Then
there came this change of life in Taiwan. Firstly was the weather..........the
summer was hotter than Singapore and the winter can reach 6 deg celsius
..... terrible. The other thing was my school. It was the Taipei American
School, a multi-race and nationality school. They had a different system
from Singapore. They emphasize more on projects and an all round education.
I still remember that the PE had grades that counted!! The Americans had
a very fun education system. I still remembered we had to make something
40x40x40cm to contain an egg so that when it is dropped from 3 storeys
high the egg would not crack. I couldn't believe the ridiculous models
that came.......(shows that Americans have crap up there.......) One came
with wings attached to his egg.....looked like a egg head creature with
wings........and of cos that didn't work........poor guy got to clear the
mess as he didn't put a plastic bag round the egg. Another came with a
loaf of bread and put the egg in between the loaf of bread.........that
thing weighed a ton!!.......and as expected raw egg sandwich..........
Mine was the best!....hehehehe well it was! I think if U drop it from a
100 storey building it will survive too.........it's true U got to believe
me...... Anyway, this is what I did........ I wrapped the egg with cotton
wool and those material with bubbles in them........and over this I put
the fruit wrapper for pears over it. Did another layer of that and put
the entire thing into a styrofoam box which I dug a hole in the middle
of the cube. Inside it was filled with cotton wool........ there! solid
huh?? when my teacher threw the box down the thing floated like a dollar
note swaying down.......and safe landing........ good huh??
Well,
I came back to Singapore during June after my 1st semester in TAS has finished
and they were having a 2 month summer holidays........:( too bad I got
to come back as my father had finished his job........now was a big problem.....I
dun know which secondary school to go to........ I had 272 for my PSLE
which God blest me with and I could go anywhere I wanted to. But finally
I chose St. Andrew's as one of my church friend (Eugene) and my cousin
(Joshua) was there so I thought I wouldn't be so lonely..... It was here
in St. Andrew's that I met some of my very close friends now.......people
like Jonathan, Kok Meng, Jianming, Rongke, Wilson and many more.......i
still keep in contact with them too until now!!.....I had a fun time there
for my 4 years there......we played basketball and soccer everyday......after
school and during recess..... so fun.....how I wish I was back then.......:(
I can still remember my class, supposedly the best in the school but the
most rowdy. We had people like Sudhir, Benjamin Chang, Dewei, the Asian
Scholars......crazy bunch couldn't even sit still........ we even put staples
on the teacher's seat?! at that age??!! We once ostracised our literature
teacher cos he was REALLY REALLY boring.......b4 the teacher came in we
arranged the table such that the class room was divide into 2 front and
back.......when he came in all of us went to the back to sleep except for
a few on ones who remained in the front......it was so funny.....he didn't
know what to do and all of us slept, in front of him, through out the whole
lesson.....hahahaha.Maybe it was too fun also cos during this period of
time my work suffered as I became lazy.....never the less, God was gracious
enough to let me get 9 pts enough to go to VJC where I start a new chapter
in my life...........
