shocked when i was also included in it. it was supposed to be a band, which in the end turned out to be a soccer team and i don't know whats it now. maybe this name is already hardly used now. i wonder if the words are still on her shoes, but it's really funny to look at it especially when singing the national anthem.
but well, thats what she is, her movements are usually very subtle. haha.
brenda
same class with her for 4 years but wasnt really close with her in lower sec, only got to know her during the upper sec years. she didnt really change much, she's still happy-go-lucky, funny person to hang out with. she can make jokes out of anything, anytime to make the whole group laugh, or make us feel like throwing something at her.
but she can be really serious, depending on the atmosphere. she wont try to lighten up the solemn atmosphere but instead share things that we didn't know. it gets even more depressing when everyone shares theirs, it's a total different feeling because it's so easy to see them laughing all the things off on the surface but there's so many things that is left unsaid.
we used to cramp in her small room listening to her playing her guitar and singing along with it, drinking our root beer at the same time. or playing void deck soccer after school or exams, which often draws alot of attention from little children who came to play with us. time just passes so quickly when we are just doing that.
she's not just what she seems, there's so many things that are yet to discover. she knows how to play the guitar, play soccer well, or rather she's good in any sports, but still? i think the skill of playing a guitar is good enough, since im like a music idiot.
june
its so funny that i actually get to know her in the end. because i remembered in sec1, i disliked this person so much because laohuang kept praising her in our class which is so freaking irritating and he is so super biased to her and nancy which made almost the whole class pissed.
but all those were in sec1, it's amazing that when i discovered that june was such a hilarious person and i felt so ashamed of myself for disliking her then. but whatever it is, she's someone that i can gossip around with, since the other 3 are like cant-be-bothered with such stuff but june does!!
though she likes to dig out people's secrets and can keep it to herself quite well too. but most of the time, the secrets would just slip out of her mouth unknowingly, without us even forcing her to do that. haha. guess its usually because of her that make us laugh non-stop, especially when she bickers with tzer or brenda. its just like a comedy la.
jasmine
im not sure if jasmine is in the subtle societal because i think she rejected lx's invitation? not sure but it doesn't really matter because you can always see her around in the group as well. yupp, she managed to swap over to 3/4 so we became classmates.
got to know her better during the malacca trip i guess. she kept asking me to tell her ghost stories when we were trying to sleep and kept saying that she cant get to sleep. but in the end, she was the one who was telling me stories and she ended up sleeping first. -.-
it's always recess with her too, together with zwin joycelyn, since tzer lx brenda are always on a diet and remained in class. so jasmine would always talk alot of the tv or anime stuff which kept us occupied during recess, that is by listening to her.
wanqi
i dont know why will i write about wanqi but given that we share the same initials and she was the mama~ during the malacca trip, so it's sufficient enough a reason for me to write something about her.
we got to know each other during the malacca trip as well and that was when she found my weak spot. :( all of us cramped in someone's room and started to laze around cause we were so excited for the first night that we cant even get to sleep! as she was talking on the phone with her ai nan ren, she kept disturbing me! roar! and it was her during the malacca trip that helped me kick the habit of saying the sian diao~! stupid, cause she kept disturbing me with that accent. grr.
after the trip, she would also attack my weak spot during school hours, together with seowting and puiyen! this is so unfair can. it was kinda paiseh at the begining when they kept making me but eventually, somehow or rather it became a habit for them to disturb me and for me to let them disturb, even though there's still a little of paiseh-ness. dont know why.
somehow, i guess i will miss their disturbings since we are gg on seperate ways and the chances of meeting up are like kinda slim. it's very sad actually.
ziyun
ZWIN!! my loo partner! haha. it became a morning ritual for us to go the toilet before the day starts, so its common to see the group of loo gurdians hanging around the 3rd level toilet in the morining, and fyi we are not the loo gurdians, we are just visitors.
zwin's evil stare strikes again! the unlike-ziyun week! hahaha, its so easy to picture out how zwin is --- a quiet and elegant individual, thats why whenever something is different about her, joycelyn and i, or rather its only me making a big fuss out of it. no, it doesn't means that zwin is a nice person, as much as she self-proclaimed to be one. pui ah!
zwin is as evil as her stare because she only sits back and laugh at me whenever i get "bullied" by wanqi st py or even joycelyn. roar! she doesn't even help me get out of that mess cause she say im having so much fun getting disturbed, which is somehow or rather true i guess. lol.
it's a wrong concept to think that zwin is a quiet girl because she can be as noisy as we can never imagine and laugh non-stop at my not-funny statements. lol. she has so many to say whenever it comes to some things, like getting rid of her leg hair, opps. alright, and some other stuff which is also able to keep us rambling on during recess or assemblies. haha.
