Oh How Far We've Come

Excerpt from the 2010 Prefect's Farewell Google Docs:


"POST EVENT THOUGHTS
KY: Good luck for your finals people!

The a-s-f-c : Nice outing guys. Showed you that there exists a place other than midvalley or pavilion for outings. Next time we shall make it to the skybridge. hehe


HZ: 99.99% sure no one will check this, but someone pls tell our ASFC we need a new outing. Too bored. 

JS: I love writing these stuff that people will only read about months later. I feel like I'm leaving my mark in the future. XD Btw, what's ASFC stand for?


KY : Writing here again after 8 months! Wow guys.. Time sure flies. We shall leave a legacy behind this time around. Maybe we ought to finish some....unfinished business? (ahem*nocamera*ahem) 

HZ: Hear hear! :D Nostalgia wei..."

OH HOW FAR WE'VE COME.

Although farewell's still a week off, I figured it's about time I published this post, in true tradition:

-No more Victor.

-No more prefect's life.

-No more wearing blazers on Mondays.

-No more getting the Room key from Jun Shern on Mondays only to find Brendan opening the Room mere moments after.

-No more Noca Mera with Kai Yuan

-No more coming to school and beating the 7.10 a.m deadline.

-No more reaching school on Friday, looking at people passing up their reports and feeling that deep dread in my stomach.

-No more placing bags at the last rows of Li Ching's Canteen.

-No more Li Ching's Canteen.

-No more reprimanding the Form Threes Prefects even though we were secretly insanely proud of all of them.

-No more following Sam and Susan to the office to ask the ever-prevalent question of  "Is there assembly today?"

-No more Collaborative Facepalming with Susan.

-No more "Errmm... Ummm.." 's from Sam

-No more eerily creepy laughter from Susan.

-No more quiet blurness Callie.

-No more "D'arvit" from  Jun Shern.

-No more "MY CANTEEN!" from Li Ching.( Oh and who can forget driving with the door open? :P)

-No more "KOK HAO ZHE!" from Soo Ann.

-No more pulling off last minutes stunts with Brendan.

-No more "HI HAO ZEEEEE!" from Sher.

-No more coming out 10 minutes early for break and lunch.

-No more NOT coming out for break and lunch at all cause of "important" classes.

-No more "So what if we're not hot? We're fresh!"

-No more "Walao they sell chicken like they sell daughters."

-In short, no more Victor Quotes.

-Oh yeah, no more Outstanding Victor.

-No more screening.

-No more feeling good about no more stairs.

-No more meetings, board meetings, principal meetings, Post-Mortem Sessions, and on one occasion, a disastrous Board-Principal Meeting.

-No more class duty during rain.

-No more convincing reluctant n'er-do-wells to pay up their fines.

-No more announcements on Fridays, alternate Tuesdays, and on one occasion, a disastrous Monday. 

-No more repeating to juniors that I'm supposed to do announcements on Fridays, alternate Tuesdays, and on one occasion, a disastrous Monday. 

-No more juniors. 

-No more Jerr Weann with her insanely unintuitive-name-pronunciation (I kid.)

-No more Sheen-Le with her frequent stress out sessions. (You don't have to.)

-No more Jia Cherng being known as SJ1.

-No more Brandon and the various celebrity heights. As well as finding in-the-closet Form Two's with their pants down.

-No more Ing Shaun and my Dragon-Dog.

-No more Edward and the feeling of shortness.

-No more Shin Wei, the profound discussions, as well as the re-evaluation of myself.

-No more Melissa, with the Counter Strike-esque roaming of the block..

-No more feeling insanely proud of each and every one of my juniors, and hoping that they would put in as much passion as their potential entails. 


-No more bouncing at the concierge during my birthday.


-No more surprising Li Ching after exams during her birthday.


-No more telling Soo Ann that we were throwing a surprise party for Susan and Brendan but instead got her to surprise herself two weeks after her birthday.


-No more going from Climb Every Mountain to the Birthday Song during Brendan's birthday.


-No more "emergency board meetings" during Susan's birthday.

-No more prefect-staring he school down on top of the podium.

-No more talking bout Thunder Stick with Eric. (As well as the Silver Bird jokes.)

-No more telling stories at meetings.

-No more interviews.

-No more carrying chairs for assembly. 9 per stack.

-No more looking for who's doing ikrar and flag.

-No more burning morning exercise songs into a CD and never using it.

-No more feeling sheepish under Mdm Noor's stare.

-No more wise words from Mr Naresh.

-No more soft-spoken speeches of inspiration from Mr Rahim.

-No more feeling a little amused whenever Mdm Rafidah dozes off during meeting.

-No more Victor.

-No more prefect life.

I'm sure there are much much more than this. Farewell's right around the corner, and even though I probably won't cry (hint: maybe I can't.), I'd feel it where it counts. It's all ending, and all I can hope is that what I've done would've meant something to at least one person.

In a way, I'm looking forward to passing on the torch. Not that I'm anticipating it with bated breath, but to me, it marks an end of my era, and the beginning of another's. I guess I finally know how my seniors used to feel, the way they wanted the best for me, a good foundation, and I sincerely hope I have provided the same, if not more than, my seniors before me.

The plan now is for two more blog post over the next week, one for my juniors, and to all the juniors in general, and finally one more to my family within the family: The Board of 2010/2011.

To all prefects and juniors who happen to read this somehow, my only advice now is what you'll see soon: 

Cherish the people with whom you share your successes, your defeats, your trials, your errors, your joys, and your sorrows. 

Because these are the people we will never

Ever

Forget.