I know I haven’t been updating this blog because I’m too lazy. Years 2 and 3 have been an exciting flurry of business (both work and busy-ness). I constantly spew bite-sized thoughts that stream into my mind on Instagram Stories anyway, and I am remarkably easily bored and excitable, so longer, more considered pieces on Blogger aren’t sustainable. I digress. Many exciting life updates! I’m now officially done with my undergraduate PPE programme at King’s College London. I loved every bit of it: the depth, rigour and intellectual intensity of the course, the international student community, the bustling city of London and all the travel opportunities around Europe. Words can’t do justice to the profundity of the experience. In typical Quincean fashion, I milked everything I could out of the three years: went to Cumberland Lodge (for free) as a photographer with the Philosophy Department in Years 1 and 3, clinched the Principal’s Global Leadership Award (PGLA) in my second year (spending
On 30 December 2019, I went back to Hwa Chong. It’s really hard to go back to school to catch up with friends and teachers now that I’m back in camp going through residential training. So when block leave was announced, I grabbed the opportunity with both hands. Coincidentally, it was the last buddies’ training session for the upcoming Secondary One Orientation. Wearing my Advisor shirt, walking up Tan Kah Kee Drive, hearing echoes of cheering coming from the distance… It felt as if the years had never passed. A glorious vista of the clock tower bathed in golden sun greeted me. And those trees! Those yellow-leaved rain trees sparkling like glitter, swaying in the wind! The sheer open expanse (spanning three bus stops) always made you feel that the world’s your oyster, that no dream was beyond your reach. You couldn’t help but think that this was a very special place full of very special people. Such has been the spirit that pervades the air every time I go back. I hummed