bapak dropped me off at the bus-stop opposite SJI before sending mak. took 153 to make my way to upper paya lebar road. as the bus passed along toa payoh, i looked around. my homeground has changed alot. the blocks opposite the library have gone. just a large green grass patch was seen. even toa payoh community centre has changed its name to which now i couldnt remember. ahahhaa. toa payoh cc was once a place i went to study for my o levels with my cousin, hana. it was also a place where something happened that changed my life. can still cry if i were to sit down and think abt what happenned. how i wish i could turn back the clock.
then as the bus passed along my old school, beatty sec, all the memories came back again. the bus-stop, the gate, the technical block, the everything abt it. was dreaming away abt the secondary school life back then. good old memories. was still thinking about it till i stopped at the wrong bus-stop. the price for dreaming when you dont know exactly where your stop is. hehhee.
did some work at lor ong lye. stayed there till abt 2.30pm before i made my way to airport. took 24 from there. and more memories came back to me. upper paya lebar road used to be the road that i passed every day some time in 1996/97. and it changed alot too. constructions were everywhere. and some of the buildings there are not recognisable to me anymore. at a point, i dont know where i was. then, the bus passed along another old school of mine, ite macpherson. the old building was not there anymore, and a new, nice and big building has taken over the land. well, its still known as ite macpherson, i reckon. but it's definitely not the building i went to everyday in 1996/97. i miss my friends there. i miss the atmosphere there even tho i don't quite know why i was there in the first place.
then slept all the way through the journey till tanah merah. woken up by a bunch of noisy kindergarten kids. hey, cant u see that i am trying to sleep here?? i felt like saying which of course i didnt. hehhee... *evil*
then the bus passed sia training centre. another memory came along. in 1994, attended a course organised by SIA for students on vacation, to have a taste of a cabin crew life for a week. i was selected to go for the course. it was fun and interesting. enjoyed it to the max. still have the photo of me then at sia training centre. look so selenger and skinny to the bones. muahhahaha. spent about a week or two there.
as the bus approached the airport, the feelings of going away came back to me again. suddenly felt emotional myself. hehehe.. i wont be going away for long anymore. well, at least for now.
how i miss all the good old times. glad that i've decided to ask bapak to drop me at whitley road instead of me having to go ang mo kio early in the morning to take bus 24. it's definitely a walk down memory lane........