in retrospect...

the year has passed! it only seemed a while ago when we were all complaining of j2 life and the looming A levels, and now it's poof!

2007 has been a real roller coaster, maybe like corkscrew or the freefall thing. haha. at the start of the year i was thinking of the many things ahead, like track (nationals and captaincy), studies, God(qts and His church), cg( both the sec4s and j2s), piano dip exam.

i rmb the many crazy trainings with my favourites (keewei, yujun, jocelyn, yingjing, kevin, rayson, kamalesh and not forgetting our coach ms tan!). the cemetery runs, circuits, jumping up the gallery steps, reps of 150s, 200s, 300s, 400s, 600s, 800s, 1000s, 1500s. it was really crazy but the discipline was good (:
i rmb the competitions (sph relays, swift, nat juniors, nationals, and one more i forgot). i rmb the pre-comp jitters (always!) and the warmups outside gombak.
i rmb the chicken rice stall we always eat from after comps or trngs.
i rmb the rubdowns and physio sessions from shin splints, ankle and lactic.
i rmb water running! (;
i rmb encouraging the sprinters and throwers during trng.
i rmb the lightness of spikes and the way it grips the track.
i rmb the panting during runs and the speed during short reps.
i rmb the drills (ankling, high knees, shuffling, sideways, lunges, striding).
i rmb the fun times we've had as a team or even in our small groups. like tau huay after trngs and just laughing our stress away.
i rmb ms tan, with all her pep talks with us as a team, with her encouragements during trng on our individual performances, with her leadership skills teaching us in the exco.
i rmb the exco, the mtgs we had, the fun in organising camp tgt.
i rmb saying 'the sky is falling' everytime i talked to rengfu.
i rmb the study sessions at the balcony, cafe or lib, even after trng stopped for us, where we spurred each other on in a common race of the A levels.
those were the days (:

i rmb coco, geks, limin, hsiaoen, youyin, xiaolan, how we always hang out tgt even with our individual cliques. thanks for the whines, the laughter, the nonsense, the food, the sadness, the annoyance, etc we all shared (:
i rmb melvin and zhenjie, my good gp gang amongst the arts people, always full of nonsense (esp melvin) yet never failing to brighten up every gp lesson.
i rmb leo, as yy's bf mostly, but also as one who really cares for the people around him.
i rmb jianming and his wit in class, and always helping the teachers to set up the av stuff.
i rmb the scholars from china/hongkong/indon/msia/thailand who made 06S02 the hippest scholar class ard (:
i rmb the class team of 10x200m runners, where we were so unwilling to participate until the day itself when we burned the track man (:
i rmb mr chia and his care towards the class, even though his physics lessons got boring sometimes :P
i rmb mrs cheng with her black and white wardrobe, and her speeding train chem lessons which we had problems keeping up with initially.
i rmb pe lessons with mr dan ho whose strictness was so scary at first but turned out to be his way of setting the standard (: he always said we were his favourite class!
i rmb all the consultations outside the glass door and at the balcony, rushing to fill up the teacher's timeslots and mrs cheng had her's so full that she had to pass some of her students to other teachers who had so many empty slots!
i rmb the studying sessions after school along the corridors/outside sc/lib.
i rmb morning worship everyday with john, kris, sam, glory, evan, hannah, joanne, marcus, etc (:
i rmb the countless times we stepped into popular to window shop though we did buy stuff occasionally.
i rmb the assemblies where no one wanted to stand in front and our class always ended up with no space cos we would be crowded out by s1 and s3 since no one stood there and mrs chan and mr chia would chide us.
i rmb the slacking in the sc during breaks where we would go disturb melvin and juan
06S02 really rocked (:

i rmb the goal setting with sec 4 cg where we had major exams at the end of the year and said that we would (or they would) encourage one another not only in studies but in their faith.
i rmb the cg times of fun, seriousness, dazed and distractedness, etc
i rmb the voracious appetites of the guys (which they still do have) who always welcomed the presence of food anytime without fail
i rmb the times of outings and retreats that were planned
i rmb the times of silences which spoke volumes.
i rmb the times of prayer where we edified one another through the prompting of the spirit (:
i rmb the study sessions with the j2 cg at cheryl's place where just being there made a difference somehow.
i rmb the outings the guys kept planning: to cheryl's house, genting, night cycling, escape, meals, etc
i rmb the guys weird personalities and characters which brought alot of laughter (and we'll miss them once they enlist which is soon)
i rmb the girl like screams and whines of guys like tsura, and the fearless and fearful and daniel guilds in genting (:
i rmb the foam mat fights and the duck sound thing at camp in the j1/j2 bunk.
God's love is above all and in all and thru all (:

i rmb the piano lessons which had weird timings so as not to clash with trng, and all the rushing here and there.
i rmb the practices i squeezed between lessons at LT1/2
i rmb the female examiner who was so gracious and talented and nice
i rmb the emotions after stepping out of the room
i rmb the anxiety when opening my envelope where the results were in
i rmb the nights when di walked into my room for no reason and we'ld share about our day.
i rmb the times when i thought about mum, how much i missed her, how different life would be.


there are so many things to rmb, to be thankful about and one blog post cant list them all. but the most important thing that i rmb and will never ever forget would be God's presence thru every single little detail of my life, how he's held my hand and walked me thru, carried me when i couldnt stand it anymore. his mercies were and are new every morning and he never lets us down with his promises (: God is truly a good God and he is real! i thank Him for a great year (:

and in this year, many changes are taking place, even now. it's time to grow up and move on, with God being my guide (: