Your average anime/manga junkie, I'm one sadistic and cynical bastard who will make your life hell(behind you anyway)if you get on the wrong side of me. grumpy and emo at times, i can be a real bitch but a pretty good friend(i suppose) and brother. meow.
I was just browsing through blogs when i came across Carmen Chow's entry on elc. Made me sorta tear abit since it made me think back on the good times i had in elc. The only thing i regret was probably not entering elc soon enough...but the three years i had there were amazing to say the least.
I remember when i first entered i was this real emo,miserable, grumpy fellow who avoided almost everyone. I was okay with people like rachel, ryan, thira, gavin and alex, and later on in the year with sarah, steph and jooken. Almost everyone was kinda afraid to talk to me since i was rather unreceptive to conversations, and when there were conversations it always went towards me being all pessimistic and beating down myself. It was kinda the down phase of my time in elc i think, i sorta had troubles fitting in.
Then i remember year 9 was when all the people i was mildly annoyed with left. Catherine, who frequently called me Sumo left. Kathrina left for Australia( man she was an annoying lil shit). John Tan left for Singapore i think( i was kinda intimidated by him).
Anyway. Most of the teachers commented that i needed to smile more in school. Yea, i was really that bad. I remember Ms Sheela said once:" Yow Keat, you walk around with like a thundercloud over your head you know?" My results were pretty good btw, i got third overall in my form.
Year 10 was sorta when i started opening up. I spoke more to people like May, Caryn, Aarti, David and i kinda found out that Bernard wasn't that scary a person either. I guess the big change was that i made an effort to smile more and to try and control my temper, which kinda annoyed alot of people. Bernard used to say..." Why are you so tensed up? CHILL" and i'll think..." Yea, why AM i so tensed up about trivial matters like that?" And though Year 10 and 11 were my O level years, i found that i enjoyed them the most, especially year 11. I enjoyed the closeness we had as a year in school, i enjoyed the sports and most of all i enjoyed the activities in school, which i eagerly took part in.
Its hard to believe, but thats basically my whole year. Kinda explains why we were so close. Another reason why i loved those years was that there was no drama like the kind i have now i uni. Believe it or not, i actually hate it, once i sit down and think about it. There were no people who spoke behind backs, no morons who came out with lame excuses for stuff and all that. You could loosely say we were a big family unit back then, and even now.
One of the things i miss most is the times we just sat down on the concourse area during breaks or after school and we just chatted and laughed about everything there was. It seemed so carefree then. I remember almost groaning everytime i see my mum's car pull over in front of me, simply becaue i DIDN'T wanna leave.
Another thing i miss alot were the school proms. I remember the first prom i had in year 9- i was so afraid of dancing i just stood around and watched everyone dance. I remember vaguely being dragged in to dance by sarah and steph, and i also remember trying to run away =P Makes it kinda hard to believe huh? I also had my first slow dance in that prom. I was so awkward since i was so unsure of how to dance, it kinda reminded me of how the Gen Syn and Vero danced when i was slow dancing with them..so rigid and tensed. And so much space between us. I remember the first song i danced to was Drops of Jupiter, and i remember loving that feeling. I sadly haven't slow danced since Graduation prom.
It is also quite sad that eventhough i loved being in elc so much, i hardly left an impact. i wasn't a prefect or house captain- only a monitor. So i'm quite proud to say i represented my house in the best house presentations during sports day so far- our Haka presentation is still revered as the best elc has seen
