the days of mud and ketchup,starch and water bombs

was just reading Alwyn's blog and he took so many pics at this year's ACJC orientation. and they were all very good pics in my very-not-expert eyes. looking at all those wet and dirty but happily laughing guys and gals brought me back to that one week of orientation at Hwa Chong.

i dunno if it's still the case, but HC used to be quite notorious for their downright dirty O1 activity. rolling in mud, crawling through stuff that should remain in the kitchen, getting doused with generous doses of ketchup, starch, flour, eggs etc...

it was the dirtiest week of my life.if i try really hard,i can still smell the ketchup in my hair, feel the starch hardening on my t-shirt, taste the mud around my lips.

yucks

and i remember that i had my ear pierced just one week before O1, and so i cannot remove my ear studs. so when i rolled in the mud, the mud got in between my stud and my ear lobe..and then it harden. i had to dig the mud out using a bobby pin...i was so scared i would get an infection...luckily dun have.

and i also remember laughing lots and lots. it was the best time of my JC life. for the first time since sec 1,i felt like i belonged to my class. i was one of them. i wasn't "the clever one"...not "the one at the top"...not "the snobbish one"..not "the anti social one". i was just Gretel,one of the 99S76ians. much like the way i feel belonged to the gang at CS, which unfortunately has been torn apart. ever since the final 2 members of the gang left for UK, i feel like i am left hanging in mid air. when would i have that sense of belonging again, i wonder...

ah well, one cannot turn back the hands of time. at least i would always have these moments with me...