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Turn Back Time?

No way, i love my primary school days! I never regretted being a st hildian.

Ok, so i was young and really innocent.. ok at least more innocent than i am now..
I remember how my orientation went, i was led by Mrs getrade Hoden, who later became my form teacher and was introduced to class 1/5. One sentence she said left a deep mark in me till today, "You children naughty ah, you will be sent down to the principle's office for canning!" If i can find her now, i will tell her.. what you said really came true!
She was nice old lady though, strict but fair. I even remembered my mid-year examinations, the topic for english comprehension was playground, primary school ones really different from sec schs.

So me, carrying my Jurassic park bag (ROAR!)... panda pencil box 2b pencils eraser, ruler and sharperner... taking exams. At that time the exam questions were printed on like old mouldy brown paper, like recycled toilet paper or something. Other than the common ABCD questions, I was given a picture of children playing and we have to describe the scene in 5 sentences with no spelling or grammar error. Stupid la... but at that time that was difficult.

And surprise surprise! I came in 1st for english. Hehe my first and only time getting full marks for a subject in a major exam. Which is also why i love reading and writing alot. I was given a bookmark and a goodie bag for getting top in english and 2nd in class. I lost to a stupid girl called tiffany.. she was horrigible.. square head, always plaiting her stupid hair, sulky and always like to complain to teacher this and that.. typical miss perfect. My weakness for maths showed up then, when i got only 83 for maths compared to my 95+ for the rest. Maths was to be the bane of my education!!

Funny eh, how our primary school teachers, esp those fat and aunty ones manage to teach us maths, english, art and P.E all within a day and all by themselves. They don't look too healthy to me to be teaching P.E.. play those stupid games hula hoops, beanbag crap, and later monkey and captain's ball when we were older. It was lame, but how we ever did as we were told comes as a wonder to me, a wonder weather we had brains of our own. I guess thats why we were called naive.

Ever remembered your first recess? I do, i had it with my buddy, he was a primary 5 boy but at that time he look so much older than me i was pretty scared of the seniors. My pocket money was a pathetic 80cents a day?! I even rememberd what i ate. I bought a char siew bao that cost me 50cents and a 30cents soft drink from the unhygenic drink stall with very disgusting coloured plastic cups. So no $$$ left after recess ended. Oh and i had to use my handkachief to wipe my mouth after use, at that time tissue was not in common use yet. Then bell rang after 30mins and we all assembled at the empty space in the canteen. After some scolding and announcements we were ushered back to our classrooms by classes, depending on who is the quietest. Lame like anything now that i look back..

My grades were ok, anything below 80 is bad for me, standard was 90 plus to 100. I was a sweet little angle in primary 1, punished only for talking.. i was damn damn damn talkative. I can talk for a day non-stop and still feel that i haven't talk enough.

Thats about it la for primary 1, tomorrow pri 2! Hope you like old grandmother stories..

posted by Don @ Thursday, September 15, 2005