Long Ways To Go

Terribly sorry for the lack of updates, internet's been down for the past few days. Saw loads of men over at the power station and well, the reason probably revolves around that. I cannot explain how happy I was when I woke up at 1100, got out of bed and walked over to my Mac, to see I was signed in on Skype.

Alright, let's get started.

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Friday, 25 July 2008 - Commencements Night. Woke up at 0900 for a change, and went off to school - reaching there at around 1100. They had already begun the Academic portion of the rehearsals and I'd missed my citation reading rehearsals. Huzzah!

All citation readers were called off to Mr. Alphonsus' Room for practise and briefings, so off I went. In the room, everyone was practising reading, and all I was doing was just sitting there; awkward, let me tell you. Ellya's Citation was in Mr. Alphonsus' Mac, so nothing to be done there. Helped Penny get all the pronunciation, flow and word modulation right and I think she's pretty good speaker. After most of everyone was gone, off to rehearse more no doubt, I read from Mr. Alphonsus' Mac Ellya's citation. To my surprise, I only needed to read it once. Hellyeah.

* The next two paragraphs chronicle my few hours as Mr. Alphonsus' Secretary. Probably why you didn't see me as much.

I was asked to stay back 'till he had seen all the speakers to follow him to print a few citations and to make extra copies. During this time, I helped him transfer and modify some other citations he had just received in the form of e-mails. Helped bring Selina to Mrs. Usha for "training", among other things. After three citations, I followed him to the Teacher's Resource Centre - oooo, I know. It's at the library, you know that little glass room the Librarians had their meetings in? On the way, we discussed on how the school's so incredibly big and thus needs a lot of meaningless walking and detours to get to just about anywhere.

At the resource centre, helped him to print, label, number and organise the citations. They're a lot of citations, include the copies and you can say we made a book. After that, went down the lift to Ground, walked behind the receptionist into one of the doors. Saw like ten Tv's piled up on one another displaying various scenes in and around Cempaka. Sat down, and helped Mr. Alphonsus' make a book with the citations. More gheng, mah.

Went back to the hall for more rehearsals. The Bolero Dance is, I gotta say, really good - has a catchy beat too. The Orchestra is as amazing as ever. Played the Chinese Drums for awhile, then had our official Friday Training session. Chinese Drum Teacher came. Saw the some of the orchestra members (Laura, Momoko, Kanako to name a few) walk onto the stage. When we started playing, saw them run and close their ears and such. One of the more rewarding things I joined chinese drums for. *Chuckle.

After that went into CPAC to get changed into my formal attire and freshen up - I didn't sweat as much so it wasn't too difficult. Hanged out in Dance Studio 1 (?) and Ms. Joanne can sing and play the guitar. Talked around abit. Chilled with Qi Shaun. Siew May can play Apologise on the piano! I find anyone who can play music on an instrument invigorating, as clearly I can't produce thus said music. * Wink, wink.

Canteen for dinner. Sat with the orchestra (like the good old days). Iseriouslyneedmuchmoretimetobreaktheice. The fruit punch was really good, the food was oookayla. Tried to get a few conversations going, to no avail. Kok Leong kept staring at Hao Zi, Joshua Lee and I. 'Twas freakishly freaky.

Then back to the North Hall, for some last minute preparations. While preparing the chairs, grand piano, etc. we had wonderful rhythmic background music. ;D

Finally, Commencements was about to begin. We, the Prefects, ushered parents and friends in. I can't tell you how many times I've said "Welcome", "Good Evening", "Sir" & "Ma'am" - I lost count. Introduced my parents to a few friends, and amidst the large crowd I saw a few familiar faces. Then as everyone came, we quietly slid out for the procession.

We lazed around for ages, until we finally lit our candles. No, we weren't entering yet. We were blowing each other's candles out while trying to protect ours from evil people. Then much later, we finally began. We walked in, walked out. That's the basic summary of what really happened.

