Ode to my alma mater
While other school ditties ranged from a battle cry to invoking mythos, my Singapore Chinese Girls' School song is genius precisely because of its sheer humility
I DON'T remember much of my first year of formal education. After all, Primary 1 at Singapore Chinese Girls' School was a blur to me - a joyful blur, to be sure, but a blur nonetheless.
I remember bits and pieces in vignettes: Tracing dotted-line handwriting guides in workbooks, ordering my favourite 50-cent bowl of "Ah chek meepok", lacing rubber bands together for a game of zero point at recess.
There's one thing I do remember clearly, though - I distinctly recall learning to sing my school song. I was an eag…
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