Basket.

One year. How long is one year? And I'll fuckin' wallop anyone who tells me it is 365 days, 8760 hours or 31,536,000 seconds, because there is more to time than mere facts.

It somehow just hit today, when I had to return to RI despite horribly wet weather and horribly bastard taxi drivers. My work done, I decided to linger around my alma mater a bit, and ran into a friend who went to TJ. Asking him what his business was in this place, I found that he had returned to give a JC talk (done every year) to the present batch of sec 4s.

And it was this that sparked the realisation within me that almost exactly one year ago, I was one of those sec 4s listening to the talks. The sec 4s of yesteryear had become the J1s of this year, and the J1s of the year before were now taking their A-Levels. It was almost shocking... just where has this past year vanished to? How has it managed to slip by like an anonymous shadow in the night and disappear into the inky morass of the past, never, ever to return?

One year, seemingly so long, yet in reality so short. A year ago almost none of this present class knew each other, and none at all knew they would be thrown together virtually at random to form the united 1A01C we have today. It seems incredible; so many variables were in the equation, and it was a thousand twists of fate that arguably brought us all together.

One year, and it seemed as if it all happened in a week, or less. So many things, so many events, so many highs, so many lows, so many triumphs, so many tragedies. It has been one hell of a ride, and it has virtually flashed past our eyes.