okay. as promised. i have finally recovered from the many 'thanks' i've typed. so today, i'll do another. it's going to be long.
4 great years in CDSS. i've met countless people there and so many has touched my life in so many different ways. looking back, I would never have chosen a different path. i don't care that CDSS [can i just write chestnut?] is a neighbourhood school. i don't care that right now, it ranks as one of the lowest secondary schools. i don't really care. i'm not saying that chestnut is the best school on earth. it isn't. i know it. but i know the people there are amazing. well, at least the people while i was there, were. so here it goes, i shall attempt to thank everyone I know in chestnut.

in alphabetical order:
Amanda Ng [Sec 1A, 2A]
ananda. i'll always remember you for being so tiny and quiet. thanks for sitting in the front row. thanks for being part of the multi-racial clique. (amanda, devi and niza) i hope all is well for you. and i regrett not getting to know you as well as i should have.
Amanda Tay [Sec 3A, 4A, Band, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
it seems our school, or at least our batch had many amanda's. thanks for 2 great years. thanks for running down to the sec 3's class while we were in sec 4 to get their chem textbooks cuz we never bothered to bring them. winks.
Amily Ho [Sec 3A, 4A, Band, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
1/3 of the Ho's. =] thanks for sitting next to me (sorta) ever since we shifted to the new building. thanks for being so great in english. thanks for leaving your organizer on your table so we could always take it and read. thanks for bringing sweets so we could eat in class. thanks for being such a great trumpet player. thanks for getting 'talked' to by Leonard Tan when he changed me to the horn section. thanks for being such a great band major. thanks for beating me in our overall score by 0.0000005%. hahas. oh, and thanks for having such a great figure. =]
Aniza [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Band, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
niza, niza. thanks for being who you are. thanks for staying back to get 'tuition' for math from the oh-so-hot Mr Chua. thanks for accompanying me to walk a longer way to pass 2B and other classes. winks. thanks for being bitching about other with me. thanks for working with me while we were in band. thanks for not quitting band. thanks for always taking part in sports day and winning something for our class. thanks for always eating nuggets and wedges like nuts.
Audrey Chua [Sec 1C, 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
hmm. thanks for being one of my very first closest friends in school. thanks for taking pictures with me for the prefect thingy. thanks for sitting in front of me. thanks for being a smart one in sec 1. thanks for being head prefect. thanks for being an interesting person as time would tell.
Benjamin Chin [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Peer Support]
ben, panda. how'd you ever get the panda nickname? haha. thanks for going nuts over girls you shouldn't have gone crazy over. thanks for always calling me stupid girl. grr. thanks for coming up with your x and y formula for tic-tac-toe along with jeremiah and xavier. thanks for sharing my math textbook with me so you could joke along with sandar and me. thanks for constantly being bullied by crys and lingz.
Bibi [Sec 1C, 1A, 2A]
this is truly a tough one. i haven't known you as well as i could have or should have. but i do know that you are really smart. thanks for being older and teaching us stuff. thanks for being so sweet to your bf.
Cheryl Tan [Sec 1C, 1A, 2A]
thanks for letting audrey and i to your place when we had to do some project. thanks for tolerating us.
Christopher [Sec 1C, 1A]
thanks for being ever so quiet. thanks for sitting behind me and bullying me so quietly. thanks for taking my dirty pe shirt after i'm done changing and passing it to the rest of the guys.
Crystal Pan [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
hey dar. you've been such a dearie. thanks for being such a great netball captain. thanks for watching movies with me. thanks for collecting pictures of my boys from mags and then passing them to me. thanks for always being in the middle of lingz and i. thanks for sitting down in KFC to do up the 'puzzle' hahas. thanks for teaching me a-math, physics, chem, bio and, oh wait. everything. thanks for reading the whole jian bao and then telling me about it. thanks for lending me your work so i could copy it. thanks for running along with me during cross country. thanks for letting us stay over at your place to cry our eyes out while watching autumn in my heart. thanks for allowing us to hold countless parties at your place. thanks for letting us cook and bake stuff at your place. i love you to bits.
Cynthia Lim [Sec 1A, 2A]
thanks for scaring the wits out of someone during sec 2 by writing letter. [we all know who] thanks for teaching us the steps for teachers' day celebration and all. thanks for being such a daredevil. thanks for letting us into your house and playing with your dogs. thanks for the great time we spent at the playground outside your house.
