欢送会回响三：佳玲
Moving on but remembering - AHSCDS HSH 2007

I'm blogging at last. I've been experiencing mental block and laziness together, so hence no updates. But something special happened and it calls for a worthy mention in my gloriously-unvisited blog (HAH!). It was well, the official departure for a group of suckers, oops I meant spikers (LOL just kidding la. Finger itchy hee). Yeah, yesterday was the official departure of my batch in AHSCDS. We left our AHSCDS school member status and reluctantly embraced (Or rather forced-hugged) our new status as the new noobs in the AHSCDS alumni clan. Well, it was bound to happen.

Fast, eh? 4 years felt like 6months. Maybe when there're so many things happening time sorta speeds up eh? I've seen seniors going through this (cruel) ceremony of ushering them to alumnus status, but nothing feels quite like it until you experience your own farewell.

Cliche lines, once again. Cherish every single waking moment you have in AHSCDS or you'll sorely regret it. Time flies. Wasn't it just yesterday we were hauled into the then lecture room at the upper secondary block for some lecture by our comm seniors and leelaoshi for our unsuccessful and poorly prepared yingxinghui games? Wasn't it just yesterday we were scolded for one hour in the PAS by audrey? Wasn't it just yesterday we were scolded for the wrongs we did? Wasn't it just yesterday? Wasn't it?! No, it was years ago. But it felt like yesterday.

What can I say man. People enter our lives. Some leave footprints, some leave mudprints, some just float in leaving no trace of their existence. 15-1+1-2-1-1+3 = AHSCDS sec4s'07 spikers (14) We've been through sorrow anger conflict joy and lotsa emotions. Yet, we still hung on. Funny how, we actually had the strength to hold on. Was it the fear of letting go or was it the need to prove others wrong? I don't know. I know I didn't wanna regret letting go, so I hung on.

So many ups and downs that we've been through that we can beat MM Lee Kuan Yew's autobiography. Through the rain and sunshine, we always remained optimistic (though our rebellious nature has never left us even till now) and always found time to have fun (or was it because we were always having fun? HAHA). We're the classic problematic batch, the classic immature graduating batch, the classic dammit-they-are-so-frigging-rebellious-I-feel-like-skinning-them-alive-and-BBQ-them batch. I hope that as of from yesterday, this madness of problems that encircles my batch will come to the end. May our problematic-ness leave us like our AHSCDS school member status, yi qu bu hui, and not burden leelaoshi anymore.

After 4 years, I'm not sure about our seniors opinion on us. Well, they didn't say anything during fen xiang. But wenqi, welcomed us into the alumni clan LOL. After 4 years, we know that at least we weren't bad seniors who condemned their juniors and treated them like trash. Although we may have been the worst rolemodels, but I'm certain we did make their time in AHSCDS enjoyable with our silly antics (and to quite a number of juniors, I'm their entertainer lol) and horny yellow jokes etc.

Yesterday, we were treated like royalties, first-class service by our juniors. They did all the saigang, carrying our stuff, preparing food, serving us food, clearing up.. I felt bad. I was in their shoes before. I knew how it felt like, rushing around doing all the stuff with an empty stomach. I recalled asking melody or shilei if the juniors had eaten when she was serving us. Supposedly we deserve this first-class treatment, but having experience the way AHSCDS seniors don't torture their juniors like certain ccas do, I can't help but feel, "Hey! I don't need this type of treatment. Let's just enjoy this party together!". Don't you? I love my juniors a lot, although at times I feel like jumping off the Effiel Tower because of them. But they're so cute and lovable, such negative thoughts just disappear.

I think the greatest gift for farewell it's not about the number of extravagent presents you receive but to know the fact that you've touched their lives and made them happy. That I believe is the greatest gift one can offer to a graduating senior. I believe that's why fen xiang was "created".

Goodbyes are always hard and there's no such thing as "forever". So.. Goodbye, AHSCDS. But, Hello AHSCDS + AHSCDS alumni clan. What can I say? I'm old already. It's time to move on, though no one said you can't rewind back. I'll move on, but I'll come back to AHSCDS to relive those moments and enjoy the company of my dearest juniors.

With much love,
Trudy

*LOL I don't know why but I felt like ending this entry like a letter. It seems more complete =D LOL I'm gay la.