Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Hello dear classmates!
Darrel is planning a class outing for us at the moment, and he has finalised the following information. Please inform either Darrel or myself whether or not you will be able to make it on that day, and tell us your opinions about the events planned.
Date : 19th January 2011
Event : 2E1'08 Class Gathering / Outing!
Venue : Pulau Ubin (Cycling, etc, etc)
*Those who are not allowed to / cannot go to Pulau Ubin can meet the rest of the class near the ferry location for a meal together.
Please spread the message so Darrel can plan this outing with ease. Thank you.
Love,
yuxiang
11:36 PM
Hello dearest inquirers,
How is everyone? The Carnival just ended a few hours ago - did you enjoy yourselves? I hope everyone had just as much fun as I did, for it is probably the last carnival we are going to be involved in as students of the school we should be proud of (but some find it difficult to feel the pride for one reason or another).
Anyway, on to more serious matters. Does everyone remember the photograph-in-a-frame present Mrs Foo got us two years back before she left? Along with those dragonflies that could balance on almost any surface? Two of us apparently didn't get the photos, and Mrs Foo has gone to the effort of printing two more just for the two of you. However, we don't really know who the two of you are... So.. if you didn't get your photo 2 years back, can you please tell me?
Love,
yuxiang
9:01 PM
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Original source: here
Side note: Sorry for letting this blog rot. Sec 3 life is damn busy and im still adapting to it (:
After reading denise's post, i realised 2E1 meant a lot more to me than what I thought. It may be a hell lot more chaotic than 3E1, but there's a fair share of joy and laughter and most of the teachers we got were a hell lot better than what I got this year. Not to forget, i got a bunch of united classmates, though we all have cliques that we tend to be more close to.
Even madam irene yeo (be thankful i didnt just say irene yeo) seems to be much more better when she was put to comparison with angeline lim. I really really detest sec3 life. It's a life where those teachers expect a lot more from you, especially when you're in 3E1 and stuck with angeline lim.
Some of the events that reserved a big space that happened in 2008 includes hilarious literature lessons, sleepy lectures from miss sazryna, relellious lesson during english and the we-all-can-imitate-madam tami (:
I remembered hating literature from the start, because mrs vee once said that "we are wasting her time by scoring a mere pass or a few marks better than that" however, once the acting part starts in around term 3, i was almost looking forward to all the literature lessons.
I miss acting retardedly as Billy and laughing like mad when Revinesh was the landlady. I also miss being the 3rd party and komathy being Patrick. Memorable moments like these will never be forgetten, i promise.
There's also madam tami's lesson, where she will like to go "come boy/girl, let's sit down and do work " and after like 5-6 months, almost all of us can imitate her. Cool right. Side note: Madam Zurina is also quite good lah :D Science lesson with madam irene yeo = complains :D Me and yuxiang like to complain to each other how much she like to contradict herself and the textbook.
One thing not to be left out, is the fun I have with yuxiang,denise & jermaine at my sitting position. And to the 3 of them , remember our waving game? Hahas, although we are all in the same class now, but we're all sitting so far apart except im still beside yuxiang and jermaine is quite near but denise is far away :(
Moments of yuxiang and denise correcting my english mistakes started to fill in my heart when I started typing. So many flashbacks, so many moments, so many memories. Chaotic times when we've a change of lesson, getting irritated by people who came to yuxiang table and make a hell lot of noise when i want to sleep, and of course not to be forgotten, those times when I've a hard time making announcements in class.
Quoted from denise blog:
Secondary 2E1'2008, you will always be in my heart, forever and ever. Because I know, that one day I will look back to those days and smile at those memories and never regret my choice of joining Seng Kang Secondary.
And with that statment, i end my post.
5:39 PM
Hello ex-2E1, has anybody ever thought about it? Well those that went for camp anyway, have you ever thought about your grouping? Like that group you're in is actually your class and not well, not groups that the teacher randomly put you in? Have you ever thought about it in that perspective?
Well if you haven't, I most certainly did. Has anyone missed 2E1? Life in 2E1 was fun, no? Don't we all feel somewhat alienated in our new classes? We are now spread across the level from 3E1 all the way to 3E5 - we'll never ever be together again because 2E1 ceased to exist as of 1 January 2009.
I dare say that I miss 2E1, a lot. Yeah I miss you guys a lot. Remember those times we created havoc during english lessons? (I meant Ms Wong's lesson not Mrs Foo's) Okay maybe not all of us created havoc but yeah do you remember those times where a small group of us would rebel and cause chaos in class? Remember Faiz and his antics during english lesson? Remember my obvious disrespect? Remember those times where I would shout to Mavis about what she wanted to eat during recess when the recess bell rung?
