Its been a super long time since I've spent majority of a bus journey talking about stuff with people and getting to know random people along the way, hurr. Why do I always feel so nostalgic and carefree again whenever I see primary school people and talk to them about all the happenings back then. It was the same situation after english O levels last year, the whole bunch of us were taking the same bus home and we were just so giggly and excited over nothing. Haha today was all the hwachong people including chongtee lol then he was telling us about all the things that miss koh did and we just kept on cross-referencing her actions; talking about everything jogged my memory and small incidents from the past just kept on flowing back, like how she made us all write our answers to her questions on these small whiteboards the school gave us during children's day to encourage class participation, recording our voices to practise for oral, plus the whole mood and atmosphere of the environment, you know? It was all so safe and contained, our lives revolving around this little neighbourhood in yishun. We all knew where everybody lived, we all walked to school, we knew exactly which market/basketball court/mama shop someone was talking about without much description. Life just gets bigger and bigger the more you age and its really only at this juncture in your life that you can understand what adults say when they always tell us to treasure your childhood and time spent in school because the real world is so...ugh. I want to experience it all over again, the morning clinic, the constant drumming and drilling, the childishness, the regular and familiar routine and placed we'd always go to. Like walking to the mama shop with sixuan and lath without fail everyday after school, talking about random stuff in class, or going to the library constantly every friday with jacq and the rest. Small, simple pleasures like that. How I wish I were 12 again ): NVPS may be just your average neighbourhood primary school but the people you meet and memories made always remains an integral part of you all the way until you grow up. I <3 my heartland neighbourhood childhood :D