AHS <3

I went back to AHS today!

And it was such an amazing trip, I was smiling madly to myself all the way from the school to Bugis.

I went back, because the school admin called me a couple of days ago and asked me if I wanted to relief teach Physics for the upper secondary for the next couple of weeks. I was groggy that time when they called, and after hearing the word Physics, my only and immediate reaction was: I've never taught Physics before.

After some thinking, I thought I could cope with it, and called back to tell them that I wanted to accept it. In short, after some communication and other communication and some uncertainty, I was to see the teacher who was on ICT to brief me on what's to be taught. So I met the teacher at 1.01pm today? I was freaking late for about a minute BECAUSE I graduated too long ago and didn't know that the side gates are closed. Hence, I had to take a big detour to get to the main gate, which, I conveniently forgot to sign out after that because by that time the side gates were opened alr -.-

The teacher took me upstairs to the staffroom which I've been to before because I did go back a few times after the renovations have fully finished. After telling me what's to be done, he brought me around for an introduction to the teachers I'll be working with for the next couple of weeks. During the short trip around, I met like about 5 teachers on the way, and all of them recognized me!!! He first took me to see Mr Tam, who, of course, was my Physics teacher back in sec4.. I'm amazed that he recognized me as an ex student, even though I doubt he knew which batch I graduated from.. Lol. After that, Mr Tan took me to see a few more Physics teachers who i'll be assisting in labs or classes (PHYSICS LAB SPA ZOMG I totally felt like killing myself for forgetting bout the SPA factor. I think my lab skills are cui-ed).

On the way, met Mrs Lim, THE Higher Chinese teacher (and it happened to be her birthday today!) THE CO in charge, Ms Chan and Ms Chan (lol) and a few others. Ms Chan (chemistry) could recognize me, but I'm more surprised that Ms Chan (SS) could actually see me, point at me and went, "old student!" when I don't even remember being very active in her class. o.o Actually, I'm kind of amazed that all the teachers somehow remembered me, because I didn't really recall being very outspoken or whatever during AHS days -.-

And then I met Thomas Goh!!!! Totally amazing.

Then, Mr Tan showed me to the lab area, and we went back downstairs to the general office to collect my pass, photocopy my certs and stuff. Kudos to the school admin for helping me clarify with MOE about the discrepancy in the pay. I think Cathryn is very nice to me (:

After the admin stuff were settled, I went back to the staffroom. Met Mr Yao on the way and even though he doesn't recognize me as an ex student (because he's never taught me before), I had a kick out of looking at him stare at my less-than-school-skirt-length skirt but unable to lash out at me because I'm not a current student. Lols. Went back to the staffroom with the intention of finding Thomas to chit chat abit because it's really been so long since I last saw him! I couldn't find him at his table, then I walked over to Mrs Lim's table to chit chat with her :D The moment she saw me, she pointed at a calendar on her table. It took me 5 seconds to recognize that that was the calendar we gave her on Teachers' Day 2002!!!!!!!!!!

Like, OMG that thing hasn't fallen apart yet!! And it's amazing that she actually kept it all these while.. 6 years passed by le leh!!!!!!!! All she said was, you never changed at all, so you're recognizable. Faints. Haha. It only took her a second to figure out that I was in 4C 2002.. Mrs Lim sure has some amazing memory!!!!! I totally <3 her. Heh. Here's to being AMath rep for 2002 and being recognizable until now =D

I had a fun time catching up with her, and she even remembered class monitor as Yogi, and that he studies in Australia, when I don't even know! In turn, I tried to tell her where all the others were, though my information isn't exactly complete.. Lol. Finally decided to stop disturbing her when I saw Thomas pop back into the staffroom, and went over to find him. Turned out that he's actually been teaching in AHS for 1plus years!! And chemistry, no less. Hahaha. Had another round of catching up, and I'm looking forward to the la-kopi times we can have for the next 2 weeks, even though for the next week, my timetable would be quite packed. Lol.

Left the school at 2plus, feeling very happy and satisfied. I hope I can survive Physics, SPA included. Lol.