Devi [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Prefectorial Board]
thanks for always being such a good friend. thanks for walking up with me whenever we took the same bus. thanks for being so strong.
Dinesh [Sec 2A]
what can i say? thanks for coming to our school.
Eldora [Sec 3A, 4A, Prefectorial Board]
thanks for getting the roses to sell on valentine's day. thanks for being so gentle. thanks for being so nu-ren. thanks for being so seet. thanks for always fighting with regina. thanks for 2 great years.
Ephendi [Sec 1A, 2A]
thanks for shocking all ofus when you got the highest for geography in sec 2. i can only recall the emotion throughout the class when Mrs Viswa announced that you got highest. you must have been absolutely estatic.
Farhan [Sec 1C, 1A, 2A]
thanks for getting bumped my Mr Azlan when he kept calling you muhud. but you did so well in english then. thanks for bringing your baby sis during meet-the-parents. she was so cute. =]
Hao Zhen [Sec 1A, 2A]
marmie!! =] thanks for being so sweet. thanks for introducing me to the motorola handphone which both of us got in the end. thanks for bringing daddy so much happiness. thanks for working so hard. thanks for holding my hand whenever we go out. thanks for promising me my ice cream maker which i still haven't got.
Hasinah [Sec 1A, 2A]
thanks for being a great cockraoach. winks. thanks for writing the whole lyrics of all or nothing by o-town for me. thanks for sitting behind me in Sec 2 where i conatantly bugged you. =]
Heng Kiat [Sec 1A, 2A, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support, Republic Poly]
aah. thanks for being the most talked about guy when you first came into school. thanks for pulling so much of your hair out until your hair is REALLY thin now. thanks for ta-haning all of pinches. thanks for listening when you did. thanks for running round level 3 during recess one day with a broom. thanks for being so excited about coming to RP. it will suck soon enough. it's starting already right?
Hoc Yock [Sec 1C, 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Peer Support]
thanks for being so close to me. thanks for listening and thanks for sharing. thanks for helping me with my chinese. thanks for teaching me chem, phy and bio. thanks for letting me copy your work esp. ting xie. (chinese spelling) we were good weren't we? hahas. thanks for being so smart. thanks for being so great in memorizing stuff. i cannot believe you!! =]
Hui Min [sec 1A, 2A, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
thanks for never failing to organize all our outings. the beach ones, the chalets, the parties. thanks for bringing 5566 VCDs to watch at crys place. thanks for being such a dearie.
Janice [Sec 3A, 4A]
thanks for sharing your lilo and stitch stickers with us. =] you have no idea how crazy it drove me and lingz. =]
Jeremiah Ng [Sec 3A, 4A, Band, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
daddy!! heya. you've been so unbelievable. thanks for everthing. for being such a dearie. for teaching me. thanks for sitting beside me during chem lessons in the lab. thanks for getting you and me scolded by Mr Hoe. thanks for promising me an ice cream maker, which you haven't gotten me yet. thanks for listening when you did. thanks for being so sweet to mummy. =] thanks for fighting for me to stay in the trumpet section.
Jeslin Neo [Sec 1A, 2A]
thanks for being so TALL. thanks for inviting me and lingz to the concert. i am absolutely sorry about that. =X thanks for being so beautiful when you smile. thanks for being such a great friend.
Kenneth [Sec 1A, Republic Poly]
thanks for pulling my hair to irritate me constantly. thanks for coming to RP. i haven't talked to you or seen you in such a long time!
Kin Hian [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Prefectorial Board, Robotics, Photocopy]
thanks for being on the robotics team. thanks for doing up the chart. thanks for being so conscientious doing up the robot. thanks for being so kind and helping us to photocopy millions of exam papers by other schools.
Ming Hui [Sec 1C, 3A, 4A, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
thanks for smiling at me when we were sec 1 and all so new to the school. thanks for sitting next to me while we were in 1C. thanks for sitting in front of me during the CCA orientation.
Regina Tan [Sec 3a, 4A, Prefectorial Board, Peer support]
thanks for always being so innovative. thanks for being so competitive. thanks for almost exposing yourself. thanks for providing so much laughter to the class. thanks for coming with the roses. thanks for saying the pledge almost every other morning. thanks for being so hardworking. thanks for getting so many A's.
