hm. dint realise i never told roo about us having s7 seniors before. i thought i did. maybe i did but she forgot. or maybe i just didnt. haii. it really brings back all memories yeah? *sigh*

long long time ago. i.e. in the year 2001, there was only 5 s3 classes, it only went all the way until 01s35. then comes year 2002. the year when i stepped into jc. i opted to do double maths double science in hopes of being in the same class as junhui and joyce zhuang. we figured the chances of us getting into the same class was much higher than the chances of wanyu yuting yy and joyce tan getting into the same class. fate played us out and how naive we were. junhui landed in 02s34, joyce in 02s35 and me in 02s36. wanyu and yuting landed in 02s75, while yuyuan and joyce tan were in 02s76. how ironic. maybe if i didnt opt to do CLao, i might have been in the same class as junhui or joyce zhuang if i dint opt to do CLao, but i guess i dont really regret my choice. in a way i guess.

since 02s36 was an extra class, we did not have a senior class immediately because there wasnt a 01s36. on the night when we knew our class, and nobody knew each other, we had 2 classes introducing themselves as our seniors because they did not have any junior classes. they were 01s7B and 01s7C respectively. i vaguely remember vanessa introducing herself and jordan making himself buddy buddy with lenith because da jie was already training water polo with the hwa chong team and jordan happened to be the water polo vice captain. surprisingly i cannot remember anything about 01s7B. dont really know how they settled amongst themselves, but 01s7c became our senior class in the end. wonderful choice they made. *grin*

initially, we felt very weird. maybe it was just me but the whole idea of being the extra class in s3 stood out alot. everybody forgot about us. during audition for campfire night in LT1, chee how happily announced the sequence for performance and left us out. somebody commented, hey let's zao and nobody will remember all about us. apparently one female councillor overheard and reminded cheehow. he added us in with a sheepish look. i guess it wasnt his fault lah but as fac head, he should have made an extra effort to remember. if even he cant remember us, who will? then when we performed our item (which was streetdance cheorographed by venus and jinyang) everybody stared. as in, literally stared. like we came from outer space. like what's wrong with having street dance as an item? just because it aint cheena they dont hafta stare right. it took a while before the applause came in. guess they were quite stunned at that point of time. stunned to the effect that they forgot to clep.

fine, we're 02s36, an extra class in s3 whose main conversation language is english because nearly a quarter of the class (i.e. the acsi people) cant converse in chinese for goodness sake and we prefer to speak in english. which was not the norm in s3. even the singaporeans speak fluent chinese. but what the hell. we enjoyed ourselves as a class. had tons of fun together being the odd one in s3. when the whole fac (or rather, the then 02s33) and 02s34 were totally immersed in dramafeste, we stayed out of it. entirely, when dramafeste was an english production and our class conversed in english entirely. only dewen went for it. i can swear, we were living in a world of our own, apart from the s3 faculty. our nice nice 01s7c seniors were in our world as well and we lived happily. playing angel mortal and getting presents for everybody during cny and valentines day. and having our twice a week orchard visits, going to our lao di fang to eat dinner and being unglam by sitting down at taka square as one whole big group. those were the days i guess.

yuan and her dingdang, and whatever rubbish about getting a boyfriend each from the five different faculties. eileen and her hua hui hua zhuang when she tries to convince one of the guys in class to go be her model. yijian and his lame corny jokes. lenith and his "dajie" thing. jinyang being yijian's sidekick. remember he once used his file to hit yijian for something i cannot quite remember. but it was during maths lec. darryl guay being *condemned* ruoling and venus being "the ones with ties who make alot of noise in lecture". xinxin being her crappy and lame one as usual. lilian and elsa being the meinu and baobiao. becca and her jiaozi jokes. chiobu for being our boss. dewen for being the maths genius who had a different frequency from us. yanlian being the "dont care" about sitting posture one. vivian for her constant messaging. zhangqing for being the only PRC in the class but is hip enough to join in on our daily outings. wilbur for being the constant "rock", stoning most of the time. the seniors for being the seniors always there for us. like how jordan and fang nien slipped into our maths lecture once to bring us fried jiao zi. and the sweet chio girls who entertain us with their funny conversations.

and the maths lectures are our most entertaining lectures. when yijian and jinyang used to fool around with the laser pointer and drive tan kian hwa confused by seeing 2 red dots on the screen. and where did our class diary go? im sure the tan kian hwa = orange meet flower joke is somewhere in the book.. the "key please" joke and mdm yeo looking like a gnome. or what's the creature? and the new year goodies being passed around during lecture. we had plenty of picnics during maths lectures. thank goodness we were sitting at the top right corner of the lt. not forgetting the 36 slang that came after watching i not stupid together. the "tpang" is the most commonly used phrase and i remember yijian using the "lin bei" one very often the few days following the movie. and our last minute baking done at chiobu's house and he not knowing where everything was in the kitchen. pampered kid wat.

so we enjoyed ourselves for 3 whole months. then the dreaded day came. i.e. results of Olevels. turned out half the class couldnt stay. only barely 10-12 of us could stay on. impossible to remain as a class. too small. venus and ruoling managed to appeal back successfully. chiobu yijian went ac, yuan went nj and vivian went tj. lilian dint wanna stay cos she wanted to go spore poly do opt all along and becca chose to return to jjc cos life was too stressful for her. condemned chose to switch out of the class. lenith appealed back in and chose to do s6. and there was talks of csy switching to vj. so on the first day of school, there were only me xinxin jinyang eileen dewen zhangqing yanlian elsa i think. did i miss out anybody? what a short queue. and there were long talks about teachers dint like 02S33 to be a pure PRC class (well almost) and there were talks of dissolving 02s36.

i guess ultimately they sort of did. 02s36 wasnt separated but the whole spirit of the class was destroyed by the whole event itself. people were long gone, and everybody was upset over the whole issue. the guys might have seemed to have not cared, but it was obvious that they dint want to leave. the girls were crying day in day out. i cried too, for that was my favourite class ever since my secondary school life. never in my life had i gotten a class so united and bonded as a whole. never. and to take it away from everybody in the class was a sin indeed.

the seniors were quite upset when they got to know the news and they tried to appeal to the school admin on our behalf not to split the class. the school admin relented in the end. but it was a cruel thing to do to 02s33 as well. i mean, they would love it as a PRC class for everybody was along the same frequency together. well, in the end both sides were hurt and nobody turned out happy.

lived with that for 2 whole years and i've being wanting to pen down the whole issue. guess i sorta did it today. the memories will always remain, and i still consider myself part of 02s36 and junior of 01S7C. always. 02s33 wasnt my choice. wonder what the rest of 02s36 thinks about it. if they still miss the good old days like me..