Barker revisited

Last night i received a call from Renshao informing me of a little thingy our gang planned for today, whereby we come wearing Barker stuff (i.e. old uniforms/related tees), meet outside the school at the bus stop, and then relive some of the silly things we used to do, six years (yes, it has been six years...) since we all left the school.

Fair enough, sounded like fun... Of course, i had to oversleep this morning, and arose from my dopeyness to realise that i had only an hour to get to Barker. Well, after finding some old Barker stuff to wear (i gave away my uniforms to my cousins once i graduated, so had to make do with an old choir tee), i managed to get to the bus stop just a few minutes later than expected (and lamented to myself regarding the rapid loss of value of my ez link card). Of course, as is so often the case when i think that i am late, many of the others were even later...

So anyway, a few of us (not everyone actually wanted to enter the school itself, for various reasons) went in and visited the dental nurse (who the others know better since they knew her from ACPS) and Mrs Lana Wong, the library lady (for most of us were once librarians too - quite a good eca to join in those days - slack and fun - get to do your own stuff while on duty - yours truly was even the co-head librarian when in sec four haha...)

After a brief visit (bear in mind we were all wearing either old Barker uniforms or tees, and hence stuck out like sore thumbs due to things like coloured hair, fancy shoes and jeans) we went on our way to do some of the stuff that we used to do, like buy expensive instant noodles from the caltex station and go to Chancery Court Cold Storage to get overpriced patstries from Delifrance.

Unfortunately, we bumped into the present veep of the school while we were at Delifrance, and those who were wearing uniforms were told by her that we were not doing the school any favours or something to that extent. Ah well, she can't really be blamed lah...

Then we took a short bus ride down to our backyard, otherwise known as Orchard =), to buy the $4.50 teriyaki chicken don from taka, before going to Seoul Garden (yes i know that i told myself not to eat there again for a long time...) to eat, taking advantage of our matric cards to pay only $8.95++ for lunch. This time, i took care not to take in too many carcinogens.

Quite fun lah, i guess. I do miss those Barker days quite a bit, for the experiences that i had there were definitely some of the best i've had so far, although, as always, while there i kept as low a profile as possible... It definitely was totally different from ACJC, despite us all belonging to one big AC family (cheesy yes i know). Truly a one-of-a-kind experience.

Anyways, after that, i went down to city hall to meet with those who were buying a birthday gift for Mel. Since i was acutely aware of my dire transport $ situation, i decided to brave the heat and walk down to raffles city from tangs (while making much-needed air-conditioned pitstops at the heeren and ps). Worth the $ saved, in spite of the discomfort.

Haha, her surprise birthday dinner masquerading as a swordfighters meeting was a very interesting experience, to say the least. As the princess can also attest to, i somehow managed to blend in among the crowd of swordfighters despite never having attended a single swordfighters meeting in my life (i intend to change that next, or rather this sem though, if my timetable allows for it... No more annoyingly-timed mon 6-8pm science of music lectures to go for). And dunno who's (either Meisi's or Ade Wan's) idea of letting the alarm clock that we were giving her ring and vibrate at exactly 830pm to reveal the surprise to Mel was pure genius... The look on Mel's face was priceless haha... Was really funny the way Debz, Meisi and myself were anxiously awaiting the going off of the alarm in the clock, strategically hidden from Mel's view behind some pizza hut menus, and how Debz pounced upon it once it finally started to buzz...

Well, anyway, Mel, if you are reading this, thanks for being a really supportive and encouraging senior, you are very much appreciated. (Wanted to say this to you, but the exact words en Francais evaded me just now) Vous amusez-vous bien a Cazaux, et en France! (if this is wrong, well, to any francophones reading this - alors, pardonnez-moi s'il vous plait, malheureusement, je parle seulement un tres petit peu le Francais. Merci.)

Yay to my dear allo buddy Kevin for getting a job!

One question remains though, how are we going to keep on coming up with new and inventive ways to spring surprises on people's birthdays, judging from the variety of ways that we've managed to do so up till now?

A cors sidenote: it looks like my intro to computing is pretty much sealed up, of course this is only the first day of the current round, but i think getting it shouldn't be a problem... Here's to having an exam on my birthday, yet again =(