This may turn emotional, but I'll keep it reflective.

In primary school, I think I made mistakes. Many of them. And so needless to say, I offended many people and made myself unhappy. For that, I'm apologetic to all my primary school friends for putting up with me.



Secondary school life was great, albeit turbulent at the start. I think I entered 113'09 being afraid and lonely because after all, I knew no one (but KOH HAN YI) in class. From a sec 1 class of strangers, we've progressed, amazingly, to become a bonded and enthu class of crazy monkeys. Other than constructing a zoo with a symbol of fertility (xD) in it, I think that I've grown in terms of (well, not height) who I am.



Each and every the 24 of you guys have changed my life (imagine if I never met my ayam counterparts, or beaver, or vbasof, or anyone, for that matter!) Hence, albeit simple, dedications to class 213 '10:



SHIN YEE

YAY math counterpart! (: I think that since secondary 1, we took a longer time to warm up to each other, since after all, we weren't sitting together until term 2 in sec 2. While I wish you good luck for tomorrow's marvellously math-ish paper, I hope we'll be in the same class next year. Thanks for putting up with my craziness by crazily high-ing with me all this while.



NICOLE

My kindred spirit of Japanese stuff! (okay fine you prefer dramas -sulks-) I'm honoured to stand behind the very tall you for all the two years since I've met you. Even sat behind you in Secondary 1. Let's always zhui1 jap dramas together, and continue your madness like never before! (:



MYSELF

err well. nothing to say.



HUIQI

yay my first (and probably only ever) lunch was eaten in first week orientation with you. Thank you for always being calm whiile witnessing me freak out after every block test/ eoy, and for making me appreciate math even more for the intricacy and the caution in which you proceed about finishing every single assignment and quiz. I've loved to consult you on math questions, and I hope we'll be classmates next year so I can get to know you better. xD



JAM

My council campaign and CCA batchmate! Thanks for high-ing with me while we run to the library, getting overdoses of tom yam soup, and for making CCA all the more interesting! It's been fun to know both the serious/scary and the fun liberal side of you. While you proceed on to HP next year (i presume so haha), don't forget moi because I'll haunt you back in cca. xD



HUITING

I think I started out thinking of huiting as scary. :o you would be happy to hear that I've changed my opinion haha. You're the coolest/ sexiest/ funniest/ high-ish-est human being I've seen, all in one! (: continue to hold your aspirations in high regard and to live your dreams!



YIXIN

While your enthusiasm scares me at times, thank you for always being sensitive and understanding to everyone in class. I think that you'll be well-liked wherever you go, and thanks for always calling me 'ayam'. You're the most CONSISTENT by far. -pointed look at everyone else- haha. MSTPPPPPP~



HANYI

Ah. The human being I've had most affinity with since I begun kindergarten in a blue and white striped dress. xD while you always give me a vern =.- expression, your emoticon humour and KOH-ness has struck me well! i hope we'll go into the same classe next year, as with all other mad human beings. While you are scarily C-ish, always press on with your artistic creativity and adorable fretting before eoys! GO GO GO.



AYAM YINGTONG

wheehee! our ayam society was created at a time which I can't remember anymore. As long as i know, i've been ayam-ing you in msp. thanks for always listening to me rant when i'm depressed/restricted/ yah you know what and for understanding the experiences I go through. I FORBID you to quit MSP because it's the only bond we'll have next year, sadly enough. I will be sure to pester you everywhere I see you so you'll never forget me. haha. xD



YINGYING

while you're really amusing at times, when you get serious and deep, you're amazingly scary haha. continue pursuing your interests (e.g. korean language) and don't let external factors like peer pressure or p_ _ _ nt _ _ influence get you down! jiayou jiayou!



LISHUEN

I'm truly honoured that your jokes are told to me first for evaluation. (: I love your musical talent and your singing voice (best alto eh?xD) so continue to love music! Looking forward to hearing your compositions when we grow up! (: I believe you'll love lit in hp, and I hope I'll get to meet you in WSC and along the corridors/ hear you sing while we walk up the stairs after morning assembly. Thanks for filling my mornings with music and passion. haha.



