Went back to CHMS twice last week…the school which I spent 12 out of my 18 years of life in, apart of the old buildings, had an extra new building, which is due to be officially opened some time this month, had a number of new facilities, such as a lecture theatre, new science labs, activity rooms for each department, a new 1 and a half storey library, a new meeting room for the board of directors, and so on. Existing buildings received some changes too, the AVA room, computer labs and IT office disappeared and returned to its formal state, the BoonPang Hall, science labs became computer labs and so on..

Hmm...these so-called “state-of-the-art” facilities seemed to provide a nice new learning environment for the students…but I wonder how much effect they will have? Looking at these new additions, majority involved shifting of locations to the new building, such as science labs and computer labs, but from what I can see it looked as if they just “moved” one room and place it in another place, i.e not much change in terms of “service”, and new activity rooms may indeed help to provide alternative locations if teachers decided to conduct more outside-classroom enrichment activities, unlike last time when teachers literally fight to use the AVA room. Hopefully that somebody realized that the problem lies within the administrative group…shall say no more here =p

Anyway when Julius, Kah Siong and I went back earlier last week, and with KH, Stella, Susan, KarMun later last week, we met quite a number of our ex-teachers, who were all equally pleased to see us all, I guess we are the only batch free enough to come back to visit them at this time of the year since we are all waiting for results..but we had a nice time reminiscing about the good old days, refreshing those old memories, remembering the old tree which was rumoured to be haunted and now chopped off to make way for extension of the kindergarten, removal of the old haunted toilets and lion dance room, catching up with some ex-classmates whereabouts, meeting ex-teachers and chatting wif them, watched as some of them struggled to remember our names while some did so with utmost ease, listened to them calling us names (ah pui, sailormoon, si-ti-fen-ni etc..), brought back memories. Those days, when we thought we are stressed, but now looking back, those were in fact the most carefree days we had, and I am glad we had made the most out of it…

Though most parts of CHMS had changed, some remained untouched..the old classroom buildings, the canteen, and the people in there…even the smell of canteen food remained same =p…just wondering, it’s about time CHMS try burying a time capsule..would be quite interesting to see the contents some years later..haha…

去年今日此门中
人面桃花相映红
人面不知何处去
桃花依旧笑春风...