gOod OLe SeC 2 yRs

Another case of schooling nostalgia has hit me again...

Was talking to my student (who is in sec 2 now) during tuition and she was telling me how much she will miss her sec 2 years. I asked her why and she told me cause of the stress awaiting for the O levels and she does not want to be 'old' aka seniors of the senior... Haha, I can totally relate to that.

Frankly the sec 2 yrs are really one of the best. Why?

Because...

1) At sec 2 you can lord over the freshies aka sec 1 who are all blur blur and new to the school. You are the seniors in their eyes and you know where the toilets are :p

2) No O level stress which starts once u entre sec 3

3) Senior enough yet not ancient like the sec 4 or 5 (oops)

Haizzzz...miss those times.

When I was in sec 2 I was made a prefect and often my prefectorial duties involve guarding the gates situated around my school and in the school. Come to think of it, many funny things happened during these duties and were frankly quite fun when I look back on the memories.

I loved to guard/patrol the gates with the school corridors or at the back of the technical building of my school. The school corridors involve a pair of prefects on duty and I usually get paired with my fellow prefectorial pals. I still remember how my partner-in-duty demo how the guy she was crushing on walks during duty and hell was she funni.

Due to the fact that the corridors we guard have classes belonging to the lower sec who are also having their recess, the place is deserted. My partner has of all the time chose to tell a ghostly encounter experienced there.

According to her, on a particular weekday afternoon while our sec 2 classes where having classes (sec 2E1, 2E2, 2E3 and 2N1) are situated on the same corridor), sounds of a lady singing chinese opera was heard. I am in class 2E1 and no one heard anyth but the other classes heard it. One of the teachers stood out to check but see no one. And whaddy know, some of the students saw a red figure floating pass their classroom!!!!!!!! *Eeek*

Gosh, and some scouts camping in school saw the same apparition sitting on the aircon box outside the library. Scared the shit out of them.

The hairs on my arms were like standing and my partner is a darn good relating such stories so it probably sounded more scary when she related it to me in comparison to you reading it here. Not to mention we were at the 'scene' when she told of the encounter.

As for our school's technical block, it was rumoured to be haunted with sightings of an old lady sitting on a rocking chair but during those times when I was patrolling nothing was sighted not even the rocking chair. *phew* and it was deserted. Scary as it sounds but it is a pretty good place to slack since practically one one goes there :p

Loved the fire drils too cause can skip lessons haha... You can practically hear the joyous chorus from the students in my class when a boring lesson is interrupted with the fire drill bell. We usually spend ard half an hour out in field talking non-stop (just glad to be out of the class and knowing the fire was not for real) for such drills.

Ahhhhh...the joys of the good old days...