Came back in from the side-doors and basically just stood at the middle aisle for probably a few hours. My legs were on fire. We didn't do much here at all. Wished I was somewhere else. Before the citation reading, I quickly went out to the Men's Room. As I crossed the bridge, something caught my eye. I just stood there, mouth gaping. I did my business and then went downasked them to stop. Lots of noise were being made, and I seriously didn't want them to get in trouble - hope they didn't take it the wrong way. People were walking around, it seems. And to tell you the truth, if it wasn't Commencements Night but just some ordinary night, you might find me joining them. Though, I won't say what happened. It's not my story to tell. ;)

Went back into the hall, when up for Ellya's Citation reading. My throat was really dry and I felt phlegm creeping up the insides of my neck. When I uttered the words "Ellya's twin brother", I paused deliberately to hear the mumblings of the audience. Priceless. Though not to say there weren't any awkward moments. I paused when I announced my sister's achievements and well, the audience I think was wondering whether to clap or not. I chuckled a lot into the mike. It was pretty fun. And the Chinese Drummers said that citation was the sweetest. I hugged Ellya at the end. No "Awww's" though. Pshhhhh.

Walked down the stage, signaled Vanessa (the only other Chinese Drummer Prefect in the hall) and rushed of to CPAC once more. Quickly changed and went back to the backstage of the hall. Then saw Laura, Si Mynn and Siew May fumbling with Nicholas' Rubik's Cube. Julian (little one) was playing with a phone with the other small kids looking on. Ian asked me to take out my shoe, and I think he wanted to like try it on.

Then a few long waits outside, then we performed. I don't think it was our best performance though. But it was okay by my rankings.

Also today marks the last day I see Janice before she leaves for Australia to further her studies. She's already there actually. Just Skyped with her.

Gonna Miss You, big sis! Take care, Jan Jan Jan.

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Saturday, 26 July 2008 - Uncle Yam and Auntie Kelly's Wedding. Most weddings are moments of happiness bringing two people sharing their deep intense feelings of affection together. Sorry to say this, but for me it was pretty boring. Sure, I smiled lots and it was pretty good to see everyone so very happy; but it was so boring.

Sat at what a few parents referred to as the "Kid's Table", all my dad said was "HAHA. Good luck." I went "Hey, watch out. I'm looking after your Camcorder tonight. GOOD LUCK!" * enter evil grin

First I wanna thank a few people. They actually replied my smses and kept me sane for the long hours. Vikram, Shi Fen, Laura and Joshua Lee. Thank you so very much. :)

Sat with Annabel, Ellya, Alister, Sharmaine, Jonathan, Joshua, two guys, a ballet dancer who's 12 and his brother. Didn't get to mix as much. But got to know everyone except the two guys before the end. I actually only began to hang out with only Annabel, Ellya, Alister and Sharmaine. I knew Jonathan since I was a little kid (we used to play together when we were little) and Joshua (he's 9 I think) slightly, but we barely talked until near the end.

We walked around alot, ate, drank. Plus Alister and I began our evil deeds - looking for chocolates (the souvenir things) to steal and consume among other things. The waitress lady looked at me and him foraging at the kitchen place and I went "Uhhh. Hi. Nothing, nothing." It was pretty okay. :)

Kept rubbing in Alister's face that we had holidays. Al of us (Annabel, Ellya, Sharmaine, I) did, 'cept him. Five of us were one group then.

There was loads of singing and I think a few people were drunk. One dude like went up to me, put his arm around my neck and told me stuff about him and my mum in their Malacca Highschool days. I was like "Uh.... cool?" And people kept pointing at Ellya and I. Probably found out we were twins or something. :P

The little kids at our table were very, very intrigued by Alister's and my MP3s. I let them watch the Avatar Season 3 Finale. Kept them from bugging us for a while. Don't get me wrong, they're cute and fun just a bit annoying sometimes. One of them kept blowing his breath at my face asking me to like smell it and stuff. LOL.

Wishing Uncle Yam and Auntie Kelly many long years together. :)







Some old not yet forgotten feelings may have been rekindled.