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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole

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Location: Singapore

Tutor at NUS.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Hmm

You can buy a senior citizen ticket to the pool and no one would know. It's almost half as cheap as an adult ticket.

I used to go for compulsory swimming lessons in sec1, as per school instructions for people who dont have some public swimming cert. I hated the lessons very much because 13 was the age I was engrossed in card games and chinese chess. Looking back now I can't help but wonder why didn't I cherish those afternoons at the pool with my classmates. We used to go earlier to play at the pool. Some guy liked to do wwf stunts on people around him, and we'd all swim for our lives whenever he was in the mood. Our swimming instructor liked to bite people's butt. I liked splashing water at people. I splashed water at everybody except the guy who liked doing the wwf stunts.

I would give up a lot of things for a free afternoon at the pool now. I would give up a lot of things for the enjoyable classes I had in upper primary, sec 1, 3 and 4. I would give up a lot of things for those carefree days where everyone was always tickling and playing with each other.

JC wasn't nice with the girls and all the growing-up be mature thing, and I guess it can only go downhill from there - I doubt there would be any fun-fun classes in uni.

So that's it huh, the best parts of your life, over before you knew it.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

2 points to briefly mention:

1. Guys still act as though they were children after JC.

2. Girls generally didn't find guys a horrible intrusion into their schoolgoing lives unless they specifically intruded in their personal(romantic) lives. You mean guys do?

yt

11:34 AM, March 13, 2007  
Blogger SirWhale said...

2 points to mention at length:

1. Point being? If your point is that my guy friends are still like children even after we've graduated, and hence there's no need to feel down because we still tickle each other etc, then yea I know that. It's just that the circumstances have changed, and there can be no substitute at all for a secondary school experience, even if you gather the whole class for a reunion years down the road.

If your point is that guys are still childish in the immature sense after JC then yea er ok, but what has that got to do with anything here...

2. I wouldnt know how other guys felt but for me I did. Well not so much as an intrusion but I'd prefer schooling in an all-male environment. Don't confuse the individual with the general.

12:54 AM, March 17, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lets go swimming this weekend

Yixin

1:29 PM, March 22, 2007  

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