as daddy was driving past the school building,a single thought came floating through my mind.this is my last year here.as daddy continued to drive past the parade square,i was thinking. i've spent six years here.i'm so attached to this place.what will happen to me when i go off to another school?will i be able to adapt to the other ways of another school?
whatever ups and downs i had for the past six years,once i stepped into the shool compound through the familiar gate that i do my duty at,all my troubles are forgotten and i get ready to greet a new day of learning and fun at school.i'll be greeted by some of my good friends,and i can really count on some of my classmates,especially stella.
she has been my classmate since primary 3 and we were promoted to being a student leader together during primary 3.though during primary 5,i was promoted to a rank somewhat higher than her,i don't count myself anymore "powerful" than her.
when i'm with her,i feel as if i'm with my friend that has been in the same class as me since primary 1 - although there are no such pupils.yes,there are pupils whom i have been classmates with them before in primrary 1,we were seperated in primary 3 - and i can pour out all of my troubles to her without any caution.
though she has "divided loyalties" sometimes,and i sometimes hear of rumours saying that she would say bad stuff about me behind my back to other people,but in the end,i never believe any of these rumours.because i know how hard it is to be accepted as a friend and she gets "pushed away" by other student leaders of a class that is better than ours thinking that since they are the best classes,they can go around looking down on people and laughing at them.
though i would like i change of results to surprise them and tell them that even our class can beat them,i am also not quite looking forward to it.because i have some good friends in those classes and i don't wish to make that relationship more fragile than it is right now.but anyway,it's my class that i'm "loyal" to.
as the thoughts continued to race though my mind,i thought about the very very first day of school.i could still remember how nervous and excited i felt on that day.and how i told mr albert tan a wrong name and how he didn't blame me for it and how i said o thought that he had the wrong name.i also remembered the way he pronounced[?] my name the wrong way.and i also remembered the thing i called the boring story-telling time.he would always talk about the time he was army and he would tell that story over and over,again and again whenever we had free time.
i could remember the time when we knew we were going to stay as a class in primary 2 too.we sorta jumped for joy and we kept pestering mr albert tan to be our teacher in primary two again. we kept on pestering him till the last day of school and the only answer he always gave us was "maybe."i didn't know what had encouraged me to join the class and "beg" mr tan to be our teacher again.i didn't really like him as a teacher.[and i forgot to add this in,i got third when i was in primary one!haha....that's nothing to talk about anyway.]
then in primary three,we were seperated.i was in that class with a new bunch of people and only a few of my friends.we met our form teacher,the "famous" pe teacher,mr wong.many pupils from that level and the other levels thought that we were really lucky to get him.and then i thought,if he's a pe teacher,does it mean that he will only teach us pe?
but i was wrong.he taught us maths and science[wow! lol].and i think he didn't teach us pe.some other teacher taught us pe.i just forgot.he later transferred to tanjong katong primary.[i think]then he sometimes would bring us to the computer lab and show us some of the photos he took.there was once where he took the photos of a snake [i suppose] eating a lizard [not sure too] in his friends home.they called the zoo or the police after that too.[i'm not sure about these too!]
we also had another teacher who taught us english and i think music too for the first half of the year.she was mrs huang.she was our form teacher after mr wong was "brought" to teach pe in the 2nd semester.since she was in charge of the choir and i was in the choir too,we got along quite well together.but she was transferred to another school to teach part time cuz she wanted more time with her two sons.
though it was sad to see her leave,we had wonderful memories with her. kelly, cheryl, kathy, valencia,i think zhi yin,chong zhe,patrick and me went to her house during the holidays.i remember we had alot of fun,helping her,eating cake,and the delicious food and well,making alot of noise and playng hide and seek in the storeroom.haha!
then in primary 4,the class stayed the same,and guess who we got again.yeah,we got mr wong. again.the rest of the class were overjoyed while i kept my composure.haha..then this time he taught us maths only while another mr albert tan[form teacher of 6/9 this year] came to teach us anglish and science.in my opinion,mr tan was more enjoyable.he didn't really use the textbook and he drew lots and lots of diagrams on the board and he would even bring his own equipment to school to show us.