Sandar [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Band, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support, Photocopy, Robotics, Republic Poly]
my dearest. =] thanks for being my best friend. thanks for being my sister. thanks for listening, thanks for lending me your ears, your shoulders. thanks for letting me irritate you till you went nuts. thanks for letting me almost push you off your chair and then getting scolded. thanks for teaching me. thanks for sharing your textbooks with me cuz i couldn't be bothered to bring them. thanks for letting me copy ting xie. thanks for going to RP with me. thanks for attending talks with me. thanks for sending me your powerpoints. thanks for going out with me. thanks for coming over. thanks for going shopping with me. thanks for crapping along with me. thanks for waiting for me at the stairs along with xavier after our english and chinese o'level orals. thanks for accompanying me in during band breaks. thanks for quitting band with me. thanks for sitting down in KFC to do up the 'puzzle' hahas. thanks for finding out stuff. thanks for everything. i love you.
Shan Hui [Sec 3A, 4A]
a quiet one. thanks for proving to us that you could clock up a 100 hours for CIP just doing AVA.
Stanley [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Peer Support, Robotics]
thanks for fighting with wai yip. thanks for your medicine. thanks for being a total genius during robotics. thanks for bringing the small little thing to take part in the sumo wrestling thing. i can still remember their expressions. thanks for bringing us to your place for CNY. thanks for letting us sit and play on your nice soft bed. =]
Vickenesh [Sec 1A, 2A]
another tough one. really. but thanks.
Vincent [Sec 1C, 1A, 2A]
thanks for being the 'son'. thanks for playing soccer. thanks for helping me and hoc yock wash up the dishes during home econs. thanks for being you.
Wai Yip [Sec 3A, 4A, Band, Prefectorial Board, Robotics]
thanks for being such a dearie in robotics. thanks for making us laugh. thanks for working so well with stanley that our robots seldom broke apart. thanks for matching up so great with regina. winks.
Wei Leng [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Band, Prefectorial Board, Peer Support]
thanks for being my best shopping partner. thanks for being my hao jie mei. thanks for updating me on gossips. thanks for being a KPO. thanks for irritating me. thanks for teaching me. thanks for telling me to look for crys whenever it came to math. thanks for being so good in what you do. thanks for being boy crazy. thanks for creeping up to my back in the middle of math class and then whispering 'da feng chuai' while using your hands to mess up my hair. grr. i'll never forget that. thanks for still being so close even after we've all gone our seperate ways. thanks dragging us to eat sakae sushi everytime. thanks for dragging us to KFC last time. thanks for sitting down in KFC to do up the 'puzzle' hahas. i love you girl.
Wen Jun [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Robotics, Photocopy]
thanks for staring. winks. thanks for being so interesting. thanks for photocopying stuff for us when we needed it.
Xavier [Sec 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, Peer Support]
1/3 of the Ho's. =] thanks for taking all my abuse. looking back, i have no idea how all of you took it. thanks for being so good in sports. thanks for being so rich. thanks for the time you helped me complete my dare. thanks for running down the hill looking like 2 idiots. thanks for waiting with sandar for me after we were done with oral. thanks for choosing the bloodiest heart when we were disecting it during bio class. thanks for being such a dearie to start cutting it first. thanks for sitting beside me during bio classes in the lab. thanks for lending me your roller blanco thingy during geog o's. thanks for being my xiaogou. thanks for listening whever you did.
Yan Ming [Sec 1A, 2A, Band]
thanks for being such a cutie. thanks for showing us how you put water in your horn and then making fun stuff about it. thanks for playing with the duster with me and then getting punished for it. thanks for being such a great player of the horn. thanks for sectionals where i had so much fun. =] thanks for coming up to say hi to us when you met us in westmall.

okay. i am finally done. i took more than 2 hours to do this. whoa. i thought i could do the others as well. but i can't. i have so many more people to thank. people who are older. people who are younger. the teachers. phew. i made it this far. i'll have to continue another day. i don't think i can complete it today. it's almost impossible to thank everyone though. so many people have touched my life in small and little ways. so many of them. =] to those that i wrote just a tiny bit, it doesn't mean i don't love you. it's just tough expressing all of it in words. Lingz, Crys and Sandar, i love you 3 so much and i miss you all. we have to go out soon.

i typed all of that like on fri. but the stupid blogger gave me problems. but... [boo blogger] i was smart! i saved it in a word doc. so ts-da. it's finally out! =]