HELLO EVERYONE!!!!!

blogger wouldn't let me out of my own account for several weeks, so i wasn't able to post for quite a while, even though i wanted to on several occasions! i was very nearly afraid that i would have to give up maintaining this blog altogether! (but heyyy it's all OUR blog, so it ought to be a shared responsibility, yeah?? :D) but fortunately i managed to get in again today! just before sports fest, timely.

alright let me reply to wearn's post first.
1) no it would probably be the second option as class blogs don't actually count. everyone posts on class blogs. also it's good to have time.
2) memories don't have to :D come to an end, that is. although memories really are kinda faded off subs for the real thing, but we take what we can get.
3) exams STILL aren't that important. winning lots of food is.
4) you have a lot of self control! if i had one day i'd want another and another and another and another and i'd never stop wanting more :D
5) aww come on wearn though sec 4's busy, i don't want it to stop! cos when it stops it's the end of rgs for us altogether.

but let's not think about sad things like that.

"yesterday's history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. that is why it is called 'present'." :D

so let's enjoy today!! woohoo!

or rather let's enjoy tmrw.

yeahh man, we're all HADLEY, we all get to sit together again!!! :D it will just be like old times. okay, maybe it won't be JUST like old times, as it always will happen with endings, people will drift apart and there will be things that we can't talk to each other about anymore, but then we'll have the semblance of old times, and we'll be united not only by house but by class, and that's special :D

i miss the old sports fest where there were ALL the events (because i really miss throwing shot put) it does seem as though life's colour is slowly fading, isn't it. :( oh well. at least the milo van will still be there. i am assuming.

do i sound too shallow after wearn xin's cheem post? please tell me if i am, recently i have gone on sonicx watching spree and the quality of my thinking and humour has deteriorated to that of a 7 year old. but sonicx is nice to watch. it is heartwarming and sweet and cheerful and happy and everyone is friends and nice and fluffy. and even though they go thru lots of sadness and really at the end it was a lot more serious than i'd ever imagined sonic could be, and even though they also experienced a parting they were still tearfully trying to joke and act tough and it was very heartwarming and all and their life went on :D sonic x is cheerful. watch it. at the expense of your vocabulary. (look at mine!!!)

alright good night everyone, have fun at sports fest! bring lots of snacks! (are we allowed to eat ther uh?)

A post.

What will friends around me say if they find out that I write blogs?

1. "You blog??"

2. "Why no Facebook??"

3. " Wow, you seem to have a lot of time"

If it was my Sec3/4 class, it'll probably be the third option.

If it was my Sec1/2 class, it'll probably be the first option.

Every class has its own unique characteristics, so its hard to compare between two classes, and its hard to get used to a sudden change in classes.

I still remember the day when I first stepped into my class, 301'10. Unlike most of our privileged friends from this class, I was the ONLY one from 102/202.

So I was a little worried, but not exactly extremely worried--thank goodness I still had some of my CCA mates/some people I knew through random events.

Now that two years have passed, I still can't believe I'm actually posting here.

There was a time when exams were just a one-day thing.

There was a time when exams weren't that important...yet

There was a time when we tried to bond with each other, and we did

Those were the days.

"世上没有不散的宴席"--(everything must come to an end, sooner or later) How true!

Sometimes I wish I was back to my Sec 2 days, when everything seemed nearly perfect.

Not that I have complaints about my class now (I love my Sec3/4 class as well!!:) )--but I wish there could be just 1 day when I can relive my Sec 2 life again.

One day will be enough, then it'll be time to study again (haha).

Sec 4 life will be busy, everyone. Just 1 term left!

Math Exam next week.

Happy Polling Day!

