anybody free to go out with me on the 22nd, 28th or 29th feb? they are sunday, saturday and sunday respectively.. might be going for the NTU business and accounting thing on the 22nd and popping by jts after that.. but i wanna go watch mystic river and go shopping. i suddenly have an urge to shop. after buying a cardigan at dorothy perkins yesterday. i was soooo tempted to splurge my money. on things that i might not need. but the black cardigan is nice.... im trying to opccupy all my weekends so that i dont feel as though i have a lack of social life.. yeah. how boring my life is right now.. not for the past weekend though..

went back to jurong primary on saturday morning thanks to the impromtu suggestion from rita and kailyn and we almost couldnt walk around the school freely because the operation manager did not encourage outsiders to walk about. even when we were old girls. kailyn was just commenting, if they really wanted to confirm our identities, mine would be the easiest because my name is carved on the board outside his office on the top pupils list. argh sigh.

primary school life seems soo far away.

then to really confirm who we were, he had to drag mrs seah out and mrs seah couldnt recognise us until we said who we were. yeah i used to have shorted more wavy hair and i wasnt as tall. according to kailyn. and without my orange brown hair. hahaha.. but im glad that mrs seah still remembers out funny antics in class and who she used to like to matchmake people with. right. it used to be me and lawrence, the honey and sugar thing. goodness, kailyn still likes to use that to tease my sometimes nowadays.. eh that was 6 years ago, going into the 7th year this year? sheesh. but i gotta admit primary school memories are memorable.

we dint take a class photo in our last year, but i do have one of 5A with us at the eco garden. and with ms quek. and one clique photo of me rita kailyn linda yumin and eunice. rita said linda has changed for the better. and to think we remember her as the "bitch" who wrote in kailyn's and vernon's autograph books that "i'm single and available" and "vernon is mine, dont you dare snatch him.." or something to that effect. *grin* and kailyn was actually asking how come yumin was in our clique and we promptly concluded that because eunice was there. used to remember i was very close to eunice, maybe because we were in the same class for 3 whole years and we knew of each other's existence since primary 3 when we discovered the presence of each other in mr yap's art class and befriended each other.. our friendship started from art class and not in school. and that carried us all the way until we both ended art class in sec 3.. or was it sec 4? hm. knew kailyn since primary one, as the one who liked to pull my pleats/ponytails soooo much during every year's prize-giving ceremony. that habit of her started since primary one i think. and she claims that's something she remembers most clearly about. haha. while forgetting our primary 6 chinese teacher, xie lao shi. *grin* and im sure glad our friendship is still going very strong. right my dear? i can also remember that i knew kristy as well, together with kailyn but somehow as the years passed from primary 4 to primary 6, we slowly drifted apart. yeah such that we didnt quite talk to each other that much in primary six.

my class was a very weird class. we were very competitive. so competitive such that the minute ms gee gave us worksheets, we would start doing them and we would have a competition about who would finish the paper first. we would be fuming mad with ourselves if we had 98/99 for maths because the whole class would be getting 100s and very few would be getting 95-99. our maths were that strong all thanks to ms gee. she was a wonderful teacher indeed. she stepped into 6A on the very first day, saying that she had wanted to teach our class ever since when we were primary 4 students. she saw the potential in us and i must admit, we were a smart batch of people. we could play hard and churn out the results she wanted. maybe that's why she liked our class so much. remember when we used to have pe, captain's ball guys vs girls, she would always help the girls because the guys were simply too strong. pumping long balls all the way and making us run from one end of the court to the other. but we made up for our loss in height! all the girls were damn tall.. people like shari, me, kailyn, kristy, huijun.. we were taller than the guys in the class. *grin*

i can still remember when the class gave ms gee a "heart attack" when we did badly for our midyear in pri6. for once, i scored 359/400. my lowest of all times since primary 5. and ms gee had us going up to her table one by one , talking to us quietly and giving us the silent encouragement that we needed. i still dont understand why i under-performed but still that encouragement boosted my morale and i came fighting back to come out second after pofun, with her getting 376/400 and me getting 375/400. not quite my best but still, better than my midyear. i still dont understand how i got 381/400 for my primary5 midyear and ms quek was astounded. so was i. but i lost out to pofun twice when i was in pri4 and pri6 by being the second in the entire level. she took the first spot. honestly i knew my mother wasnt happy. cos she was used to me being first and all. but i cant help it if there's somebody greater than me right?

so this competition between me and pofun continued all the way right up to PSLE. i had no idea which camps were the class divided into but according to yanlian, what lixiang told her, the guys wanted me to come out tops. and so were the girls i knew.. seems quite mean but pofun was quite an outcast at that point of time. yeah i came out as the top student, but i missed ms gee's target of 280 by one point. she was asking me where that one point went to. and we missed her target of getting 20 4Astars by one as well. but she was pleased we could tell. and pofun lost out to me by one mark, and she cried. i think. crying for joy or crying because i beat her ultimately, i have no idea. but i would wish she was crying for joy instead.

come to think about it, my upper primary school years consist more of academic memories rather than playful ones. but i do remember clearly that five stones was our favourite pastime from pri4 all the way to pri6. and we would play it before assembly began, and during our recesses. and all of us got soo pro such that it would take a few rounds before one person stopped playing to give the chance to others. in a way it was competition as well, seeing who would become better at the game itself. sometimes all the girls would play together, sometimes in our separate cliques. and the guys would be playing catching on the field i think. dint take much notice of the guys. yeah.

we visited our primary six classroom that day and we were trying to remember where everybody was sitting. i used to sit beside kanxing and he complained i treated him like a drawing board, cos whenever he said something to "kajiao" me, i would use my colour pens and draw on his hands. haha. and we liked to tease keryi and kelvin who were sitting right infront of us.. and whenever we had to do projects, they turned around and we had a group of four...

i sure miss the good old days of being in primary school.. innocent naive.. carefree and heartwarming.