Capture My Love

Wan Ting
18 May
Art Gym
Hadley
RGS
106'05
205'06
309'07
409'08

4:31 PM, Wednesday, December 31, 2008

There are actually 2 unposted posts before this which i haven't completed but since i don't have much time before 2008 ends, my trip post of epic proportions will have to wait.

So it's the end of another year again. Sigh, I really liked 2008 a lot. Really. Gonna miss it very much. Sure, it's been a year of many ups and downs (in fact, now that i filter through my memory, a lot of downs) but they're all over and i'm still sitting here a happy person. :)

A few days ago, i started my annual big cleanup of my room and when I say big, I mean BIG. Like, my room pretty much resembled World War 2 while I was digging everything out, sorting and putting everything back. While going through my stuff, I came across some very interesting things which i forgot i ever had/wrote. Because I am a hoarder through and through, my room is like a giant time capsule. I found my sec 2 lit notes and realized how fun lit used to be to me. Romeo and Juliet was incredible and I actually feel like reading To Kill a Mockingbird again. How things have changed though. Lit is so not on my favourite subjects list anymore.

Then there are the essays I used to write. Hahahaha they were hilarious! It's quite hard to imagine how i actually managed to churn out such cheesy stuff. I think i can apply to be a scriptwriter at Mediacorp. (Speaking of Mediacorp, i just watched the last episode of The Little Nyonya on Mobtv, not that i actually followed the whole show. Hahaha my whole family laughed like shit when we saw the second last scene. Not going to spoil though. :D)

And there were the clay stuff we made in Sec 2. There's this sculpture thing which we had to make by basing our design on a famous sculpture and modifying it ourselves and the whole class was laughing at mine because they thought it looked like the Ribena mascot. Going further down the timeline, I found my Sec 1 notes, and the reflections i wrote for stuff like CLE. HAHAHAHA I think i almost laughed my teeth out. And thinking of the things i used to do then makes me feel like a complete baby. They were so horribly lame, it hurts thinking about it.

Going even further down, my primary school work. Especially my tuition work, where you are allowed to express your creativity and work your imagination by writing about things you're forbidden to write about in school. Eg. UFOs, aliens, running houses, weird creatures etc. So yeah, in my folder lay "news reports" about houses which grew legs and cowboys who robbed banks. Plus an essay which i really wanted to share but i can't be bothered to upload the photo now.

The oldest artefact i uncovered was a photo though, of me in kindergarten. My my, one of the most vivid memories i have of it. The photo was taken for this skit thing we did during kindergarten graduation. I was supposed to be the red butterfly in the skit so yeah, you can just imagine how i look like in the photo. How i got the role is another long and embarrassing story so i'll just skip it. God forbid i write anymore long and boring stories here. Honestly, i get bored reading my own blog sometimes. But it's good to have a record of your life just in case your memory fails you someday.

So i cleaned and cleaned and worked my ass off for many many days. It wasn't all smiles though, some things just don't change with time. Like, my fear for creepy crawlies. I was just removing books from a shelf when this lizard FLEW out at me. Being me, i screamed and threw the book and the lizard scrambled somewhere. Still being me, i got my father and brother to come catch it but they couldn't and decided it had left my room when i was HUNDRED PERCENT SURE it was still here. And then, still, still being me, i got frustrated at the thought that i couldn't control the stupid lizard and get it out and that it will continue staying in my room and touching my stuff and that i could do nothing, i sat down in the middle of all the mess and cried for half an hour. How embarrassing, i haven't changed a bit in this aspect from the day i was born.

Time moves and humans change (in some ways at least) and i guess all i can say right now is, I'm glad about all that has happened to me. I didn't manage to write a graduation post so i'll make up for it now. (Technically though, today is the last day I'll be a rgs girl, not 31 oct when i graduated so it's kinda appropriate.) I'm really happy to have had the chance to be a rgs girl. It's been an experience like no other and i'm absolutely sure i would not have had as much joy or become who i am today if i had chosen any other school. I am sincerely thankful for all that rgs has given me and grateful to all the people i have met. Thank you all very very much.

To 409, my fabulous class, our last year together has been amazing. I think we really became closer this year and working together for all the class events was very fun.

To the classchairs, RX JW and Fiona, you all have done a wonderful job. I honestly do think that all the success we had this year would not have been possible at all without the efforts of the three of you.

To the group of people who can never meet on time (i am guilty too, to be honest, but only once), thanks for all the stupid and non-stupid stuff we do together and all the fun we derive from it. And yeah, just for being friends. :)

To the team, it hasn't been the easiest time staying in RGGym but i'm really glad i did. You all are very special, not to mention crazy, people and like i said months ago in my post gym comp post, i'm really going to miss you all.

To Claire, well, my thank you to you always seems to be long (especially in my Just-In-Case-Of-Anything Goodbye note which i wrote before leaving for Japan but more on that later) so i'll keep it short here. Thank you thank you thank you for being such a great friend and person to talk to. My wish for us in 2009 is to be able to decided where to eat when we're out in less than 10 minutes. :D

To my dear family, well, um, sorry for being nasty when i am which actually is pretty often because life gets hard but i do love you all very very much.

To my darling cat Zack, although I don't know where you are anymore or even if you're still alive, I pray you are well and still hope that you'll come back one day. You were the bestest cat ever with one hell of a personality. Love you sososo much, please come back.

To my turtle (because i don't give him/her the same amount as attention as i give Zack), even if your name is too embarrassing to write here (my fault actually, cuz i gave you that name), i love you too and wish i could release you without causing you to die. I promise i will continue thinking of ways to make your life better.

To Cheryl, thanks for everything you've done for my family and I these few years and hope you have a safe delivery!

To RX again, thanks for being my first fellow Arashi fangirl and one of the best people to fangirl to. I still wish we could have met up in Japan and gone crazy in Takeshita-dori together. Hope we'll still squeal to each other next year whenever we read or watch something new about them! :D

And to the rest of the people whom I haven't thanked yet, well, thank you. For everything.

That must be the longest thanks i have ever given. Even longer than my Just-In-Case-Of-Anything Goodbye note which i wrote before leaving for Japan. Yeah, once again, embarrassing but i am really scared of flying and in case anything happened (touchwood), I didn't want to leave without any last words.

But seriously, i think i have a lot to be thankful about this past year. May the next year be just as good or even better. I will welcome you with open arms, 2009.