Friday, October 17, 2008
Today, the 17th of October, 2008, was the IP4 / JC2 farewell assembly, held in the school hall. It obviously didn't feel like the last day of school, because there'll still be people coming back every day to mug for 12 hours in the library/oasis/canteen/anywhere with a table. But there was a certain sense of happiness, carefree-ness (if such a word were to be had) about the students.Everyone was armed with cameras ready for shooting anything and everything. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to take as many as I would have if I'd had the time and presence of mind. The assembly comprised a few speeches / talks by the principal, discipline head, council teacher, and council president. Apparently one study table costs $450, so it's hard to purchase many more for us. Plus, there are a lot of under-used ones at the raintree.We watched a music video of the past two years, with singing, dancing, cheering, random class photos and such. And then a promotional video for Grad Night. We also got souvenirs: a collar-pin with 2005/2008 on the bottom, and a pen-highlighter.At the end before the tea reception, all the administration had to be done, i.e. collecting of money for the college annual, checking the MOE CCA Certificate cca records, getting our progress reports back. All CT/CIP/NE reps and CCA exco members were to do a survey, which is practically one third of the level. Imagine 4 reps per class, plus around 5 exco members per CCA.I'd brought my camera for the main purpose of taking a JC2/IP4 choristers photo, and I'd even planned it out so nicely: After the assembly, take your time eating, then meet at 11 at the atrium, and take a beautiful picture near the water fountain.However, Ann's and Yun Tian's classes were going out, so they needed to hurry. They were the first few to be at the atrium, with Jaymie as well. So I ran back to the hall to get Ling Chung and Eugenia (who was helping others take photos!). Then I ran down to the linkway where the buffet was [got Yuvika on the way], trying to find people. I managed to get Yong Jian [by asking his classmate], Bryan and Ek Ping, who were eating. Then I ran back to the atrium to find that Jaymie had left!So I ran back to the hall, but none of them was there. I went back down to the linkway, unexpectedly saw Conan, who said he saw Jing An somewhere, then I waved to Pei Cheng, and hollered Jaymie's name, though she didn't see me, and PC had to pull her over. I found Michelle too, eating jelly, no less, and pushed her to the atrium [sorry!].I went to Xiao Yun's friend to ask her where she was, found her buying a drink, and picked up Sara on the way [posing for photos]. By the time we ran back to the atrium, we managed to get Daixi as well, and finally took the photo.
I was very pushy to a lot of people, whom I didn't allow to finish their food or drink, even pushing them along. If I was rude, I'm really sorry, but please understand that some people had to leave, and I really wanted the photo.We also took our chem class photo, though missing quite a few people, like Sherrie, Wan Ting, Tse Mei etc. We went to the canteen to get food, and I started taking photos with nearly everyone, like a last-ditch attempt to say that I appreciate them and want to keep the memory of them. Argh.
I went to the library to cool down and make a pitiful attempt at finding more mentions of Fortune in DoM. LC and I took a mugger photo in the library!I left at 1pm to get out of the side-gate and go home before the rain started.
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