Tuesday, February 14, 2006.

"Our local students come from a wide range of secondary schools including top schools such as Crescent Girls', Fairfield Methodist, Nan Hua, River Valley High, Commonwealth and Swiss Cottage." - Taken from the JJC website.

See, Crescent is not a neighbourhood school (:

Thank you Xi Ling! For informing me of this because before that, I felt much injustice. We're in Band One and I'm dang proud of my alma mater. So what if we can be a little uncouth, unruly, and loud? We're a far cry from the demure girls in mixed schools, but you got to give us some time and space to adjust right? And with our personality and character crafted inside for the past four years, it's impossible to rid of it like, so soon.

One thing too, we can never sit properly.

At least, I can't.

They say we think weird, do weird, talk weird, laugh weird. Laugh weird meaning laughing at things others don't find funny or get the joke about. I'm sorry, girls' school humour (:

Today, someone commented that I look as though I'm from SCGS. Haha NO. SCGS. This is correct :D

In case you were wondering what we do in girls' schools, we are actually pretty normal.

It's not weird to us when we say the words 'bra' and 'pad' aloud. It also isn't weird when we start to compare the colour of our bras. HA.

And many people like to ask this question, "Are there lesbians in your school?"

Please don't be an idiot to think that once you enter a girls' school, you'd become one. Even amongst girls we'd look out for the prettier ones. And sometimes it's not just pretty, but athletic, cute and ladida. Yes, sometimes there is attraction, but it becomes friendly love. Get it? Although there might be a small percentage of these people, you needn't care about them. Just leave them to be and lead your own life. You can be equally happy.

PLEASE PLEASE. Entering a girls' school is NOT equivalent to sending yourself on a path of lesbianism. Open your eyes, yah.

I mean, if you're in a girls' school for 4 years of your life, won't you change a little? And all you see are girls, girls, girls. You don't know, but being in a girls' school is one of the best things.

You are free of inhibitions, and there's nothing to be embarrassed about.

I don't think I should go into such explicit details, but yeah, it isn't weird when we like take our skirts out while walking someplace, it isn't weird when we're trying to tuck our blouses in as we walk in the hallways, and neither is it weird when we change in class.

Yesterday, Yin Zhen, Germ, Shu Li, Fis & I were playing badminton. I was wearing my uniform and school shorts. Playing with your skirt on is an annoying hazard, so I decided to take it off.

AND ALMOST EVERYONE WENT, "Isabelle, what are you wearing?" -_-???!!!

Like, hello?! Does the school blouse together with PE shorts look THAT offensive/weird? Yin Zhen and I found it perfectly normal. Weird mindsets these people have. Back then in Crescent we parade around in our blouses and PE shorts after changing in the toilet and wear our skirts only when we walk back to class. I don't get what's so wrong. Maybe they see it as weird, but it's already something so common to us that we are immune to whatever weird notions that may arise when you pair the school blouse & the PE shorts.

Anyway, if you ever want to judge, please do so individually. The school might have certain cultures, but a person is individual. It's not fair to base judgements on where the person might have come from or whatever. You base it on how you see the person behave and all. Not absentmindedly and by stereotyping.

Sometimes I need to remind myself of that too.

Well, I never regretted going to Crescent, and I love Crescent a lot a lot. The building, the reputation, the students, and the teachers. It would always feel like home to me.

I had initially thought that my batch was a noisy, playful and mischievous batch who would pull down the school's standards, comparing us to our seniors. However, I was really wrong. When Mrs Lee when showing us the vast improvements in % distinctions for each subject, I felt this strong love for my secondary 4 peers.

I think this is the beauty of Crescent.

You might get 20 + or 19, 18, 17 for the prelims. But when 'O' Levels come, you won't be shortchanged. Most of my friends had scores of 10, 11, 12. And they were the ones who used to have problems, those who struggled with subjects that they didn't take a fancy to.

And I'm really glad that I had wonderful teachers who would push us and urge us to do our best. Even though they might be sick of doing the same things, going through the same lessons, teaching the same things year after year, they do not show it, and never hesitate to 'book' us during the holidays to come back for more and more and even more.

It's easy to feel demoralised studying, especially when you barely scrape through your A-Maths test and the china scholars have it easy and breeze through, getting sky high scores of 90. Even looking at them stresses you out. They read Jeffrer Archer books, congregate in the library and study and study and study.

Looking at them then, I felt like a failure. They studied way long before the Prelims, and while I told myself I had to start 75 days before, then 60, then 50, then 45, 30, 20, 18. I started 12 days before, I think.

Still, although we didn't really do very well, they moderated our results and gave us hope. This hope remained true, right up to this very moment. Aye, what can I say, sarang hae Crescent!

By the way, you ought to congratulate yourself if you managed to get to this sentence. I am a little long-winded, I know.

OH YES. I caught Marrying The Mafia II.

IT WAS HILARIOUS.

I was laughing hard enough by myself and with Kenneth sitting beside me, it didn't help! He made me laugh more because his laughter is so contagious! It was his first watching a Korean movie, and he didn't regret it!

See, I have good taste!

KOREA KOREA KOREA!
(The Southern part of it, mainly) :D

Bye! I'm going to read my two TIME magazines! Have to improve on my very limited vocabulary and GP! (:

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