23.1.09

and it all came to mind on the bus ride home, alone, where the space belongs all to me...

The Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Green and Blue
the Rainbow; in a splotch of glue...

there is just one word to descirbe myself, that i'm seriously touched by my class today. Yes, 0802. how our one voice of success resonated and overpowered all other noises present.. It all took one seed of enthusiasm, from my friend Melissa,to get us all on our hands and feet, glueing, 'ricing', fixing. the Rangoli! It seemed to fix the different pieces of puzzles of 0802 together... :)
Before i left the school hall, i did it - what the real AY does... - i called out to Mr Yee on the second storey of the sitting gallery in the hall and exclaimed proudly: " Mr Yee!!! WE WON!!! Did you cheer for us?????" and he encouragingly replied " i know, i know... i saw... ..."
it all happened so swiftly, too beautiful it got me detached, and i never recalled the last of his sentence......

its was then, that i realised our class had some sort of concealed potential, somehow forgotten... :)
There was one scene imprinted most prominently in my mind's eye, one that made me relook into, over and over and over again.
the boys stood behind the girls watching... they cheered us on, gave their advice, their enthusisam i never imagined, how much they cared about this rangoli (listen to how they fretted when the rice all fell out..) below. There, was mingjie who littered the cow with other colours over our heads, zican running to get glue and rice.. and all the others who volunteerily picked up rice grains on the ground:) there's this act that gained my respect- When the guys said to let the girls take the gifts first! (we came in 4th, and had oreas and chocos!!!) =) i know its common gentlemanly-ness, but having this coming from such a -stranger- class, i'm so Proud of them! :) and i Respect them. =)

Huiteng was so hyped up for this activity that she ran to get the rangoli board!the beautiful flowers cassandra and the girls made, melissa's gifted talent for drawing, the fun and laughter around me, when we helped each other spread glue, paste rice.
when i dung-ed my fingers into the bowl of glue, swinging rice off my fingers.. haha... i'm sorry peilin, didnt mean to litter you XD, but...
i was simply too entranced in my euphoria, brought about by class 0802, i became oblivious to everything else, for there was only 1 goal i had in mind -
i had to make this Rangoli right.

I Believed.
we could win, i know the recognition doesnt matter, but it had been so crucial for me; i needed my class to win, so the efforts of everyone wouldnt disappear, and that those who have lost hope, will feel the achievement, a big one.
and we did it!
that was when all of us screamed our YEAHSSSSS!!!! and WOOO~~~~SSS... when the emcee announced - otwo-.
It was a trully significant moment!:)

For me, this was the loudest and most encouraging sound i have ever heard, in all of NYJC.
I raised my arms, and
I screamed!
i screamed, for my class!
This sound overpowered everything else,
and i was sure our cheer was the loudest in the entire hall.
even when my heart leapt 200 feet. when for once,
i was overwhelmed with love and pride for my class
that rendered me silent, for several minutes thereafter...

the future might seem so vague,
but today
i have Believed. :)

The Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Green and Blue (of the rangoli rice)
the Rainbow; in a splotch of glue.


ay.starsplash//
:)