Remember literature lessons? Where Mrs Vee will scream at Jiayi and call her a mermaid? Or the time when Darrel became the "mistress" in Lamb To The Slaughter? Maybe Revinesh, too? When he acted as the crazy landlady in The Landlady? You guys might have forgotten all about it, but I haven't. Literature lessons were almost always hilarious right? As for now, okay maybe literature is no longer in your subject combination but here's a sure thing I can tell you. Literature is no longer a lesson where i laughed my head off at Revinesh's antics.
And then would you still remember the chaos we created in between lessons? Like when Jiayi turns violent and starts chasing Jeffrey around the class, maybe Faiz too. And then there'd be Mavis chasing someone around with a book, and there'd be well, chaos! Normal for us, though half of us are in 3E1, it's not the same. 3E1 is quiet to the point where you can hear a pin drop. We're... We're dead, to say the least. Lifeless, to be exact.
Would you remember sports fiesta too? Where we cheered each other on? Wearing our orange class teeshirts and telling one another that 3N8'o8 has a similar class tee? And then you'd see the orange contingent making a lot of noise in the field with " E1.... E1!, E1...E1!" and "It's okay, It's alright, E1 E1 fight fight fight!" when the entire field is very quiet. And then those "cheerleaders" would run towards the boys' field to cheer them on, too.
Do you remember? All those times we had? Well I was thinking about all these during camp when well, my morale was low and disliking my class form teacher and I'd think about all these whilst staring into space and someone would always break my reverie. Do you miss 2E1? I thought about all these during camp because camp served as a painful reminder to me - that we will never be together, ever again. Never will we sit together in the same class and study about the same things ever.
I've always thought about group chopchop as well,a group and not my new class before in my heart, 2E1 is my class, not 3E1. Because in my heart, I now I will only truly belong in 2E1 and nowhere else. The love we shared, the unity we had, the bond... We'll never achieve that same thing in our new classes because it'll never be the same without the same people.
Who cares about cliques when all cliques can gel together against one common enemy? And can you people forget about the warm fuzzy feelings we had on the first night during secondary 2 camp dinner? When they announced that we were allowed to eat with our classes? How we screamed our heads off and the like because we were so happy? And then how we helped each other wash up and save seats for each other? Even to the point of sharing food?
Maybe you've forgotten, but I haven't. And one thing I know I'm sure about - that someday(¬ now), someday I'd be able to look back at those memories and smile. Because 2E1, you are the one that makes life in Sengkang Sec bearable.
2E1, I love you.
And I know that 2E1 will never die, and we would all be able to look back and smile because that (might) is one of the fondest memories you've ever had in Seng Kang Sec.
As we go on, we remember.
All the times we had together,
And as our life change, come whatever;
We will still be friends forever.
- Friends forever, Vitamin C
Heres my promise made tonight
You can count "on" me for life
Thats when i love you
When nothing you do can change my mind
The more I learn, The more I love
The more my heart cant get enough
Thats when I love you,
When I love you no matter what
- That's when I love you, Aslyn.
I will love you 2e1 no matter what and we SHALL and WILL be friends forever.
Let's put it to a vote, who wants a class chalet this year?
Denise
10:03 PM
A gift for the new year
To my dearest E1s,
You'd have received my gift by now - it was actually meant for the first day of school, but alas circumstances had it such that the gifts were only distributed on Monday. Another unfortunate thing is also that I simply couldn't find a picture with everyone in it, due to absentees on various days where we took whole class photos (and also people who deliberately hide themselves in the picture!), but I had to pick one, so I picked the most recent, taken on the last day of school in Semester 1 2008. No matter what, I really hope you do like it cos it took me quite a lot to get all the things organised, cut them to size (the silly Ikea frame doesn't seem to be of the standard photo size; ugh!), assemble them, and have Mrs Lee pick them up from me. Credits to her for doing that favour for us, and many thanks to the people who helped with the distribution even though we aren't all together as a class anymore. I very much appreciate the time and effort taken :)
So anyway, why a present? Well, there are multiple reasons. Apart from wanting for there to be something to make all you reluctant kids smile on the dreary first day of school, I suppose I really want you to have something tangible and physical to remind each of us of the two years you spent together with each other, and the 1.5 years I spent with you. A more personal reason for me is actually to do something nice for you while I'm still somewhat recent in your experiences in school, and haven't become totally irrelevant to your lives; and the reason for doing that, a little selfish though it might be, is hopefully to be remembered by you all.