XUANNIE

HAH. -freaks xuannie out with weird actions and facial expressions- we really make an wuliao pair in math lessons, don't we? love and admire the way you can do math quickly, and kudos to your father for being cool-y math-ish! persevere with math and never lose faith because I will always be there to freak you out!



HA.



TINGTING

the possibly happiest human being in our class! (the reasons shall stay ahem confidential here.) continue being your optimistic great self and WORK HARD in BSP~! make zls and the rest of us proud! i shall always torture you with xuanli. HAHA.



ETSUKO

dearest beaver, you AND I (inside joke) have gone through quite a lot together. i'm honoured to be your listening ear when you need me, albeit the comments on my pink (ahem) cheeks. I believe that you'll go really far in life with your craziness and intellect. Harbour passion in your piano and your sports and always stay happy. As you say, live life with no regrets. ;)



MICHELLE

Po-rk! I think I got to know you better in sec 2? (: you're the only person who's been to my home twice (and passed out food recommedations to the rest of them about the nuggets 0.o)! I hope to know you better next year! Continue your artistic passion and scrapbooking prowess! I look forward to my bdae present next year! (just joking haha.)



RACHEL NG

haha the random person that jamie eternally complains to me about. we've high-ed about 007 quite a bit haven't we? i love DUAN CHANG REN haha xD. and i'll try the new show you recommended once eoys are out, but meanwhile, persist in being the light of joy (okay corny) to everyone! you're more influential than you think you are haha.



KCHIE

youyouyou meanie. okay this is not how i should start a dedication.

my first deskie of the year who's made me realise i should live life to the fullest. continue to aspire to be a happy person when you grow up, because i know you'll make it through whatever that comes. (okay i'm not psychic but still.) i hope i was a good friend to you, but even if i'm not, i intend to be in the same class as you so i won't back out to be optimistic-er! GAMBATTE NE! (:



RACHIE

oh goodness the chie-s are filling the page. our lovely wsc pink princess~ always smile with those large eyes and colourful braces of yours, no matter what life's adversities may come your way. I believe that those who have the hardship were given those hardships because they'll be able to smile over them, no matter what. Continue to be a source of inspiration and craziness wherever you go WHEEHEE.



SAPUI

meanbeanz. (copyright yes you.) If I hadn't met you, I probably wouldn't have known what true wuliao-ness was. At the same time, I wouldn't have known what a great friend you are! (: while you have changed drastically in looks, I believe that you'll always remain happy and smiley for as long as I can see you laughing at me. Never be depressed and perk up!



SOPHIA

our class monitress has great voice projection. you pretty girl! (: don't sleep so late all the time and take a GREAT rest after eoys. thanks for being a responsible monitress for 213. we'll miss your presence yesyes. -vehement nod-



REBECCA

it's been a long time since i teased you... you apparently get harder to tease sometimes. -sighs- i believe you harbour great potential in leadership and history and LA and debate and expositories! good luck for everything yeayea?



DORCAS

whee! dorcas shall be a great mother in the future YES YES. being gentle, i hope you'll always be nice and warm and motherly to everyone you know. (what. of course you will. i demand that of you.) looking forward to knowing you better in cca next year~



FIONNNNNNNANANA

my alter ego!!! we share some similarities in terms of kookiness, i would say? i'll miss you, your hamsters, your colour corrections, your fuschia jacket, your pretty zigs, your birthday demands, everything! stay who you are (i.e. my alter ego) and great luck for the future!



JIACHUN

ah ah ah i've been waiting to say this.



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VBASOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!! whille you are gonna vern-.- at me, thanks for doing geog survey with me last year! you were a great whole day companion, entertaining and funny! i love the way you click into beat the moment catchy music goes up. while pop culture, as lishuen claims, is declining (ahem), continue to harbour passion and agitation to the things you hold dear. WHOO!



CHERYL

-solemn look-

WE have come to the last baby of our class, the PAU.

haha joking. anyway! while we have had a fair share of conflicts, i believe that you're a loyal and great friend to the end. you provide me with endless comic relief (or so you claim) and are occasionally cute with your pouting. most of the time, you're intellectual, smart and confidently outspoken. continue to defy your DISC results (reserved, kepala kamu!) and work to the hardest in your future pursuits!



that's the end of dedications, folks. i hope it wasn't too draggy/ emotional? (:

Fate has a way of putting us together, so let's stay friends even after we leave for Secondary 3. Looking forward to class chalet.



