Category: Secondary School

One fine day while in Secondary 1, I finally decided that I needed to shave. So I went to get myself a Gillette ContourPlus shaver and tried it 0ut. Think I only looked slightly more clean-cut after that…

It was a boring day in Secondary School when Ian (or was it Josh?) decided to tie a long string on an M&M’s toy and lower it down the window to dangle outside of the classroom directly below ours.

Unfortunately, it was kidnapped when one of the guys reached out and grabbed it. We then had to go down to negotiate for its release.

One of the nice things that my bunch of classmates used to do was that we would gather at the College of Physical Education (CPE to those in the know) and play basketball for the whole morning. After that intensive session, we would then adjourn to a nearby A&W’s, Macs or even the Ponderosa buffet to pig out.

BTW, the title of this blog entry is in reference to the title of the song I was listening to whenever I was on my way to the CPE.

After school dismissal, a group of us used to stay back and play basketball in the Quadrangle for a while. Once we were done, we would head to the canteen and buy a cup of grass jelly drink to quench our thirst. I remember one time my drink had an extra dose of protein because there was a dead fly in it!

Probably not many people know this, but I represented my school at the National level for the 200m and 4x100m in both Primary and Secondary School. Didn’t have many trophies to show for my efforts though…

Anyway, I stopped running after Sec 2 due to a persistent tendinitis problem which required me to spray ethyl-chloride everytime after I ran.

My first semester report for Secondary School was quite ok except that it was blighted by my score for Chinese. IIRC, I scored only about 40+…

In a bid to improve my Chinese and to spur some interest, I bought some Chinese comics from the cornershop and thus began my foray into mangas! The first mangas I bought were City Hunter and Dragonball.

The Sega Genesis holds many great memories for me especially because I spent almost my entire holidays playing “Lakers vs Celtics and the NBA playoffs” at Vig’s place.

We would organise our own leagues and perform our own commentaries, even to the extent of video-taping our own games so we could do live playback of our best plays!

This was a really strange incident. I was one of the taller guys in Secondary School and I hung out quite often with this Indian guy, Vig, who was taller than me and a rugby player to boot. I wonder what possessed that little pipsqueak of an ah-beng to come up to the both of us at the video game shop in Serene Centre to give us this ominous warning: “Be careful you two. Watch out. We’re watching you.”

We humoured him by telling him “Oh, ok” before we promptly got back to watching people play Street Fighter II…

There was once when there was a class party held at Josh’s home. Think the parents probably made a big mistake because they probably didn’t expect how we would behave.

It was a BBQ at the balcony, and we all really enjoyed ourselves. So far in my life, I think that was probably one of the most fun BBQs I’ve had. I can still remember how yummy the beef strips were. It was probably the first time that I had moderately rare beef, but the seasoning was excellent!

We never ever got a party at Josh’s place again. Probably because we created a super big mess in the hall when we left footprints all over the place whenever we walked from the balcony to the kitchen or the toilet…