i have been thinking quite abit about todays blog entry. dont ask me why.
it started out as a train of thoughts when i was trying to look for my tutee's house [ex student actually].
i was thinking about holidays specifically.

my primary school holidays were spent at home, watching tv, reading books. there werent any internet or computer games as i only got my first computer when i entered sec sch officially. occasionally my parents would bring me and my sis out to "gai gai" at places like clarke quay, shopping malls, and we'll just spend the entire day there. walking around. dint go out with my friends cos we dint seem to see the need to! haha. maybe cos we were all once young and naive. dint knew the enjoyment of hanging out with friends and watching movies too. in fact the only time i spent with my pri school classmates was when the 6A girls decided to go watch a movie after our PSLE results were released. think all of us were quite hyped up cos we did wonderfully well. hehe. me included [kk i better stop being so self ego. muahahaha.] but we dint watch an ordinary movie. we went to omnimax theatre and watched the roller coaster documentary. which was quite cool. and for primary school students, the price of the tix is cheaper than a normal movie tix. hey but we aint nerds i tell ya. grin. kailyn, rita, think of the wonderful primary school memories we had. ooh and the times we spent at rita's place doing project! :)
those were my primary school hols.

secondary school was totally different from primary school.
i was in a different place, totally different environment as compared to primary school.
i daresay i was damn slack in pri sch as compared to sec sch. my CCAs in pri sch were almost insignficant. chinese dance till p4 [yes laugh your head off, xinxin :X ] and then maths club i think. or was it computer club. ahh cant remember. but sth along those lines.
then in sec sch, i plunged into red cross. just because my mum insisted, cos her friend's daughter was in it as well and she was one year older than us. kailyn, remember weizhen? grin. red cross took up most of my time during lower sec holidays. i truly enjoyed myself when i was in sec one, naive and innocent [yes really]. until the politics of performing better than so-and-so and doing the courses screwed up my impression of the seniors and redcross entirely. i chose to leave. i left at the end of sec 2. of course, i dint exit abruptly, i just faded away. into the backgrounds, from a chao enthu kia to a slacker. and finally a wall flower. and then i disappeared. but my sec 2 end of year holidays was the most memorable one out of all my sec sch hols.
partially because of the memorable chalet we had at the end of sec 2 [yahui, do you still remember? and the stupid antic ling did with the sji people ;) ], and of course, PSL camp :)
after that, my hols were swallowed by PSB activities. during school time, i had house treasury stuff, mass dance, cybermatrix stuff [only when we were rushing the projects] and PSB stuff. loved going for PSB activities. and then in sec 4, chose to stay on as an SPSL. even more activities then. organising PSL camp, PSL convention, PSL carnival. boy was sec 4 a busy life. and yet. i think i dint quite study that much. but enough to get me to the jc i wanted to be in. of course, hcjc. [lets ignore the fact that i had actually wanted to go rj for a period of time. blame fishball and joycet. muahaha. :) ]
sec sch hols was sch activities, sch activities and MORE sch activities.
i dont think that applied to rgs alone. think it applies to everybody.
but i really really really love rg, enjoyed rg.
it seemed like the only period of time when i could balance both studies and sch activities and play.
it made me who i am today, and yea, im proud to be a rafflesian.
think the rafflesian trait stays with us, no matter where we go to after sec sch.
such that you can actually tell a rafflesian when you see one.
am i right, or wrong?
im more inclined to think im right.
unless you step into medicine. where 85% of the people there were once a rafflesian. be in rg, ri or rjc.
kk off tangent le.

jc hols were similar to sec sch.
cept for the fact that i thought i finally made the effort to study during the holidays.
2 years is too short a span of time to cram the entire Alevel syllabus [and i pity the bio students even more] and holidays was definitely not a time to play. it was interact/study/interact/study/interact/study. oh and there was dramafeste in j2. but aside from that, i remember it was only CCA, mug. i dint have to catch up with friends much except for shu and kailyn cos they were both at rj. all the rest, were in hcjc with me. wanyu, fishball, joycez, joycet, junhui, ling. everybody.

now for uni hols.
rightfully i should be working.
but the dec hols seem too short for me to work [yea listen to me, excuses excuses.. hahaha]
besides, i have income coming in. just that it aint exactly alot. my tuition money la. but i dont really care about money right now. all i know is, when i have money, i spend it on tech products. it was a digital cammie, now i got myself a mp3 player. PLUS the fact that i wont satisfy myself with the cheaper ones too. i do my research, find the really good quality ones, and they are all ex. there goes my money.
ANYWAY.
i see uni hols as a time to catch up with old friends. friends who are no longer right beside me 24/7. friends who are stuck in camp. friends who are still stuck in the education system [actually aint i too?].
maybe because im the only one in SMU. maybe xinxin might not wanna see venus since they see each other almost everyday, and whats so nice about xinxin anyway. *grin* kidding ah. you promised to teach me to ride. i still need to brush up on my skills. plus everybody is everywhere now.
of course i wanna see them, talk to them and catch up with them.
to me friendship is an important thing and i cant imagine myself without these wonderful friends i have.
yeaps. so i'll leave my dec hols for my friends.
and then maybe i might find myself a job during summer. next year. before or after the UK trip. [er yy and joycet, i havent started saving yet. *whine* ] or maybe, i might go sign up and be a faci for orientation camp next year [elaine! wanna be a faci? or anyone reading me blog, wanna be faci together? ] hem. maybe i shouldnt make too far ahead plans.
maybe i might see uni hols in a different light after i grad. but so far thats the image i have.
for me to recharge, rest, meet up with old friends. and get ready for a new term ahead.

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