Farewell Post

Alright now, I thought I'd be outta the blogging business now but I guess I need to come back here so that I can present my farewell post in a more convenient and organized way. 

Here's a little confession to make: When I was in Form One, I was terribly afraid of my own classmates. I felt as if I didn't fit in well -- I called myself a misfit then. I was practically depressed about everything-- at the fact that I was from a Chinese school with weirdo chinapek accent, having Set 3 for everything, having no secure group of friends like the rest of my classmates et cetera. Sometimes I would return home, tearing out old newspaper just to vent out my anger. I guess I was a depressed and angry little brat.

Then...I met a bunch of nice people from 1W and 1P. I met Layin, Clarissa, Ashley and a whole lot of other peeps that really made my high school life memorable. You guys have really helped to bring me outta my little shell I was hiding in for months. For that, I would like to say a big thank-you =)

Then, I just sailed through Form 1, and stepped into Form 2, and Form 3.

Something happened in Form 4. Well it didn't exactly happen out of the blue moon or anything like that, but I could foresee that the year was going to have tons of turbulence, and I was like a passenger plane trying to get through the bad weather. I must admit that I'm a very clingy person, and I'm super dependent on my friends. So when I was being left alone, I didn't have anywhere to go. I couldn't exactly relate to anyone at that time, nor can I just pop into one random clique and go "Hi! So...what are you guys talking about??" 

Last year was a terrible year, yet it made me realize that change must occur in order to improve and strengthen my own character. I guess you can say that all that happened last year had somehow hardened me, I learnt not to trust people so easily. But thank God for all my friends who were very kind to help me out of my problems. Maybe they didn't know their roles in it, but still, I feel blessed to call them my friends.

I wish I can list out all of you who had helped me through this bittersweet experience of high school life, but I don't think that's possible ---the list is simply too long! Anyways, I'll try my best to do it. Note: I'm a little woozy right now, so I might miss out a point of two here. I'll update them when I finally remember them again.

I'll start off with my Jolly Rockers (Going from anti-clockwise):

Gwen and Yuan eating choco and rum cake. Yums.

Gwen - Funny, crazy, psychotic(and that's an understatement of the century), crazy, weird , nice...the list goes on. As you all know, this is the person who laughs the loudest in class, she just can't keep quiet when one of us crack some lame jokes. To tell ya the truth, whenever I say something stupid in class, and when she laughs, I will always try to calm her down in fear of getting caught by the teacher. ALWAYS! I always regret telling her jokes in class, especially during lessons. I'll go like "DARN IT! Why did I even tell her that?? Now she can't stop laughing". Gwen, I just wanna tell you that I am very, very thankful to have known you, even though you're so psychotic. You've been such an inspiring figure to look up to, never giving up (especially when you're trying to fight for your trial marks) and always so optimistic about things, well, usually anyways. I've only known you as a close friend at the end of last year when you started to sit beside me during lessons, and thank goodness you did that. You've filled my life with so much of laughter that I swear I've developed some good abs from laughing so much. Thank you for all those good times during post-exam activities, CF camp, and our Pavilion outings. Thank you for being such a good Eng.Lit Buddy, corrupting the poems into your twisted and sick version of entertainment. I'll always remember your version of Sonnet 43. Oh that reminds me, I still need to post you the lyrics to I Pretend Being A Girl for Yuanie :D 

Yuan - Yeah. The gay one. KthxBai. 

Nah I kid you, he's not really gay.

Yuan has been really nice to me. I always thought he's the most quiet in our group, but then...the quiet one usually has something twisted and morbid going on in the head. Maybe he's plotting a murder, I don't know. Haha. The Math geek of 5M, gila, (horny?), lazy but smart, ATM machine for everybody, probably still have the hots for Jamie Chung. 

Yuan has this calming effect, I don't know how that works, but usually when I'm pissed off about Accounts or Math, he'll always turn back and look at me with this look ---> o.O, and then he'll ask me what don't I understand in Math, and yes, always Math, never Accounts. Then I'll calm down. He has SOMEHOW, encouraged me and motivated me to do better in Math. If there's anything I've learnt from him, it's that in Math, there's always a solution to a problem and if there isn't any, well..just write something. Or ask Yuan.

