Thursday, March 03, 2005
i wondered why gao's nick was "days of yore"... and then after seeing kamil's nic, "the best is yet to be, happy birthday ACS", i suddenly remembered.
not that it means anything to me. spending only 3 months in AC singing the school song, (in days of york...1,2,sing) it doesn't really pull a tug. so wat if i spent 4 years in MG? didn't really feel very sisterly... not counting the various meetings at KAPs of course.
anyway, my bro is applying to acjc after the Os results came out and he asked me how the school was like. hum... it was dirty, it was dark, there were holes in the classrooms and i could wave from SB4 to SB3 and SB5. i sat at wooden tables and chairs that had graffiti since 1960s, and the chalk board was horrible to the ears, and the dust just circulated in the aircon room.
but despite all that, ac felt like home, it was nice to walk every 2 steps and see a familiar face, whether it was a sailormoon outfit, or a baggy pants that started at the knees.
i never stopped to think abt how the others wld feel. there were people in white and blue, and there were THE OTHERS. the minority of them were just so insignificant to me that i threw all of them into one big category, and cast them out of my mind. there were all white, green and white, green and white dots, white and purple, baby blue... short pants, long pants, tights, who cares... they just wasn't wearing white and blue.
so now i'm thinking whether my brother will fit in. given that he is a big potatoe, or a banana, i'm sure he'll fit in that way... culture wise... i'm sure being in a family of an AC boy and MG girl has rubbed some influence off him. so i do hope that he'll get in and mix with the correct crowd.
oh course, i will warn him not to sit at the ruggers table on the first day. that's like social suicide. or to get in the bad books of any pia kia's that are hiding at the nearby hdb blocks smoking. (i'm not sure where the smokers go nowadays, they used to hide behing the container classrooms, but there are no more containers)
yes, i will give him a run down of things to do, and the more impt things NOT to do.
i hated NJ after coming from AC. perhaphs it was more of simulating into an environment where everyone has already known each other. hum... maybe it was that consellor that went, "huang ying huang ying."
oh well. i will draw up a list soon of no-nos for him.
