goodbye 2007.

today is the 1st of January 2008. a new year. a new start. a fresh slate.

in other words, it's the start of a new 366 day year! * jumps * it's a LEAP year! i really hope this year can be as eventful or even more eventful than the past one. 2007 brought with it countless memories and i'm sure 2008 can do the same. 2008 is going to be filled with so many more challenges, more tribulations, more things to juggle, more things to care about and more experiences to encounter.

4K is going to be the best class ever.
Moor House is going to make history.
RIPB (HR Dept) is going to be even more fabulous than before.
RIPB is going to go strongly forward.
Rgen is going to continue to be so on fire.
Everything's gonna fall into place. I believe.

& even as 2007 has passed, there's just so much to say about one great year. no doubt it's been filled with it's fair share of ups and downs, it's been eventful still, everything in it's own special way. there's so many things i need to give thanks for, to smile for and to talk about. it's been one super experience even as i close the 15th chapter of my life. and look on to the 16th year (:

3K '07 has really been the best class ever in my life (: coming off a rough end to 2006, there was really lots of apprehension coming into the new year with a new class. there was so much uncertainty of how well i would fit, how much spirit we would have and stuff like that. when i looked at the class list before term opened, i saw so many people i didn't even know at all. i must admit that i held many stereotypes at the start of the year. how i thought hernwei was super pai-kia, how i thought zhixuan was quite dao, how i thought shoujian was quite irritating and stuff like that. but through it all, you guys have really changed my perceptions. everything which i thought at the start of the year was just put aside as we bonded as a class. through OBS, mass failing math tests, having so much fun in the classroom, random class outings to play and watch soccer, having lunch together everyday during EOY period and then going to bishan library to mass mug and suffering heartbreaks together, we got to know each other so much more. i can truly say i wouldn't have traded this class for any other in our level (: we have the best class spirit, we had the most fun and we show what really a class is meant to be like. not made of two halves or four quarters, but one whole (: we had so much fun this year and i'm sure next year will be even better. thanks guys for this great experience (: you guys rock!

RIPB. the year hasn't been easy, needing to juggle prefect duties with studies and such. but we stuck together through all the hard work we needed to do, the times when we had to stay back in school really late to complete stuff, the times when we kept being rushed to complete things. i've so many memories on how we work on things like PI (all the staying back real late), teachers' day (sticking stars into bottles!) and times when we just work as a board. thank you, all the people whom i've worked with (:

ECNE! (natalie, rachel, dingjie, nick, jerman, nickee, adeline, klara, jenny) you guys must be the best 13th SLC group ever (: thanks each and every one of you who made my SLC experience so great. i'm never going to forget the times we ran along orchard road or through fortcanning tunnel (although it said out of bounds!), the times we spent the whole of vesak day rushing out Action Paper to see it emerge the best in consortium the next day, the times we sat in meeting after meeting together discussion action papers, the dinner at KAP and all the outings after SLC was over. you people really made my june holidays! outing soon soon! haha :D

BREAD and IGNITE. thanks for being such great lifegroup members! switching lifegroup in the middle of the year was never easy, but everything fell in place (: to BREAD: you people are the craziest bunch i've ever been with. it's like non-stop laughter always! even though i didn;t really get the chance to know each one of you as well, the times as a LG are always amazing. to IGNITE: thanks for helping me settle down so fast. and i'm really glad i've been able to click with all of you so fast (: the short time i've spent here has been great. to aletheia, gerald, gavin, jemtay and angel: thanks for being such great LG leaders (: all the encouragement and support has meant alot. really.

OIP team to Hue City! we started of as strangers for some of us, but we grew so close in 14 days. pretty amazing i would say (: thanks each one of you who was on this trip with me. especially shoujian and gerald who i talked to so much about all the sadness and stuff ): heh. OIP has been a great experience, not only for me to further hone my leadership skills and stuff, but just as an immersion programme on its own. the experience in itself can't even be described by any words now. although the 14 days weren't all smooth, i'm gonna jump at any oppurtunity to do it again.

and finally, thank you (: thanks for everything. you've been great. i can't say enough.

i spent countdown to 2008 on a garden gate. there were stars in the sky at first, then they were covered by clouds. the breeze was cool, the nightscape tranquil. i just looked and wished. i wished my wish for the new year. alone, in the open, with the trees and wind as my witness. my voice whispered into the night sky, "happy new year you". and my wish left my lips. to be washed by the wind. breeze upon breeze. but the words fastened in my heart for the year. come true.

a new year now beckons. a year to set things right, to build on things, to discover the new. i don't know what the year holds. but i'll try. i'll keep on trying.

here's to 2008 (: