Sunday, October 21, 2007

stayingstrong(=

friday was farewell, officially the end of our journey as crescentians. the feeling was so... weird. was really sad during the whole assembly, esp during waiteng's speech and the class videos. it did bring back fond memories((=
crescent wasnt my first choice when i was applying for sec school in p6, but i was thankful to have been posted here. it was one of the best decisions i've made i guess(= sec1 started with all the unfamiliar faces, mainly because there wasnt really anyone i recognised. my first friend was joyceng, my sitting partner. then her raffles friends... though the feeling was rather odd, it went away after a while. oh yes, yanting. one of my first friends too! she was alr quite enthu in sec1, so its not hard to understand why shes so on now=PP maybe it was because i din really know many people back then, i heard frm peiyi and a few others that i gave them the damn dao impression. mygosh, shocking eh? seriously, im a nice and friendly kid=D it was also then i realised i have a twin!! yes, isabellalin. the conversation was so hilarious. "cheeshan, whens your birthday?" "mines in may.""me too! which date?""4th.""me too!" after all the staring and gasps, we came to a conclusion that our birthday falls on the same day(= oh well, sec1 life was rather smoothsailing i guess... BAND! ah yes, this is impt. so it was the same year i joined the school band and was put in the frenchhorn section. and it was then clariceheng became one of my closest friends. band was fun in 2oo4, with muscialevening, schoolperformances, bg... but honestly, i din like marching at all. i just couldnt help but dread each marching session where we stand under the sun for 1+ hour without moving. mymy, you can imagine how much patience and tolerance marching requires.
sec2 was syf year. intensives, intensives, intensives. seeing singaporerhapsody and fieforniek was as frequent as seeing myself in the mirror everyday. but it was all fruitful and worthwhile, because we managed to sustain our gold(= though the gold came amidst all the criticisms, the sec2s were really determined, to get GwH in 2oo7. apart frm syf is OM. it was where i realised i have this creativity in me and where i got to know missng, a wonderful teacher. apart frm it, i made new friends, esp denisechew and karenzainal((((= the competition was a day after syf, which meant i had to deal with syf and om at the same time. i can still rmb running frm the bandroom to the miniforum and back to the band room during that very week, so that i could multi-task and get things done asap. that period was when i stayed in school till after 7 for the first time and also when i stayed over in school for the first time. after that, staying in school till 7+ was simply nothing. and it was a sweet success for us of course, we came in second nationwide((=after april came streaming, and all of us were so nervous abt our results. i think compared to now, sec2 was as easy as ABC. results were rather okay, made it into triple science, where i began yet a new journey with a new class, new friends, new tchers. however, sec2 wasnt just that. sec2 was the year when ssgang was formed. shant mention the details, because it'll take more than 3paragraphs to write out all the fun and joy((=
o6 was a scary year. triple science was pressurising and people in c2o4o5 just couldnt really cope well with all the work. and because it was the year our seniors stepped down and we took up more important positions in various ccas and stuffs gradually. early feb was to the stars, tgt with choir. it was a blast. and it so happened to be crescent's 5oth aniversary, more performances were put up, and of course, there was more fun. o6 was when pris and wj became the leaders of the band, where waiteng and carren took up the positions of pres and vp in the student council. i started to realise then, that i needed to be a good rolemodel for my juniors as an sl. sec3 went by rather fast, as we scraped through our tests and exams, enough to give us a decent promotion up to sec4. we never knew what was awaiting us, in 2oo7.
2oo7 was a year of happiness, tears and pressure, up till now. again it started off with intensive preparations for syf, with us as the leaders and the "pillars" of the band. we never knew we could put in so much effort, just to keep to our promise 2years back. watching sunrise, staying till after 7 for peptalks, saturday practices... i guess we've put in a great deal of effort just to make sunrise and dpd a success. syf was pressurising for heng and i, for we knew that the success of dpd depended on us indirectly. however, cgssb managed to put up a splendid performance, earning ourselves yet another gold medal. i can still rmb vividly the tears of joy and all the screams and cheers. that was the cgssb spirit(((= after syf was all the intensives for Os, until now. all the "you must get A1 for... ..."s, "our distinction rate last year was... ..."s, "what if no jc wants me..."s. so rubbish, but was some form of motivation for us i guess. its not surprising to see the sec4s walking around school with books everyday, queuing up at the photocopy machine, paying the photocopy lady like we pay for food... oh well, since the results were not tt disappointing, i suppose its all worthwhile.
many thanks to c2o6o7, for being such a wonderful class. though i wasnt really tt into class matters last year, i really enjoyed all the bargaining-with-tchers, laughter, joy and of course, all the As we've gotten=PP we know everyones saying that c1c2 are mugger classes, people just mug mug and mug everyday, then no life and all. BUT. we're so not. its just tt you people dont understand us, and just label us as some geeks=PP oh who cares anyway. c2ians, all the best for the upcoming Os. we've made it for prelims, im sure we'll even better for Os, tgt as a class. lets show the world that we're more than just muggers, more than just an ordinary sec4 class<3333