Rusydi
Finally, after waiting for so long, got a copy of Rusydi's speech during the Grad Ceremony...
On the 2nd of January 2002, over 400 unsuspecting boys were whisked away to Sarimbun Camp by mid-afternoon for their secondary one orientation. What followed was a series of fortunate or unfortunate events, mud slides, PSLs, A-huts, Slay the Dragon, pumping, communal showers, the confidence walk, the dark knights, the walk of initiation and a host of other undesirable things that I am forbidden to talk about.
Like our first taste of Revada during lunch that day. Thank goodness it wasn't CDCS or we would have all applied to go to ASCI. Or vice-versa.
Good morning headmaster, deputy headmasters, teachers, parents and fellow Rafflesians.
Today those same, once-unsuspecting boys sit before us, and on this last day of school, we try to enjoy each other's company as best as we can, for today is also the last day that we are students of Raffles Institution. For four years, we have gone in and out of these portals day after day, and each day we have unknowingly added another piece of history to this 182-year old institution.
I remember asking my classmate some months ago, "How long more do we have?" And he replied "How long more till what? Common Test or the due date for Maths Assignment?" And so I told him, "How long more before we leave RI? 7-8 more weeks?" "Yeah, I think around there," he said. "Then I better hand in my English Biography soon."
Indeed, we have come fill circle. From innocent Sec 1 boys to not-so-innocent boys, from juniors to seniors, from the ones being taught, to the ones doing the teaching. Time does pass very quickly, especially when you're having fun, or playing DOTA or World of Warcraft. Guys, today is the day. Today is the day we're graduating, and the last day that we get to call each other classmates. Afterwards when we leave this hall, we can finally go out into the world and proudly proclaim that Raffles Institution is, and will always be, our beloved Alma Mater.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the graduating Class of 2005.
Nevertheless, it’s not really goodbye, as there's still next year, when we would join our sisters at the great nexus that is RJC. We can always look forward to next year's tutorial classes and promo exams, during which we can foster new friendships, even though we are busy finding ways to solve the ageing population in Singapore, or checking out the resident geology club.
And so, like the many seniors before us, we have eventually come to a point where we reflect about what we have done these years, and ask ourselves, "Has it truly been a fulfilling four years? Have I accomplished whatever it is that I had set out to do when I first entered this institution?" Nevertheless, as we think about the past, and plan for the future, at present, we must acknowledge the two special groups of people who have empowered us to come this far.
Our parents, who have constantly put up with our antics, for 16 years and counting. For telling us to sleep when it's already one o'clock in the morning, for giving us ideas when we're rushing our philo essay due the next day, for reminding us that we have a Integration pop quiz the following week, for signing the chemistry test that we didn't do too well for, and of course for waking us up to go to school.
Mums, Dads, Thank You.
The other special group of people would nonetheless be our beloved teachers, and our year-heads Mr Desmond Tan and Mrs Tan Lai Lin. Thank you for giving us an extension for our I-learning homework, thank you for not penalizing us when we didn't place our Maths Assignment in your pigeon hole by 7.25, thank you for helping us with our Magship PT, and thank you for still marking our biography even though we handed it in three weeks ago.
To the Teachers of Raffles Institution, whom we shall always remember. Thank You.
If some of you do recall, we are embarking on a project to make a list of all that has happened in our four years. The following is just a small fraction of what we've collected so far. Not in chronological order, so here goes...
Secondary One - 2002
Registration Day
X-calibre
Mr Eng Han Seng made us stand in the MPH for over an hour Mr Kang makes us run to a tree and back several times
Peer Support Leaders
Peer Support Group Meetings
1st ever PTM
John Samuel and Eng Seng
Secondary Two - 2003
Mr Gregory Goh's pencil box. gets flipped
180-year old celebrations in the city
Article: Secondary 2C gets scolded by Mr Magendiran. On the last week of school as a form of stress relief, some boys from 2C, actually most of them, were playing hantam bola with crushed paper balls. By some stroke of luck, one of the balls ricocheted off a window panel and fell down to the road adjacent the junior block. And by yet another stroke of luck, Mr Magendiran was driving his car on that road at the same time, so when the large ball of paper fell on his windscreen, he skidded and swerved his car and had a close brush with death. Mr Magendiran, I don't know if you still remember what you told us, but on behalf on the Sec 2C boys, I apologise and thank you for not being to hard on us, for there is always a season for everything.
