-GraduationY
we will still be .. Friends Forever

This is it. Graduation. The day the school says "bye bye" to us. The day we all shared moments of our past adventures and precious memories. The day which we reflect what we have accomplish, what we have been through and the little happenings in college life.

The day began with Chapel [ our ususal friday routine - where we sit together; sing hymns ; listen to the message by the pastor ]. Our very last chapel. Normally i do not put lyrics here cos i have a lyrics site in my blog but for this time ... tink its better and more meaningful to type the lyrics here. I shall type 2 songs first :

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College hymn

Our Father by who servants
Our School was built of old
Whose hand hath crowned Thy children
with blessings manifold
For Thy unfailing mercies
Far strewn along our way
With all who passed before us
We praise Thy name today

They reaped not where they laboured
We reap what they hath sown
Our harvest may be garnered
By ages yet unknown
The days of old hath dowered us
With gifts beyong all praise
Our Father make us faithful
To serve the coming days

Before us and beside us
Still holden by Thy hand
A cloud of unseen witness
Our elder comrades stand
One family unbrokem
we Join with one acclaim
One heart, one voice uplifting
To glorify Thy name

That's our college hymn. Though this song might be old, it is quite a nice song. If yoy aint from SAJC, and when i am in a super good singing mood, you might be able to catch the chance to let me sing to ya. haha. I shall put in our College school song before i continue blogging

The School Song

Lives are in the making here,Hearts are in the waking here,Mighty undertaking here,Up and On! Up and On!
We are arming for the fight,Pressing on with all our might,Pluming wings for higher flight,Up and On!

Chorus
Up Saints! Truest fameLies in high endeavour;Play the game! keep the flameBurning brightly ever!

Fair before us lies the way,Time for work and time for play;Fill the measure while we may,Up and On! Up and On!
Life and time will not delay,Time is running fast away,Life is now today; today;Up and On!
Chorus

Foes in plenty we shall meet,Hearts courageous scorn defeat;So we press with eager feet,Up and On! Up and On!
Ever onward to the fight,Ever upward to the Light,Ever true to GOD and RIGHT,Up and On!
Chorus

Anyway, this song can be integrated in to sponge bob square pants programmes cos we have a teacher in SA who can sing this song exactly like Mr spongebob. Ya then more kids will wanna come SA to learn this cool song. Wahhaha.

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Back to the Blog.

We had a short message by the pastor on the significance of life. He showed us a slogan saying "I am you." and " I am your happily ever after " slogans from a car advertisement. He showed us that cars don't last and the picture from the slide he showed to us as an example is Princess Diana's wrecked car. The messag was simple. That worldly matters will die out. God however is eternal. Our life everlasting all comes from him. That we are created as an image of him. He treasure us and will hear upon any of our cry, whether you are a christian or non-christian.

Later came the photogenic slide presentation and video presentation of the happenings of 2003/2004. The sports, the fun school pragrammes ranging from Orientation [Saintezia], Discovery Fiesta[2003] to Service learning [2004]. We have a few laughs over the presentation ... of what happen. Cannon In D was the background music for the photogenic sldie presentation. Kinda nice and sweet.

After that we sang college hymn and all of us sat down again to listen to the speech by the principal, arts dept repst. Mr Yoong, Sci dept respt. Mr Roland Lee and finally the President of student Council Whye Kiat. The speeches are qutie meaningful. Won't elaborate too much about it. Mrs Lim[our principal] spur us to be creative and utilize our brain fully in whatever we do in the future. Mr Yoong said something about that we would treasure relationships andwe should by all means do that. I cant really remember what he said also :P. Mr roland Lee told us to treat A Levels like a battlefield and bring our Saints Spirit over to overcome this challenge. Whye kiat reminded us of the 2 grouchy drink stall aunties who have left [haha - this part is funny] and also leave us with the cliche of studying hard and wishes for all the best.

Then ahhh this song is very nice. The teachers sang You raise me Up by Josh Groban, though i prefer Josh Groban's version of singing. And I must say Miss Ang [my 1st 3 months GP teacher], can sing very well. She's not very good at high notes but still she has a great voice.
Lastly, we sang the hymn Lord Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing. [which is a nice hymn too :) ]

The end message of this chapter in SAJC ?

Once a Saint, Always a Saint .

We had yum yum food later too =D. Men got very nice baby chicken drumbsticks and cheesecake. YUMZ. They are the hot stuffs there and were out very fast. Haa actually the drumsticks are not for us and are meant for the students. But in the end haha we got our hands on it :P buahahhaha. =D

Then its click click time. Everyone flash their digi cams and optic cams and we began clicking like never before again. I will upload the pictures later when my friends send me the picts. Well jsut wanna say i feel kinda sad that things are going to end and soon we will be back into the battlefield, battling for A's in our A Level. Will we forget each other , I wonder. Will days, months and years go by when we soon lose contact with our buddies, mates and cliques ? Truly SAJC is a nice JC with its unique studying environment of its own. I would say we have a "slack culture" before in our batch but this change quickly when we are in JC2. Life does not end here. Every end is a beginning of something new. But i just hate endings. May it be in movies or real life. I hate partings and such stuffs. Am i resisting changes or just a regular conservative? I am not sure. Just know and pray that i have to and will conquer A levels with this short time left.

Quote by Miss Cher : After your A's, you will think "after all its only an exam." What truly matters most is that you bring you values, morals .. with you. If you don't stand up for anything, you will fall for everything.

Btw she's our pretty and cool GP teacher. =)
Mrs Wong Ching Hwa also had a great quote. Something about Heart Matters. If anyone reading knows this quote pls tell me.

and yup i forgot to mention this. One of my classmate Elane did a very nice thing. She bought many yellow and daisies and distributed them to us. Yea maybe i shall start calling her flower girl but men the flowers are real nice. I planted the flower in this big 1 litre green tea bottle in my kitchen. It looks like very much like a sunflower to me. Thx for the flowers Elane .. if you ever get to read this :)

The end ?