The Tee

Flipping through my secondary school council stuff, the final design of the Sec 1 Orientation 2006 t-shirt lay before me. In an instant, I had flashbacks of many fond memories during my time as a student leader; numerous images ran through my head as though hundreds of pages have been flipped through a book. A great deal of time and effort has been put into serving the club and the school. I had been a Class Helper, Station Game Master and Overall In-Charge as part of the yearly Secondary One Orientation Project. In the year 2006, I had been tasked to head the 2007 Secondary One Orientation Project for 320 freshies, it was ‘my turn’, and the reason being; the President and the other Vice- President headed the Graduation Night for the 2006 Graduands. So the preparation went from planning to collaborating with the Level Head, holding committee meetings, delegating of jobs to day ICs to coming up with proposal & presenting it to the Principal and oh thank god it’s approved! (I’ve been told that the Principal may reject and we’ll just have to re-do, phew!) Holding briefing sessions with the student leaders, and lastly a dry-run in a bid to make the 4 day Orientation run smoothly.

It was an eventual success and kind of “wo yi sheng de xin xue” for me at that age.  I assumed it garnered me the EAGLES Award that year and I was the only recipient of the Service Award for contribution as student leader the following year. Even though I had been part of many other events or projects, I believed this was it…  This is the largest project by far that I have had.

Then one day, I looked high and low, ransacked my cupboard of clothes only to realise that the tee, the Secondary One Orientation 2007 tee that was designed by the design comm., the tee that is of great significance to me could not be found! I was sad-ed!

The tee’s black in colour with silver prints, Inspirare- Dream It Do It, the theme fills I can’t remember it’s the left or the right side of the front, rotated 270deg. and the back shows silhouettes of a bunch of people. Till now I still feel a tinge of loss for losing that shirt and have a feeling to want to buy it back.

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