Secondary Three - 2004
OBS- Mosaic
Sec 3 GEP camp
Flag Making on the first day
Second batch gets caught in downpour
The Raffles Programme is launched. GPA 4.4 now made possible
Teachers Day Celebrations - Female teachers Rock Band Rafflesian Spotlight
Mr Wong leaves RI in a convertible. Convertible returned with a broken antennae due to overzealous students
Secondary Four - 2005
Dr William Tan Ultramarathon
Interclass soccer for the last time
Interclass polo
Taking Batch photo in the hall
Canteen closes down
Philo Dept gets new container and celebrates by playing candyshop
And now for some figures for those of you prefer numbers
4 sets of common tests
11 graded philosophy journal entries
32 sporting golds in 4 years
231 hours of Research Education
478 students
Dr William Tan Ultramarathon- 24 hours, 607 laps, 243km
956 schooling days, over a thousand if you add up all the cca trainings and remedials that
we had or used to have on Saturdays
AND with a grand average total of 5736 hours of academic lessons.
Rafflesians, the four years have finally come to a close, but we shall always continue to be Rafflesians and add vigour to the Rafflesian Spirit. We have had no regrets, for indeed lived by and lived out the Rafflesian Principal of Honour in its entirety. As a parting word, I would like to remind everyone including myself, to stay true to that principle, to let our hearts be stirring, to keep our colours flying. Let us be steadfast yet versatile, fiery and formidable, and together we shall us blaze forth to glory, in one strong spirit.
Auspicium Melioris Aevi.
On the 2nd of January 2002, over 400 unsuspecting boys were whisked away to Sarimbun Camp by mid-afternoon for their secondary one orientation. What followed was a series of fortunate or unfortunate events, mud slides, PSLs, A-huts, Slay the Dragon, pumping, communal showers, the confidence walk, the dark knights, the walk of initiation and a host of other undesirable things that I am forbidden to talk about.
Like our first taste of Revada during lunch that day. Thank goodness it wasn't CDCS or we would have all applied to go to ASCI. Or vice-versa.
Good morning headmaster, deputy headmasters, teachers, parents and fellow Rafflesians.
Today those same, once-unsuspecting boys sit before us, and on this last day of school, we try to enjoy each other's company as best as we can, for today is also the last day that we are students of Raffles Institution. For four years, we have gone in and out of these portals day after day, and each day we have unknowingly added another piece of history to this 182-year old institution.
I remember asking my classmate some months ago, "How long more do we have?" And he replied "How long more till what? Common Test or the due date for Maths Assignment?" And so I told him, "How long more before we leave RI? 7-8 more weeks?" "Yeah, I think around there," he said. "Then I better hand in my English Biography soon."
Indeed, we have come fill circle. From innocent Sec 1 boys to not-so-innocent boys, from juniors to seniors, from the ones being taught, to the ones doing the teaching. Time does pass very quickly, especially when you're having fun, or playing DOTA or World of Warcraft. Guys, today is the day. Today is the day we're graduating, and the last day that we get to call each other classmates. Afterwards when we leave this hall, we can finally go out into the world and proudly proclaim that Raffles Institution is, and will always be, our beloved Alma Mater.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the graduating Class of 2005.
Nevertheless, it’s not really goodbye, as there's still next year, when we would join our sisters at the great nexus that is RJC. We can always look forward to next year's tutorial classes and promo exams, during which we can foster new friendships, even though we are busy finding ways to solve the ageing population in Singapore, or checking out the resident geology club.
