Huang Cheng
The Yellow City

• entertaining morning announcements from second storey of horseshoe
• dramatic unfurling of banners
• Mrs Yeoh counting us like sheep while taking attendance
• miming words to the college anthem
• swamp thing marching into the assembly area each morning
  while the rest of the college watched from the wings
• someone using the pocket mirror meant for Physics experiments to admire himself every morning
• watching early birds do tutorials at right wing
• Mr Chan Weiming's "okie dokie" in Maths lectures
• getting muddy and floury during Orientation One
• mass dance and boring cheer sessions in auditorium
• class football rolling over some CT's wet banner. Oops...
• own-time-own-target Orientation Two program at East Coast Park
• beach football, ECP
• pilgrimage to TCHS for lunch
• photography lessons with Yiren under tutorage of Peilin and Shirley
• bridge sessions all over the college
• new street soccer court
• Mrs Ho's face turning to stone when she read our original class diary
• Ke Ai Ji at Coronation Plaza
• free wanton galore in canteen around 3pm
• table-tennis marathons below lecture theatres
• forgoing Mr Wong's Physics tutorials to play basketball
• leisurely swimming lessons at swimming complex
• lunch at Beauty World food court
• intra-class badminton tournament in auditorium
• Chinese New Year celebrations, street market
• the festive atmosphere during Mid Autuum Festival celebrations
• watching "Faces of Death" during General Paper tutorials
• dense white fumes (NH3 + conc. HCl) choking whole chemistry lab
• open-air Physics oscillation experiment
• watching ELDDFS' screening of "Four Weddings and A Funeral" in LT3
  fast-forwarding of the part which declares "All public broadcast/transmission is prohibited"
• General Paper project on the Renaissance
• class outing Barberque at East Coast Park
• Peter "jumping" mid-air from bar to bar on the swing chamber
• MAX lectures in LT1
• basketball friendlies
• playing late night "murderer" at class chalet in Pasir Ris
• late study sessions in library
• Voon tinkering on the auditorium piano
• signing autograph books (so many!)
• what I learnt about F.Maths: (i)something about addition and subtraction
  (ii)excess boredom can't kill you but you sure wish it could