Farewell.

And now. As prelims end and my- what was it?- 12 yrs?- of school ends with today’s farewell assembly. Its time to Emo. And I guess this will be a long long post. Yeah. Like all posts of emoing, I shall limit my use of ‘lolz’ and ‘haha’. Lolz. Yeah. Schooling have been fun. Primary. Secondary, then JC, shaping the me that is me now. Yeah. In these 12 yrs, I guess I have never really wanted to miss school (save a few real stupid useless days like some stupid celebrations kind of thing).. and yeah.. its been great.

Yeah. So lets start. Primary school. My first school was one at Klang, near to the damn tok kong bak kut teh which I still eat many a time when I go back to Malaysia.. yeah. And for every year of my skool, I believe that there is always this one event that I will remember it for. And that one event that changed me. Ok. And so when I was P1, the event I remember the school for is the kidnapping of a fellow school mate, who till now, remains missing. Yeah. And I guess it hade injected more fear into my parents than me and dunno. I became more protected, covered by more layers of cocoons by my parents yeah. And till now, these are hard to shed away. But dunno, think I am breaking free, after all, that’s wad my father’s pendant thing he gave me said. And he said he wore it in his youth and is passing it down to me. It is not worth much. One probably can get a identical one at some pasar malam for 3 bucks. Yeah. But it said “the butterfly can emerge, but the cocoon has to go”. Yeah. And I am ready to shed this cocoon, I believe.

Primary 2, they say it’s the yr the demon grows in me, making me turn ‘ bad’ as my mother puts it. Yeah. But I remember it as the start of perhaps my fear of change. Cos yeah. I changed primary skool after pri 1. and lost all my friends of cos. Yeah. And it’s the yr I began to perfect my lying skills. Haha. Cos the teachers are calling my parents almost weekly bout my skool work. And I was punished many a time by my parents, but I guess instead of its intended effect, the punishments simply made me try to craft a better lie the next time.. yeah. Even till now. But yeah. My art is still not perfected I guess. Haha. this is a bad habit i just gotta change. yeah.

I remember the end of primary 3 more than the start. Cos it was another time where I have to leave my friendships behind, yeah, this time to come to Singapore. Yeah. And I sort of started distrusting my parents here, cos despite their promises to try their best to let me keep my friends, I never heard another piece of news from any of them ever again. Yeah. And this was the yr I remembered one of my first songs, yeah those songs than sort of sing out my life. And yeah. It was 朋友. Yeah. It was thought in skool during music or something. And it was sort of the first and the last song me and my friends there will ever learn.. And in yrs to follow, everytime I hear that song last time, I will go emo and tears will flow. Yeah. And to those old friends, if you still remembered me, which I sadly could not say the same for I have only a slight memory left of your names, thanks, you guys have been great and yeah. Thks.

And thus I reached Singapore, a blur and clueless child about a city of towers who is surprised by how new the cars are and how many houses one can stack on top of another. For in Malaysia, my impression of flats are like for real poor ppl. Yeah. So imagine what kind of shock I did get. Haha. But I was happy to be here, and any sadness that was there before I came was gone as quick as lightning, haha. Cos I first stayed at a condo, and having a swimming pool at your doorstep is seriously the best thing one can hope for. Yeah. And I joined coral primary skool, a new skool in my neighbourhood, and quickly became one of the best, if not the best (pardon my ego) students there. Yeah. And like I said before, it doesn’t matter how many students are in the skool, the best means the best. Haha.

And primary 5 came. And new friends I finally made, in Mcron, Leslie, Edmund and Nigel, and 2 others I forgot, one of which is called jordan but we didn't call him with that name. but yeah. We 5 was sort of the core member. And I remember the times of the Mew2, mew and mew3 gyms, where we wrestled till the bus came. Haha. And in me, the skool had the smartest as well as one of the most undisciplined student, the reason I was never chosen for prefects or monitor or anything. Haha. Bar one short span as monitor, and served well and responsibly I did.. but afterall, I was just a temporary one. Haha. But I did represent the skool for plenty of competitions then. Like everything also send me. Which helped boost my ego and make me, well, me. Haha.

And thus the concluding chapter of my primary skool life came, primary 6 was perhaps the best of the primary skool yrs. More wrestling, and yeah. Much more. Remembered for twisting my ankle on the day of the higher Chinese exams of psle for wrestling. Haha. Yeah. Never forgetting those days man. Yeah. And to Mcron and Leslie, if you ever come across this, yeah. I have heard sad things bout u guys, and can only hope u guys seriously change, and remember things u said last time. Edmund n Nigel, guess u are doing well, yeah. All the best dudes. Haha. And to all other primary skool mates, yeah, all the best too. Haha. And I shall remember many of you. And at least your names. Nabil, the short guy. Shafie, my first friend in coral. Khairul, the malay who watched Chinese dramas, Adam, the head prefect who I used to disturb. and a few others whom I can recall by incidents, eg. The guy who used to raise the paper lightbulb above his head before answering qns, whose trick I copied a few times to rousing laughter. El something, the guy who drew future digimon with my future pokemon at the back of the class, who probably helped me start my road to liking comics. Yeah. I remember. The name was Al-Zufri.. haha.