213 <3



yanli~

Today, truly, is the most memorable night of my life.

And it's memorable not because we won awards for our play. It's memorable, because today is the day when I truly realised the meaning of 'group spirit'.

I thought I knew what group/class spirit was, ever since a long time ago. Well, I was wrong. I thought it was just this love/liking for your class, and doing things together even if whatever you're doing is stupid. Well, it's actually more. I thought I knew the meaning of it during last year's and this year's LSCs, when we spent 3 whole days and 2 nights together, playing games, dancing to music, eating all three meals together.

Well, shit, because that is completely not class spirit. Yes, we slept together, but we were still divided into cliques and we spent most of the LSCs in the cliques. What kind of class spirit is this?!

I truly realised the meaning of class spirit today, after all that screaming and everything. We wrote this play. We acted it out. We put in our spirits (and bodies) into the rehearsals. And after all that hard work that everyone did, we won three freaking damn awards! Argh! And I was telling myself that it was actually not really that amazing, and so I was indirectly forcing myself to not cry. I didn't want to cry. I didn't believe that it was touching enough to me to cry. Well, shit, because I was wrong again. Even when I'm holding back, (trying to keep the so called 'cool' composure), when I saw Etsuko's face during the debrief, the tears and emotions won't stop.

BECAUSE THAT WAS SERIOUSLY, THE FRUIT OF OUR LABOUR. WE PUT IN SO MUCH EFFORT. SERIOUSLY. And that was quite rare, for me. I'm serious. I usually don't care so much about stuff like this. I didn't put in so much effort for SYF last year. I just let others do the job. I didn't care that much. But this was different! It was my pride. I am so proud of this play that we have crafted by ourselves. Our awesome directors and scriptwriters and stage manager. I can really say that I'm damn happy for this.

THIS IS CLASS SPIRIT! Something that we have created together, completed together, without separating into cliques or whatever. We are a whole. We are one. We are together, in hearts and bodies.

God.

And now I'm typing this because I really have to say it all out.

Please remember this.

Everyone,

Shinyee, Nicole, Yanli, Huiqi, Jamie, Yixin, Hanyi, Yingtong, Yingying, Lishuen, Xuanli, Tingting, Etsuko, Michelle, Rachelng, Kellynn, Rachelwu, Sabrina, Sophia, Rebecca, Dorcas, Fiona, Jiachun, and Cheryl,

We were sorted into this special class not by chance, but by fate!

I just want you all to know. No matter what happens in the future, I'd be there for you.

We've formed ties beyond friendship. We're sisters who spent almost half of our sec school lives together. Not by chance.

I got to know so much more about every one of you because of this play that we've put our hearts into creating.



And I just really wanna say, I love you all.

Truly,

I love you.



ROCK ON, MANNNN.

» sniff

I wasn't really feeling very emotional last night, but after trawling Facebook and seeing everyone's inspiring and heartfelt reflections...

I came to a conclusion.

We really are the best class ever <3 (I mean, what kind of class shouts 'Shika' after every clap while Bhangra dancing in the hall?)

Bah I can't write an essay or anything, but...I know that next year, no matter what class I'm in, I'll miss my old class every single day. And every break, I'll automatically head towards that old table and eat with my classmates like the old times.

And every class that I was or will be in could never compare with 213 '10.

Dear beloved 213,

This night, this day, this class. That moment, that joy, that tears. I will remember.



Did you know?



When the Shika poster was flashed onto the screen, I felt my stomach heaved like I was the the one on stage, and in my audience seat in the center, I was suddenly trembling. Like really trembling. I felt anxiety, fear, anticipation. More than anything I felt joy, it was burning like fire in my chest and ironically my hands were cold. While watching the play, I once felt the same nervousness I felt when I was on stage 3 years ago being the emcee on stage. I felt like a part of me was there, (sounds really weird, but I did). The impact of the play was great, and even though it was the third time I watched it, I think I almost cried (when Dorcas did on stage).

