It is the little bits of respite we all look forward to during the most torturing seasons of the year.
Holidays are so welcome in a schooling life. Coming to a working life, holidays are hard to come by and a bachelor life with a pet and a job just makes me wish there were more holidays!!
Anyway, one must be wondering how people can spend their holidays. Specifically the end of the year holidays. Just a note, Malaysia probably has the most public holidays in a a year than any other country!
Playing computer games from dawn to dusk used to be one of the ways i spent my time. When you are 14 and carefree, nothing is better than a game of skill against your best friends or hanging out with 100 other people in one of Penang's cybercafes!
Most people would opt for the beach or the highlands, while others would take to the skies to someplace far away. nothing like relaxing in the company of family and friends.
On the extreme side, PFS scouts will spend their holidays with old friends and new friends, getting ready to compete in their end of the year camps. These were really grand camps and would attract visitors by the hundreds just to spectate. The Red Cresent and Band members will also be busy having their own activities.
Teachers would get a time off and clear their leaves after marking papers and take time to complete short courses!
And people like me will be taking time off working the hours away till i dont get any proper time to blog!
Natal di Kolkata
3 years ago
Just for shiz and gigglez:
ReplyDeleteForm 6 in PFS was the BEST time of my entire scholastic existence. Not paying attention in classes (Modern Math, I ask you... Organic Chemistry, ugh...), impromptu potluck parties, class hopping between sessions. Thing is, hard as I try to think back about PFS fondly, too many changes have happened (WTH is up with the Jawi on the front gate? And the sewn on name tags, and the regulated haircuts? I wouldn't mind it too much if these measures have improved the performance of our school but I haven't heard so much as a peep from PFS in recent years.)
Penang Free School is a hollow shell of its former grandeur. I will recall those memories that I've made in my time there fondly but to go back, even for a visit? Probably not. The PFS of today is not the PFS I used to know.
Sad.
Ah well, its nothing new you see... but like they say, those were the days.. Just hope that there is more quality in teaching overall and the students that get in..
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