thinking back...
The week's leave passed by so swiftly that i almost couldn't feel it. all that i can remember, other than the festive mood and collection of my new-found toy, is that i can wake up very late in the morning, realising half the day is gone.. kinda sad cos all the clustered holidays are gone and the next available one will be chinese new year. And yes, it is 2007.I couldn't sleep last night somehow when i tried to turn in at around 1 am (knowing that i have to wake up early the next day as i have to work).. maybe becos i have been going to bed quite late these few days. It reminds me of those times when u need to go back to school in a new year, meeting new and unfamiliar faces, the anxiety entails. So i spent most of the time, tossing in bed, thinking through the past... 10 yrs back when we were still in JC, when we can still have the energy to play hard and enjoy life.. when we still have seniors, grandseniors and great-grandseniors coming to visit us during our orientation. and can u imagine, if we were to go back now, we have become great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandseniors!! and will it still be meaningful and worthwhile? in fact, i don't think i should go back now - even the school name has changed, and the people are probably different now. it just reminds me that i am no longer young. but perhaps once in a long while is possible, when u have enough kakis of your same-year batch accompanying u that is =)
i have a conversation with one of my friends' younger brother that day and i realised that one of my jc classmates has become a teacher there! It's like a continuous cycle and i am sure it will be an unforgetable experience. We used to have a very nice maths teacher and guess what, till now, the legend is still being told in the school!
okay.. probably 10-years is a bit too far back; and since it is a new year, lemme try to recall what has happened for the past one year. 2006.
Hmm.. probably nothing much really. It began when i was still in MOCC - when my mind was in a blank, with my knowledge seeping through; went through route marches and ex saviour; then came the graduation in feb and i was posted to the headquarters, doing what i am doing now. then i led a 8-5.30 job, getting small allowrance and was expected to work harder than the high-earners; i did free night calls; i didn't manage to vote in the general elections cos it was a walk-over; i watched world cup; i loved worms and ninja ropes (well this is a game); i got a PDA which eventually only serves to jot down my "hectic" work schedule; i had to pay my first income tax; i celebrated my birthday; i was heavily involved in IMF-WB and had to wake up at 3 am!; i toured taiwan (probably the most fun period of 2006!); i applied for traineeship and decided to do some study and exams; i bought jazzie and it rained like mad in december. woooh that actually sums up the significant happenings in my life in 2006! and some of the significant possessions i have gotten - well, as evident from those being striked off the wish-list.
Ok, so now's a new beginning, and i hope it will be a good one. really. haven't come up with my resolutions yet, though i tend to be..well..less realistic =p, but one of the items in the list will definitely be to be in good health - for all people around me, and myself =). happy new year!
from a lonesome soul doing one of my free night duty in a secluded part of singapore, in an enclosed, suffocating room.
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