So life's been really crazy, haven't had anytime to really update or anything. There's really no use blogging about how boring school is and how stressful it is because it's the O level year, because everybody who actually reads this blog has probably seen me complaining already. So, let's just talk events.

PREFECTS' INVESTITURE 2010





The lead up to investiture was different from the others, that's for sure. I had missed so many invest pracs during the holiday and when school started, it didn't really feel like it was coming at all. Until the week finally came. I do believe Investiture was one of the reasons why I had wanted exco. After going through two investitures already, this was really something I wanted to help make a success or a failure. As much as I could.

The road was with no doubt bumpy, changes being made just a few days before the investiture itself, changes that made the board upset, changes that made me mad (standing in circles and complaining with nat running in and making random comments, haha), changes that we basically didn't agree with. Our traditions were changed. Our performance, which normally included the full board, included only 1/2 of the board. And with so few people, the turn up for investiture pracs would always look so pathetic, even though most of the people may have been there. We were not allowed to sing the old board song as a tribute to the batch before because it would apparently segregate us from the primary school. The programme was totally messed up, with 6 speeches being made in a row, and then about an hour of hearing 142 names being called out. Following that we all had to put our badges on stage. But what could we do? I had wanted to speak with them, but I whenever I mentioned it, it just wouldn't happen.

But you know what I love about investiture? It's that feeling when you stand on stage and you sing the board song with so much conviction and you know all the shit that you were put through, all the investiture practices, everything, was just so worth it. The feeling when you see so many eyes watching you, and you just really want to do the best you can, and no matter what happens, there are 85 other people who are feeling the same thing as you. I mean, there were definitely hiccups during the actual event, but who would have noticed, and who would have cared so much that they would leave thinking that we were screwed up? No one.

The best part is really after the programme, when schools would come into the PB room and they tell us how much they enjoyed our investiture, and the high. The running, the screaming, the cam whoring, the laughing. The failed jump shots, the singing, the cheering (which I loved so much because it was our little way of rebelling).

I cried after the KA was emptied of people, and everyone was going around stage hugging each other. 3 years of this, it's just such an amazing experience, and this is something true to sc, no where else is going to have that same feeling. I doesn't matter who we're guided by, it doesn't matter whether it's stressful or not, because what really matters is that we go through it with each other. I sometimes fear that feeling is slowly disappearing, and that people are finding this such a chore. But it really shouldn't be that way. The board is what we make it, and how we make it is our choice.

The board dinner was fun. We went to back to Breeks, just like in 2008, just that they had renovated the place. I didn't sit in a big group, because all the group tables were taken, so I just shared a booth with nat, and the two of us had our own fun. It's so fun when you can go to a public place in uniform, and you just don't care about upholding your school reputation and you just let loose and have fun, because the whole restaurant was ours. The giant group shots, and the serious serious cam whoring. HAHA.


I think I just keep going on and on about the same things. But these kinds of things are just so hard to explain, and you have to go through it yourself to see and feel it. At least from my POV. I really just hope that the feeling of love and friendship in the board doesn't die out because of the changes the board is put through, because essentially it is still the same board.

I love you, 59th SCPB.




So when you find the passion,
together we will see
all the great and amazing thing
we can achieve