Mrs Yau came over on Thursday night to collect my baju kebaya's kain cos she needed to borrow them for Racial Harmony Day the following day, Friday. So I loaned her 3 of my kain wiron (That's like a Javanese kain, very traditional) and a kebaya nyonya just in case she might want to have a whole suit. Spent a good half an hour gossiping with her under my block.

Racial Harmony Day in school is the one the days which I enjoy most when I used to be in school, aside from school hols and public hols of course. But Racial Harmony Day was a blast always cos everyone, teachers, Principal, VP, students all dress up in traditional costumes, you gather your class a week or 2 before the day itself and psych every student in the class to wear a traditional costume on that day. They borrow from teachers, classmates, school mates, they buy...A lot of class spirit involved and you can always tell which are the classes which had no class spirit. The ones where all the students in the class cannot be bothered to dress up and come to school on that day in their uniforms. I always get upper sec NA classes as my form class and I will make sure every single student has a costume. Last year, I had a Sec 5NA class. Me and Mrs Yau, my other form teacher then, managed to get the whole class to be dressed in traditional garb so you see saris, cheongsam, punjabi suits, kebayas on that day itself.

The morning is usually spent with your class, taking photos and you all know what a camera whore I am so I really enjoy the morning. Students from other classes, especially my graduating classes will look for me and take photos with me and their other teachers for memories.

The second half of the day comprises of an event in the hall where the graduating classes will take their turns on stage with their Form teachers and parade their costumes on stage. And there will be top 3 best dressed class awards. It's so much fun. Last year, my class managed to get 2nd for the best dressed class award, and my dept got 1st for the best dressed dept award. :)

And I used to loan my kebayas to teachers in the staff room. It was so much fun.

What happened during Racial Harmony Day this year now that I'm in hq? Nothing. I had to prepare for an FGD in the morning, had the FGD in the afternoon. It was like a normal day, and no one was dressed in traditional garb. I actually wanted to wear a kebaya to work but woke up too late so had no time to iron my kebaya. When I met Wendy and Vidhu in the evening for dinner, they were telling me about what happened for RH Day and I felt a pang of sadness and nostalgia. I'm such a sucker , I know.

I know I've said this a million times, but I really miss being in school. The student's excitement always rubs off on me... That said, look at the photos below, taken during RH Day last year.


Mrs Yau and me.. She's a mother of 3 boys! Fit as hell..


Kelwin, one of my bestest friend in school. He's sarcastic, a fantastic teacher, makes me laugh all the time and gives damn good advice. Love him.


My 3 Sec 4 boys who are my babies, they can be monsters to other teachers but are angels to me. And they care a lot about me. I went to Cambodia with all 3 of them. Miss them. They went out to a costume shop and loaned out Chinese period drama costumes.


My Sec 5 NA class. Small, but united. They make me love going to school. Taught them for 3 whole years.


My 4E4, Not my form class but they were so close to me that they made me take a class picture with them.

Sigh....I miss being in school...