Pictures of you, pictures of me, remind us all of what we used to be.
I couldn't sleep last night. I just kept thinking about the past.

I just started thinking about everything I went through in Primary school.

From Pri 1, I was in 1B. We had cement floors and chalkboards. I was the class monitor (with Zhiyong, then Brandon), group leader, duty roster leader (Whatever you name it, I have it). I remember sitting with Weiquan and Doreen. Weiquan would be disturbing the both of us endlessly. Irritating much at that time. And Francis came to our class. Once, there was a fire drill, and everyone left the class in a really screwed manner, and when we came back from the drill, we found Francis on the floor. Apparently, in all that mess, he got trampled on -_-

I still remember, during my first week, I had a buddy, and she would bring me to buy food together and stuff. The whole bookshop, was really old. Like so not your Popular bookstore nowadays. It was behind the stairway to the hall and everything was like wood. The staffroom was like a huge common table, that the teachers had to share, and it was filled with piles of books. There was also the hall, where I got hit by Mrs Lee on the head for talking. And the hall where we would chant those chinese poetry everyday.

There was this 'haunted' toilet and people said there was some green ghost. And when I went to see, some people were apparently claiming that they were shooting rubberbands at the ghost, when all I saw was the thin air. The sports hall toilet was supposedly haunted too. And there was this red stain just above the sports hall door and people said someone got injured or something. Apparently, the red stain is still red, so obviously it isn't blood.

And P1 was when I joined choir, and before the auditions, I prepared myself by singing different songs and it turned out, Mdm Yap only asked me to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (-o-) and I was in. The old choir room was so nice. And there were 2 canteens last time!

And in P2, I was actually in the best class, 2K. Wow. Xinyuan and Qiqi joined choir! The new school compound was completed that year and we moved abruptly in the middle of the year. The classrooms now had tiles. And I thought it was like something that was meant to be when I realised that actually, it was a privilege. Most schools still have cement flooring. That year's National Day song was 'Where I Belong' from Tanya Chua, if I'm not wrong because I remembered Nicolette was one of the dancers that performed with Tanya Chua during National Day.

That year my FT's comments for midyears was '努力' and end of years was '继续努力'. Amazing huh.

In P3, numerous 2K people ended up in 3F. April, Xinyuan and I were one of those people. That year, David Gates album came out and I was so in love with his songs and I would sing with Jiasheng. I sat beside Joel Yow and as he was really quiet, everyone would tease him about using body language to communicate. There was this thing about, drawing your best friend, and he drew me! LOL. So cute. But that was because I was one of those few who actually bothered to talk to him. That year, the chinese teacher was scary! If I didn't sign my chinese spelling (Which I always didn't), she would use rubberbands to shoot our hands! And her rubberbands were loose most of the time. And I would always sleep through HCL lessons in the afternoon. As the compound was still pretty new, there were always millipedes crawling around, and whenever any died, there would be this pretty awful smell.

Science teacher that year was Miss Lim. I totally died under her. I think she didn't really like me? I got scolded for passing notes in class. Well, I was best friends with Kristy. She introduced me to Gym and I almost could sleepover at her house but in the end I didn't. It was just so fun being with her. We had some Mashi Maro Club thing, and her handwriting was so cute. Jie Min (Leong) was also in the club.

In p4, I was in 4F. We had this Sandwich making competition, and I remembered those in the group were Lydia, Xinyuan, Cheryl, Yingling, Hanying, Jiazhen, Yeephon and I (If I'm not wrong). And we won the first prize! At first when they were announcing the consolation awards, they went,"4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E, 4(Some other class)....."

That year I became best friends with Charmaine and we were so crazy over Totally Spies. Like she was Clover, I was Sam and Chelsia was Alex. It was so cool and Charmaine would actually write me letters. Like mail them to me.

Then I went to 5A. Like tyco-ly. Apparently, I was 3rd in P4, along with Jiasheng, Hanying and some other person. Being in 5A made me feel really stupid. Like I was probably around the last 10 in class. I remember that year, we had the Oliver Twist musical and I was acting as one of the orphans and towns people. The moves we got were like really cool and Miss Chia was like telling the whole class I danced really well. I went to look back at the video last year, and I almost vomitted blood. Omg, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. Oh well, maybe because I was into the dance but I thought it was damn horrible (The townspeople part though, the orphan part was coooool to the maximum)

I had fun jumping from table to bench to floor and back to table. I don't really know why Fangqi managed to get the Oliver role, pretty weird because Jonathan is so much better! I really wonder if Jonathan is still as cute as he was back then :D And then there was this Asean medley thing. Everyone was so cute back then. We had rehearsals till late in the night. We used real bread as props, Julienne was so sexy in her dress. The whole musical was just so cool!

