Fangus + MUI

[060205] met up with e 'seating/sitting partners'....

MUI & I spent our sec 107'92 time in e Jalan Kuala campus seated beside e window in a classroom that had no doors & some sort of wire mesh for windows. stray dogs wandered in & out in e middle of lessons, & bats lived in e rafters of e 4th floor classrooms of one block. e school compound had no fences. e postman would ride his scooter along e shortcut among e trees & grass, & e flashers who made their appearances (2 or 3 times?) & kena laughed at by e girls took e same route. when e school flooded after heavy rain (no wonder e area is called River Valley) e quadrangle would be instantly replaced by a pond & some girls crossed it 'orientation game-style' on two chairs to avoid getting their feet wet. behind our school was Kim Seng Technical, & more importantly, behind it was Zouk.

Fangus was a fellow Richardson house track & field mate trying to survive training under our dear house captain Kim. it all started with compulsory try-outs in e school field & at Farrer Park track. before we knew it we were selected to spend a lot of time together under e sun for e next 4 years. Fangus spent endless hours circling e track training for e 1500m. I had more variety in sec 1 hunting for lost discuses & javelins in e school field on top of long jump. e discus is impossible to find in waist-high lallang without a metal detector. was glad to be dropped after e final rounds of selection. javelins are easier to retrieve, but trainings clashed & a few attempts at shuttling between Queenstown track & school convinced e field captain to let me quit.

when we were not burning together on e track, Fangus & I spent upper sec sitting together in class. we took turns to sleep & take notes. many a times we found it more interesting to draw cartoons of our teachers than to take proper notes. at e end of e lesson we would compile our notes & discover where in e chapter our sleep rotation had gone out of sync & both of us were kooning at e same time *shucks*....in JC we ran together for S1 fac on sports days & again in uni for KE7 Hall IHG athletics.

Fangus is now enjoying fulfilling 6.5 day weeks as a MO. MUI is now back in Singapore after spending ~7 years in Germany preparing to slave away for e gahmen. incredible to meet with people who have known you inside out upside down for 13 years, & to talk & joke & laugh together just like we did 13 years ago =)

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