Tuesday, August 21, 2007: a tribute to mgs!
today as i was chopping up carrots to put into the food processor at work i was reminiscing about the good old days back in mgs, where we chopped carrots for our biology lab sessions with our lab partners. i remember we did carrots for either our prelims or our O's. (: carrots have these cool star shaped middles. i remember we had to label the drawings, cortex... cortex.. i think thats all i can remember now. i also remember we had to put like the measurements and stuff, i really hated that. but plants were cool. i liked the flowers bit :D
i also remember the times when mr tay, in sec 4, would complain to us about the day and how he broke up with his girlfriend; or he would come in late for class every lesson and we would have free periods, or how he would show us random videos about the parts of the body; or even how we had bio right after pe and we would take our own sweet time to get back to class after pe and hang out in the toilet washing up so that we'd feel so much better from the sticky, humid, singaporean air. i remember the times when we had to dissect our pigs heart, or cow's eyeball, or pig's (? was it?) kidney for lab and there wasnt enough eyeballs in the market for us to buy so the whole class crowded around mr tay demonstrating the dissection on a fellow classmate's eyeball (the cow's one, not her's!); only to find out that a few days later, everyone in 4b2 had eyeballs but because their bio teacher wasnt around they dumped their eyeballs into the fish pond.
i remember the times in sec 3 when mrs cheong would come to class so excited about bio, making me excited about bio. i remember once we had to watch a very painful video on pregnancy, and it was about this woman who was going into labour and the blood and everything was so gross, and the baby's head popping out. i think. dont quite remember, all too long ago. i remember how fun interesting the digestive system was, learning about enzymes and hydrochloric acid, i remember drawing this chart and being so proud of it. i was so good at the digestive system. i think it was salivary amylase in the mouth breaking down starch, and oh! i remember fructose, glucose, and the milk one.. and there were many other carbo ones.. protein with protease et cetera et cetera. ooh and fat was the coolest. i remember the soaps and all breaking away from the main chain thing and then joining back together again. vaguely remember.
bio rocked my world. (: but then human bio in yr 12 was too much information that my tiny brain cannot store enough to understand the whole beauty of the human body, its functions and evolution. i guess i'm just happy enough to know that God's design was too intelligent for me to comprehend. hahaha!
ahh, i miss mg days. (: there's so much more about mg that i could ramble on about, 10 whole years of being there gave me a heck load of memories! for instance about the time where i had to spend detention on a saturday mopping the staff room floor when i was in sec1, all because i looked at a vulgar poem which my friend who was sitting beside me during a lesson wrote. owell (: it was fun being in the staff room anyway. i love my big fat pillar! (i like hugging this particular pillar in the staff room. it was nice and cold :D )
i remember being scolded by mr ng for fidgeting during assembly (which i always do cos i cant stand still) in sec 1 and in sec 4 we became really good friends because he was my ltc group teacher in sec3 and 4. it was fun having him around (:
i remember in primary 6 where me and kaye and some others would stay back for math remedial and then walk over to kfc in bukit timah plaza for popcorn chicken and bubble tea, or eat instant noodles at mobil across the road.
i remember in primary 6 when we had higher chinese we all cheated in ting xie for mo xie because we couldn't memorise the what seemed to be an incredulously long passage of about 7 sentences. (it just seemed hard cos of the big chinese characters and come on, it was higher chinese)
i remember in primary 1, i think my form teacher didnt really like me because i showed some kind of attitude, plus i didnt really do my homework, but i showed extraordinary talent for a bum: i did so well for my exams! i remember that my grades were all in the 90s in pri 1. how good was i! and the girl who sat beside me always copied my work -.-"
i remember in primary 4 me and nicole watched a musical potpourri and we wanted to join the pri school choir from then on. they sang walk dont run in the hallway, walk dont run i say... oh man! i still remember it. and bethel's sister and mom sang love in any language as a duet piece and i was in awe! then in pri 5 we joined the choir.
i remember in pri school we had all these weird friendship clubs and fights, in pri 2 nicole, nat and me formed the tesco club, which i have no idea why we called it tesco, i think cos when i went to england tesco was this supermarket and i stole some gift cards or some card which had the tesco name on it back, so we became a cool club which had its own real membership card. oh! i remember we wrote all these hate notes to each other. it was swell. haha, i remember i wrote one to claire in pri 5 to stop forcing nicole to do something or other, cant quite remember (nic, help me here!) and i remember i wrote something about how nicole's father was a lawyer and he could sue claire for it, and i remember i got into trouble after it because miss pook talked to me about threat notes.
i remember dance in mgs and how we had zaki in sec 1 and we all cried from his torment, but when we got to the performance we were all very happy because we had the most cheers from the crowd, i.e. we had a cool dance, which came with pretty costumes! kaleidoscope came and went in: i remember that we made such a big fuss about our costumes, especially the lycra short tights. it was awful! we changed it though. we wore jazz pants instead :P rebels!
i remember longest day and how we cried when we watched the video that our teachers made for us. we were the first batch that teachers actually made videos for! and it was so sweet. that day really made me miss mg so so much, and we hadnt even left yet!
i remember sec 4 and the eightofus (: and how we used to rush down to the canteen to eat recess. stingray at the malay uncle's store! or yong tau foo with the yong tau foo lady, where jiaen would just eat a miserable few fishcakes in a big bowl of soup. i remember for a period of time we tried to have a lunch box day which failed pretty badly because we never remembered to bring anything. i love everything about the 8! we still meet up every so often when i get back (:
i miss lovemg! this year is the second year that i havent served in lovemg. i miss the team! maybe in 4 years when i get back i can continue to serve in love mg, sowing back seeds which was sown into me so many years ago, by the faithful lovemg team (:
but anyways, look at the time, its 10:30 already! i think i should let pictures do the talking instead. i think i should leave some of my rebellious past aside so that i wont look so terrible in your eyes ;)
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p.s. brendon! this is why i use Methodist Girls' School writing paper even now! i love mgs! :D
a shout of praise.
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