The last time I saw some of them was probably the last day at Moulmein Primary, when we collected our PSLE results, when we were.. 12. A decade ago. haha omg, that sounded reallyyy long ago, or rather, it was really that long ago. Although there were only 13 of us, it was nice to see everyone and hear from everybody, about what they are doing now and what they had gone through at a certain point in life, all in the last 10 years. haha I'm really a big scatterbrain, could hardly remember things! was really impressed with people like Tian Loong, who could still remember our house phone numbers, at his fingertips!
We talked about our primary school days, about how Miss Chew insisted on ball point pens and cursive writing, which had become really useful now; how we stayed back after school to paint props for National Day performance, which Miss Chew had "unwittingly" volunteered our class for; how we get so excited when we went for computer class and use the Creative Writer to type out our essays, in which lil icons would appear for certain common words (like if you type "apple", a picture of an apple will appear! haha), how we attended swimming classes in Primary 4 with Bobby(I just gotta know that I was quite a naughty kid when it comes to swimming, haha the first thing that Hoiman said was "ya lor! Hui Yi will keep splashing water!) hehe; how we painstakingly collected the different seeds, one of the many activities that you have to complete, just to earn the Young Botanist badge and how Tian Loong admitted that he, conveniently, took his neighbour's work which easily earned him a Young Mathematician badge (we were certainly proud about these badges which we would pin on our collars, the more the merrier!) There was also the Annual Speak-English Campaign, when we would go around to "catch" people who speaks other language than English but somehow end up "trading" or giving never ending last chances. haha
We also had a fun time recollecting about the people like how Yit Chun was really good at art; how Gan Zhi wei would write a 10 page long essay with his indecipherable handwriting; how Ben Woon told Mrs Tan, our Chinese teacher, that ants would become "chao ta" (charred) if you were to put them on a pan (re guo shang de ma yi). Besides classmates or schoolmates, our conversation also revolved around, mainly, the mothers, the sisters and brothers. haha. we used to visit each other's place, since we really stayed very close to one another in Whampoa, and so naturally, knew the mothers, sisters and brothers. haha. It was nice to know that the younger brothers and sisters, who used to be toddlers or lil kids, are all know in secondary school or jcs; the mothers, who used to take care of us when we visit, are all doing well and healthy.
Yup those were really the days, when we would play hopscotch and five stones during recess and buy ice cream at mama shops on our way home after school. the truly young and innocent days. All of us have grown up and moved on to different stages in life, but we all remembered that there was one long phase that we shared, one that we start to learn about people around us and memories start to etch in our minds.
All of us!
As time passes and memories fade, it was indeed sweeeet to revisit those precious moments again, especially with people who had experienced them with you:)
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