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When I was in Primary School I was always wishing to be sixteen – exactly that age – because apparently lots of the people on the television were around that age and were cool. During the PSLE period I was wishing it was Christmas somehow because Christmas was holiday-ish and end-of-year-ish and after the PSLE. In Sec 1 I wanted to be sixteen again, because the PSLs were cool. In Sec 3 I wanted to be anything but Sec 3. This year I wanted it to be after the Chinese O levels.
One time or another, we wish for something that we don’t have; to be someplace we aren’t at; for some time that isn’t now. It’s a human condition to live in the future, to keep walking and walking until we turn back and see how far we’ve come. We believe that today is just tomorrow’s yesterday, so that’s all we have – what has happened and what will happen. But what we’re really missing is what is, what’s here, what’s now.
The thank you notes have been written, the words needed to be said spoken, the unfinished jobs completed – so I haven’t got much left to put here unfortunately! What I do have are photos – lots of them – so here are a few good ones.
It's easy to get boys to forgive you for not being at the last History lesson of the year if you bake cake. Just make sure it's chocolate.
Inspired by http://www.snotm.com/ - a wonderful webcomic with pretty good advice sometimes - and thingsweforget, I tried to draw seriously for the first time since Primary School. Well, at least I managed to draw.
I may not be able to draw seriously, but I CAN PHOTOSHOP SERIOUSLY.
"Ha? Ask the batch to come down during a free period? For something unofficial? Hard lah. Collect money also cannot."
"We can one. Just try then see how."
So we put it on a puzzle and the last missing piece was our Year Head. It went really really well. Just that the puzzle was manufactured by a dodgy company that operated out of a HDB apartment. On the 7th floor. The block's lift only stopped every 5th floor.
For LitRA farewell tea - we talked about Pokemon, Powerpuff Girls and Yugioh cards. Also religion, the meaning of life and dealing with evil. We did not talk about literature.
Complimentary grad night photo. Our batch is awesome. And also handsome. Did I mention it's my batch?
Seriously though, graduating in RI is pretty strange – we even had to fight to let grad night be called grad night. Because it’s *one school* now and even before that graduating just meant walking across the bridge between the two schools. So looking at the #raff11es hastag trending and friends from other schools talking seriously about graduation, it still felt really distant.
But of course it was only by the time everything was all over that I realized that I shouldn’t have been worrying about how graduation would be like, or what I would miss; only about enjoying every single last second of my time as a Sec 4.
I’ve wanted to be 16 since I was … primary 1, I think, haha! I thought it was the epitome of old wisdom. Writing all my thank-you cards (it got very mushy) was very strange because I always had that sense of, “But you’re always going to be there, aren’t you?” and I somehow cannot conceive the fact that maybe one day we’ll come back and the places and the people will be gone.
urgh, graduation!
Yeah for me it’s a way for us to say things we couldn’t or wouldn’t have otherwise. Nothing’s forever but that makes things much more important I guess! Cheesy stuff that’s always said, but still. NYGH graduated already right?
Wouldn’t have, definitely, because they were too cheesy but always inside. Another cheesy thing to say would be that for me it would be forever (this’s where I come up with our school vision -or mission- or motto- “once a nanyang girl, forever a nanyang girl”) but then you get that horrific feeling when you start to lose things (figuratively).
we’ve been ‘graduated’ for more than a week already, though it doesn’t feel like it.
closure
Glad to see you enjoyed yourself (: Haha. What did those last few seconds as a Sec 4 mean to you?
Well more like the whole sec 1-4 experience – I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint any single moment in that time that would capture such a special feeling! But definitely, it was the most life changing 4 years so far.. as is every day.