Sunday, April 02, 2006
Walking Past Cedar Again...It was a very nice experience... walking past Cedar for the first time after so many years. I seriously cant remember the last time I went back to visit... afterall, my favourite teachers are no longer teaching there, everyone there are so much younger than me... but that place brings back wonderful memories nonetheless.
Today I walked the familiar streets leading in to Cedar, the same path my dad used to drive the car through when sending me to school. Everything was the same, except they added this bus-stop lookalike thing in the middle of a pathway, beside a letter box. The old folks' home beside the school is still there... I could still remember the one time I had to go there to do my CIP. I remember the side gate in which my dad parked at one day when I was late for school again, the one I silently sneaked through amidst the chaos after flag raising and everyone's moving back to class. I can still remember the entire Cedar school song now, without missing any word of the lyrics.
The sports hall still looked the same... I remember the times when we had to train there. I prefer the badminton courts at Cedar campared to AJ anytime man. There's this familiar aura about the place, this sense of belonging to the place everytime we set up the courts, till when we end our training. I remember we would have to walk to the sports hall area to get the stands and nets eveytime we train in the MPH instead. And then a few of us would be needed to lift the stupid heavy stands up around 3-4 steps to the MPH.
I remember walking the same path out to take the bus out to the IBS... taking either 100, 135 or 155. And the next stop would be infested with stupid Marist boys who would come up and stink the entire bus. And at the IBS I would wait for either 82 or 85 to go all the way home. Ok that was after I moved. Before I moved to Sengkang I would take bus the other direction to Aljunied or Paya Lebar... I would go to the library there with YY & Gwen everytime we end school. And Gwen & I would make fun of YY by throwing all the romance novels at her cos she was so into them at that time. Then we would watch the Mr Bean series at the library together... haha! Sometimes when I take the train home wif Ning I would take all the way to her Tampines before taking the other train back to my Bedok. Sigh... those were the days so long time ago.
Today when I walked past Cedar, the memories just flooded back into my head. Although so many things have changed... the same teachers are no longer there, the same students are all gone, the hawker centre outside Cedar has changed... the roti prata stall has been gone, so has the famous carrot cake stall YY introduced us to. I just found out that now even the bus 82 has been removed from the IBS. So many things have changed, but the fact that I'm a Cedarian at heart will never ever be changed.
And so is the (stupid) fact that Cedarians always end up with Marists.
*Bleah*
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* xuan * listened
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