Before the results were announced, I was praying to God, because unlike others, I have contributed little to the play, and I told God that if I could just ask for one thing, I would wish that 213 will get the encore night, so all their efforts, their sweats, would be well rewarded. At that brief moment, I thought, it was alright even if I did not get into any talent programmes, so long as 213 get the encore night, hence I traded in my wish. :D



And we did it.

Encore night--213 Shika

Best Ensemble--213 Shika

Best Production--213 Shika

Best Actress--213 Dorcas



I think I nearly out of my seats when I heard all this, and would like too, if not for the fact that I banged my knee on the armrest the first time I tried too. Everything was in a blur then, because of my own emotions, and because of the joy radiating from the wonderful 213 cast upstairs, and I was truly happy.



The first time you know. I feel real solid joy.I could feel it tangible in the air.



I wanted to just shout 213, I love you; 213, you are the best thing God has ever given to me and 213, we will always be together for everything. Then I saw Yi Xin, and I shouted for her. She grinned and I ran towards her, she towards me, and she sprang and cling to me like a panda to a tree, her head knocked into my jaw and I nearly bit off my tongue. ;P Oh but the joy. The emotion. The way Li Shuen grinned like the Cheshire cat from Alice in the Wonderland, and actually accepted a hug, like Etsuko said, "Lishuen's 初抱". The joy that radiated from everyone clashed with my own and I was overwhelmed by tears, but I held it back (I have to think about image you know). But when Etsuko cried, I just cried as well, and so did Nicole.



All the hardwork that you all put in, is wonderfully rewarded and the play is remarkable and impressive. I walked with my friend along the way to the bus stop and I cried along the way, and she was like "you all got encore still cry for what!" Dude, those are tears of joy. :D

It was also that night, where I decided that I shall spent my sec three life another way, not too academically focused, but instead on the things I treasured and loved. Like with the class, with people we cherished, and not mope about things like marks and all. The drama night kind of wake me up. I withdrew from the talent choices, and my mum supported my decision. It was approved by Mrs Seah, and now I am happy. Happier than ever, 213 you have given me life. Really. Thank you for everything, and we will always be together, and I, however insignificant, will always be around for you. :D



213 少了任何一个人都不行，因为我们是一家人。

You are the closest people I have apart from my family, and I love you.

I know I am not nice or popular, and I am bad tempered and irritating, but yeah, don't hate me too much when we part next year okay? And don't chase me away if I try to sit with you all for lunch. :P

213, I will remember. I will remember everything we have gone through, tears of sorrow or joy, and saranghaeyo.

Will you remember too?

Loving you always,

Ying Ying

Sorry I miss you out in the tag, just let me know. :D And Rachel Ng, too bad since you never accept my friend request. :P

Hey Y-Hopeians (is that a word?) !




Aaaas you know, I am often involved in performances! However, because they are usually in Chinese, perhaps you're not very attracted. Also, the ticket price is usually around $10, which can buy you a number of lunches.



HOWEVER!



This time, NYGH has organised a DramaFest for all the Secondary 2s. Each class puts up a 10 min English drama play (completely self-written, self-directed and self-produced). We've had one round, and the best 7 out of 13 classes have been chosen to perform on Encore Night.



So, 7 great plays... at a price of $2.



Awesome right!

(Honestly, the price is crazily low. It's about three cents a minute, or twenty-eight cents per play. ?!)





When? 3 November, next Wednesday. 7 p.m. - 9.30 p.m.

Where? Nanyang Girls' High School, 2 Linden Drive (map: http://gothere.sg/maps#q:nanyang%20girls%20high%20school)

How much? $2

How to order? SMS me (preferred), or contact me through Facebook!

