Thursday, June 28, 2007
School Visits
After a long hiatus, I finally met up with a few of my JC classmates. We went to cycle at ECP first. William was incredibly late. I could have left home about 50 minutes later.
We had a good time cycling up and down ECP. For lunch, we decided to visit our old school VJ. To get through the main gate, we had to pass the security guard and change our ICs for visitor passes. It felt a lot like booking in. As we made our way to the canteen, a PE teacher yelled at us and asked us what we were doing in school. We told him we were old boys and had come to visit teachers and he finally let us on our way. No one was happy with his attitude. It really discourages old students from visiting.
Many of the old stallholders are still there, and unlike the PE teacher, they're very friendly. I went back to the Western stall. They have cheese hotdogs now, which taste pretty good, but new regulations mean they're only able to serve chips and other fried stuff on one day of the week, so there were no fries and I had to replace them with potato salad and my old favourite ham and cheese omelette. The food tastes just as good as I remembered, and it's nice to pay school prices.
Had a cup of watermelon milkshake after that, for just $1. What a big difference for the $2 chris paid for fruit juice outside. After a good lunch, we went to walk around the school to see if there were any teachers we know. Quite a few who taught us have left, so after a quick walk around we just left.
Went for a badminton game with platoon mates after that. It was quite fun as it had been a long time since we played badminton. We used some low quality shuttlecock which kept flying apart. As we neared the end time, we decided that the next time a shuttlecock flew apart, we would end there. True enough it did so.
Went to TM for dinner. At first we couldn't decide what to have, but after much walking around, we decided on Phin's. Had the steak, which was quite good. The full meal also came with soup, garlic bread, ice cream and a salad, which made the meal very complete. In the end had to pay $24 after all the taxes.
On Wed, I went back to my sec school with a few other friends to visit. This was a very different experience from Tuesday. We strolled through the open side gate. After a long time of renovation, it's open once again. We didn't have to change for a visitor pass. When teachers saw us, those we knew greeted us and stopped for a chat, those who didn't just left us alone. No one yelled at us and told us to get out. The school has changed a lot. New buildings have come up everywhere and the place looks very different. We prefer the old colour scheme. The new colours make the place look too modern and soulless, and it doesn't even match the older buildings.
We had a good time cycling up and down ECP. For lunch, we decided to visit our old school VJ. To get through the main gate, we had to pass the security guard and change our ICs for visitor passes. It felt a lot like booking in. As we made our way to the canteen, a PE teacher yelled at us and asked us what we were doing in school. We told him we were old boys and had come to visit teachers and he finally let us on our way. No one was happy with his attitude. It really discourages old students from visiting.
Many of the old stallholders are still there, and unlike the PE teacher, they're very friendly. I went back to the Western stall. They have cheese hotdogs now, which taste pretty good, but new regulations mean they're only able to serve chips and other fried stuff on one day of the week, so there were no fries and I had to replace them with potato salad and my old favourite ham and cheese omelette. The food tastes just as good as I remembered, and it's nice to pay school prices.
Had a cup of watermelon milkshake after that, for just $1. What a big difference for the $2 chris paid for fruit juice outside. After a good lunch, we went to walk around the school to see if there were any teachers we know. Quite a few who taught us have left, so after a quick walk around we just left.
Went for a badminton game with platoon mates after that. It was quite fun as it had been a long time since we played badminton. We used some low quality shuttlecock which kept flying apart. As we neared the end time, we decided that the next time a shuttlecock flew apart, we would end there. True enough it did so.
Went to TM for dinner. At first we couldn't decide what to have, but after much walking around, we decided on Phin's. Had the steak, which was quite good. The full meal also came with soup, garlic bread, ice cream and a salad, which made the meal very complete. In the end had to pay $24 after all the taxes.
On Wed, I went back to my sec school with a few other friends to visit. This was a very different experience from Tuesday. We strolled through the open side gate. After a long time of renovation, it's open once again. We didn't have to change for a visitor pass. When teachers saw us, those we knew greeted us and stopped for a chat, those who didn't just left us alone. No one yelled at us and told us to get out. The school has changed a lot. New buildings have come up everywhere and the place looks very different. We prefer the old colour scheme. The new colours make the place look too modern and soulless, and it doesn't even match the older buildings.
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