Down Memory Lane

the clock tower, Ryan says the whole place looks very errie at night.

empty basketball court...in those days, it is packed with students playing basketball, catching zero point...

the eatery on the 4th floor of coronation plaza serves some good western food. A popular haunt of the schools nearby.

I took half a day to settle some urgent outstanding personal matters and thought i might as well go fetch Ryan from school. It is a trip down memory lane for me cos it is where I spent 6 years of my primary school life. I was quite an "active" and "talkative" student, simply cannot keep still. You would see me, in my prefect sash, doing the monkey bars, performing somersault stunts on the low bars, pitching against others much taller than me (I am very small you see) in 'zero point' and playing catching. Thinking back, I was really a hyper kid. And I don't know why the teachers made me a prefect. Maybe because they think I am loud enough to command people? Or that they want to give me more responsibility? But come to think of it, I did my duties well, but off duty, that's a different story. I remembered running down a slope every day after school to the bus instead of taking the steps. Once, I rolled down and scrapped my knee caps. I was definitely not your usual Singaporean "model" student. I was quite a daredevil, and played more than I studied.

But these days, things are quite different in NYPS. You don't see children running around, playing catching or a basketball game. They either go for their enrichment lessons straight after school or hop onto the buses home. Very civilised. The school still retains many of its traditions till this day. The uniforms, the leaders' sashes...Even the old school next to the new one is preserved (now the kindergarten). Only that now girls are allowed to have long hair. Those days, I remembered lining up to be spotted check. If we hair is longer than 2 fingers below our ear, we will be the punished.