highlights, lowlights and blinking lights

this is going to be a really long post. i can tell. i feel it in my fingers, i feel it in my toes. [how many of you remember this song? i know sarah does]. so if you're gonna read the whole thing, brace yourself.

so.. the year is coming to and end. in just over a day 2005 will be no more, kaput, yadda yadda yadda. we all know that. what counts [to me anyway] is what we got out of it. at least, the parts that we actually remember.

thoughts on school: pretty much unchanged
workload: definitely increased
life in general: like tying shoelaces without your thumbs
human relationships: foul ball
spiritual life: can't even spell God

you know, this is harder than i thought it would be. i'll try to minimize it. but summarizing 365 days into a blog post is like trying to squash a pumpkin up your nostril. try it some time, tell me what it feels like.

moving on.
highlight: i grew 1cm taller compared to last year. lowlight: i also put on weight. blinking light: it doesn't bother me anymore
highlight: made new friends. lowlight: some of them suck [not many mind you]. blinking light: i met sarah
highlight: awesome church camp. lowlight: muddy shoes and bloody cold nights. blinking light: fishing is fun!!!
highlight: photog class. lowlight: chinese class. blinking light: PE class

ok, i don't think i can continue like that. let me outline some of the more significant things this year. obviously, subject changes. aside from the compulsory subjects we have to take [s&e, the bane of my life], i took photog and some other classes. but photog is definitely the class that i enjoyed the most [i think].

briefly, some fun bits - watching richard chen make a fool of himself time and time again. "merry easter".

church camp. great experience. i actually listened carefully to ALL the speakers. so carefully that when we had to do a short sketch, my group did a parody of the whole thing. the whole thing was really fun, and i got to know quite a few people better XD. i also learnt that staying three days with your friends can get a little... weird.

my friends. we went from all being in the same classes to being totally divided. my timetable was on a totally different gridline to theirs, and we pretty much had nothing together. instead, i met sarah. new girl. XD. shall i tell the story? i can hear sarah screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! oh well, it's a good story, one i shall never tire of telling.

this is one of the highlights [retrospective] of my year. she comes into english one day - her first day of school. there's an empty seat beside me and so she approaches [cause there were like.. 4 girls in our class, she didn't actually have much choice]. so she stands there and goes "hi, can i sit here?" in a totally demure way that i've never seen surface again. i say 'yeah'. mr. withers comes in and starts teaching and she doesn't have the lesson material. so she asks "can i share with you?" in the same demure manner. oh man, i'm loving this!! so i share my stuff with her, thinking 'hey, what harm could it do'. little did i know that the lovely girl who spoke to me so politely would turn into Little Red RIding Hood, spawn of Satan XD [inside joke, long story. don't take it the wrong way, jon].

lowlight: when two of my friends who'd been going out broke up. that sucked. even more so because of the circumstances. but it's touching cause he still likes her and all.. yeah.... i'm not the mushy type so i won't go into that.

blinking light: when moey pushed me over the little wooden fence. stupid incident that got everyone laughing. he kept pushing me to the edge of the corridor until i was jammed up against the fence. then he nudged me a little and i went over. for a while, i was just hanging there - my whole body balanced on the fence... then i fell. and moey didn't even help me up. and cresbo and nathaniel and them were walking past and looking at me like i was crazy. very lovely experience, that was. and to this day, he maintains he didn't do it.

singing in the corridors. soooooooo good. we always always do it, just for the hell of it. i remember once during lunch, we were sitting on the staircase singing 'i'm a believer'... "then i saw her face [deng deng deng deng] now i'm a believer" and this teacher came by and stood there. of course, we stopped. and she was like "are you practising for something? can i listen?" and we were like.. "no, we're not practising" and we looked away in an embarassed sorta way.she left eventually, disappointedly. to tell you the truth, we weren't that great. we were just having a lot of fun. we've been talking about going busking one day, and we'll even make our own sound effects to the music. XD.

hmm... will continue this later.