Why I love school then but hate school now

1. My pri sch is only 2minutes walk from my hse, hahaha

2. School always ends before 2pm LATEST.

3. It is possible to do well without studying AT ALL.

4. Because there is almost no homework to do, I can always sleep before 10.

5. I love all subjects because they are all so fun!

6. Remember music lessons???

7. Teachers believe in positive reinforcement, and so shower us with gold stars and 'excellent' chops. In those good old days, I even got 'neat and tidy work' comments lor! Hahahahahahaha

8. To facilitate group discussion, our classroom arrangement is such that we sit in 'F' formations, which means, instead of just your neighbour to whisper to during lessons, you have another 4 more pple to chat with.

8. In class, we do silly mindless work like xi2 zi4 (write the same chinese words alot of times), where we chat happily, and someone would usually issue the 'see who can write finish first' challenge, I usually end up writing one side of the word first vertically down the page, then write the other side. Which of cos totally defeats the purpose of xi zi.

9. Dictation is done at such a leisurely pace that even got time to sharpen pencil, not like now, when I literally got carpopedal spasms from writing too fast in lectures.

10. Spelling and ting1 xie3 (chinese spelling) is fun because I like to laugh at my friends who cover their answers with hankerchiefs and their bags.

11. Reading abt the antics of Ahmad, Bala, Gopal, Sumei, Peihua and John who like to share cakes and compare their pocket money, and if some of them have more than the rest, they must always give a sum of money to their friends to make things equal.

12. Finding the all elusive tiny animals hiding in pages of the Pets coursebook, oh how I miss the colourful and cute animals. And so exciting the game! Everytime without fail, on the day that i buy the textbooks, I will rush home and find all the animals on every page.

13. Playing with each other's pencil boxes, remember those contraptions with a million and one buttons and secret compartments?? hahaha

14. Starving or eating bread during recess(i only have 50cents a day!) so that I can save money to buy those cute little toys from the school bookshop.

15. Teachers praise you for saying, "t'cher, MAY i go to the toilet?" instead of saying "Can I"

16. Practical tests test you on your ability to measure length of eggs and identify substances with your five senses.

17. Science experiements - need I say more

18. The only time I feel terrified in class is when a student with a gauze in mouth hands those ugly brown cards to the teacher and she says, "the following students are required at the dental nurse now...."

19. Being asked to 'put your fingers on your lips" haha so cute.

20. Being asked to hold hands with your partner (who MUST be of the opposite gender) when you queue up, and everyone immediately starts digging for their hankerchiefs and papers or even leaves (I kena before) to minimise contact. hahahahaha

21. Nobody laughs at me for writing the most fantastic essays (by fantastic, I mean really out of the world storylines). Things like, "one rainy sunday afternoon, I was taking my cat out for a walk (??!!!) and out of the blue, I saw an old looking wizard (!!!) who wanted me to let him have a sip of water (???)" And they all NEVER end with ".. I woke up. It was a dream."

22. Tuition was fun. fun and more fun. In fact, they were pretty useless, I only went because my tuition teacher lives in my block and also my tuition mates are my best friend and one of the boys I sorta like. We spend our days playing marco polo and hide and seek during tuition. And helping the boy I sorta like woo the girl he's 'madly in love' with, who also happens to be my other best friend. [Hahaha.. these BGR or in those innocent days, are called husband-wife relationships in primary sch are extremely cute and complicated lar... Anyway, in summary, boy I sorta like and his best friend both like my best friend so I've been helping boy I sorta like 'woo' my best friend (awww) but after a long and trying time, my best friend 'chose' his best friend, and he immediately decides to like me instead. But sadly, I've already moved on to like someone else liao. HAHAHAHA! Think I shall blog more abt all these, very cute one]

And lastly, and most importantly, the only thing that requires mugging then, is Chinese meanings, and even if dun mug, also can pass, cos only got five questions.

Sigh, those were the days.