Basket.

Back from spending virtually the entire day at ORA Walk-a-Jogathon (the first I have attended, in the last of six years spent in the schools that hold it). It is also to be the last major event organised by HISSOC exco 2003-2004 and the last we will play any major role in. Retirement, at last, as the committee takes over.

As with all previous times, I can't help but feel a bit sad. It was certainly quite a year, from the time I picked up the phone and accepted the post allocated me in April-May last year to the official handover this Wednesday. As a matter of fact, I neither really wanted nor expected to get a post on this very exco; I had secured the "L" in the PEARLS system much earlier. But I just decided to go along with things, and now I know how much the poorer I might have been if I hadn't decided so.

Yes, being on this committee has been a wonderful experience. Putting aside common sense to act like a fool in the RMUN crisis videos, dashing off to Bukit Timah Plaza at 8pm at night just to get a box of staplets on the eve of RMUN, moving LT seats in full school uniform complete with blazer and tie, being subjected to complete public humiliation on screening of afore-mentioned crisis videos, enjoying the post-RMUN barbecue, working like a dog again after promos to get all ship-shape for Open House, being sadistic during exco interviews, exceeding my free messages for an entire month in less than a week trying to get ready for SS week... I bitched then; now I shall miss all of the above experiences.

The endless discussions in Staffroom 4, the staying back until unearthly hours for RMUN, the working frantically to meet impossible deadlines... too bad it all had to go by so fast.

We forged strong bonds indeed. I shall never forget.