WX

...i meant to post this yesterday...

so i will cut out all the lark about good luck for napfa. good luck for bio spa if any of you still haven't taken it yet.


late nights + looming exams + looming napfa = me thinking philosophical thoughts = NOT HELPFUL towards looming exams + looming napfa. you know, while i DID say i believe that there were QUITE enough people in this world maintaining food-for-thought blogs, and that there ought to be more lighthearted focus-on-the-little-things happiness-giving posts (SEE I HAVE NO BRAIN LEFT, THIS IS THE RESULT OF LATE NIGHT + BIO SPA + ART PRAC. actually i had no brain left for quite a while already, and the ridiculous events of late have just perpetuated this phenomenon. okay that was long. take a while to read the part where the last sentence got cut off. oh no i just made it longer. never mind. moving on!) BUT

it gets stale hearing the same inane things from the same person. and also it is very detrimental to the reputation of the provider of inane humour, which in turn affects their interpersonal relationships, which will then (NEGATIVELY) impact their prospects in general.

basically (ooh, i said it, haha) a preamble towards a slightly more solemn post.

this year i've been trying to live in denial, not saying stuff about this being our last first day of school, last napfa, last spa, last pt, whatever, and so this is the first time that i am realising that it IS our sec 4 year! and all the implications that THAT brings.

revisiting the blog that we had as a sec 1/sec 2 class, when you're in sec 4, is really special. i know i know, overwrought cliche, but the memories are really special. well, yes okay in the nostalgia kind of way, that is the most common, but it's also special for me in a "what if?" sense. what if we had gone through obs together? what if we had done the sec 4 fashion parade together? (yeahh...i would like to have the privilege of designing ridiculous outfits to deck some of you in :D) what if we had the yearbook page together? and in a sense this isn't futile imagining. the way things go, how sec 4 classes get the yearbook page, and how they have the fashion parade and all that, it seems as though the most important part of rgs life, the most memorable part, is the sec 3/sec 4 class. but why shouldn't the sec1/sec2 class be remembered as well? i suppose the mentality is that because sec 1 and sec 2 had less stress they don't need all these special things to perk up life (like fashion parade and yearbook page and grad vid) but really i don't think it's so much for PERKING up life, if it was in sec 1 sec 2, but rather creating more memorable experiences, and actually having EVIDENCE of our candidness, (is that a word??) our personalities, our identities. (oh no sec 2 lit all over again!! haha)

i haven't got a very good memory, well in a sense i DO, but it's not good in the sense that memories fade, faces get hazier until they're unrecognisable, sounds get blurred until they're incomprehensible, the entire memory becomes so insubstantial that i'm not even sure i really remembered it, or if i only made it up. so it's really good to be coming back here and looking at all the photos and having my memory made more vivid. it's like servicing a tv, making the sounds and colours brighter and sharper and clearer. haha.

so IN CONCLUSION (see this is what school does to you) leaving sec 2 felt like a kind of graduation, the sec1/sec2 class was just as sweet as the sec3sec4 class, each in their own way, and it's really good to have this blog to keep alive the memories of sec1sec2 days, because they were also a part of rgs life and deserve to be reflected and remembered, just as well as the sec3sec4 days.

love you guys, stay strong and carry on!

kimmie
(i really need a nicer nickname)

whoops sorry wearn xin i didn't see that before i posted. haha!

man, if you STILL have that email after TWO YEARS, your inbox is in need of

SERIOUS CLEANING.

HELLO MY DARLINGS!!!

ALL THE BEST FOR WHATEVER YOU BE TAKING TMRW!!!!!

(oh, don't tell me you aren't taking anything tomorrow. that would be highly ridiculous, unless you take - what? bio physics geog lit??????)

sigh - haven't seen you guys in a long time, how you all doing? life good? best of luck to all performing arts going out for syf, and congrats to all those who have returned for a job well done! also, best of fortune for all upcoming pts, sas, whatever the school thinks to dump upon us, cca and suchlike. URGH. term 2 really is pt season!

alright i'm not going to be very philoposhical or very deep in this post (recently i have come into a more upbeat though simplistic frame of mind - sorry i can't find the word right now, i have no brain! D: - and i believe that it is not always the most intellectual discussions that are the most worthy, sometimes you need to have laughter and joy in your life too!) so i am going to just talk a lot of nonsense. actually after that long vichyssoise of verbiage (veers most verbose!! haha i still remember it :D) i can't remember what i want to say. hahahahahaha ridiculous, i am.

oh well ONCE AGAIN ALL THE BEST!!!! stay strong everyone!!!

kimmie

Reminiscence

Maybe now it's Kimberly and I who are maintaining this blog.

Maybe next time, it'll be Kimberly only.

But no matter who is maintaining this blog, at least there's someone maintaining it,

and if anyone decides to come back and take a look,

at least they will realise that

there are still memories here

worth treasuring.

