Chapter3--Days of my primary school days.....A period of pride and prejudice.....Do our best and be the best!

Dear journal,

As promised in my previous journal entry,today topic will be centered around my primary school days.Since my colourful and really eventful days begun really only from primary 4 onwards,I self therefore skip the first 3 years of my primary school days and focus on the last 3 years of my primary school days.First and foremost,one of the most memorable event that occurred during my primary school days must be the creation of my very own newspaper tabloid when I was in primary 6 called 'The Strait Settlement'.I could still vividly remembered that I often search through my family photo albums and in the process select a few photos that serve as headlines and illustrations for some of my articles in the tabloid and Boy did I have so much fun during the entire process!Luckily,my tabloid was quite well received by my classmates at that times which was probably one of the reason why I continued to produced it.In fact I sometimes wondered if the creation of my own tabloid was why I still enjoy reading newspapers and magazines so much up till these days and why I enjoy writing compositions be it chinese or English in class.As for the name of the tabloid,it was contributed none other my brother who was studying secondary school history at that times and which I suspected the word 'strait settlement must have appeared quite frequently in his textbook for him to suggest it to me.
Apart from a few interesting events however,friends must certainly be the major component that make up my colourful primary school days without which I am sure that my primary school life would inevitably be monotonous and I would not be writing about my primary school days at all.Being the always sentimental me,I would like to pay some special tributes to these colourful friends of mine which I would no doubt remember for as long as I could...


1.) Hui wen
Yup,she is the girl sitting just behind me during pri 6(I can't remember if pri 5 was also the same) and is one of the few truly intelligent girls that I have met till now.(hey if I not wrong,she score the highest PSLE aggregrate from our class ok!)From my impression,she is also a fairly emotional gal who always seem to have problems(although I seemed to figure out a bit of it) but who usually also always kept to herself.She seems so mentally strong yet also mentally weak that I truly feel that she is one unpredictable person.Nevertheless,I must admit that she was one of the few quite mature people in our class together with other girls like Lijun,shu hui etc during that time.(possibly because guys undergoes puberty at a later time?) Oh ya Hui wen is also highly creative and artistic and I can remember her drawing lots of pictures which are all very decent ok.She also has quite an interest in maths and like Ruifeng is one of the math genius in our class during that time.Having change her christian name to celestine now,I truly hope that she has become more cheerful and more willing to share her joy and sorrow with her close friends.Here, yongster would like to wish you good luck and hopefully you can or have already find true happiness.

2.)Junior/Jun yuan
I must admit that I truly only get to know this guy better during a pri 4 exclusion trip when he sat next to me during the bus trip.To avoid being seen as unfriendly and also to escape boredom,I(and I suspect he also) started talking to each other and from that very moment on,there was no turning back because we simply just clipped!I remembered him as a fairly humourous guy who used to be crazy about his favourite soccer player Alan Shearer and has this funny habit of signing the word 'shearer' next to his name.Nonetheless,being the ever friendly and thick skin guy,he is quite popular in class especially with the gals.One question I would like to ask him though is the 180 degree change in him when he entered secondary school since he used to be so diligent.What happened Jun yuan?

3.)Senior/Jun yuan
Up till now,I still do not know why he is given the nickname senior while the other Jun yuan adopted the name junior.Anyway,this guy was another one of my brother gang and one whom I enjoyed talking to also.He was particularly close to Zhi xian at that time and I think we only truly talk to each other during pri5 and 6.If I am not wrong,one of the way we communicate in class is to throw paper messages rolled into a ball at each other since we are seated quite far apart.I only get to met this guy 1 time after we graduated so I hope that dude you are still doing well.

4.)Zhi xian
One of my buddy during my primary school years.This is one lankly guy who used to connect with me very well.As mentioned earlier,he and I started this habit of throwing paper ball messages at each other and outside of class,we often hang together during recess times.Also a guy with a great sense of humour,he is one loyal friend of mine during primary school times.A pity is that we lost contact with each other after graduating and I have not seen him once at all.Buddy,hope that you are still doing great!

5.)Yong wee
The so called'big mouth' in our class during that time,Yongwee nevertheless has a really helpful soul(which I hope still substain today lah haha).His slightly hoarse voice has almost to me become a unique trademark of him also.Yongwee is also a very friendly guy and we used to enjoy talking to each other.I had seen him for a few times after graduation with the very last time being about 4 or 5 years back so really hope that we could keep in contact again one day...


6.)Zhenlong and Ding cheng
Zhenlong was that cubby guy who used to sit in front of me and suffered from my incessant suaning.He was also always at loggerhead with his closed friend Jiaohao who in turn I think sit in front of him.Just watching the two of them 'quarrel' is often enough an entertainment for me to substain through one whole day of school so I really had no complain with that.Ding cheng on the other hand is the act cool athetic guy who excel in the track and field during that time.However,the most interesting thing worth mentioning about him is that we used to have a 'pact' which involved me doing some of his science assignments for him with me getting nothing in return! Thinking back,I seriously cannot understand my foolish actions at that time although I know that part of the reason was because I simply love science too much at that time.


Other friends that I appreciate and would very much want to say a big THANK YOU for making my primary school life so memorable include Lilian,Mei xin,Lijun,Richard,Kuo wei,Shu hui,Jian hao,Syed,Cai ting,Chin Pei,Nurhuda,Ruifeng and the rest of my classmates in class 6F.I am very sorry if I had left anyone out due to my failing memory but rest assured that no matter what,you have certainly as I stressed again and again play a important role during my formative years.My dream is that one day,we could hopefully(and I must really pray and hope hard) be able to get together and talk about those days again....Anyway,here's a toast to my all my primary school friends out there...Remember to do your best and be the best!


Yours sincerely,

Yongster