the first three years of primary school
I started primary school in 1990. Standard 1 - at SRJK ST. James. I spent 6 years studying there.
It was also around this time I moved from Kinamount and we got our own house on the hilltop of Jalan Fung Yei Ting. It was a beautiful house, lots of funny memories there.
I remember starting primary school - it was all so messed up and blur. I had no idea what I was doing there..who all those people were..why was I here..that kind of feeling.
Then after a while, I got the hang of it. Wake up early, go to school, play with friends, listen to the teachers, finish school, wait at the same spot for mum's car, jump into the car, go home, and then wait for the next day to start all over again.
The first three years of primary school were OK. Not much memories though, expect for a few very significant things....
My class came up with this interesting concept. Funny thing to do. We would write our names on all our pencils, earsers, sharpeners, pencil boxes, pens, rulers etc. Why? Because we didn't want other people to use them. If you wanted to use them, you had to pay a 20cent deposit and get back your money when you return it to the owner. Heh, we were only little kids in Standard 1, and we were already doing business in class.
I also remember the lining up, a lot of that, to go anywhere. We'd all go out of the classroom, line up, and walk in a straight line to the hall, or to anywhere we had to go as a class.
The scariest place on earth during these years: the school toilet.
Out of all these 3 years, my year in Standard 3 was most memorable. I can still remember our desk positions, who I sat with, what teachers I had etc. It was a fun year. Oh, that was the year that I was promoted to the 'smart class'. That means, I got the top 55 in Standard 2 and managed to be one of the 'smart kids' in the 'smart class'. It made me proud. I guess it was because I had this good teacher in Standard 2. Ms Chong I think was her name. She liked me. I was her pet student. She would use me as a role model to all the students. It was nice. I guess that built up my confidence. It made me want to study harder. I also remember her asking me in front of the class to name one of my strengths... and I said "I study every day". Actually, what I wanted to say was "I like to study" but the panic made me blurt out nonsense! And then she was proud of my answer and asked the whole class to learn from me. And because of that, I had to improve my results or I would look like a fool. So I did that. Ironic, or whatever you call it. Ego also had to do with it. Or something like that!
Standard 3 was fun because I had a lot of friends in that class. I remember this competetition in school... OK warning, don't laugh, because it really did happen. There was this 'speed math competition', where they would ask 100 math questions over the PA system, and were given 3 seconds per question. 100 QUESTIONS! And I got 98 of them correct. I got 3rd place. Yes it did happen! I won an award for that. There was another competition.. we had to complete a few math questions as fast as possible, then run to the submission booth which was in the middle of the field, and whoever was the quickest with most correct answers would win. Yeah, I won that too. This just proves that people do change ;-)
Because of this, I was made head of the math class. All math homework had to be submitted to me, and then I'd pass it up to the math teacher on behalf of my classmates. I was so proud of that. Well, that was a long time ago. The good thing is, I can still do the same math questions now, maybe quicker even! (get that smile off your face)
I also started learning Judo around this time. There was a Judo school near my house. So me and my sister went there for training. My sister made it to yellow belt. I remained at white belt for as long as I was there, which was I don't know how long.. a year? 4 months? Can't remember at all. I just remember the big fat trainer and his little short skinny assistant.
Well, it was also in these years that I had lots of fun with the childhood kids I used to hang out with. Justin, Joshua, Kevin, Kerry, Christopher, and who else? Can't remember. We would hang out a lot at Justin's house.. but we would hang out even more at the Sabah Golf and Country Club. That's where I learnt to swim, play tennis, and ate a lot of fried rice. It was never boring there. It was a huge playground for us.
Life was good.
Posted at 01:53 am by
domluk
