ramblings of 03S78

03S78. HCJC.

27 of us make up the lovely class of 03S78 :)

it was a year and 6 mths ago that we graduated from hwachong, nothing much has
changed since then - we still have the good old class outings when we spend most
of the time walking around (+ extended one in europe recently), we still play
mahjong, watch movies, go æçå¦! together (at nwxiang's request of course)..

to many more years of friendship!

teddy! :)

our beloved school :)

our lovely flag.

outside canteen.

chalet in ubin.

'A' lvls results '05

Chao recruits!! '05

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ramblings~

Yijin + girls! '05

Xiz, Ms Wang + guys! '04

* 03S78
* hwachong junior college

* candice
* lifang
* yang
* xiaoxuan
* hilda
* quanyao
* xizhen
* sharon
* huiqi
* meiyin
* yijin
* yifan
* pear
* nwxiang
* weixin
* samuel
* ningqi
* pua
* yilin
* eliza
* wijaya
* ronnie
* weilei
* bong
* ryan shea
* wuwei
* r~linz

* hwachong!
* IVLE :)
* 30th Anniversary!
* HJC Council! :)
* our funky yahoogroups! :)
* winning thinkquest entry - i-Matrix
* blogger
* blogskins

* junior class!
* grandjuniors!
* 06s78
* 07s78
* 08s78

* dearly beloved ms wang!
* 03S77
* 03S75
* 03S71
* 03S7A
* 03A11
* 03A12
* 03S62
* 03S69

* 04S68
* 04S62

A random saturday night

It was meant to be a quiet and cosy dinner with a few secondary school friends around Chinatown. The place was bustling as the sun began to set: performances started, decor started to light up and banners welcoming the delegates here for the IMF-world bank meeting caught our eye on every street. Shops and restaurants all had their own offers for the delegates. Cool, I thought.

We didnt stay long though, heading down to clarke quay nearby to walk around after a quick dinner. Clarke quay was abuzz too under the glimmering metal canopy stretching across riverside point. A long queue of clubbers had formed outside the ministry of sound, just like the harley davidsons on the next alley lined up along the walkway. A crowd too had gathered at a dark field nearby where people were flying their gliders complete with flickering lights. Across the river, workers were still at work around the construction site above the mrt while teenagers were hanging around nearby deciding where to go. Cool, clarke quay was so dead a few years ago compared to this, I thought to myself.

We found a place to sit at one of the eateries. At the next table, sat 4 caucasian men. They seemed like nice people out for a meal on a saturday night, until they started to converse louder than what we were comfortable with.

"Singapore airlines isnt such a big deal really, I dont understand all the fuss"

"...I've picked up a few phrases. Like, what do you want you chao c*** b**?"

"Singaporean chinese are just f***ing rude, not like the China Chinese..."

"Yea, singaporean chinese cant match up to those over in China, not as competitive, hardly as hungry and follow blindly..."

(more singapore-bashing)

The local waitress just smiled as she cleared their table. Obviously, we werent impressed. But we figured they werent any of the delegates, but expats working somewhere in Singapore. I was rather cheesed off but my friends figured they were entitled to their own opinions. In retrospect, I should have at least told them off for speaking so loudly but they left soon after.

As we left for home, I saw one of the same caucasians we had met earlier don his black leather jacket and helmet in the distance. His harley davidson rip-roared to life and sped away into the night, deafening the passerbys along the way...

Its pretty often we meet foreigners quick to pass the comment on Singapore. And we cant blame them because we form our own impressions too based on a few experiences. But it led me to recall my researches for a say projects on local history or the local HIV situation where I found many more reviews, papers and commentaries written by foreign professionals than by say local doctors or historians. After a thorough research, I realised many of what these foreign commentators wrote were with misquoted statistics, biased interviews and with a point of view that misses out on a lot of local considerations like prevalent local beliefs.

What's going to happen if our next generation does their research projects and formulates their opinions on local issues based on these more easily accessable (esp online) foreign commentaries because touchy local issues arent sufficiently covered, officially discussed and analysed by us Singaporeans?

ryaniq lived on 1:48 AM

- 03S78 forever -

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