Tribute to Miss Schoonbeck

It was only on Saturday that I found out my ex-principal is Dutch. She passed away and oh boy, the first thing that came to my mind was - I'll never forget how bad she reprimanded me for cheating on an exam. I was telling my hus about it as it floated pass my memory. I think I was in primary 4-5 whereby a friend and I exchanged papers when the teacher was BEHIND us. HAHA!! Stupid right, I know.

So naturally, we got called down and she was shocked to find that the person she was meeting was me. Why? Because I had an older sister who was a role model - Prefect, good in maths and of course, she was chosen to be the leader in the primary 5 buddy system. What did that left me? To follow in her footsteps of course. So imagine, her shock when she finds the younger one cheating.

With all that said and done, I hated my childhood (Not because of my friends, please don't get me wrong, I loved my friends from MCS) because lots of teachers started comparing. I remember Mrs. Chin who went "Your sister is Emma right? So your maths should be excellent. What happened?" Or sometimes she'll go Äsk Emma to tutor you" I'm not gonna bring in the middle child syndrome concept. But this is one of the reasons why the max number of children I'm gonna have is 2.

Anyway, to run a school full of convent girls isn't easy. I'm sure Ms. Schoonbeck has her hard times as well. Girls are naturally chatty, and as we are from a convent school where boys were a taboo back then (and maybe now), I wonder how tough her job must be.

I wonder what it'll be like if I bring Leia down when she was still alive and showing her my daughter. I think she'll be quite pleased. My mother was still in touch with her even though all 3 of us are out of MCS (Another name for it was when loads of people started calling us ""Grid paper uniform") so I wonder what it would be like for Ms. Schoonbeck to see Leia.

I bet its like how my family doctor whom I have been going since 1988, when I brought Leia for her jab. Dr Yee was all "Wow.. I heard from your grandma, another generation" And even though Leia's consultation was over and all I had to do was collect the medication, Dr Yee went out with me to sit and played with Leia until her next appointment came in. My daughter is really the limelight within our circle. Even Eugene threw his computer game aside just to carry her.

Anywho, digressing abit. But yea, I really hope Ms Schoonbeck goes on happily. Memories oh memories, never ending memories of MCS floods through my mind now.