What’s the impression of you seeing the title of this post? Miss. Perhaps you’ll be thinking what have i missed (NP shuttle bus?!) or who am i calling miss? Nope. Eager to know? Read on to find out then.
As i was taking the bus to the interchange few days ago, i saw many students on the bus, on their way to the Tampines Regional Library, when school had not end yet. Then i realise that they were having their mid-year examinations. And i also realise something, i miss studying, seriously.
I miss going to the library to study for O level. I miss waiting outside the library for the librarians to open the gate at 10am sharp, like some anxious student going in to do their last minute revision. When 10am finally arrives, my friends and i would rush into the library like some kiasu aunties, just to get a good and quiet spot for us to do our revisions. We would start taking out our books and writing materials, not to study immediately, but to “chop” seats for our friends who are coming later. We would place the books and writing materials as though people had sat there to study but they were not their seats. And then we would start studying.
I miss complaining that i’m hungry even before lunch time. We would leave our stuffs at the table and sneak out to have our lunch but we could not leave them there for more than 15 minutes. So we often receive a green paper, which serves the purpose of warning us not to leave our stuffs there, but obviously we didn’t care about the papers and started to play pranks on our friends at other tables. We would place the papers on their tables and tell them that the librarians put the papers on their tables when they were out for lunch. And i miss bringing big bags of tidbits and smuggling bubble tea into the library which we are not supposed to.
When we were all bored for studying from morning till night and one of my friend would take her Nintendo DS out from her bag for us to play before we continue with our revision. We would start to doodle on each other’s hands and notes to relieve our boredom. We would write down the things that we are going to do immediately once O level is officially over. I miss visiting Popular bookstore to buy many many notebooks to write notes for different subjects and many colour pens to write notes.
Some of us might not enjoy studying or always do last minute revision during your secondary school time and you think i’m crazy to miss studying. But look back, you might start to miss studying for exams afterall.