I might never have found this blog again, had I not been clearing my emails and deciding to start with the last page (where all the earliest emails are).

The email was still sitting there, entitled "Our Blog =)" by DN. It was an email two years ago.

I thought, why not take a look?

And so here I am, frantically posting away, trying to revive this blog.

So I hope one day, when all of us are finally who we want to be,

Some time, some day,

When you're clearing your inbox, you'll find this blog and

Come back again.

And remember the good old days.

Should I have taken Lit? Maybe. I might be writing better posts right now.

WX

yay thank you wearn xin for posting.

i am ashamed to admit that i had sort of broken my promise to keep the blog alive. half a year ago. i'm also ashamed to admit the reason why but i guess you have a right to know.

i thought it would be easier to move on if i just forged ahead and forgot about 202, cos i've been told many times that i'm clinging on to the past too much and that makes it impossible to enjoy the present and look forward to the future. but i was wrong. enjoying the present and looking forward to the future doesn't mean having to forget the past. i was wrong. and i'm really sorry for the way i acted.

and even when i tried to forget it was impossible to forget. pals, you were amazing. if my heart were a vessel then 202 life was the varnish that vanquishes all barnacles and crud and stands this vessel steady through the most ferocious storms.

i'll say it again, you all are impossible to forget. i'll do a better job of keeping this blog alive.

cheers, and thanks for all the good time, buddies!!

love,
kh

First post of 2011

Just looking back at all the posts, tears can't help forming in my eyes.

Yes, I miss this class.

When I first came back to school in 2011 looking for my Sec 4 class, I suddenly realised that I'm back to my SEC 2 CLASSROOM.

A sense of nostalgia suddenly overcame me.

Was this not the class where I had a great time, where I learnt lots of things from both my friends and my teachers?

Was this not the year, that despite the tight schedule and everything my classmates still helped me enjoy myself?

Was this not the year, that I first had my birthday actually remembered by my class?

I will forever remember these small, seemingly insignificant, everyday events.

I must say, Sec 2 was THE YEAR when I really felt sad that it ended. (I think Sec 4 and J2 will be two other times too)

Being 'stuck' together for two years was really great, and I think I owe a huge thank you to all of you, dear friends.

As I looked through the pictures and posts, I realise how much I actually miss you guys.

Pictures at NetCarn....

Pictures at Class Party...

Pictures with Mrs Ho...

Wacky posts...

I must applaud Kimberly for her effort in maintaining this blog until recently (half a year ago?) I must say that I haven't been to this blog in ages.

Now that we are all in different classes, I can only wish you all good luck for all endeavours ahead.

WX

Please pardon any grammatical errors I made. Thank you. But do email me if you find any :)

I'm fighting a lost cause, aren't I.

Well, you'll know how it feels when you try to get me to fold my sleeves! :D

Folded sleeves are terribly uncomfortable. I don't get why people would fold their sleeves "because it's tradition". I mean, if you fold it because you think shorter sleeves are comfortable that's a nice normal pragmatic reason, if you fold it because it looks good that's a nice normal pragmatic reason (and I admire you for your strength of mind, I think it looks good too but I simply can't bear how uncomfortable it is) but if you're folding it because it's tradition that's just O__o. It's not even like you have your granny running behind you yelling "WEAR RED! EVERYONE WEARS RED ON CHINESE NEW YEAR!" and you wear red to please her. Which is why I simply so do not understand, supposedly our school teaches us to think for ourselves, so why do some people still fold their sleeves because "everyone else is doing it"?

HEYY PEOPLE. TIME TO TALK OF CLASS GATHERING.

120th post!!



I said I was going to keep this thing alive. :D



I was just thinking of changing the blogskin, because as I said in the tagboard, which is -COUGH HACK COUGH- very much SILENT, we're HADLIANS, not Bucklians, so why is the skin flippin' GREEN. But then, the blogskin is a trace, proof, like an abandoned sock in a corner, a name lovingly carved into a table leg, that there once were (and hopefully will be again!) people who loved and cared about this blog and came here often and posted. So I didn't like to change the blogskin. I want you to come back home and find it exactly the way you remembered it.



