BPS Reunion

Penny came over from Thailand on tuesday to visit. And it was also surprising to discover that another fellow BPS friend had arrived in Singapore as well. so yesterday, penny, kevin.y, debora and i got a little bps reunion and it was so nice! it's like finding the right people in singapore to talk about certain good old days.

the person who has changed the most is kevin. never would have expected such change in appearance. but i suppose it's good too. the rest of us didn't change much. still the same old selves on the outside.

it was strange though. cos when i think of it, how much apart we've become since we left BPS in the various years. i left in year 8, kevin left in yr 10, penny left in yr 11 or 12, and deb stayed all the way to yr 13 and took her IB there. when we came together, it was like a mixture of culture. One's half thai and singaporean, with brit and thai passport, one's half dutch and singaporean, and me and another is full singaporean. one speaks fluent thai and english with a quasi-american/british accent, another speaks 80% british with 20% singaporean accent (she's stayed in s'pore for 4 yrs now), another speaks semi-australian/british. and me? i'm completely singaporean now i think. hahaha... 8 yrs in singapore since i came back sure has made me, i think, totally singaporean. hahaha... or am i? and i'm the only one who studied CHINESE!

Just meeting up with them has brought back many memories. i know i shouldn't live in the past anymore and look on ahead. but it's interesting to think of the 'what ifs', like what if i didn't leave the life of an international. like what i often see, Once an international, it's hard to be a local. you'll have to ask yourself what and where you are a local of? My BPS schoolmates are all over the world now. literally. only some are still in bangkok. though not all of them are thai. there u go. though it's interesting to discover my friends flying high where they are. one of them is working with johnny walker. another got 4th in his cohort. haha.. i'm impressed.

i remembered wanting to study at an international school in Singapore. maybe a SAS or UWC. kevin's sister is at UWC now. I was depressed for a while when i was in secondary sch. haha... well, i'm glad that is over. now knowing that i can at least speak and converse in chinese is like a little achievement for me somehow, though i know i'm not good at it, i know i can't write, i can't think of myself as bilingual, but i know i've tried. perhaps not hard enough, but so. the rest of the BPS ppl in s'pore? they all dropped chinese. how lucky. but i know they live a completely different life now. somehow. in many ways. i could tell cos i was treated to a Godiva chocolate. =)

i wouldn't be in film school if i didn't come back! i bet. i had wanted to be a doctor/vet cos i love animals. hahaha... and i actually almost forgot about it! or i'd be in business like many BPS ppl. or science. i actually used to love science. i would probably be in the same class as deb. hahaha.. well, life of a filmmaker. let's stick to that. i think that's where i shall be.