I gotta say, Yuan, even though we've been friends for some time now, I realized that I don't know much about you, and I regret saying this, but I do wish that I've known you better. Maybe we should hang out more, buy Frappuccinos and maybe look at calculators on the racks...or something. I am really thankful to have known you too. I am really glad that we've participated CF camp together, joined the concert choir and rented our UN day costume at some bizarre place. You've been such a good buddy when I didn't finish my homework because, well, usually you don't do your work too (not that I'm encouraging you to neglect your homework with me). Seriously Yuan, no more fooling around in college. Finish up your assignments.

Gil - Weird, funny, happy-go-lucky, crazy about bar jokes, a cat person, an owl (I can almost hear him hoot)

Yes, this is GBP, I'm not joking. By the way, check out his mum's blog. She makes tons of good stuff! 

I remember when I was Form 1, I used to think Gil was the weirdest and quietest guy in class. I still think he's weird. Who knew I'll be his friend at some point of my life. 

Now, Gil is probably the nearest thing to a pirate I'll ever know in my life. I swear, sometimes I think the reason why he ponteng so much is that at night he probably spends too much time threatening people to walk the plank till he can't wake up to go to school the next day. Or maybe he always gets flu from the cold sea water. Out of us four, he's probably the one that holds the Jolly Rockers together. I can't thank him enough for being such a good friend, helping me out when I have deal with all those life-and-death matters like wondering whether to skip school or not, and tons of other things. 

He's also one who gives a lot of good advice, sort of like a mini counselor operating without a license. He's a good buddy when it comes to music and books, basically because he likes the same type of music as I do, and he enjoys reading just about anything as long as they're good. So there're lots of things we can actually relate to with each other. From the bottom of my black little heart, I would like to say, thanks Gil, for EVERYTHING.

My three Jolly Rockers have been laughing with me throughout this whole year, and I'm telling you, half of my ribs have been snapped into pieces because I laughed too much. Your fault, guys.

Now for the rest:
Ashley - Bubbly, cute, adorable, blur, funny, cartoon-like, artsy.....

Cleopatra was looking at her boobs.

I've known Ash since the first week of Form 1. It was English class and Set 1 and 3 had to share a class because the set teaching room wasn't ready to be used. So there she was, short and cute, carrying her load of books and looking blur and unsure. Yes, she was sooooo cute! =3 I offered her a seat next to mine and let her share my table, but we didn't talk much because I was very shy. I remember her asking me if she could use my correction tape, and I guess that's how we started talking. She used to visit me almost everyday during school holidays and we had so much fun swimming, playing badminton, lepak-ing around like nobody's business, pranking people online etc. We had so much fun during concert practice when we were in Form 1, and also in 2008 and 2009 when we joined the dance and choir.

My most cherished memories with Ash were those from last year when we went on holiday together on a cruise. We spent two or three days in Singapore and we had a heck of a time in Universal Studio, where I had my first roller coaster ride. I remember how she would grab my hand so tightly during the ride, almost crushing my bones to pieces. I also remember going onto the Revenge of the Mummy ride. Gosh, that was one helluva ride I will remember for the rest of my life.

We boarded Virgo Star Cruise and we really enjoyed ourselves the moment we stepped onto the ship. There was this huge performance on the top deck and we just...blended in with the crowd, laughing and shouting over each other's voice to talk. During the next three of four days, we would just have our breakfast in the morning, and walk around the ship, soaking ourselves in the cold pool while listening to Christmas carols that repeat themselves throughout the whole week, walking up and down the corridors, spying on the first-class cabins, renting Scrabble, going onto waterslides on the top deck, having ice-cream in our wetsuits, taking photos of the giant checker set, wandering in the lobby, falling asleep on the deckchairs and later waking up to find ourselves sunburnt, looking at the hot guai lows, hanging out on the top deck late at night, pretending to be Jack and Rose from Titanic, chilling out on deckchairs after dinner while enjoying the sea breeze that ruined our hair, sleep, running around in the raining Penang eating char-kuay-tiao, having a few strands of our hair braided in Phuket for what, 500 baht? (totally not worth it, but for memory's sake, we did it anyways), greeting random Thais in Chinese, eating disgusting congee with century eggs, hogging the jacuzzi, complaining about the noisy Chinese from China, climbing stairs from the bottom of the ship to the toppest floor just to see the paintings on every floor, getting lost trying to get back to our cabin, packing and finally, going home to Malaysia =(

 We watched a show after the Gala dinner

Freeezinng!!!

