First year. By the time I moved in and settled down, it was already mid-way through the second semester. The only thing I remember was the plentiful of inter-floor soccer and basketball matches. Thank you James for showing me around. Your presence certainly made my early getting-to-know-everyone-and-everything days easier.
So came the second year. A bunch of freshies moved in revitalising our floor. Room visits, swimming gala, Starr festival, superpass, library diving team, all are part of the memories now. Finally get to experience (in full) what the Starr traditions are.
Final year. Started off with the information day. Helped out a bit in the orientation camp. When you're here for the 2.5-year, things are predictable. Things get less exciting, but there is still anticipation of how things would work out with different faces. The cycle keeps turning around - people come and go. I go back to the same room, same side, same setting, same roommate. This might sound a bit dull right now, but honestly, even if the above had changed, it wouldn't have made my hall life more exciting if the chemistry between people hadn't change. I enjoy that chemistry.
What do I like most? It's strange, but I just love to see how people change before and after they are here. It's the most interesting thing in Starr, and it never fails to fascinate me. Freshies come in and realise everything is totally new. Many are shocked while some might have heard of stories already. They start to take a look at how people around them behave and try to blend in. Slowly, you form your own view of how things should happen, you change. Sometimes the real change isn't just about the behaviour, it is about the way you think. People come in, they say stuff during room visits, they sometimes make promises, they talk about things they wanted to do. You look at them after one year, how many have realised what they think they wanted to do? How many of them have left their comfort zone and tried something new? I'm in no position to judge others, but it would be interesting to benchmark yourself and ask "Are you still the you you wanted to be?"
So that was my 2.5 years at Starr. Yesterday night I was packing and this thought that almost everything I was doing, things like doing the laundry, taking a shower, sleeping in my bed are going to be the last time I do them - I won't be doing them anytime soon, at least not in Starr. But then I reminded myself that I miss the place not because of all these small trivial things, I miss it because of the time I was here. So, I don't really need to add meanings to the "last" things really.
Now that I've checked out, I know would miss the people, a lot. We'd all have to move on one day, but be in touch. :D
1 comments:
Nice sharing.
By the way, where are you going to?
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