Today was the first day of the school term for primary and secondary schools. Kid went for his first day in school at Yuhua Sec, Tiku went for her first day as sec 4 in her Dunearn and I grumbled because I have to go to band at 9. XD JCs start on the 12th of Jan.
I remember my first day in primary school. The weird feeling of a shirt tucked firmly into my skirt; both of them oversized in antcipation of growth spurts. The maid at that time pulled the skirt over my head, and buttoned the shirt up for me. My shoes were the velcro sort, white and almost shiny with the chalk applied the last night. Bag was piled with all the schoolbooks I could carry, being the first kid, my parent's forgot that no teacher ever asks for books on the first day. Xd The school was dusty, with the afternoon sun coming in the windows and the fans barely moved the hot humid air around. My first teacher was Mrs Seetoh and she taught us Maths and English. Rules were explained, the metal rulers and cane for punishment displayed to us. I remember that metal ruler, I lived in abject terror of not handing in homework becuase of that. My batch was probably one of the that teachers could still physically punish students. Ear twists, hair pulls, and the dreaded-standing-on-tables was common; and I most probably got my fear of heights from standing on a table that fell apart on me. When I was primary 5 or so, the school merged with another and with the merger came a new school building, new principal, upgraded p.e equipment and loads of new classmates. The uniform was changed to a tucked out red blouse with a checkered skirt. I met the Taishou in primary 6 and we became friends over a mistaken Digimon/Pokemon character.
My first day in secondary school was strange. I exchanged my tucked out red blouse and comfy skirt for a white tucked in shirt, and a blue skirt that was decidedly less-poofy than my old primary school skirt. We spent a few hours going over the school rules. It was the same yadda yadda, no colored hair, hair that touches the collar must be tied up, no make-up, no tucked out shirts, skirts must not be shorter than knee length, regulated shirts must be worn for p.e lessons. I grow weary of listing down the examples, but they are mostly finnicky and overly detailed, and people would get bored. I know I got bored, a few hours listing down what we could and what we could not do, it was all I could do not to scream. These rules were not as closely adhered to as when I was in primary school, we were all pre-teens at that age, and we tried to push the limits. Skirts were just a few millimeters higher than the required ones, colored socks were worn in lieu of the school's white ones, fringes were grown as long as possible and clipped up as soon as the Mr Govind, the dicipline master walked by. Miss Lim was our form teacher and she taught us science and maths. I rather like her, she's so cute we bully her at times. ^^ I met the Konzen in secondary school, when we mutually had fun at the expense of CS, it was nothing serious, I don't think CS minded that much. We flicked eraser pellets in WHY's hair; yes, that IS his initials, and discussed anime. Mostly him telling me how awesome Shaman King was and I trying to get him to watch Saiyuki.
When I entered JC, it was just exchanging a set of uniform for another, skirts were tighter, more feminine, the blouse was fitted slightly and the rules were way more relaxed. I missed the Taishou and Konzen so much in the beginning of the year it hurt. I've never taken to new people easily and it was a long time before I could remember names from my class. The two Baos were the ones I hung around with, Bao Xian and Bao Xing, no relation. XD
JC was weird, the feel of newness permeated the air, with new buildings, new things and a new death. GYkun had left me cryong for a week or so, and I still miss her.
That's how my school life at PJ started. Well, its not bad all in all, met Dan, Li Boon, Michelle and as well as finally met up with Karthrik IRL. Another year then. ♥
~tiqa
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