Sunday, December 16, 2007
i was sitting down listening to Ronan Keating's Friends In Time, and i just suddenly thought back of my primary school days and all of my primary school friends. i guess i miss life back then. not only because of the huge circles of friends that we had, but also because of the understanding and the bonding. i mean, despite being in a huge number, we've never made anyone feel left out or in the dark, even if we are not close to them. it's like...i don't know. it made you feel like family.
i know that my primary school friends, all of them - can i call the Putu Piring Gang from now on? - are almost like family to me. like Umai said, 6 years together beb.. that's like a lifetime. which is quite true. i mean, being friends for 6 years is like growing up with them. you run around, laugh, joke, get into trouble, attain success, everything that you could do - together. that's the key word. sure, no one's even sure how many people there are in the group because it's too large, and it spans over various classes. so when you mix a whole large group of people together and shove them into the same primary school for more or less 6 years, you get a 'family'.
i still remember that back then, the E and F classes of my cohort (from primary 2 all the way to primary 6) are perhaps the two classes with the most kam-ching feel. it's like we're living next door to our longtime neighbour, it's so cool. and despite being 2 different classes, there's a sense of unity there because everyone knows everybody within these two classes. it was very, very cool.
but secondary school life is...different. depending on which school you are in, the level of camaraderie is, well, atrociously disappointing. the moment cliques are formed within your own class..well, you can say goodbye to the warmth and camaraderie that you experienced in primary school. rid, umai, i know you know that we all know that.
i won't lie. on more than one occasion i wished i could transfer out to another school where i can feel again that sense of camaraderie and warmth that was lost as soon as i entered secondary school life. life goes on, your environment changes, the people around you also carry on with their lives. fine. that's life, and i've heard enough bullsh*t that another one of such things will render a Talk To The Hand by me.
sighs. i'm just missing those primary school days real bad. back in those days, every single day brings a new thing. it just ain't happening nowadays.
random: so to all of my primary school friends (Putu Piring Gang: haziq, andika, azizan, ashraf, norman, syafiq saad, irfan azaman, zulhakim, zailan and all the others - you all know who you are cos there are just so many of you ; my former 6E classmates: aaron fong, melody, ying yu, grace, lim ying, aik hwee, lionel ong, matthew yap, tze han and all the other peeps who have been my classmates from 4E all the way till we graduate ; some of my 'neighbours' in 6F like terence chiu ; my prefects colleagues like afifah, erma, rabbani, dinah etc. ; plus the graduating batch of WGPS 2004, cos i know almost half of you all) : i miss you guys.
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