Saw this on Janell's blog. So funnnny. I love it! I super wanna watch 500 days of Summer
Anyway, so O's are finally over *yay*. I'll always miss mg, and I guess leaving like really actually leaving a good 10 years in MGS was sad. But I feel very privileged to have an mgs education. Like praying in the exam hall before each paper starts whether prelims or o levels itself. I thought that Ms Ho deciding to pray after our last paper in the hall was really really apt. That God is the one who should be exalted, cause He has been so faithful. I also think it is funny in a certain way that both Ms Ho and Mr Loh go to trinity. HAHAHAH. Yeah. After that went back to class for class prayer. All that crying we kept inside on baccalaureate service emerged during prayer. It was poignant, sad and nostalgic. But it was nice as well. Cause I really enjoyed the emphasis on wanting to thank God. I really really love 4E, and though it took me a while to get around to them, they will always always be 3E/4E, the noisiest and most playful 9 subject classes (who also did the worse for mid years/prelims) amongst the 9 Subject classes.... but we're brilliant!!!!! Like I know we are, and you all really, really, really made the last 2 years so fun for me. I'll miss you all a lot.
After that, I hung out with my six favourite people at Banyan Tree Singapore (more informally known as Becky's house) Then went for dinner, which was pretty awesome... though I ate a lot.... and drank ice tea like a camel. HAHA!
I tried to sleep in today, but I woke up at 8am sharp as I had been doing for the last 2 months? So I forced myself to go back to sleep and woke up at 10am?
So it is strange to not have to study/feel guilty about how much time I'm resting/have no agenda. I think we mentioned it numerous times that it just didn't feel like o levels are over. It just feels like any other oh prelims are over then we spend 1-2 days chilling before the cycle begins all over again. But it is finally over. And I'm moving on to a new chapter in my life. That will be exciting... but yet those rare unknown moments make it scary. But most importantly, I know that God is in control. I just know it... independent of papers and results. God is in control.
Just the thought of it makes me feel like smiling and doing a silly dance. This is also a reflection of how much this stressed me out. Apart from having Uncle Larry (the school technician who I am buddies with) and my dad point out the terrible condition of my skin, it was also highlighted to me (by some other people) that my eye bags make me look like a cast member from Michael Jackson's Thriller music video.
Today I reached a place of gratitude... with a grand total of two days left in mgs, plus looking through facebook photos, nostalgia is in its full force. Especially now since I actually have time to think and reflect. I really thank God for putting so many amazing people in my life.
Love the six of you all super super a lot. And though we are all going our separate ways... well not really actually. Since half of the six are going to rj, di is going to acjc and me and laura are... still finding possibilities... I just thank God so much for all of you. And all the weird things we do... how much we eat (thanks to free ice cream at becky's)... and how because we hang out with each other so much we all pick up these little tendencies from each other (like how we say huh in the same way, laugh with the clapping hand action and laugh very very very loud), you all really made a lot things enjoyable for me. I don't even know how to describe the kind of connection we have. Plus all the little unique roles we play in each other lives. I know that God will keep us close. And I really appreciated all the morning prayers/worship(s) we had with the sunrise... or like how before O's we all prayed together.It's just all these little things that made the six, the six. Love love love my friends. And we will go on our yearly mission trips yes (: Eventually in a not so long time away, when choe becomes some CEO and laura goes to become a taitai (heh heh) then we will go to Africa and do all the things that we talked about. Yes?
Central Committee 2008-2009 (The funny part is that we only got a group photo when we stepped down) *And all the funny things Ms Ho makes us do
Janell Tan, Cross Country Captain/Vice Captain (in my time) You are the glue that held the team together (I think we took the photo below in Sec 3?) I have no idea sometimes why you run when you hate it so much. HAHAHA. And we all are scared of you; though I am excited about running with you on tuesday, at MacRitchie. WOOOOO. I am also very very very scared. But seriously, I really thank God for you. I really do respect you Jan, just for the little things you do (not for the coming late) HAHAHAHA. We understand the frustration now don't we? Sakae Sushi gangxxxxxx forever.
Cross Memories (for you as well Jan) *I still love this photo (I always still think it deserved to be in the sports section but oh well) Also notice how Janell's shoes are the only ones that are in a weird colour but she is in one in the middle?
And all the other not categorised memories.... *Also realised that Ariel we seriously never, ever take photos together... which is rather incredible considering how much we actually hang out with each other - classmate, church homie, neighbour -
*Laura looks super young/So do you Gi (I think this was... Sec 2)
Vietnam Reality Outside Classrooms *Also find this photo tremendously funny. Look at my face in contrast to Emma's
Love Mgs (08-09)
God I praise you. I think it really is a matter of perspective... when you (when I) let go of the 9A1s/8A1s/7A1s/6 points and you just let God have His way. When you trust that God is entirely and completely control. And just because the plan isn't as concrete or as solid as you would like, especially when comparing with others, it doesn't mean that the plan is any less certain. Because in Him, He makes all things new. So I guess doing O levels was pretty darn amazing. (though it's not over yet) and 10 years in Mgs were pretty darn amazing as well. Though there are too many memories... and a lot of people who I noticed I don't have very much in photos.... but ah well. I hope I somehow told you how much you mean to me in someway or another.
Gratitude, gratitude. So it goes back to that song I really, really am growing to love (since longest day probably)
I will bring praise I will bring praise No weapon formed against me shall remain
I'm acting as if O levels are over when there's still chinese and mcqs this week. Yesterday I got my little saturday routine re-established and went for jam, etc, etc then went for dinner and a very, very, very fun time. Strange that I haven't been social in agessssssssssssssssssssss. At jam we wrote songs, oh my it was so hard. Delvin aptly described the state we were in when we were writing lyrics as "constipated". But nevertheless very fun. Plus, today I woke up at 9.45am which is the first time I've slept in a month and more. YAY
Studying for Chinese has been an uphill task (re: I've only copied the question onto the paper)... then read a few blogs and twitter thingums.. shucks! (Janell how are you coming along? - I still don't know what we were thinking to retake it)
Anyway, at the rate we are all going (Example: Merrilyn's "O LEVELS ARE OVER ALREADY") during Saturday service...I wonder how exuberantly happy we will be when it really actually ends.
On the contrary to what I previously thought though, I won't be as free as I had hoped, but never mind, worthy sacrifice!
I realised that there is always, always a place of just saying to God how much I need him... in every circumstance, good and bad, great and worse, that there's always, always, always a place of dependence on God. I think that's what O levels taught me. Dependence on God because I know that in January when I sit in the same hall I took my paper in, lead worship in, became a prefect in, started orientation in, watched different concerts in, etc, etc, that I will be at peace because it was so little about me, what I could do, but it was so much about what God did. That I know I rest in the assurance that His plan is the best plan. That doing well isn't a measure of how smart you are or how good your opportunities are, but it is a reflection of the greater plan that is yet to be revealed.
