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Dear TomHa,
I guess it has been a long time since I felt so happy like today. Monday, too, was a happy day. Why? Because the sun was out for the whole day, and I just love the way which those sun rays filter through the windows in the evening. Lovely. To add to that, sunny days meant days of activities and everybody's mood seems to turn for the better, no more the sullen atmosphere of dark, rainy days. I could swim, I could run, could do my work in better light, and breathe in fresher air from the environment. What more can a human being want?? Haha, realise I am a really simple person.

Another thing! Got for myself a new phone! A Samsung X640C, a clam shell phone with camera! I guess everybody who had received the mailer asking them to collect their phonebooks should have heard about this incredible deal! However, I suppose in the end, I would only use it in the weekends due to the fact that I am a really rough user. My Nokia 3210 had survived dives into the toilet bowls, free fall from 4 stories to give it more than enough credentials to join the Naval Diving Unit and Commandos. It is really made of stern stuff and I am not going to let it go. Besides, the camera only serves to be my voyeurism tool. Hehe, those with a secret better watch out.

Read Kang's blog and I don't really know what to say about her appeal to all parents to hijack their child's supposed plan to get into RV and vice versa. I don't know. Afterall, as I think about it, I had the most fun in my secondary school days! I love classroom life as compared to the drudgery of having to adapt to like a dozen classrooms and LTs everyday. I love my lower sec life. Those childish years of adolescence as my class played endless hours of block catching (No wonder I had never failed my 2.4km). I love my upper sec life as I got into a class crazy with basketball. I miss those thursdays and fridays when we would play basketball until the teachers come chasing us home (Well, I got more than that cause I was a councillor..). I miss the exhilaration of pon tanning band. Those kind of feeling which, when you go JEC when you should be in the second floor of the technical block emptying your lungs of every kind of gaseous compound into a Mozart invention (In case, you still don't already know, the trombone was an invention of Mozart..). High.. that is the only word I can think of to describe.

Besides, you make friends that stayed with you. I am still on close terms with my lower secondary classmates, although I must say that I had lost contact with like 99% of my upper sec classmates. I don't know why leh. Perhaps I did too well in my O's and scare the hell out of them away from me. Also, there are those who ponned band together with me in those days of hardships under the baton of the indomitable Pek Suan. Argh.. I miss Yihan suddenly. Haha, the one person who never fails to make you happy during your 'low' day. Also, there is also the trombone section which I had never try to get to know until sec 4? But no matter, it is the end result that matters eh? Cheers!

Naturally, my RV exploits were endless and it would not be possible to list them all down one by one. But all I can say is that the one drawback that RV might have would be the teachers (Oops.. that sounds rather major though..) I had lots of arguments with teachers, especially after I rised up the ranks in Council. Would not talk about them. But, given that the teachers are too result-oriented to care about your quest for a happier teen-age to serve as your stories for the grandchildren, they really sucked. Some were really good. They do care about you and there are those who are really funny. But, like what I always say, it is always up to the individual to make his or her life happening and fun. The environment might be stale and boring, but if you really feel so put off by this atmosphere of inactivity, change it. Do everything within your means. Until nothing changes even when you had tried everything in your means, then can you say that that environment is really like a vaccumm machine... IT SUCKS..

I wouldn't say that JC life was bad though. It's just comparatively, I had a much better time in RV than in HC. HC, the stories were there, that the people there are clever and thus, mug less than schools like the infamous NJC (not Nautica Jeans Company anw..). If you have heard stories like that too, then you can call the story teller bluff. HC people mug A LOT... except the canoeing people perhaps. Haha, come to think of it, it is spending time with these bunch of crazy sarcastic people that had enabled me to get through my JC life smoothly. I had never been in a group of people who derived so much pleasure critisising each other and still don't mind it. We can ridicule each other's lack of physical attributes so much that I think if a passer-by should come across us in action, they would really freak out. "你猛男？肚腩还差不多啦。。“　It is one liners like this that kept me going in school. Haha. Can't wait for the gathering that is coming up!

Aiyo.. haven't read my newsweek for 3 weeks. Better start reading or all the silverfish will start coming! Cheers!