It's a fact of life - and a truth that you may already have learnt, or if not will eventually find out - that when people's paths diverge and they no longer see each other on a regular basis, they are not able to be as involved in each others' lives and hence become less relevant to each other - a word I had chosen to use in the earlier paragragh.
That being said, is not necessarily a sad thing. It is first of all, only a natural progression in life; for one, I can't possibly always be a teacher to you in the setting of a secondary school because you aren't always going to remain in school, and neither am I always going to be teaching in the same place - yes, I'm aware that it has already been established in reality (;
Still, let's not just all move on as if nothing happened before. How I personally handle partings in life is to move on but still look back at old experiences - to enjoy the memories with the people I had been with, take the good things from the past to direct ourselves forward, and learn from the bad what to avoid. When our paths cross again - be it from a catch-up gathering, an unexpected meeting on the street - we'll pick up from where we left off, and I'll show the same warmth and care the friendship deserves, as it was from the old days.
That's what I think anyway. You'll probably figure out what perspective you'll take on friendships that become old. But if I may offer a piece of advice, from someone who has gone ahead of you, friends get harder to come by once you are done with school; by then, you'll find that it'll be easier to maintain old friendships than to start new ones.
That, is of course assuming that you have to begin with, friendships to be maintained. Let's hope there is, and that there will be.
Two months ago, I had a class gathering with my ex-classmates from secondary school. We were in the same class in Sec 3 and 4, but we hadn't seen each other for 13 years since we left school. Only 10 people could make it that day, but after more than a decade, I reckon a quarter of the class is jolly good. We had such a great time getting up to speed about each other's life and work, who's married, who's with kids, and then we had an even greater time talking about old times in school, of our teachers and other classmates.
A few weeks later, I went with 2 friends to visit the school, and caught up with our form teacher who, after all this time still remembers us, and all the antics we were up to some 13 years ago.
Perhaps someday, a decade on, this may be a picture of you and your upper sec classmates, or even with your lower sec classmates. I hope that even then, me and my strictness, along with my somewhat boring (but still useful) English lessons will still be mentioned somewhere in your conversation.
One last thing about the gift - I wanted to make sure you know in some way, that even though I'm no longer around much, and don't have the chance to tell you: I'll still remember all of you, simply because you meant a lot to me, and even though we'll all be moving on, my thoughts are still with all of you, except that I'll have little opportunity to make that known.
I hope that somehow, all these things can be conveyed in that small gift, and that you'll find the gift to fulfil some, if not all, of the purposes I've mentioned.
With much love, and best wishes for the new year,
Mrs Foo
5 Jan 2009
1:19 PM
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Hello e1iians!
We, as a class, have been through thick and thin together, and we have done many things together. Memories will stay with us for the rest of our lives. Life, is short and difficult, but we can make it enjoyable by living life to the fullest. Let us remember to share our joys with the ones we love, and allow your troubles to be shared amongst your friends. Through sharing your joys and troubles will your relationship with your loved ones be improved. (:
Life can be different depending on how you view it. Take the rain as an example. You may dislike rain for the way it always darkens everything. But after the rain, when the clouds are cleared, the stars will then greet you. I believe that happiness must be created by ourselves. By looking at sorrow from another perspective, it becomes joy.
In a way, life is but a journey filled with choices. A journey we can choose to enjoy, or a journey we wish to end as soon as possible. Always think optimistic, and however hard your journey may be, the storms will clear, and there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
I wish that you guys will remember the following I am going to say. When the storm draws nigh, dreams will shatter before your eyes. But know that you're not alone, when your battle starts, your friends will comfort your restless heart, and you'll know that you're home. (: When your stars stop shining, endless vines around you winding, know that you're not alone. Your friends will give their all, so your tears will no longer fall. (Inspired and partly quoted from Kate Covington, credits to her.)
I'm going to end this post now, by wishing everyone of you a merry christmas and a joyous year ahead!
~yuxiang
P.S mind my language, mind my coherence, mind my typo mistakes. Just forgive me for the horrible state of mind I am in, for I am tired and not in the best of moods.
3:01 AM
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
thanks to MR OOI's reminder.
Pls bring along your toothbrush,toothpaste or whatever thing you need for stayover IF YOU ARE staying overnight.
12:25 PM
