Sri Inai

Who would want to forget the days we spent in Sri Inai? Well, okay, wait I take that back, I do know someone who would (*cough* *de-bra* *cough*)… but you know, I reckon, the person who would want to forget the most would also remember the most, and most vividly of all.

The good old days of SSI, the in-bitching, the scandals, the athletic skills, the 7 hour days, I miss them, all but the actual studying part of course (SAVE FOR MR.CHONG’S ADD MATHS CLASSES-which comprised of memorable maths formula songs!!!). Really I do, but I think living through it once was enough. Hey, seeing practically the same group of people day in day out for 11 years of my life-enough is ENOUGH already?!

Lunch time was a favourite of mine in junior school. Hey, it involved FOOD and it involved playing catch!! Boys versus girls, running all over the school field away from the guys, not wanting to be put in “jail” which comprised of the space between 3 pine (?) trees thereby rendering you being “captured” and having to sit out the rest of the game. I remember in Standard 1, Dong Liang would play Spirit of the Coin with us girls during the breaks. I wonder what became of him…left after Standard two (I think?) and never to be heard of from again…

Which reminds me of the ghost stories of the school being haunted as well. Ever heard the one about the Red Ribbon? It must have been a classic.
A little girl who used to stay in the house got murdered by the caretaker or something, and the red ribbon she would wear in her hair got blown away and left atop one of the highest branches of the trees at the furthest darkest corner of the playground-behind the kindergarten swings. Reckoned she might have been buried there or something…*woo*…and she would come out at night to walk the school grounds. Apparently she wore a white night dress. Stories like these made the annual campfires and camps interesting; it sure did make up girls scream and huddle together to sleep anyway.

Who did not know that the whole (except Lincoln) Form 1 Besi had a crush on our Miss Teoh? *gRiN*. Especially Teng Kah Hui, I reckon when he wrote that letter and slipped it into Evon’s locker, he never imagined that Wei Seong would get a hold of it and read, I mean, SHOUT it all out for all in present to hear?

Ah…coming to that, the Wei Seong-Yen Hoi love hate relationship. No guess who played what part!! After school Japanese Classes, two of them, together chasing each other through corridors, puppy love? *wink*

Growing up, who will ever forget when tempers could reach to boiling points and people will just blow? To the expense of Yen Hoi’s water bottle, sorry, water JUG being hurtled across the room at Damina? A lot of screaming, a lot of crying, a lot of hate atcually.Yes. We English-ed type girls. You could actually say there is a class distinction in SSI, or was anyway. Backstabbing, bitching, cliques and pretentious attitudes are common elements between the girls of the ‘smarter’ class. You sit alone in class during lunch breaks and ‘study’ when everyone else is outside having fun and chatting in their groups. You don’t have anyone to copy from during those horrible Sejarah and Geography tests (I say, THANKFULLY I had En. Kassim-he falls asleep invigilating!!!), and you wait by yourself after school praying your mom has come to fetch you early.

Oh the uproar cause when Mr Raymond found out that the so ‘angelic’ 1 besi’s had conveniently used the workshop tools to ‘drill’ a hole (or was it a few holes?) in the adjoining door from their classroom to the girls bathroom… I bet you they still didn’t get the “Everyone can leave this assembly except 1 Gangsa” treatment from Auggie!! *Double standards!!!* It is just because they never made any teacher resign before…ah the injustice of not being publicly humiliated in front of the whole school!

BOBBY!!! Bobby sired dozens and dozens of little bobby’s, all of which, save for those adopted by a few among us, I have no idea what happened to...RSPCA? But Bobby would walk into a class, even the upstairs classrooms like nobody’s business and plop himself at the back of the room and promptly fall asleep. Ah, but he was cute.

Ruler fights with Woei Lean’s ‘SAW of virginity’ during class, and Water Bottle fights with Woei Lean after school…

Matthew trying to prove that he can jump from the first floor of the new building without breaking his leg minutes before PMR trials began…

Form 4 saw for us the influx of Indonesian students and a rise in hormones especially on the guys fronts. People I never thought who were into all this boy-girl relationship stuff got into the game. Oh Man, it was actually quite freaky, you know them all their life and then they suddenly become MUSH!!! It must have been the drastic change of environment for the guys…but it was also quite funny, to see people trying to act more mature and suddenly quieter (but not for long!) in front of the newcomers…trying to make a “good” impression. HAH!

Chiang Heng trying to be seductive to Mdm.Ong by showing off his hairless ‘white’ legs. His love-hate relationship with Yi Ling…So how come he didn’t get a water bottle thrown at him as well?

The mini gambling den ran by Jonathan Soon during lunch breaks and Friday afternoon Activities periods…Our supplier of porno VCDs and beauty products is worth a mention as well (If you don’t know who you can go jump off Auggie’s balcony!!).

All in all, there are many many many things I would not trade for the world, and the days of SSI comprise one of them. I miss you guys, eventhough we annoyed the hell out of each other. I won’t EVER forget fat cat crying to Season in The Sun the day we had our form 5 farewell party….