And so, like the many seniors before us, we have eventually come to a point where we reflect about what we have done these years, and ask ourselves, "Has it truly been a fulfilling four years? Have I accomplished whatever it is that I had set out to do when I first entered this institution?" Nevertheless, as we think about the past, and plan for the future, at present, we must acknowledge the two special groups of people who have empowered us to come this far.
Our parents, who have constantly put up with our antics, for 16 years and counting. For telling us to sleep when it's already one o'clock in the morning, for giving us ideas when we're rushing our philo essay due the next day, for reminding us that we have a Integration pop quiz the following week, for signing the chemistry test that we didn't do too well for, and of course for waking us up to go to school.
Mums, Dads, Thank You.
The other special group of people would nonetheless be our beloved teachers, and our year-heads Mr Desmond Tan and Mrs Tan Lai Lin. Thank you for giving us an extension for our I-learning homework, thank you for not penalizing us when we didn't place our Maths Assignment in your pigeon hole by 7.25, thank you for helping us with our Magship PT, and thank you for still marking our biography even though we handed it in three weeks ago.
To the Teachers of Raffles Institution, whom we shall always remember. Thank You.
If some of you do recall, we are embarking on a project to make a list of all that has happened in our four years. The following is just a small fraction of what we've collected so far. Not in chronological order, so here goes...
Secondary One - 2002
Registration Day
X-calibre
Mr Eng Han Seng made us stand in the MPH for over an hour Mr Kang makes us run to a tree and back several times
Peer Support Leaders
Peer Support Group Meetings
1st ever PTM
John Samuel and Eng Seng
Secondary Two - 2003
Mr Gregory Goh's pencil box. gets flipped
180-year old celebrations in the city
Article: Secondary 2C gets scolded by Mr Magendiran. On the last week of school as a form of stress relief, some boys from 2C, actually most of them, were playing hantam bola with crushed paper balls. By some stroke of luck, one of the balls ricocheted off a window panel and fell down to the road adjacent the junior block. And by yet another stroke of luck, Mr Magendiran was driving his car on that road at the same time, so when the large ball of paper fell on his windscreen, he skidded and swerved his car and had a close brush with death. Mr Magendiran, I don't know if you still remember what you told us, but on behalf on the Sec 2C boys, I apologise and thank you for not being to hard on us, for there is always a season for everything.
Secondary Three - 2004
OBS- Mosaic
Sec 3 GEP camp
Flag Making on the first day
Second batch gets caught in downpour
The Raffles Programme is launched. GPA 4.4 now made possible
Teachers Day Celebrations - Female teachers Rock Band Rafflesian Spotlight
Mr Wong leaves RI in a convertible. Convertible returned with a broken antennae due to overzealous students
Secondary Four - 2005
Dr William Tan Ultramarathon
Interclass soccer for the last time
Interclass polo
Taking Batch photo in the hall
Canteen closes down
Philo Dept gets new container and celebrates by playing candyshop
And now for some figures for those of you prefer numbers
4 sets of common tests
11 graded philosophy journal entries
32 sporting golds in 4 years
231 hours of Research Education
478 students
Dr William Tan Ultramarathon- 24 hours, 607 laps, 243km
956 schooling days, over a thousand if you add up all the cca trainings and remedials that
we had or used to have on Saturdays
AND with a grand average total of 5736 hours of academic lessons.
Rafflesians, the four years have finally come to a close, but we shall always continue to be Rafflesians and add vigour to the Rafflesian Spirit. We have had no regrets, for indeed lived by and lived out the Rafflesian Principal of Honour in its entirety. As a parting word, I would like to remind everyone including myself, to stay true to that principle, to let our hearts be stirring, to keep our colours flying. Let us be steadfast yet versatile, fiery and formidable, and together we shall us blaze forth to glory, in one strong spirit.
Auspicium Melioris Aevi.
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