homecoming

I can't not blog about today, can I? 

Today marks the 126th year of MG. Four (or five, or rather, four and a half years ago), I wouldn't have imagined ever coming to MG. I never really considered this school, until after PSLE results and all and I just went with wherever my score would take me. And looking back, I know for sure that God's been working in my life and taking me to where He wants me to be. He wanted me to be happy, He wanted me to grow in His love, His word, He wanted me to experience the full extent the love and the care of the angels He had planned to place in my life, and that's why He put me in MG.

"You came to us as a child,

Now the time has come for you

to go out into the world on your own.

There is little more that we can give you

except for good wishes and our

confidence in your future.

Remember always to Master yourself,

To seek to grow in Love,

Knowledge and Compassion,

And to Serve God, and all will be well.

We are proud of you.

Godspeed." 

Just about the saddest certificate I've read in my entire life, filled to the brim with sincerity and best wishes. I wonder who wrote this. 

I started the year (right) by helping out with Sec 1 Orientation, and I felt so happy whenever I saw the Sec 1 girls because I was so excited for them, because they had the next four years in front of them to grow up in the place I have come to know as home - one of the best places on earth. I did come into MG as a child, and I regret the choice to fill my first 1.5 years up with dislike. If you told my Sec 1 self now that I would grow to love this place as much as I did, as much as I do, I would probably laugh it off because I was so bitter in sec 1 for being in a girls' school/not getting into my first-choice school HAHA. 

But I grew so much in MG. I really, really did, and I wouldn't be half the person I am now if it weren't for the people I've met there. I really wouldn't. 

It was my pleasure to have been an SL, to have served the school. It only made me love MG even more, it helped me to forge relationships with my a-m-a-z-i-n-g juniors (I love those cuties soooo much). It helped me to grow into my responsibilities, to really be able to know what servant leadership encompassed. P1 Picnic, RYC 2011, ND 2011, LTC 2011, Pink of Health 2012, Bandage 4, Longest Day 2012. I loved the experience, and I loved the people I met along the way. 

I am so proud to be able to call myself an MG girl, to belong to this family, I couldn't ask for more.

reunited with these two girls today, I miss spending every single day with them. It was so good to see them this morning.

(such is the burden of having my school in bishan while the a large majority of my friends are at Dover Road HAHA.)

I miss stumbling into class laughing, everyday after recess with these two. Staring at megan as she picks at her vegetables during recess, idling around in between classes. I even miss that newspaper cut out of Andrew Garfield on the wall at the back of the class HAHA. You two are my sunshines, and upper sec wouldn't have been half as fun or half as crazy without the two of you by my side. I love my boobasses, with all my heart, and I only wish I could see you two more often. 

love u girrrrrls (this is an inappropriate representation of our heights I changed into flats already + I was probably bending forward a little YA PLS I AM NOT THAT SHORT HAHA)

Really so thankful for this bunch too. CIRCA 2010 still going strong, thank you guys for our mega long meal dates. How we can sit down and re-evaluate our lives and talk about q a bit of things. You guys are beautiful, don't let nothing get you down. 

Words cannot aptly express how much I love my mg teachers. 

These people have never judged me, and are always there to listen to me complain and rant. They are the best role models - they never gave up on us, the exercised utmost patience even when we were at our worst, they gave us their time, their sleep, and their love. 

Nic said that Mrs Ng was sitting beside their class during the service, and she clapped extra loud for every single one of her history students that went up on that stage, received their scrolls, took their bows. Jiayi reminded me today of how, when half of the EE group had fallen sick and we needed doctors and medication and all, Mrs Ng went around the hotel and fed every last one of us our medicine at 2AM in the morning, and went out with the healthy group for the Prague tour the next day. She prayed for us, through everything, and taught us that life was much more than grades and history, but that life was about loving God and going with His will. 

Mrs Lau has been there for me for as long as it mattered. And I thank God for her, for how she picks up the phone/replies my texts when I need her advice or when I was upset. Four years, and I couldn't be more grateful, because she taught me how to look at things from different perspectives, seems to always be able to guess what's up before I actually tell her, and showed me love and lack of judgement when I needed it the most. The sweetest, coolest adult I know :-) 

And I could go on forever about how Ms Kek is amazing because she always seems to be able to juggle so much, so well, how she's so sweet to every single one of us; or how Ms Koh always ensures that we are fed HAHA, and how she's always teaching us cool new things, and always caring for us; or how Mrs Choo has listened to me whine about everything under the sun for the whole of my sec 4 year, it's always so heartening to know how easy it is for me to talk to her about stuff; Mrs Loh for being my very first form teacher in mg, I'll always remember how sweet she was to me in sec 1, and how sweet she still is to me now, I loved helping her/spending time with her during OC this year; and I could go on and on but I'd still be driving at the same point - that MG teachers are one of a kind, that they're nonjudgmental, amazing friends to each and every single one of us. 

I miss them so much, they're literally the best teachers in the world and I'm so glad to be able to call them my teachers, my family. 

THE CRU aka the coolest kids around whaddupdupdup. 

I AM FINALLY IN THE PHOTO HELLO dover vs bishan issue again

*i will update this with our photo with chou & ms ho very very soon*

I wouldn't have lived through mid years/prelims/Os without you three. We studied so hard together, freaked out together, laughed together, insulted each other and took turns taking naps or talked about our lives then and beyond MG when we really were supposed to be studying. You guys are wonderful study buddies, and I'm so blessed to have grown closer to each of you, to have you guys as support through tiring and trying times. I miss you guys and I miss our spot. I'm so glad to finally be reunited with all of you heehee, so much love for u guys :") 

so yes. as much as my time in mg is over, this chapter of my life closed, I know with utmost certainty that the bonds forged, the friends made and the relationships strengthened in my four years here will go a long, long way. And I'm so thankful because this place is crowded with angels - each a blessing in their own, special way, and filled to the brim with God's love and faithfulness. 

The debt I owe, the love I hold for MG will stretch on for a long time.