This is where I spent ten years of my life. I happened to be the last batch to do my O levels at the old building, that means I'm the last batch to have spent all ten years there.... still love the school for all the wonderful experiences and the beautiful souls there who inspired me to become what I am today. Some are still there, touching the lives of the younger ones.

Suddenly I am filled with thoughts of my Chinese Language teacher in Sec one. Mdm LiLing...she was a grand lady. Yes. Grand! In that one year that she taught us, she NEVER wore the same outfit twice. And all her dresses have matching shoes and bags that are specially tailored to the specific style and colour. She used to tell us that she has four wardrobes at home, all filled with her clothes and shoes. Amazing thing is, she was already like that when she taught my mum. (yeah, she was my mum's teacher too). She's such a fun and funny teacher. We had Chinese lessons in English. Knowing us (girls from my school have a reputation for being totally hopeless in our Mandarin), mdm Liling would translate all the "jie-shi" of all the difficult words into English so we could understand them better. She would pepper her lessons with hilarious jokes, sometimes crude, and have us splitting our sides and banging our tables in laughter. Her favourite word : fana (short for fanatic). She would scream, " Look at those fana girls!!" and point at a bunch of girls in the field doing burpees. There and then it was so funny (because they looked really dumb) the entire class burst into uncontrollable laughter!

Mdm Liling passed away years back. Jen called me when she saw the obituary in the papers. Well, she's alive in my memory and in many others as well, I'm sure. She was one of the beautiful people who inspired me to do what I am doing today.