Who? Seven Sec 2 classes! I am singing a short short song. :)





Thanks guys! Really hope yall will come down for the performance; I've watched the other classes before and their stories are all really interesting (ever heard of Fatal Familial Insomnia?). We won't disappoint (;



Do reply ASAP as the show is just a mere four days away!



love,

xuan li :)

YOOBEANS GUYS :D



This isn’t going to be something with big words, because I’m obviously not a writer, and wasn’t blessed with the same writing skills people like yanli are (:



I remember the first day of school when we were first introduced to The PSL Of The Year Xiaoen :D who, if I’ve failed to mention, is a CERTIFIED FIRST AIDER! O:! as well as our other PSLS who constantly insisted that we stop sticking with our primary school friends and try to make new ones. DESPITE THIS AHEM we still stuck with them for the first few weeks of school after our psls left :D remember all the awkwardness we all experienced when trying to introduce ourselves to each other? (I remember tingting xuanli etsuko and I purposely mixed up our names and got xiaoen VERY confused :D) and everyone was scared of Goh Hui Ting :D



Yixin: “What’s your name?”

Kellynn: “Huh?” –face perceived to be dao by yixin which was actually kellynn’s normal look-

Yixin: “What’s your name?”

Kellynn: “Huh?”

(awkward silence)

Yixin: “What’s your name? I’m Yixin.”

Kellynn: “Huh? Huh? Oh. Um Kellynn lah.”



I remember that when we had to do group work, we’d automatically divide ourselves up into these cliques based on our primary schools, and sometimes cliques from different primary schools would combine because they were too small (: gradually these cliques became bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and now I’m glad to say we’ve evolved into a stage where even if we go down to the canteen in different groups, everyone instinctively sits at one table, as one class, and is perfectly comfortable with it. (or, at least, I think so O: ) and even if someone eats especially slowly AHEM I NEED TO CLEAR MY THROAT we wait for that person to finish before going up (:



I remember our constant whining in sec 1 (actually I don’t remember, but THIS IS WHAT COMES OUT FROM LISTENING TO MDM LEE LAUGH AT US WHEN WE’RE DOING QUADRATIC GRAPHS AND SIMILARITY&CONGRUENCY HAHAHA) about how difficult factorization and expansion, and algebra in general, was and how it was the worst topic EVER that could happen (Exceptions, of course, such as Chiang Yan Li) when we obviously didn’t know what was in for us in sec 2. (I really do regret not recording us saying that in sec 1) I think the best thing I’ll remember about math lessons, sadly, IS NOT SIMILARITY AND CONGRUENCY OH HAHA TOO BAD MDM LEE but her extremely random comments. Randomness kills. Algebra’s like a vacuum cleaner why? Because it sucks. (I KNOW!! COMING FROM A MATH TEACHER!! O: )Stories about her nephew :D and also those random videos MEAN MEDIAN AND MODE AND A^2+B^2 IS C^2. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO SING IT! :D Typical math class scenes, however, mostly included mdm lee going “Fiona Teo. You owe me CS1, SF1, TR2, PT3. You better hand up ah! Later you don’t get the correction mark and it’s going to go towards your overall result and it’s going to make that 0.1 difference so you’d better hand it up to me by Thursday.” Do you guys remember this :D



I remember the many surprises we prepared for Mrs Westvik+Mdm Oehlers (: from greeting mrs westvik with “THANK YOU AND GOODBYE MRS WESTVIK. WE’RE ALL SENTIENT BEINGS!” to pretending to sleep in class and then jumping up and singing Mdm O a birthday song :D (OHMYGOD THIS WAS TRAUMATIC FOR ME I AM GOING TO BE CONSTANTLY HAUNTED BY THE BOOKCART and my memories of me lugging it up and down into the lift out of the lift back to class out of class ARGH)



I remember our enthusiastic SQUEALS OF LAUGHTER especially during chem last year when Mrs Siew told us random jokes :D and I remember how we discussed this as a class- bio this year with Ms Lim attempting to explain to us while we simply went “huh?” or bombarded her with even more intimidating questions- to try our best for the bio block test and to study ourselves as well as consult classmates instead of being very demanding and not understanding enough towards Ms Lim (:



I remember our group quizzes that Ms Ong’d give us just before blocks or eoys and how everyone'd rush to get the answer first even though it wasn't even a game or anything :D and how she always went “Can I have someone?” before adding the phrase “Other than Cheryl?” after Cheryl’s hand shot up. :D I remember us attempting to understand geog, and going on about how it was the most boring subject ever (Shika Han Yi Koh claims she's an exception lol), before finally figuring it out before blocks and realizing it wasn’t actually that bad at all (:



Do you remember?