If this was on paper I could splash a bit of water in a corner and say excuse the tear marks, but it isn't, so you'll just have to imagine it.



What did we make this blog FOR, if we're just going to forget about it after everything else is over? Is class bonding only for when the class is around? We didn't make a class blog just to make the "learning environment more conducive", did we? We didn't make class shirts just to make classes more enjoyable. We didn't make friends just to make coming to school pleasant.

We made those things because we loved each other. We loved 202. Didn't we? Of course, there are new classes now, and it is GOOD to love your new class as well, but that doesn't mean we forget the old one. "Not forgetting" doesn't mean moping around everyday thinking about the good old days and hoping against hope that it'll come back, just - please show some sign that you still remember and care about the life you left behind. Come here and post.

...I know they say life goes on, and all that, but....

Life remembers, too.

a-HA.

I am not so IT fail after all. I still managed to get in after losing the email that our class chair so kindly sent with the email and pass to get in here.

THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING.

Do ANY of you, ANYONE AT ALL, realise

HOW LONG THIS THING HAS BEEN PRACTICALLY DEAD.

I did not come in for goodness knows HOW long, because firstly I lost the email and secondly I thought, hey, it's over, why should I? Why should I rake up the past?

But this is the kind of past that DESERVES to be raked up! I was just reading through the posts, and PM, you said you WERE in love with 202!

202'09

It's kind of sad that there HAS to be a year behind it. That means it's not forever.

But it also gave us an IDENTITY!! For as long as RGS stands, here, Bishan, or wherever,

THERE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE SUCH A CLASS THAT MANAGED TO PRODUCE THE GIGGLES AND SHRIEKS WE PRODUCED ON ACP, OR THE LAUGHTER WE PROVOKED AT DRAMA NIGHT. THERE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE SUCH A CLASS THAT WENT SO ALL OUT FOR NET CARN WE PRINTED 6 DIFFERENT PLAYER COMBIS.

(Well, there might. But for poetry's sake, let's pretend there won't be.)

THERE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE SUCH A CLASS AS 102'08, OR 202'09!!

I don't want to say that there won't be another class that I'll ever love so much, because "YOU NEVER KNOW" and I don't want to prejudice myself either, but I WILL say that there most probably won't ever be such a class I'll love like THIS again.

This post isn't the 100th, or the 150th, or anything so cool, but I don't care, a heartfelt message needs not a nice round number to be posted. Just like we didn't need to be extraordinary people to feel extraordinary love.

Here is a poem from Lucy Maud Montgomery.

The Old Home Calls by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Come back to me, little dancing feet that roam the wide world o'er,
I long for the lilt of your flying steps in my silent rooms once more;
Come back to me, little voices gay with laughter and with song,
Come back, little hearts beating high with hopes, I have missed and mourned you long.

My roses bloom in my garden walks all sweet and wet with the dew,
My lights shine down on the long hill road the waning twilights through,
The swallows flutter about my eaves as in the years of old,
And close about me their steadfast arms the lisping pine trees fold.

But I weary for you at morn and eve, O, children of my love,
Come back to me from your pilgrim ways, from the seas and plains ye rove,
Come over the meadows and up the lane to my door set open wide,
And sit ye down where the red light shines from my welcoming fireside.

I keep for you all your childhood dreams, your gladness and delights,
The joy of days in the sun and rain, the sleep of carefree nights,
All the sweet faiths ye have lost and sought again shall be your own,
Darlings, come to my empty heart­! I am old and still and alone!

---

...This blog is old and still and alone too. I'll be keeping it alive, if anyone wants to come back, like it says in the poem.

I'll be waiting. Waiting for you.

Love always,
Kimi.

14 NOVEMBER 2009

Hey 202,

i know its abit late but i just wanted to say that i REALLY REALLY enjoyed ACP and we did a sooooper dooper good job scaring ppl. i didn't even expect it to be that successful.. teehee. XDDD i think the judges were seriously BLIND. anyway, thanks for all the fun times and memories and i'll really miss u guys. see you next year, yeah!

<3 Reesa

Yo 202'09!!!

all this talk about next year is making me SICK. I don't wanna think about next year.
Double Math. Eeh. (Sorry Wearn Xin!)
No, seriously.
I don't think school would be worth coming to without you guys.
But then again, we didn't "have" each other until we "found" each other.
Like, make friends.
So.
This is really rich coming from me, but let's (try to) go into next year with hopes of making new friends.
But let's not forget the good times, yeahh?

