Wednesday, September 12, 2007.

It's been 3 months.

Close to 3 months-but those 3 months have flown by so fast. Yet I remember it like it was yesterday.

Those 3 months of stress, homework and school made me forget the wonderful memories. They were pushed to the back of my mind by the stress and homework, never to be retrieved. But today I remembered the fun. The excitement. The joy.

I was preparing for 3rd language oral (Ya majorly screwed up. 75% only! Looks like I am doomed for 3.6 3rd lang this year-seeing as i also got lousy CA1/2/3 marks.) My sensei trained us to answer the possible questions, and when me and my friend did a possible question list-i saw this question:
外国へ行った事がありますか。(Have you ever gone overseas?)
I was preparing for the next few questions that were bound to come-one was どこへ行きましたか。(Where did you go?).

And then I remembered New York.

I remembered the fun we had, the pillow fights (which did not involve me) and the card games, the Zhiyi-style bidding ("7 NO TRUMP!"), the nights we had around Times Square, the frequent visits to the CD megastore (with Ben Wee), the standing ovation amongst 2000+ Americans(we were strangers), the imba hand I got while playing bridge (I had 10 spades in my hand-nearly won 7 no trump), and most importantly, our bond we made.

I guess no chemistry can ever explain this bond; it is unique and special. It cannot be broken by heat; it stays true even under attack by free radicals; halogenation, nucleophilic substitution does nothing; it is even more stable than the C-triple bond-O bond with delocalisation. Why? It was the fun we had, that makes us invulnerable to these bond-breakers. Our bond is everlasting-it will remain for posterity.

We will remember the fun we had. We will remember the hard work and its payouts. We will most importantly, never forget Carnegie '07.

4 of the 5 members of our EXCO stayed together for the whole trip with the same group. We were really closely bonded, and hopefully neither of us will forget all the games, excitement and fun we had had on this trip.

But I hope, as time flies (like arrows, fruit flies like bananas), we will not let the barrage of tests, assignments and newer memories erode the memories-fine memories, that will aid us in improving our CCA. Fine memories that will bond us forever.

Carnegie '07. We must never forget.

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