Come on, sing with more spirit!
That was the first thing I heard when I came in. I saw what was before my eyes, and I immediately understood. It was assembly and the students are singing like a graveyard choir. Some things just never change. Of course, I couldn’t help but grin to myself as I remembered the years long passed since…
Like others before me, I returned to my alma mater with my friends to get the 1119 cert, get some documents certified and do the usual chatting with the teachers. Come to think about it, I missed out a few teachers! Ah, well you couldn’t get them all in one swoop. Heh, I actually went back not once but thrice and yet I could still miss things. How pathetic of me.
Let’s see, it has been 3 years since I ceased to be a Seafieldian. As expected there have been a lot of changes. In fact, the first and most obvious was the colour. Okay, it matches the primary school on the other side of the field and the new furniture, but I think I prefer the blueness of the past (I’m severely biased towards blue anyway). As for the rest of the school, I can’t help but envy the improved environs. Darn it, it used to be blander around these parts. No matter, we’re only visitors now anyway. In fact, I think this would be my last trip that I’ll be able to meet some students that I actually know (they’re all in Form 6 now and I probably won’t be around for the next 3 years at least).
At least there are still plenty of familiar sights. The teachers are still around in their usual places. Classes and my usual hangout places still look the same. Invariably, they always started with requests of checking this and that out. After all, you don’t get the ‘three muskeeters’ in one place very often nowadays. I did break the mantra of ‘You see one, you see three’ for two of my three visits. Oops. 
It seems that there’s nobody left around to help keep things running after our batch of ‘helpers’. I think it’s just me, or is it that students today are becoming less and less IT literate? Then, it’s the usual questions of ‘Where are you now? What course? How long? How much?’. I tell you, they must have a standard list of ‘Questions to ask to former students’! Being someone who took plenty of roads not taken, I have a loooooong story to tell. Unless I felt like it, I just kept things short and said I got a scholarship and going down to NUS to do an engineering course. It’s not a lie, as that is precisely what I’m gonna do in less than a week’s time but I’m simply too tired to elucidate on my whole plan. After all, I’m not satisfied with having to endure a ‘7 year detour’ in my plans. Having the alternate plans come to fruitation is another matter entirely, so it’s not worth going into them at the moment.
All the same, it’s been nice to drop by and see how things has changed. In the meantime, what happened to the plans for an Alumni?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
