A sudden, sobering realization

Mong — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:58:37 +0000

Today during Chapel, they mentioned that Teacher’s day is coming up this friday. Me in my half conscious state absorbed this bit of information, but it meant nothing initially. Five minutes later, realization hit me like a pile of bricks dropped from 40 storeys up as a result of a careless construction worker who had decided to leave a 1 ton stack of them balanced precariously on the edge of the still wall-less building. The absent minded worker just wandered off for lunch when another worker carelessly backed into it with a tractor, causing most of the pile to fall upon the hapless student walking beneath. But enough about that. I dream too much. Now most people would think that this sudden awakening would be regarding the fact that the prelims which once seemed so distant now looms a mere 2 weeks away. Nah. Trivial matter. This is far more important.

THIS IS THE LAST PROPER WEEK OF SCHOOL FOR ME. EVER. It’s the end of an era. 12 years spent in ACS, 6 of them at 121 dover road with the same routine of getting up at 6:30am and cursing my way to school, followed by the daily allotment of lessons. This all comes to a close in 4 days time. When it hit me, I was temporarily transformed into one of those doomsday priests you see in movies preaching about Armageddon on the streets. Clearly some people are less affected by it than I am. Either way, I’m bringing my camera every single day of this week. I suppose it’s kind of a las ditch effort to scrape together as many memories as I can on a medium, but it’s better than nothing.

Reflecting on the 6 year’s I’ve spent in school though, I can honestly say that it’s been a helluva run. I’ve reached most of the goals I’ve laid out for myself, and it’s been an awesome time. That’s the two line version – I’ve done too many DRQs to do a proper reminiscence now. That’s for next week.

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A sudden, sobering realization