the memoirs of 02s72
Moving on
Great to hear that everyone is going somewhere. really diverse, most of the fields we are going into. hope everyone is happy.
hey!
haven't blogged for some time already. How are u people? hope everyone is doing fine... hopefully i'll see u peeps soon. june 5 maybe?
meanwhile, take care! :)
everyday is a new day.
Dear ppl, i was clearing up my com when i came across all our old class photos.
seems like ages ago when we left Hwa Chong. all of us in that mud coloured uniform and obvious flaunting of school rules, eg: extra earrings, socks, flapping hanging out shirts, etc.
when university applications were finally finalised on monday, i suddenly had this weird feeling, that ' this was it'. the finality that ought to have hit when we finished school finally came rushing over me. now all of us will have to leave a portion of our lives behind and step into a new phase, to most of us, maybe even a totally new world and environment.
i tried to reflect what 72 meant to me the last 2 years. like to thank everyone for the constant campanionship in HC.
still remember when we were all in our sec sch uniforms, the first day of orientation when we sat in a circle and had some imposters lurking in our midst. eg: toad and justin. us winning the best flag award. haha. and our hokkien cheer. realised how much all of us have grown since then, think we ought to be proud of ourselves.
after the honeymoon 3 months was over, it was constant mugging, cca, getting horrifying tests results back, topping S7 from the bottom and having every teacher sigh when they walk into class.
our horrifying looking watermelon lantern for MAF hanging over the railings, and the dumb look our seniors gave when they saw it, even remembering one of them saying that they hope it doesnt kill anyone if it falls. of course, our dear haihan's constant harassment from... ahem C**E was also one of the highlights of our J1 year. and not to forget, robin slamming mr ang during student forum.
then somehow all of us sailed into year 2, and then we thought, yucks ... the A levels. the whole year came like a blur, to most of us i think. it was CCA, competitions, test, test, prelims, and then more tests. some of the funnier events of the year were stuff like robin trying to matchmake char... ( of all ppl, robin), hsien and boys constantly chasing after her, really funny watching her try to beat all of them off. of course the constant mugging in libraries, class benches, study room. passing sweets around in the LT. mrs tham's face when we won the design pract competition, and the rest of s7 smirking in disbelief.
glad we proved them all wrong when our a level results came out. finally we topped s7 for bio. all the teachers seemed to be constantly criticising us, to be honest. i suspect it is cause c**e always badmouth us in the staffroom? but i hoped we proved them wrong in the end, i know our class had the most substance in S7. somehow in the end, we will always do well.
would like to wish everyone . BON VOYAGE. hope that whereever your paths may lead, that u will always look back to remember the happy times we had together in HC.
yoz. did ppl receive the sms from hsien? thinking of having class gathering on june 5! how many ppl are game?
heyz ppl... oh wow i haven't written here for such a long time, and basically this is just to tell everyone and especially reassure sirui that i'm still alive. but but but i must add, barely... ocs is hothousing all the psc and safos scholars in my wing and it's a known fact that the intensive, hectic, high-standard activities that we're undergoing right now are to test out these scholars. and then there are those who have been thrown in by accident, like me the a*star scholar. gee... all in all, i'm surviving, barely, but if this goes on for another few months, i'll be drained and dead by then. heh... :p
and robin seems a little bit harangued and obsessed with the idea of who i'm (and weijie and sirui) asking to the commissioner's ball. heh, what's up manz? -grins-
robin goh, u still havent said what u are going to mcgill for..... and as for the ppl in OCS, i think we ought to start placing bets now, havent been betting for so long.
anyone who is in team C. Ha he was my personal doctor.
Anyway just curious to know i heard from my uncle that FOR THOSE IN OCS .
You guys have this commission ball where everyone must get a DATE!
YEah, its interesting to know who HAIHAN WEEKIAT AND ESPECIALLY SIRUI WILL ASK!
HA... till then.
my medicine interview.
not to comfort sirui, but honestly, my interview suck more than yours. i think i will become the joke of medical faculty interviews for years to come.
my first interview went fine, i think the interviewers brought out the heavy guns in the first round, cause i started the conversation talking abt my stint at the Down syndrome congress. then they started asking me questions along that line of thought, asked me abt antenatal diagnosis, and that went on to the ethics behind stem cell research and the theory of plasticity and then abt childcare..... dunno how the conversation became, how am i suppose to be a good mother and a doctor at the same time. my goodness. i think i managed to ward off most of the bullets well enough, thanks to bio s-paper, owe mrs foo and ms ong a treat. but my 2nd interview was a nightmare....... I had to consiously plastered a smile on my face and curb my tongue from sproutting rude retorts.
there was this surgeon, who are rather rude from beginning to end. i had to bring my violin along, cause i had lessons after and i didnt want to skip, no time to go home to get also. that surgeon gloated me into playing, even though i tried to explain that i only had a few lessons, just started learning. he was like' if u think u can play well and score points, then u might as well play, if u think u will play so badly that we will deduct marks, then forget abt it. so? are u going to play or not?' I had to give this big idiot smile, like the smiley face u see on msn emoticon and say" if u dun mind listening to wrong tempo and lousy intonation, i dun mind performing.' first time in a long time, i was cornered into doing something that i very did not want to do. of course i played horribly and 2 notes off.
that was just the beginning. after that he went on interrogating me on my grades. he made it sound like a sin to get 4 As. and he asked me when was the last time i got an F and what i thought abt it. i told him i got an O for physics in J1 and i didnt think it was a big deal, he nearly fell off his chair. and i went on abt how i didnt think grades were important, it was merely a lousy gauge of a person academic abilities during an exam. what was more important was the entire learning process. think he didnt sound convinced. i am probably one of the few interviewees who didnt think much abt failing a paper. haha.
just before i left the room, he started insulting my suzuki violin again. i nicely asked him what violin he played, he told me a hand-made china one, i suggested he might want to upgrade to a german one instead and left the room b4 he can say more, what a nightmare.