end of the trip

i was waiting for the ICs of the last day (that refers to Fangzhou and TK) to update the blog. Apparently these two people have forgotten what they should do. But anyway, they have done a great job on the last day from southampton to london heathrow, taking care of two batches of people and keeping counting... thank you and well done, FZ and TK.

So that would mean the post will be written by me again. We have a coherent introduction and conclusion, you see, though the ending of such a grand story is really not comparable to the real content.

anyway, here it goes


friday 08/08/08

kin chun has more or less rounded up what has happened. Just to complete the picture, we also had a farewell party at 10 pm (london time). Mr.chong and Ms.Tang wrote a song for everyone who participated the trip. the lyrics are very well written. I personally liked the last verse: if life hands you lemon go and make lemonade. this is so true.

after singing the songs together (guitarist: Mr.Chong), we revealed the identity of every angel. sorry we did not explicitly introduced the game, but we started an angel and mortal game in the midst of the trip. Actually, I guessed most of the people here were smart enough to guess who their angels are (except for a few like me). Revealling the truth is really exciting, as always. I was almost chocked by water when my angel spoke out who he is...I hope everyone has tried to know your mortal through the trip and keep on encouraging each other in the future. Then, the purpose of this game is fulfilled.

there was also a small award ceremony. we acknowledged xin er and lemuel as the most responsible IC.(a round applause) the most punctual people are Pan tao and Pei Jun who are always the first (a tie, actually)at the assembling point. there are also some freaks who were over-active in class like me and TK. all the people got a lovely RJC bookmark.

If I'm not wrong, the present to Mr.Chong was a stack of poker cards with everyone's message. the level 3 girls also passed a small soft toy to Ms. Tang. For Mr.nicole, we all wrote him a thank you card.

Not to forget that everyone also received a present- a photo of 25 of us in front of stonehenge. the picture is posted by ms Tang already. Somehow a few of us look a bit different. an shing's face, for example, looks stretched by a factor of 1.5 parallel to the Y-axis.

that was the grand finale of the trip. after that, most of us proceed to pack our luggage. Dillion is said to finish packing within 10 minutes. there was a big sigh in my heart- time flies so fast that i felt it was just yesterday when I unpacked my stuff...

a few of us also had a small scale party. we played some card games and wathed videos. watching sunrise for the last time. trying to keep awake in the last few hours in UK.




Saturday 09/08/08 from southampton to heathrow


first batch people aka early birds got up early in the morning, had their breakfast, checked out, boarded on the bus to heathrow airport and arrived at 11 am.

second batch people cleaned up the mess left by the first batch people aka early birds, returned utensils, had their breakfast, checked out, boarded on the bus to heathrow airport, waited in the rain for more than 1 hour, almost frozen because the bus broke down on the way, took 4 cabs and arrived at 3pm.

after first batch people aka early birds killed their time in the airport in many ways that i'm not able to describe here, we finally met up as the big group and checked in.

Then we shopped at krispy kreme. In total i think we bought a few hundreds of doughnuts.

Amazingly the flight was really short this time, parially because there was a tilt wind blowing in the direction of the flight, but mostly because all of us were reluctant to reach singapore so soon.

nothing interesting happended on the plane....as far as I know. joy slept through the flight. she was only awake when she was eating.

we reached changi airport an hour earlier. but we spent a lot of time taking pictures and saying goodbye to the friends...

Then we walked out the arrival hall, passing by the depature gate which we left from on 20 July. parents were waiting outside the arrival hall, excited. I think we all have a lot of stories to tell. the friends we made, the UK we have seen, the things we have learnt.

And that marks the end of the our common memory of UK.

the good thing is, all of us will meet each other again in school. the bad thing is, that will again remind us everything about UK which makes us nostalgic...

coming back to singapore means loads and loads of working waiting for us...there will be spas, PW, CCA and promos. Good times were short, but we have to face the reality and get down to all the school work. we are truly back home, back from the golden 3 weeks in UK. as we chose to participate in the trip, the consequences are also chosen and I think all of us will get back to the track soon.

However, I hope none of you will ever forget the life in UK. do remember to say hi to the familiar faces during lectures or in the corridor. we shall cherish the invaluable experience in UK. Hope you guys will come back to the blog some time. As what i have said in the first thread, there are a lot of common memories here. hope there are also spaces in your heart for the very best time in UK.

all the best, friends.

dx^2