Love you all,
Kimberly Ho 202'09

We cheated time before, I suppose it would be too greedy to ask for more.

13 NOVEMBER 2009

Hey class,

GOOD JOB to those who helped out today!

Our class was definitely the most popular class and the one with the most brilliant plan and teamwork. If there was voting we would definitely win! Everyone who came in screamed and enjoyed the whole thing, some people even didnt dare to go into the tunnel and went out through the entrance. And we were the only class who thought to close the classroom and turn it into a maze, all the other classes did the usual display-food-and-nothing-else ACP. So BRILLIANT PLAN class.

Thanks to those who were present in class today, (especially people like Jen, Hadziqah, Reesa, Juleen, Elisa and friends, Boon Xin, Sherilyn, Kaiwen, Nicolette, Wearn Xin, Amirah.S, Amirah.T Amanda, Cheryl, Vivien, Meng, Duoni, Kim and alot alot of other people) who were there the whole day to help out and didn't even have a chance to go visit the other classes.

Thanks to those who brought makeup, those who helped with cleaning and putting on the make up, those who contributed their torches, those who helped with class decor, those who provided food, those who stayed back to help with clean up. The face paint was awesome, it was like being with a class of living nightmares (except we weren't going "woooo" or "raaaa", we ended up saying "Moooveee faasster!" or "Nooooo Viooolenceee" like a bunch of ghosts voting for world peace). Though the face paint itched and the removing of paint was hard we all worked well together and persevered throughout.

I think it's a great way to end the year, with a memorable class activity that got the class working together and having fun. Though some of us got slapped and kicked and punched, I'm sure we all had fun listening to the screams of the people and it was a huge success!

I'll miss 102/202, can't believe that two years have passed since we met each other. I'll cherish the memories I have and really hope to be in the same class with most of you next year.

P.S Some of you dont have your house cards with you, the last time i saw the remaining house cards they were on the table. Now I dont know where they are. Either still on the table or with the PE dept already (which I doubt. Tmw the school's being used for FPS Nationals, I don't know whether our class is being used). Please take charge of finding your house card if you dont have them.

Meng and Michelle, I have your house card with me.

Michelle, I also have your SSA card and your Australian Math certificates.

Thank you 202 for two wonderful years of memories,

Mary

hello :D
HI (:
change blogskin can?
CAN.

(:

Be yourself day! (srry cant prob with facebook =) ) - dn

pretty photos!

duoni

Hello!

Kimberly here and just about bored to death at home. And also very bored because no one is posting anything.

So I have decided to post.

I have decided that I am not good at emo-ing and I will leave that to Weiling. I will post happy stuff. There is a book called "Pollyanna". The main character, (who is called Pollyanna, like, duh) is ever optimistic. She plays a game called the "Glad Game". It is to find something to be glad about in everything.

I shall play her game.

(In fact I have been doing it for the last few days that I was in school but i don't know if anyone noticed that I am lots more hyper all the time than before.) Anyway.

I am glad that I can stay at home. More time to finish SIP report. And it is refreshing to see what the rest of the world does between 7am-3pm.

There.

By the way, someone should really start linking their personal blogs! More fun.

I am going to put mine down. It is not a real blog, it is a story blog. It is written in the point of view of an imaginary character.

I have taken the precaution of not having a tagboard so none of you can flame me. Ha Ha Ha.(This is just an excuse for my incredible lack of IT know-how, but still....)

There, enough talking nonsense on my part.

Happy Racial Harmony Day! And happy belated birthday to reesa!

Kimberly

(Only female friends are allowed to call me kimmy. anyone else who tries shall be drawn on with permanent marker. PINK permanent marker!!! Which reminds me. i need to go buy pink permanent markers if i am going to fulfil this threat.)

