Today was cat high homecoming! :D met up with bryan at about 12.45pm. saw lots of old friends again, but unfortunately not as much as last year, or even this year's CNY celebrations. at this point of time many people are just concerned with mugging for the A levels :( first thing i noticed when i stepped through the gates again (besides the huge bouncy castle next to the field) was that the track is now not a track anymore. what used to be your standard 6-lane 400m oval red bitumen track has been replaced with asphalt and tarmac. yep, the track is now a road. i heard some sketchy details that the change has something to do with the YOG, but i don't see how replacing the running track with a racetrack is going to help anything (unless YOG has an F1 event that i have been ignorant to until this point O.O )
but that wasn't the only thing that changed: this year's homecoming was on a much larger scale than anything i've seen before. there were two bouncy castles, a mechanical bull, a test-your-strength hammer thing (i don't know what they're called), zorbs-on-water, a foam sword arena and laser tag. there was also a tamiya section with the tamiya cars and tracks (i thought they became extinct long ago :/ ) and a yo-yo section run by spinworkx, which sells the extremely high-class $100++ kind of yo-yos (that much for a yo-yo?) and also provides training for professional yo-yoing. i'm really glad to see that cat high can now rope in so many more sponsors for its homecoming :)
on a random note, i saw mr paul ng's baby! ms yu lin was carrying the little baby around and getting us to guess who's baby it he was, and nobody could guess it :P and we also saw mrs valerie chua's kid too. can't believe she's only been married for slightly more than 3 years and she's already expecting her second child O.O
but not all the changes were good. bryan and i started talking about how as the years went by, cat high became more and more foreign to us ex-students. when we just left, there was still so much to talk to our ex-teachers about and so many juniors to meet up with whenever we returned to visit, but after a while we ran out of topics with our teachers and our juniors gradually left, being replaced with newcomers we didn't know. the vibe of returning to cat high is different now. i guess we've grown from graduates to old boys, and cat high will slowly change from a place we belong to a place we once belonged. and in a few years, even less than cat high, NJC too will become a place i once belonged. as we move along in life, it's inevitable that some things will have to be left behind.
