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Friday, February 29, 2008
20:09
Memories.
This is going to be a very long post.
It's mostly pictures.
It's the first day of March, and it just occurred to me how slow time passed by for the past two months. Which was a good thing, because I got to feel that I have spent a long, happy life in my new school and my new home.
To recap the first term, I might say that I did pretty well academically. Mr. Scheelbeek gave me a pat on the back and told me, "I heard you got a pretty good start, Rowland." It's a great feeling to be commended by someone else. I promise I'll do even better for the next term. Promises are made to be broken, though. But I'll try not to adhere to the stereotypical concept of a "promise."
Anyway, I was browsing through my collection of photos in my laptop, and I felt like I was traversing back in the past, back to the happy, fun, lovely, bad, melancholic, sad, etcetera, moments of January and February.
Candice and I on board Philippine Airlines. Business class!! We were supposed to be in the economy class, but PAL made some mistake by taking in a lot of passengers for the economy class, so we ended up being moved to the business class. Yeah, I know it's fantastic, having all the business class services and amenities for the price of an economy class ticket.
On the way to Singapore. End of the 2007 year-end vacation. Sighs.
My grandmother helping me pack my stuff the night before I left for Singapore.
I miss her so much.
December 31, 2007: Danson, Kenneth, Jix, and I (taking the photo), at The Esplanade waiting for the New Year Fireworks Display.
Piece of advice:
If you do go to Esplanade for the New Year celebrations, then don't leave Esplanade until everyone has disappeared from your sight.
DO NOT join the crowd walking out of the place.
DO NOT even attempt to squeeze in a bunch of smelly and sweaty people.
IN short, Do NOT celebrate the New Year in Esplanade.
My new home. Annabelle fetched me at the airport with a Jaguar. I was like. Whoa. Jaguar??
From left: Rowland, Chris, Niko. Our very first week together in De Casalle.
Chris, Savy, Rowland, Nalaka, John, and our dear Asih. Hostel people are so fun to be with. I love you guys from the bottom of my heart.
Some of us went to East Coast Park for a bike ride and we encountered this pretty sandcastle along the beach.
Grade 11 Social Night. Look at Yinto before. You'll never believe it's yINTO!
He was so yINTO chicken at that time. And I was yINTO everything!
Social Night was a blast!
SJI International. I'm beginning to fall in love with the slope.
I can't seem to remember who I went out with when I took this photo at Clarke Quay. :(
The best school in the universe has one of the worst uniforms. :P
I should have bought size 31 pants.
De Casalle Barbecue Party: Amanda, Nalaka, Niko and I.
Heroes.
Arf-arf. Cool name. My very first stuffed doggie courtesy of Rheyza. :)
Supposed to be her post O Level gift. delayed by a month and a few days. Nevertheless, I love the gift! Oh, Yza, the antivirus software is not compatible with Vista. :(
Rheyza and I having lunch at Delifrance Bistro in Takashimaya. I hade a fun time! Although both wallets were emptied as soon as both stomachs got filled with delicious food.
It's so difficult to be poor, you know. It's so difficult. It just feels like you can't move, can't breathe, can't do anything when you don't have money.
Chris, Rowland, Luigi, Amanda, and John. Chinese New Year frenzy at Chinatown. I remember Amanda buying a jade ring for $20. And this was the night when Eskor first discovered his love for Chicken Rice.
Sleeping beast. I think Savy has one of the most terrible body clocks I have ever encountered in my life. :)
My laptop. My favourite mouse. My favourite mint (thanks to Sid). My empty wallet. And other nuisances in the photo.
Photo shoot using Celine's MacBook.
From left: Jose, Luigi, Rowland, Celine.
Background ghost: Nalaka.
Pepper Lunch at Ang Mo Kio. The day when Nalaka, Joey, and I started to get really close.
And I began to fall in love again.
Shall not elaborate further.
2008 Pinoy Games. So far, the best Pinoy Games according to Kuya Gian. Was so proud of my batch!! We did it well. And thanks to Kenneth for doing most of the brainwork and physical work. The Pinoy games wouldn't be the best ever if not for you. :) I love you batch 7.
No matter how much we did "badly" in our O levels compared to all our seniors, I can still say that we're the most fun and most lovable batch!! :D
We know we did our best. We may not be the smartest Pinoy batch, but we are still by far the most united.
And for the first time in history, the first ever complete Pinoy batch in Singapore after O Levels. We're ALL in JC and IB now, no one went back home, and that's something we can be proud of because we're all still together suffering in this little island.
I love you guys.
*zippy not included in the second photo because she left earlier*
Joey's house-to-house inspection in De Casalle. :)
After the X-ray checkup. KFC at Bedok. Evil hostel people indeed.
After every Kwong Wai Shiu service: Cam-whoring at the bus stop, 30-minute wait for the bus, a nice siesta inside the bus, and a painstaking 1-hour + + bus ride to go back home.
Celine's and Luigi's birthday parties. I preferred Luigi's cake though... Strawberries. Feels like heaven after every mastication.
Jalaka Juddhika Jarnakula.
Wei Jie and I soon started calling people with Js in front. Like... Jowland, or Jeugene, or Jicolette, or Jamanda. Good for people who originally have Js in front like Jessica, John, and Juns.
Free taxi rides hosted by Celine. Fun conversations inside the cab. Though I hate it when taxi drivers begin to insert themselves in the convo.
The Grade 11s. I love all of you!but of course I love ASc the most!! I think my tutor group is the best among the five classes. :)
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
[ISILY OST] Mika Nakashima - Yuki no Hana
[ISILY OST] Mika Nakashima - Yuki no Hana
My grandmother helping me pack my stuff the night before I left for Singapore.
Rheyza and I having lunch at Delifrance Bistro in Takashimaya. I hade a fun time! Although both wallets were emptied as soon as both stomachs got filled with delicious food.
Jalaka Juddhika Jarnakula.
Free taxi rides hosted by Celine. Fun conversations inside the cab. Though I hate it when taxi drivers begin to insert themselves in the convo.
