Monicker.

It’s interesting how time flies.

I’ve just read Jonsam’s blog concerning the anniversary of the VS Co-ed saga. It is not easy for me to conceive that it has indeed been a year on. I still remember all the anxiety and pure outrage that surrounded Victorians just last year. I remember working on the petition on the Victorian Spirit walls, rushing to pull them down as soon as I heard the Straits Time had arrived to cover the breaking news. I remember just trying to imagine the pure absurdity of the entire issue, thinking of things like how VS will be able to accomodate female restrooms, having female uniformed groups divisions, not to mention the sight of girls in the yellow, bumblebee Victorian PE shirt. The school had come together like never before, the people I never expected to show any concern extented their help, each in their own way standing for what they believed in, their school, and more than just that, their home.

I remember myself in Mr. Ang’s office before he was to address my batch of Victorians.

‘Are they going to kill me?’ he asked. I just looked at him.

And now, a year on, 130 years on,things couldn’t have been more different – we have a new principal, a new batch of Secondary 1 students, new teachers and the list goes on. It’s been one year, one short year, the shortness of that time nearly impossible to conceive. We have a lot to be proud of, the 130th anniversary a clear testiment to that. But the world ahead of us is changing. Blind tradition and school spirit will no longer be enough to keep the school sustainable in the future. We have developed an unrivalled school spirit and chaneling this in the right direction will serve to make us better. As Edwin Thumboo said:

Think, feel and dream
Brave new worlds, tryst with the unfamiliar, merge
For the world is now a keyboard, linked to competition.
We compute, manage.The way ahead is to be ahead.

I shudder at the thought of what would have happened if things had turned out differently last year. I’m not sure if I’m expressing this quite accurately, but the entire 130 generations of Victorians would have been ‘wiped out’ and disconnected with the new Victoria that would have been formed. Things would never have been the same again. Then again, if Britney and Carene had been the first 2 girls, it would have been a different story! Haha.

Where my time has flown by in VJ, I shall never understand. I’m hardly settled into the lifestyle there and yet I’m currently faced with my upcoming Promotional Exams. I hardly know my class and yet I’m at the end of my J1 year. I have hardly got over my O-Levels and yet my juniors are now about to join me next year.Things are happening much too fast.

It’s interesting how easily life can be surmised in Singapore.

You are born into the world.

You complete your education (and National Service)

You work.

You have a family.

You grow old.

You die.

Forever young, I wanna be forever young,

Do you really wanna live forever?