he taught us how to use fool-scap paper to take down notes and that sorta like became my habit.everytime there was science lesson,i would be busy copying.(and the "extra practice" from church helped too...hahah...)i even got praised by him before!for being the only one to take out paper to copy his notes.he would tell us that he would want to buy something,and he wife would say no and yeah.i would try to stifle a laugh..hah.
then in the middle of the year,the shuffling[?]happened again.we got a new form teacher.she was mdm toh..haha..when she first came into our class,she said we were hard to control.haha.then cuz we weren't used to handing in worksheets,a lot of them didn't bring and the clas whould noisy.but something special happened between me and mdm toh which i will NEVER disclose.
she came to trust me more and she even told me to use her pass to go into the staff room to her table and get her stuff and exam papers,hard disks and lots more.a lot of teachers would be staring at me but..whatever.and whenever i spotted mrs tan,the 4/5 teacher at that time,cuz she didn't let me in,i would get her to help me get whatever i needed from mdm toh's table.
that half year was my most glorious half year in school.i felt like i was actually of use to a teacher instead of like now,when miss ong and mrs ooi don't even put me into consideration when she calls the prefects.mrs ooi likes to class ser jean.i don't know why.and mr low too.ser jean rose to "power"faster than anyone could.she joined my school in primary four and now she's one of the most favourited by teachers and the prima dancer of the chinese dance troupe.
then we felt disappointed again when we were once again seperated because during that year when i was in primary four,kelly and "the gang" which included me,cheryl,zhi yin,shu shan,chanel,valencia,kathy,rachel and maggie went with mdm toh to perform at the opening of the dunno wad garden thing.and mdm toh got me and wei liang to go with her to the science centre to man the school's stall for the science cards thing.
i was actually in 5/7 with rachel and stella.stella and i were sooo happy we would be in the same class cuz we had a somewhat special bond.haha.we were the only two student leaders in our class at that time.but then when we got to the class,we found out that we were supposed to be in 5/3.wow.i coudn't believe it lah.then yeah.haha.our form teacher was mdm lok.
then after recess,we found out that rachel was supposed to be in 5/7.haha.in her face!yeah..then i guess you know what had gone on during the year..so not really much to explain.but those thought really ran through my mind.especially the p4 student leader camp,the friendship camp,the national day at the floating stadium,the prefect investigure[?],the interview,and many many others.........so...yeah.so all younger kong hwaians,treasure our time in kong hwa.this comes not from an alumni,but a present kong hwa student.
now i finally find out how enjoyable school is to me.with the many friends and teachers i've had and made along the way.haha...i'll provide the list of teachers who teach me the subjects that will be tested in the exams from p1 to p6 next.those not,too bad!
P1/5
- Mr Albert Tan Chok How - Form teacher,English & Maths
- Mdm Gu ?? - Chinese
P2/5
- Mr Albert Tan Chok How - Form teacher,English & Maths
- Mdm Tan Ai Soon - Chinese
P3/4
- Mr Jason Wong - Form teacher 1st sermester,Maths & Science
- Mdm Tay Puey Koon[?] - Chinese
- Mrs Huang aka Mdm Lim Yu Nguan - English,2nd sermester Form teacher,English,Maths & Science
P4/4
- Mr Jason Wong - Form teacher 1st sermester,Maths
- Mdm See Swee Tee - Chinese
- Mr Albert Tan Chai Lee - English & Science,1st sermester
- Mdm Adeline Toh - Form teacher 2nd sermester,English,Maths & Science
P5/3
- Mdm Lok Chiu Fen - Form teacher,English,Maths & Science
- Mdm Tok ?? - Chinese,Higher Chinese
P6/3
- Miss Ong Huey Fern - Form teacher,Science
- Mrs Allen Ooi - English,Maths
- Mdm Tok ?? - Chinese,Higher Chinese
i gtg...haha..bb!
07/05/2008