And at the end of those 6 yrs I got posted to AHS, the academy of heroic students. Haha. And who could forget my first yr there. Haha. And perhaps the most important thing that happened that yr happened 3 days into the yr. yeah. Choir. Haha. I still remembered the day I and reub camped outside the old music room at the tree. Our conversation I remember are as follows.

‘choir 2^nd auditions?’
‘yah. You also?’
‘You want to go in?’
‘dunno leh. You?’

….. and just then, a older girl from inside came out and asked, “here for 2^nd auditions?”
We looked at each other and nodded, stupidly at that time, but now we thought back, I guess there has been a higher power who really did noe what was best for us then, and yeah. We went in. and yeah. Need I say we are in choir now?. Haha. And my class then had 5 choir guys, I, reub, noch, zhou and ivan. Yeah. Ivan left for hong kong a yr after, but who could forget his “我生气了!” and charging forward duing soccer. Haha. And his constand singing of pasigin, which has etched the song into our memories, haha. Or at least parts of the song. Haha. And so many thing I remember of this yr, perhaps cos I am older and remember abit more. Haha. I remember those txt based online games we used to play, archmage, parallel universe etc. haha. Yeah. And another thing was that I had a shock. A big one. Haha. My results at coral was fantastic to say the least, haha. And I came to AHS all proud of myself. Haha. But yeah. I was wrong. Haha. Crashed I did during my first yr. haha. 246 out of 360 students. Yeah. And 3/100 for art. Haha. But of cos I worked hard and pushed forward. Yeah. And am now where I am. And another important place in sec 1 was the counseling center. Haha. The daily Risk™ matches as well as beyblade battles we use to hold at the top most sanctuary of that building and of course, the event that made us neva pon choir again in our entire choir life unnecessarily- the Ms Ow fiasco. Haha. I, reub, zhou and Ivan cleverly ponned choir one fine day to go to CC to play risk™ and beyblade. We were having great fun man.. enjoying the games as well as the thrill and achievement of ponning. Then at about 3 something 4. Ms Ow came. I zhou and reub was stunned. The beyblades dropped from our hands and stopped turning. Ivan attempted hiding under the sofa. But we were caught. And had to write some apology letter later for the ‘emotional hurt’ we have caused to Ms Ow. Haha. And we only have one person to blame for this, don’t we, Enoch?” haha. Jkjk. A sidenote was that choir had its only concert since our joining in that yr, and I went to the concert still not knowing how to sing 2 songs. Haha.

Sec2. haha. And the advent of magic into my life. Haha. Yeah. Magic. As in magic the card game. Haha. And soccer. Haha. It was the yr I started to get really interested in soccer.. I mean I watch some matches here and there at events like world cup before. But it was then, that I started loving football. Haha. After skool everyday go kick at street soccer court and outside skool. Haha. Damn fun. But Magic is still the most important thing that happened.. haha. Damn fun.. and sort of developed the artistic side of me with the art on the cards. Haha. And yeah. On the choir front, haha, it’s the yr tt we guys really got to know each other, and got to know ppl like ran, Daniel, colin and manhope. Yeah. And form the greatest brotherhood yet. Haha. And it was the yr we got the silver for SYF. And yeah. We were looking at the seniors crying, and we are like, is it that sad?. Haha. But we got it back, in style. Haha. Afterwhich I think we joined several things like went to genting, and I think the syf opening ceremony in which we sang the umafamiliar song.. haha. And it was the real beginning of the Kok Wars. Haha. Yeah. The class against kok. Haha. But now to think of it. We are perhaps quite bad haha. But who cares. It was fun.

And in sec 3 i was moved to 3H, where the only person I knew was Leonard and to a lesser extent, Constance. Haha. Yeah. But friendship we quickly made with shukitman, dai tiu, jiesheng and jin han. Haha. And perhaps the most memorable thing that I did, was to ask for early recess and early dismissal, yeah, with the paper posters kind of things I drew on fullscap and place on my head. Haha. Laughs we had over that. And yeah. I remember every recess where we used to jump down the stairs to be first at the 菜饭 store.. cos if not the queue damn long. Haha. And I mastered going down like half a story in like 3 steps.. which is like 5 steps per stride. Haha. Damn pro. Always the first to the canteen. Haha. Yeah. And with choir, this is the yr of the choral festival… yeah. Still have the songs.. haha. “ seventy-six thrombones led the big parade.. with a hundred-and-ten cornets right behind”.. haha.. and “ cantata dominum..” and “ta li mu…” haha. And singing TTBB is seriously cool. Yeah. Haha. And played football at CCAB. Damn cool. Haha. Though we mostly got owned.. but we played well.. yeah. Damn fun. Those days… back to the class. Well the class was never really united.. everyone with eyes can see that. Yeah. We were split into factions. Haha. And wars were fought. Yeah. But after all.. I guess we are all still friends. haha. And one best thing about this year? Emperorofhuang.blogspot.com was set up. Haha.

