HOI

today i went back to rj then ri with leewei and keyi. i was surprised. pleasantly surprised to see that the teachers had not really changed much - most of my sec3/4 teachers were still around! But i must make a confession here - i didnt know which teachers to see, so i didnt go around looking for them. i was more of hoping to bump into them.. lol. and its kind of weird coz im was the only one from 3/4E there. (okay-excuses!) i tagged along lamely with keyi to see his teachers - ms chong and dr lee! (but strictly speaking dr lee taught me too, so i at least managed to see ONE teacher. unfortunately he didnt really rmb our names, which kind of disappointed me a bit.)
though the teachers were still there, they had all changed in one way or another. dr lee, for eg, is now head of science. mrs lai is head of raffles academy! at rj, things had changed dramatically as well. mrs asha was on maternity leave and ms wu had been transferred to moe. luckily a chance encounter with ms veera allowed us to catch up with the current state of affairs! and we saw mrs yeo. n mr jeremy ng. n learnt lots of interesting stuff. it sure feels different to be back in rj as a student. leewei n i wanted to crash mrs yeo's evolution lecture but we didnt know where it was held. keyi wanted to attend the piano masterclass posing as an rj student. (in cvs!) i toyed with the idea of going to comex (n maybe meet my og friends there)
but i didnt.
after seeing the ri teachers, a tour of the ri canteen led keyi and me to the uncle at the old kampong istimewa stall. (how i miss the food!) anyway he treated us to nasi bryani (yummy), and he was really friendly. apparently he recognised keyi even though he had not seen him for 2 years.. lol! talked to us abt the gst hike and stuff.. and how though 2% doesnt really seem a lot, it does add up for the consumer. (2% more for the rent, 2% more for every stage the chicken drumsticks go through to get to the stall. the costs for his one bax of chicken rose from 40 to 53 dollars! woah...) no wonder he wants to go on a break...