the beginning

went back to RJ for o'night yesterday. took a trip back togther with john cheo. shared our view on certain people, certain things (unis and scholarships). it was a nice 1 hour bus-trip. life always surprises me with its changes. i did not think that i will one day have such a close conversation with john. i mean we were good friends, but not that close. but it is good to know what he thinks and his plan in the future. it is always good to have someone around you who is not talking about water parade and field camp all the time. but i understand the army guys. come on, that IS the only thing happening in their life.

it was good to be back again. although this trip back to school is not that long after my previous one during open house. i was dressed all-formal as i did not hav time to change after work. met a lot of ppl, the ones going overseas to work or intern, the future singapore leaders, the greatest mind who is holding two scholarships and getting the third one in no time. 

the concert in the MPH is not bad. i have not been in such a loud and noisy hall for quite some time. as usual, o'night is all about storyline, IHC, fashion parade and the burning finale. the storyline this year is quite funny. IHC results are unexpected, esp when the top 2 houses last year (BW and HH) are now at the bottom. fashion parade is sort of screwed up. the judges seemed to have a thing for long-legs and large body exposure. out of the five teams in the final, four of them were wearing underwears only that I can literally see the guys' balls even i was sitting at the second floor gallery.

i did not really pay attention during the finale. esp when RI principal was giving her emo and inspiring speech to the crowd. instead, i was catching up with my friends. it was good to be back. i learnt juanhe's psc and mas offers as well as his gic interview; lq's psc offer is in china that he has to forgo his stanford offer; lizzy's psc is in us to study econs, politics and ir....

some of the guys actually wore the army uniform. i tried their marching backpack. freak, my shoulders were almost crashed. how could they carry that and march 20k? i heard about zulu's water parade, which is fun. haha, seems that u hav to show ur loyalty to ur country before u drink water everytime. niiiiiiice. 

jh told me that he felt weird being back to school, but not in the emo way. yeah. it was sort of weird. but i was glad to meet and catch up with all these friends. i am simply happy, even to meet people that i was not so close last time. 

we went for supper afterwards. around 30++ ppl waited outside DOME near junction 8. when the hungry souls could not take it any more, around 10 of us moved to eat elsewhere. but again, lizzy, wearing his full uniform and carrying his full back, wanted somewhere with aircon. so lq, jh, lizzy, tuck heng and me went to KFC. i did not realize how much lq love manga until last night when he got to run to popular before it closes to purchase the newest issue. lq got to leave early because he was tired. so in the end, only jh, lizzy and i stayed.

we were sitting at the table juz opposite the one that 156 uncle sits every day and chat. juz random stuff. i told them about my students and heard the lizzy's story in army about his platoon ic throw the grenade that almost hit an officer as well as jh's life about typing and filing. it was nice to be back.

we only left around 11. but it was nice to be back.

P.S. quite some guys did not make it last night because they did not pass ippt. sigh. all the best.

P.S. think don did not book out this week. maybe he went for some out field mission or stuff. anyway, hope you are doing fine, donny... heehee