The Chinese High Days

• Mr Tooh's rousing assembly speeches
• VP Lim's talks littered with "I mean that the dee"
• VP Lineker bobbling around the running track
• the long queue for fried noodle with egg in the old canteen
• stacking empty cups of soya bean milk on top of each other to form a tower
• Chen Long's vociferous advertising style in the canteen
• Track and Field training
• watching scores of people pass my classroom en route to the stinky toilet next door
• Lao Fu flexing his muscles
• PE lessons in the old gymnasium
• revising Asterix and Tin-Tin comics in the old school library
• inter-class football competitions: 2 Golds, 1 Silver
• Cai Yaqin forcing us to memorize Tang Poems weekly
• Loh Cher Yuen's incomprehensible machine-gum like rendition which pleased her immensely
• The micromouse club
• welcoming back HCJC in 1992
• illegal pilgrimage to HCJC and hostel canteens for lunch
• afternoon basketball sessions on the new courts
• Lao Fu's free hair-cuts at the new swimming pool complex
• Mr Tan Hock Chye's crooked smile
• Ms Tan Jen Fee's shrill voice and pride in her "natural beauty"
• Mr Song's inspirational guidance
• Man Jiang Hong mass display
• annual cheering sessions at the National Stadium for our Track & Field team
• bonus off days commemorating any competition win
• the military band practicing before flag raising each morning
• English Literature project with Bob, Junjie and Glenn
• playing football in classroom (and replacing broken window panes)
• indiscriminate ragging in classroom
• annual school camps in Sentosa, St John's island and Gombak, Malaysia
• geography lectures in the comfortable sleep-inducing Lecture Theatre 3
• combined sports day with NYGS
• fracturing an elbow in hurdles
• Jimmy Ye and Mavis Hee performing at the new school hall
• R&B rendition of "In the Still of the Night" for talent-time
• Japanese tourists touring the school while lessons were on
• graduation day