Wuah hah~!!
Gone for 3 weeks, but that doesn't mean i've had nothing on my mind to write! Just no time at first, and then the things that followed in quick succession changed my mood just as quickly, so it's hard to want to write those initial stuff when you're not feeling them anymore. Sentimentalist me... *chuckles* Ok this is going to be quite wordy~ Bear with me!! *Growls like a bear*
1. After meeting Wanling (lunch), JY(Dinner), and Zhaorong(Rollerblade) last month, i finally caught up with Dj (supper) earlier this month. Kuang, Edward and XiaoheiJac goes without mention because we meet every so often, Hahaa =p That completes the catching up i wanted to do for the time being.
2. Organising that damned BBQ - Somehow i nvr got around to doing it...... *chuckles* I got lazy and distracted ever since the online booking system rejected my emails for the bookings - i wonder why...? Awww Man~ Could this be the year that we miss out even on the BBQ gathering that we have every year?
3. Soccer is so fun!! So far, my soccer kAs include my colleagues, ex-colleagues, poly friends, ITE friends, sec sch friends, and their friends' friends. Shiok huh!! People from almost all walks of my life!! ;) Whatever blues i have for whatever reasons, soccer clears them all for me... maybe except for the blue-blacks la!! Hehe!! =p
4. One secret that i'm not ready to confess or write about although it was very much the basis of my moods for the past 1 month or so... Reading others' old blogs, and looking at old pics sparked this. What would it have been like if......? Just wondering about the lost times. Hahaa.
5. NPStrings clubhouse - *sigh* Was there again on the day that Ngee Ann organised the farewell dinner for Blk 73 with some of the rest. So many things still exist there that brings back the memories and sentiments in me. The very first of those things that i noticed was when i made the turn up that first flight of stairs from canteen 1 to the second flight -> The flip-flop sign on the door that tells us if the clubhouse is open/closed. Can't really remember if there was already one when i joined, but i had something to do with either installing it or modifying it to what it was.
Whoa~ The feeling of moving nearer to the clubhouse with the anticipation of wondering who's already inside that slightly open door. There used to be numerous variations, of course - Kuang sleeping inside, or Hongzhi and Marcus getting ready their laptops to play warcraft, or Peiyu with our endless smackings of each other, or big-eyes Jiaying with our loud exclamations of each other's names followed by my *poke* while she does the "punch*, or someone playing the guitar/violin inside, many many many more. So, who or what would it be this time? Could it be that some among us were early? Or would it be a group of juniors that i wouldn't recognise? *opens door* Aww~ it was only Yuanliang... who'd only just arrived before me.. where were the rest? Hahaa :p
Casually chit-chatting with him while waiting for the rest, i browsed thru the photos and albums, wondering at the same time if i should confiscate the whole pack of our photos for my own keeps. NPS clubhouse still smells the same despite being messy and vandalised beyond description. Aww~ the feel of the place. Was actually really glad that i'd reached earlier than the rest, because for the last time, i had the privileged of feeling and seeing the clubhouse slowly fill up with the many people i'm so fond of. I'd only managed a few minutes of playing the guitar by myself in the clubhouse after dinner, and really really wished i'd stayed there longer. Something in me loves and yearns for the company and homeliness of the place itself, perhaps even more so than the company of friends that come with it.
The place had the markings of us all over it. Like the flip flop sign i'd mentioned earlier. I also noticed the unplugged extractor fan in the inner room, remembering with a smile that it was us who'd managed to get them installed (Tianle especially) despite not getting the aircons we'd wanted for the instruments. And i seem to vaguely remember that that one of the two extractor fans was unplugged because it had caused a short circuit of some sorts after i'd graduated. With the mess the clubhouse was in, memories of our cleaning sessions sparked an inner desire to have another spring cleaning session where me and Tianle would virtually throw half the things out as trash... *chuckles*
Going into the music room, i fervently wished that Edward, Tianle, Jinwen and co. were there as well so that we could have our last games of clubhouse soccer. I entertained myself with the thought of organising a last min very last guitar practice there - And as i walked in, kuang was exclaiming to me "Ah Heng! Lai~ Practice!" while simulating taking the stacked chairs to arrange for guitar practice. I didn't mention it this time, but how funny that we still manage to think the same things even after all these years of having graduated from the school and club. At one point, when the music room was empty of people except myself because everyone else were chatting in the clubhouse and along the corridors, i stood behind the table, looking from left to right as though all my guitar 1 to 3 players were there in the seats, and imagined myself conducting another lesson... Emo Heng, hahaa. Seeing both Moira and Kuang there at the end gives me even more sentiments than anyone can ever imagine - They were first people i encountered at the beginning of my life in NPS, and there they were, with me at the very last... How very nice...... :)
6. Last but not least, this is some fantastic violin playing!!
::It's the Day - Part 1::
12 years ago