Sec 4 soon came, and things remained the same. Haha. Still running down for food, doing rubbish. Haha. And I adopted Norwich as my club cos they had a Malaysian sponsor. Haha. Darn cool.. Norwich are still my 2^nd English team and yeah. Still check on any news they have from time to time. Haha. Still remember Darren Huckerby, Damien Francis, Yousseff Safri, Dean Ashton and Robert Green. Haha. And they were relegated on the final day of the season.. though blessedly I did not have to go through the same fate with west ham just this may. Haha. Yeah. For choir, we got back the syf gold… and many of the things i felt could be found on the archives of my old blog.. so I should not elaborate. Yeah. But sec 4 was a great yr.. haha. Got hooked on movies.. haha. One thing I never really watched during my earlier yrs. Haha. Yeah. And from then.. almost fortnightly outings with reub, ran, zhou, hoe, joko and joined time to time by others. Haha. Yeah. And of course, who forgets O levels, yeah. Got quite a good 9 pts and entered VJ.. though not entirely directly. Haha. Yeah. But in is in. haha. The rest in unimportant. Haha.

And of course JC followed. And with my marks I was posted to VJC. I guess the most memorable thing of the yr have been covered like more than once by me in earlier posts so I shall not elaborate bout it. I shall instead, concentrate on other stuff. Yeah. JC life was, after intense reflection, somewhat of a waste for me.. firstly. My t3a hardly fills one page and so is my cca record which is very short to say the least. Yeah. That sux. And if I had one chance to relive my JC life I would have joined a cca like say.. choir or something and do my best in it. Or at least do more stuff.. yeah. Its sad to see when everyone’s got great achievements in all areas and all I have to show is my somewhat above average grades where most if not all would be able to get in the a levels. Yeah. So. One big regret for my life here. But back to JC1. One important thing that happened is I guess PW, in which I had high hopes for after my swearing to defeat my archenemy who wanted my exclusion in the team at first. But yeah. I guess though I did not achieve the grade I aimed for.. I guess I won the battle in another way. Another thing worth remember was that in J1, the western food sells fries and fried stuff everyday, and so I and Jiesheng and Junyu of last time 1^st 3 mths everyday whacked. Or almost everyday anyway. And yeah. It was heavenly. Coming from a food forsaken place called AHS whose western food, to put it in a word, Sucked.

And along came JC2. of which’s most important moment I am currently preparing for. The As. And so it shall be ignored yet again. Besides that, I guess the most important thing ,or should I say the As are the most important thing besides this, is the forming of a new friendship, the ultimate conversion from deadly foes to great friends. Yeah. Thank you. Jia Ying. Yeah.

Anyway. That much on top was typed pretty much some weeks ago as I planned for this post. Back to today. Yeah. Today morn went for farewell assembly and for the last time perhaps of my life would talk to some people whom I may never meet again or for some meet rarely. Yeah. The world is small. But big enough to separate everyone. Yeah. Afterwhich had a class lunch at fish n co. which was satisfying. And after which I, jiaying, jimmy, rong n ming went play lan @ Zion. Which was fun too. Haha. And oh yeah. Right after lunch whacked monster hunter wif jimmy n park n jiaying. Of which the class call and we accept as ‘the PSP gang’. With the Milky White PSP of Jiaying and the slim, sleek psp slims of park n jimmy, and of course, the solid-black, red-analoged PSP-rugged of mine of which I lovingly name Morpheus. Lolz.

Well nth much else. Yeah. To everyone i know well/ am best friends with/ sort of know/ knew before coming to/ know only by face/ know only by name/ know only by association/ said ‘hi’ to before/ waved at before/ raised my eyebrow to before/ don’t know at all/ will get to know soon/ will never get to know/ not applicable*, yeah. Thank you for being part of my life, or soon to be part of my life, or not being part of my life at all. And I guess.. my gift is my song.. and yeah. This song’s for you. How wonderful life is.. now you’re in the world. Yeah.

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So. Goodbye for now.

Yeah.

Till nxt time.

[update 6/10 11:50am] more names. as ASM rightly said. yeah. Jordan was Kun Feng. and It was Al-Jufri. haha. but both sounded the same anyway. haha.