2007
i wonder how many people would have bought this number for 4D. but yes, the new year has started. the second and final year in JC, the year of the A levels and for most of us, the last year we will be in "school". for the guys, its a 2-year expedition in pulau tekong after that.
tonight as i was going home and took bus 93, the typical double-decker-non-aircon bus came and who i believe to be the regular bus uncle. the bus and uncle that sent me home each day when i was in maris stella. i recall then i was so familiar with the service that i could recognise a 93 a mile away. that was perhaps five years ago. and now, five years later, look how much has changed.
as the year begins in rj with orientation, it's unbelievable that one year has already passed since we were sitting in our circle with 20 people and playing retarded games, or having late late dinners, shopping at spotlight or smearing blue goo all over for onite or learning the batch dance. and now you see the new j1s cheering all over the school, the familiar feeling of awkwardness and what will later become attachment to the whole og. and the hope that all of it, the fun the laughters the carefreeness, will last forever.
but last they will not for change is the only constant and change was perhaps the word of the year for 2006. in the short (or long, up to you) span of 365 days, many of us have changed in the way we look, speak, think and see things. the year saw many changes in the people around me, the way i saw things and people, my walk with God and what interests me.
it's amazing how much some of us have changed in 365 days. its incredible how we evolve from female-deprived ri boys to guys a little more knowledgeable (and sensitive) to the idiosyncracies, whims and ways of the other species and how some become good friends and for some guys, more than a friend. its incredible how we now go out before the sky is bright and only return when all around is dark only to sleep when its past midnight.
the year 2006 saw much action climbing mountains and getting consumed by merciless storms, cooking and sleeping outside in pitch darkness, seeing a world much larger than anything i've known, spending many many hours mugging in classrooms or over at james' place. so much so much has transpired in the one year and yet it seems only just yesterday that we entered rjc.
how many more 365days will we have and what will each of them be like and more importantly what will we be like after each and every one of them? will every year just go into another routine and be forgotten without as much as care into how time has been spent? where will we be a year on from now?
we do not know.
for another year awaiting, and another year of uncertainty, i dedicate this post to all friends. to old friends who have stuck by me, i thank you. to new friends i've made, i thank God for making them. and to those i haven't gotten to know, i hope to know you better. whatever it is, to one and all, have a good year ahead and if you're taking the As like me, be in for a ride.
tonight as i was going home and took bus 93, the typical double-decker-non-aircon bus came and who i believe to be the regular bus uncle. the bus and uncle that sent me home each day when i was in maris stella. i recall then i was so familiar with the service that i could recognise a 93 a mile away. that was perhaps five years ago. and now, five years later, look how much has changed.
as the year begins in rj with orientation, it's unbelievable that one year has already passed since we were sitting in our circle with 20 people and playing retarded games, or having late late dinners, shopping at spotlight or smearing blue goo all over for onite or learning the batch dance. and now you see the new j1s cheering all over the school, the familiar feeling of awkwardness and what will later become attachment to the whole og. and the hope that all of it, the fun the laughters the carefreeness, will last forever.
but last they will not for change is the only constant and change was perhaps the word of the year for 2006. in the short (or long, up to you) span of 365 days, many of us have changed in the way we look, speak, think and see things. the year saw many changes in the people around me, the way i saw things and people, my walk with God and what interests me.
it's amazing how much some of us have changed in 365 days. its incredible how we evolve from female-deprived ri boys to guys a little more knowledgeable (and sensitive) to the idiosyncracies, whims and ways of the other species and how some become good friends and for some guys, more than a friend. its incredible how we now go out before the sky is bright and only return when all around is dark only to sleep when its past midnight.
the year 2006 saw much action climbing mountains and getting consumed by merciless storms, cooking and sleeping outside in pitch darkness, seeing a world much larger than anything i've known, spending many many hours mugging in classrooms or over at james' place. so much so much has transpired in the one year and yet it seems only just yesterday that we entered rjc.
how many more 365days will we have and what will each of them be like and more importantly what will we be like after each and every one of them? will every year just go into another routine and be forgotten without as much as care into how time has been spent? where will we be a year on from now?
we do not know.
for another year awaiting, and another year of uncertainty, i dedicate this post to all friends. to old friends who have stuck by me, i thank you. to new friends i've made, i thank God for making them. and to those i haven't gotten to know, i hope to know you better. whatever it is, to one and all, have a good year ahead and if you're taking the As like me, be in for a ride.
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