Exams maybe near, but life must not come to a stop because of exams. Events still happen, if life's duller near exam time, liven them up, do something out of the ordinary !!! It might as well me the most memoriable time of your life.
To deal with the dullness of people in my class, i did something which was out of the ordinary of me !!! I finally ponned lessons on THURSDAY the 31th of August. Ponning school was quite normal to some, but for me, it was the first time ever ( I didn't even ponned a single lesson during the first 3 months in JC ). That feeling of doing something out of the ordinary was great and unbelieveable.
Thursday, was teachers day celebration for many schools across the island except CJC. Which was so extra that they hold their celebration 1 week earlier !!! Thursday was a long day at school ending at 4 pm in the afternoon. Being a Josephian, i decided to pon school at the second period which was break. A few others and me ( including some student councilors, presidents of some cca's ) ran out of school. The feeling of running away for a good cause, running away because of loyalty towards my alma mater SJI. And so i went with my heart.
Arriving at SJI, we went to buy food from our favourite Muslim Stall. We missed the food in SJI, anyway the food in CJC sucks, you practically just eat to survive. We went to the PAC after that to catch the performance. It was at least 100 times better than the performance in CJC !!! CJC performance on the whole sucks a lot as compared to SJI performance. Maybe CJC need to learn from SJI. We met up with many more ex-Josephians and we had a good time talking with our teachers.
It was real nice to just walk straight in to the staff room and talk to our teachers. We are glad our teachers still remember us, as we talked about the past, present and future. These people whom have coached us, taught us, lectured us, shaped us in to what we are now. These people who have spent their lives working tirelessly to nurture us into man of faith and service. For these people aren't people, are they are called teachers, and they are there for a reason, for its their passion which managed to shaped a disastrous class to a class full of leaders. I appreciate them for what they have done, and wishing them a Happy Teachers Day.
Time flies and soon we had to part with our teachers and our school. My classmates and i then went to orchard to have lunch and shop around for clothes, we end up going to bobby's house playing winning eleven. Bobby's house was so freaking near Great World City. This rich kid stays within walking distance of Great World City, anyway we went there to have our dinner and stuff.......
Done with thurs. Me being the usual and lazy me have the tendency of summarising the weeks activity into a post. Sorry for being too long winded.
Friday, went out with Wei Jiang to buy formal attire for the dinner on Saturday. We went round and round Orchard, especially at Robinson, OG and John Little, looking for formal attire. Spent like about 2 hours walking around before deciding on what to buy. The pants cost $45. Luckily i was of suitable height and thus no need to alter !!! Poor Wei Jiang had to spent $6 just to alter his pants. As for the shirt, i could not decide what to wear, until i finally saw one which was very appealing to me. Although it cost much more than my budget, still i went ahead and bought it. It was mine first formal suit so i guess it was worth while.
After buying all the stuffs, i went to the COMMEX with my parents. As a statement of fact, COMMEX is very unlike PC SHOW at suntec. COMMEX resembles Consumer Electonics Show of the states, where they hardly sell computer parts, but more of a show where they display their newest technology gadget. It was a wet blanket for me as i was planning to buy computer parts there, but found out that it wasnt what i was expecting, so practically i went home quite empty handed except for a keyboard. Lookes like i have no chioce but to make a trip down to Sim Lim Square to get what i want. Psk, check out the Zen Neeon 2, new arrival and lookes cool too.
Saturday, time to talk about the Centennial Dinner tonight. The dinner marks the 100th anniversary of SJI NCC land and 50th anniversary of SJI NCC air. Well, it was excellent indeed, the guest of honor is none other than an ex-Josephian Mr Teo Chee Hean, Minister of Defence. There was also sharing from Mr Tang Wing Kee who had served SJI and NCC for more than 40 years !!!
It was definately worth every cent of the $50 bux for the ticket. I shall not go into details but the food was good, the all guys atmosphere ( except for a few female teachers and a sec 3 who brought his gf there ). Well still a guys envrionment anyway, had fun with my ex-part mates whom we shared weal and woe for the past 4 years of our life. We really went crazy during the auction time. The twenty of us who are present donated more than 250 bucks to the SJI endownment fund during the auction. ( Its quite a huge sum as we aren't working ). Well the batch of 1984 donated 2000+ dollars in total. Mr Tang, donated 2 limited edition soccer balls for lucky draw. A kind soul, director of dunno what company, donated a pair of return tickets to bangkok on SIA plane for lucky draw.
This dinner showed the generation gap between the old Josephians, the ex Josephians and the current Josephians. No matter how big the gap is, the Josephian Spirit in us are still united as one. We have the War Cry of the 1984 batch, the J-O-S-E-P-H-S cheer from batch of 2005, and also a song named Joseph's call which was new this year by the current batches. To mark the ending of the dinner, everyone sang the school rally with dignity and pride ( with their heads held high ). No matter the difference young or old, rich or poor, we are still Josephians.
So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind. Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time. Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial. For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.