And drinking from a glass that shapes like a woman in Phuket

I would throw Ash into the crowd here.

After our vacation, I called Ash on the phone :"Hi Ash, have you taken off your braid yet?" 

Ash: "YES! Oh my god I was so freaked out because after I removed them, tons of my hair fell out! It's so scarrryyyyyy" Ah, gotta love you Ashley :) Thank you for being my friend, I'll be sure to visit you in Singapore next time!

Clarissa - Extremely kind, caring, absolutely angelic, loving, self-sacrificing (definitely), smart....

Whateverrr (credits to Vanna for the pic)

I met her during orientation day, and as if fate was playing around with us, I met her again before school started, on the 30th or 31st of December...in Lok Fok Restaurant! She was wearing a pink t-shirt, I remember.

Claire has been my classmate for 5 years since Form 1. Now...where to start? HAHA Let's start with Girls' Brigade! 

Claire has been a very, very good leader. Being a GB member since Form 1, and later a president, Claire had had a lot of tough times with me especially with all those yelling and shouting from a certain someone. We went through all that together and now, it's over *sniff* 

She is a very tough character, always believing in the positive side of situations and of course, always the one who solves the problem in the end. To be frank, I feel like I've always taken advantage of Claire because I know that somehow, she can solve everything and everything will be fine in the end. For that, Claire, I'm soooo sorry =(
I remember participating in GB's Junior Leader Training program back in 2007 with Claire and guess what? She forgot to bring her toothbrush! It's so funny that I'm lol-ing right now as I type. Sorry Claire, it's just so funny :')
Then in 2008 she became the commander for our GB company. I'll always remember how she would shout so hard in order to let herself be heard from the back of the squad. Ah good times.
In 2010 we had Evo Night and I believe that that was the most stressful event for her. Now that I look back at those events again, I can't help but to think that even though these events had stressed us out like mad, everything is coming to an end now and we won't ever, ever, get the chance to be stressed out like this again, at least, not for GB. HAHA.
Claire, I want to say I feel so very blessed to have a friend like you. You're always there to give a helping hand when I need it. Thanks Claire, for everything =) 

Rachel - Quiet, shy, extremely responsible, kind, funny (yes), helpful, optimistic....

Rachel and I have been schoolmates since we were 7, but I didn't know her personally until we were about 11 or 12 when we were partnered up to complete some assignment or project. Back in those days, she would hardly whisper a single thing because she was so extremely quiet in class. She would only speak when it's necessary. I only got to know her better when she transferred into WMS a few months into 2007. I remember how excited she got after she was accepted into WMS and called me to talk about it. Time sure flies really quickly. :')

Rachel is a very soft-spoken person. I mean, out of us three form 5 GB members she's the most quiet and gentlest. She's extremely responsible, hence her post in GB as the secretary and also library prefect for the school. She was also a prefect back in our primary school.
I am really grateful and thankful to have a friend like her because she's been really helpful to me and will always be there for me during hard times.
Rachel, I just wanna say, all the best in your future! And may you follow your dreams and succeed in your studies ;)

Ching - First of all Ching, I'm really really sorry for not being in school to eat your cupcake =3
Alright now Ching, she's determined, firm, strong (literally physically strong), has a mind of her own, a shopaholic(yes, everybody knows that)...
I've known Ching since Form One through...GB. Our first true bonding session happened during those nights in Junior Leader Training Camp when nobody would go to bed at 2 a.m. When I was 13, I found that Ching was rather intimidating because she was so tall and I was so short, I'm glad I've grown a few inches taller now, haha.
I'd like to remember those days when we would drag ourselves up to the hall for concert practice, because the thought of it is so funny. I really enjoyed concert practice, you know Ching? If it wasn't for you I think I'd be so bored and lonely D:
So now Ching, I'll give you a virtual hug! And...THANK YOU! for being my friend! Thanks for hanging out with me during break and lunch time! Thank you =)

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