OMG I AM OFFICIALLY QUARANTINED. TILL MONDAY. CRAB. D:

weiling the awesomez

omg lol i dono why but i keep thinking of life when i grow up next time and study overseas alone! so cool! i must go to some temperate country, then can walk around the school looking at autumn leaves falling. then at night mug mug mug with lots of stress but then somehow got study grp then everybody work together! omg i wan that life! it's like home away from home, like independent living! haha i dono why i keep thinking of uni life lar. k. in the first place i might not even get to study overseas with a scholarship, but wdv lar must think big right. sigh, sometimes i wonder how far i can go and how big i can make it when i grow up, and i always get pissed by the fact that i don't know my future! but i guess thats God's way of makig us work for our dreams, cuz if we noe our future then we wont work already right! isnt that cool! like everything has been so nicely planned! :D haha ok autumn leaves falling! then during winter can make hot cocoa for your roommates or wdv then everybody sit together to mug! ok actually i think it will be stresser than that, but i shall just live in the little world of mine, while i still can! hmm anyway next yr we wont be in the same class already. unless they wan to make some new record again for our level and change the syllabus like everybody study all the subjects! then we stay in school from 7-5 to study! LOL, actually i don mind lar i think school very fun. :) kay but that wont happen. FACE IT. no more miracles this yr. i guess it's time we have to go on our separate ways. but i hope we dont like next yr see each other on the corridors then just say hi, then sec 4 yr dont even look at each other already hor. we must remember the two yrs we shared together! :D ok so next yr got RA! must work hard okay! it's the last fight we will put up together as 202! so we are gonna make it enjoyable and COOL. (woah suddenly got memories from class gathering entering my head! ) AND PPLE PASTE YOUR FLAGS! i think kimberly has done a lot of things regarding deco very willingly for us! so we cannot take for granted! like she has been asking yall to paste the flags for dono how long already! i pasted mine! it's the flag of Atlantis! theres no such place lar, but it's so cool! GO PASTE YOURS NOW IF U HAVENT! i love attiya i love ling yi i love kai wen i love sherilyn i love jixin i love liuxu i love wang meng i love jie ying i love evan i love elysia i love cass i love eileen i love vivan i love kay lynn i love kimberly i love cheryl i love boon xin i love amanda i love elisaa i love jen i love yi xuan i love duoni i love wearn xin i love hadziqah i love amirah small i love amirah tall i love michelle i love nicole i love yushi i love hanin i love gladys i love nicolette i love juleen i lvoe yue ling i love reesa i love anqi i love I AM MISSING ONE MORE! sodifhpdsoihpasih oh ME. :D OOPS I FLIRT TOO MUCH. D: ok lets put up our last fight! :D 加油! (non-chinese that word meant add oil!) oh and lets me nicer to miss chong actually i think she got knowledge she want to impart to us one just that she not free enough! still quite nervous so lets make her feel more comfy! :D <3 weiling the awesomez.

Hello :)

finally, i uploaded the pics. But sorry for uploading the photos only now, my apologies. I couldn't find the time to and always fail to post it even when i could access the account because it took such a long time (and i have little patience :p).

Here are the class photo with mrs ho .

shot 3

shot 2


shot 1

Some others

I have no idea what's wl is doing

At least it's better here :p


Yi xuan the daunting teacher look-alike

Here's a few others taken during the class party :

the delicious, smoking ice cream cake that miss ong very kindly purchased for us which aroused my taste buds :p

Haha almost gotcha. The two super hardworking people even in the kitchen.

haha mich, weiling, attiya, amanda & cheryl. (so tiny :))

Finally. But just some info on Swimathon:

This year, SWIMATHON will be held on the 17th of July, (FRI) at CCAB pool from 3pm to 6pm.

Here are the details:

For participants taking part in swimming:

1. Must have attained a minimum of National Swimming Survival Award (NSSA)BRONZE and is able to swim competently in a recognized stroke.

2. If NO NSSA Bronze, then must attend a swim trial. It will be conducted in Term 3 (probably 1 to 2 days before Swimathon)

3. if you are a school swimmer, then there is no need for you to produce the NSSA cert or take part in the trial. If you are interested in taking part in this event, please fill in your particulars, as listed below...

1) Name

2) Class

3) HP number

4) Email

5) School-Team Swimmer/ Non School-Team Swimmer

6) If Non School-Team Swimmer, NSSA bronze/ no NSSA bronze

and email to swim cap i guess or refer to house comm for more info.

Regards,
Kaylynn