And that year for SYF, we got Gold (Top 5). I don't know what's with the Ladybug song, and those in the last 2 rows, had to pretend to be mad scientists or whatever. You mean, you need actions for choir (-_-?)

And in p6, still A class, I almost ended up sitting beside Weiquan again. Everytime I'm in the same class as him, I will always end up sitting beside me, even if it's for a short while but thankfully that year, I didn't. I almost sat with him. Qiya and I were best friends. We were all crazy over Derrick Hoh with Sharlene and the rest. Since the first time his sang as Top 24, and until he was eliminated, then back from elimination round, until the time he was really out of the whole thing, we supported like mad! I still remember, the rest would stay up late at night just to see the results and when Derrick was out for real, Sharlene sent me an sms and I woke up, and just cried (not so badly) in the middle of the night.

I still remember we loved 5566 like mad, and would sing C'est Ci Bon. Sharlene shook hands with them before and everything and we both didn't like Xiao Dao. April was always watching her DBY, and gushing about how handsome Mike He is and I was like, what the hell is DBY, who is that handsome guy? I only watched DBY like last year!

I still remember Choir had a change of costumes. I seriously prefer the whole costume, it was so much cuter. The new costume is more of elegant and long and flowy and no!!!! I prefer the shorter skirt. Well, I still remember during Graduation, the choir had to sing that Sakura song, since it was our Graduation song and I was crying unglamly on stage until we could finally get off the stage and start crying and huddling our friends.

There are so many things worth missing.

I miss the huge numbers of guitars, in the linkway between the band room and guitar room.
Music lessons were so fun. We played different songs on the guitar, and Mdm Yap even thought me and some other people how to tune the guitars and we would go there during some free time to tune them.

I miss the music/choir room that's linked to the computer music room. Both rooms hold great memories for me I guess. The choir room was where I spent most of my time at, since choir practices were held there until things changed in P5/6. And the computer room, we learned how to create music on the computer, and that's where we had practices for Asean Medley and stuff. And it was in that room that RongXian (RX), taught me how to play octaves smoothly, when playing many at a go. He said,"Just relax." And yea, I relaxed and I could play them smoothly! I hope everything's well for him in NJ now.

I miss the canteen stalls, where food were sold so cheaply. 70c could get you a bowl of curry noodles with crabstick and egg (something like that). And you'll never get sick of the food. You can always have a fried egg, or a bread (with chicken, egg & crabstick), or noodles, or campbell soup, or soup (and you decide to have meatballs/fishballs/seaweed and add tomyam powder), instant noodles, chocolate eclairs, roti prata. The list is just never-ending.

I miss the cultural corner, whereby Mdm Yap would choose people to perform during certain recesses, and there was once, I was in charge of getting the key to unlock the piano or something (And I think I forgot -_-). Choir would occasionally practise there and our voices would sound really nice.

I miss the field, where there's the area, which we would play Crocodile and everyone would be jumping around like mad. And there was once, a soccer ball was rolling slowly towards me and Mr Owen Lau asked me to help him pick up the ball, but as I was afraid of balls, I started walking sideways to avoid the ball, which was rolling slowly -_-

I miss the AVA room, where we would always be like on 2/3 out of the 5 days in school. And I remembered there was once, I was dozing off, and Mrs Chen shouted,"Xinyuan, wake up!" and Xinyuan was like o_o?? Apparently, Mrs Lim and Mrs Chen always mixes the both of us up, though we look really different. I still remember the time we kept sticking notes on Mrs Lim's hair, on April Fool's Day, and she walked angrily out of class. Mrs Chen told us that we should apologise to Mrs Lim and when she came back to class, everyone was apologizing and suddenly she laughed like mad together with Mrs Chen. Haha, the teachers were just so cute.

I still remember the time when we had our first 6A gathering on Good Friday in 2006. It rained on that day. And April said it always rains on a Good Friday, though it wasn't true in 2007. We swam in the sea then, and I remembered we were all dancing, some camp dance, and everyone had to get into pairs, and I was with Alex(ander). And we switched partners. It was just so fun. Almost the whole class went but in 2007, only 1/4 of the class went -_-

Still, there's so much to miss :(





Pictures Of You - The Last Goodnight

This is the clock upon the wall
This is the story of us all
This is the first sound of a newborn child,
Before he starts to crawl
This is the war that's never won
This is a soldier and his gun
This is the mother waiting by the phone,
Praying for her son

Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be

There is a drug that cures it all
Blocked by the governmental wall
We are the scientists inside the lab,
Just waiting for the call
This earthquake weather has got me shaking inside
I'm high up and dry

Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be

Confess to me, every secret moment
Every stolen promise you believed
Confess to me, all that lies between us
All that lies between you and me

We are the boxers in the ring
We are the bells that never sing
There is a title we can't win no matter
How hard we might swing

Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be

Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be