i will miss her of course! her ramblings and her company to the loo or wheresoever. and the fact that she is younger than me! okay, not relavant but still, nobody will believe that im older than her! sure its gonna be so weird without someone to laugh at my not-funny statements. =(
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alright last but not least, how can i forget to write about my partner for the 2 years? it's just the zhong tou xi, so must leave it at the very last part and yupp it's gonna be very long, even though i dont think there's any chance that she will chance upon these. but i dont care, so here it goes..
joycelyn aka Ding. aka the cow.
and so, she's my partner for the 2 years. i don't know where should i start because i have so much to say. hmmm well, i guess it all started from the begining of sec3. it was the first few maths lessons when this girl slammed her books on the table infront of mr leong. it was somehow loud because 3/4 was so quiet and so she was called out of the classroom by mr leong for her rudeness.
that was the first time i saw joycelyn. i was like going, "wow. she's so attitude, so bad-tempered. better not get into her path for the next 2 years...." but it ended up the other way round.
the class was assigned to different maths study groups and so happened that we were in the same group. shit. then we had the 1st round of seating arrangement according to our heights and i was put to sit beside her. double shit. but due to the rising discontentment in the class, we had the 2nd round of seating arrangements according to our heights and preference.
but i had no one to turn to because brenda and ann were sitting together and i didn't approach joycelyn because i was afraid that she will flare up at me for no apparent reason. but to my surprise, she was the one who came to offer to sit together. as much as i so afraid of her, i actually said okay!
omg.
so thats how it all started. my impression of her was super fierce, so i spoke to her very carefully, worrying that i might say something to provoke her and thats it, im dead! but it turned out all wrong.
the lameness started from the "hard lens", which is the accumulation of the plastic rings. she wasted dunno how many just to make the different lens for a week, after which she started to decorate it and stick it on her notebook. so the ball started rolling..
the animal week, the weather week, the flower week, the colourful week, the gloomy week, willy wonka, the joking smurf, the pushball and me, twenty-five april, etc. the list goes on and on for the whole year. in her notebook, it was a different theme for every week with pictures and colours and the silly things that we had done were also penned down there.
others may find it useless and stupid doing all these but somehow we dont feel that when we were enjoying it. it really brings back alot of memories at the end of the year when we flipped through the notebook again, laughing at all the stuff we've written down for the past 300++ days and somehow they are still fresh in the mind.
for one incident i bet both of us will never forget, was the death of her liquid paper. it was maths lessons again, i was so bored that i started flicking my liquid paper with my thumb. so that silly joycelyn started to follow me, using her irregular-shaped liquid paper.
using some common sense, we all know that its not possible to catch the thing back easily and what happened next really proven that point. first the liquid paper flew to my side, then the second time, it flew the other side and out of the window, witout even hitting the shutters. we just stared at it "flying" out of the window and out it goes. omg, we started to break out in horrible laughter that amy tan had to stop teaching for awhile to see what had happened. hahahahaha, that's super funny can.
another time was during physics practical when we were packing our set up, she said something that she didn't even find it anything wrong with it. "oh no, i dropped my cork!!" LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. i started to lmao when i heard it. she didn't even realise that there was something wrong with the sentence.
okay, maybe it's not funny at all when i just said all these here. but if you were one of the witnesses to any of these incidents, you would believe me that it was really really hilarious, especially the liquid paper.
i forgot what actually happened that we called ourselves Ding Dong, she's the smart Ding and im the stupid Dong, as always. she was also called Jono and im Wano -.-! okay, Ding Dong is still the best name after all. joycelyn had this movement in sec3 that reminds me of a cow, so thats how she's known as a cow to me.
the craziness went on to sec4, just that now we are sitting in the middle of the classroom, we can hardly talk and not pay attention. but whenever there's a chance, she never fails to share with me the news of her arashi or start teaching me her japanese 101. otherwise, we will start making music out of all kinds of weird sounds but it feels that this year is so short to do anything stupid again.
actually there's still alot to say but i guess nobody will understand the feeling im having when i was typing this out. its actually unavoidable that i will miss her the most after we leave secondary school, despite her keep being the one who bullies me most of the time or giving me sacarstic remarks or going "nien nien nien" when she cannot outspeak me. lol. but there's still many happy and crazy times together, that far outweighs the bad times.
there's much things to thank her about. maybe because she doesnt get emotional easily, thus she's always the one who is doing th talking and cheering up? lol. nah, we seldom share with each other of our problems too, even if we did, they aren't of something that really mattered much. though she always does all the silly things but it never fails to cheer me in a way or another. :p nevertheless, i've already thanked her during adam khoo.
she confidently said that i won't forget her for another 2 more years! fat hope man! i think she will be the one who forget me first before i really even forget about her. maybe 10-20 years down the road, she will also forget about the "tell Ding, Dong is here."
but no matter what, even if we may not be in the same jc again, i still wish her all the best, and of course all the graduates of 2oo6.
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10:05 PM