■Sec 1 LSC and our random SQUARE chilli with a CARROT-LIKE NOSE STICKING OUT OF IT AND STRIPS OF MAGAZINE AS ITS FRENCH-FRY HAIR AND PAINTED BEDROOM SLIPPERS (this was a horror, I have NO IDEA how we got best mascot)
■SAFRA and THE CLASH OF THE TITANS :D
■Training together for CSM HEATS :D
■INTERCLASS GAMEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (SOCCER!!!!!!!!! :DDDDD)
■Sec 2 LSC and our powerpuff girl cheers
■Sleeping under the stars! :D
■“LET’S GOOGLE IT! Oh, 7-11! It says here.. it’s a store and more! So I should be able to get my courage there!”- drama during LSC :D
■MR TAN: “Water is strangled.” “The electrons are very excited and move here there here there.” “WHO NEVER TAP CARD TODAY?” “Good Boring, Chew-ren.” AND his random smses: “祝你和家人有个愉快的中秋节。陈文贤老师。”(like we don’t know it’s him HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
■Lam Li Shuen’s Stick, Curve and Special Number 5 lesson HAHAHAHAHAHA THIS Best Nodclap
■HOME ECONS! COOKIES+CUPCAKES <333 (and the sago and what-was-that-which-we-put-a-lot-of-coconut-milk-in that gave the class food poisoning HAHA)
■Singing dare to dream + there can be miracles :DDDD
■80% of the class whining when we had to do PT during PE :D
■Wailing to each other over the phone/MSN when we had to study for EOYS during home learning days :D
■Our excitedness@ CLASS CHALET!!!!!!!! :D
■Intense preparation for Shika 2010 :D
■encouraging smses just before blocks and eoys (:
■ETSUKO+FIONATEO+ME: BED INTRUDER SONG AHAHAHAHAHAHA (remember we traumatised the new history teacher on his first lesson in our class with this: "you're so dumb. you're really dumb. for real.")
It’s these little things that’ve gradually built up into something really big and that’s hard to explain, something which I’d like to term The 213 Spirit. (Obviously I’d like much better to call it The Bean Spirit since we’re all self-admittedly beans in some way or another, but I think there’d be a lot of objections xD) It struck me today while we were singing que sera sera and dare to dream along the way to coronation for lunch and entertaining ourselves by being this imaginary mobile choir how we’ve grown so much within 2 short years. How we’ve always encouraged and spurred each other on to achieve even greater results as a team. How we’ve always been so understanding to each other and helping others when they have extra commitments and we don’t. The best thing is, we’ve done –practically everything together, as a class, even though our cliques were still so distinct in the first few months of this year.



So I say this to the ensemble of Shika 2010- Hanyi, Rebecca, Nicole, Jiachun, Etsuko, Yanli (:

(And etsuko, we really hope you get well soon so you can join us for rehearsals :D )

Even if we have to stay still, kneel and “Compress! Compress!” ourselves and be foetuses for more than 10 minutes, even if we get bruises all over our knees from kneeling or falling onto the floor to break off some imaginary wall, even if our feet or socks turn black after constantly walking around, even if we get cuts on our fingers when we have to bang our chairs repeatedly for countless rehearsals, we’re going to do this as a team for 213, and for Best Ensemble 2010 :D AM I RIGHT OR WHAT!



I don’t care if we don’t get into encore night, I don’t care if we don’t get best actress/script/ensemble/soundsandlights/whatnot, and I don’t care whether we actually win anything in the end, because we’ve worked hard (9h rehearsals for 5 days, and more after), played hard (que sera sera, fooling around and mass impromptu-dancing to random music) and what I’m going to remember isn’t the muscle aches I got from being a foetus, but the MASSIVE (is probably an understatement) amount of effort we put in and the bonds we’ve forged.



I don’t care about the results, because Shika 2010, as it stands, is already a success in itself. AND GUYS REMEMBER THIS SHIKA 2010 IS NOT THE END (:



Now you 24 other awesomebeans prepare for the games I’m planning for class chalet :D y’all are going to DIE. I GONNA MAKE YOU SPRINT A LOT. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D