Left and right

Finally i have migrated. i have finally moved from the right corner of the room... to the other corner :D

I have joined the race of the left side, which is interesting, cuz i have mixed feelings about moving there. I used to hang out with the people that are usually quieter in class, and those that have certain issues with the loud and boistorous people in class. perhaps another reason for sitting there was because someone else was sitting there too.

In my previous post, i mentioned how i have distanced from some people, and i just ignore and carry on with my usual behaviour. At first i did not have any inclination to move to the other side, but it is now so quiet at my corner, that i feel that i need a change of environment and change of influence in class.

I admit that one of the other reasons i sat on the other side is that i too had disagreements with some people there. but this term, and part of last term, people have changed. i am not sure if it is because we finally settled down and realising that we might have the same people for the next 4 years, or maybe cuz they have made fun, tease and exploited every part of class, that they have found it boring and diverted thier attention to more juicy ongoings. Whatever the case, the people in class are becoming a lot more decent, and maybe what they say is true, "when one door closes, another one opens up".

When i had certain disagreements with people, i think the bigger/ one of the bigger disagreements i had was with wendy and co. Wendy, Sarah and Nadiah. At first, i viewed them as an entity. they were just that "group" that i felt were the popular yet bitchy. no offence to them! that was just my first impression. It was particularly during the classroom design project, i remember butting heads with wendy at every corner. it was extremely difficult to come to a consensus or make decisions with her around.

Eventually term 1, i simply avoided talking to them and just didnt pay much attention except when they joked and talked loudly in class. after the first half of term 1, they simply quietened down, and they were not as attention demanding at the start of the year.

i didnt really notice it, but htings changed quite significantly in term 2. As a coucil nominee, i got to know some of the IP students better, and simply made a few more friends, but the more interesting group that i bonded with was with the nominees, the commited ones at least. it was quite evident from there on who were more likely to make it and who probably wouldnt. as well as this, i didnt realise that i was talking more to the people on the left side of class. for example, i bonded with eugene during the orientation camp, but he was also well liked by others and people like wendy, sarah and nad, gave him due respect. near the end of the term, i realised that even sarah talked to me, even if it was brief and mostly insignificant.

perhaps, of the 3, i got to know nad better than the rest. Nadiah was in my group for term 2. at first i was a little hesitant at working with her, but as i did, she was really friendly and really nice, not to mention hardworking. i managed to chat with her during projects and discussions, and realised that i had generalised her too much with the rest, and that she was actually just a simple girl that hangs out with her good friends.

Sarah i didnt really know, but she started talking to me a bit in term 2. she was just ranting to a group of us, about one of the nominees, and it was just those times i never notice that they might not hate me anymore.

Wendy is who i beleive is the most loud of the three. she can be funny and decent, but there i times she kinda annoys me, but not directly at me. she is the main person i disagreed with all this while, but she showed that she can be just as nice and sociable as anone else, if not more. so yeah these three are the people that i have changed my perspective of.

what really inspired me to post this was after class today (tuesday). they stayed back to clean up the class and rearrange the tables. the very people i beleived hated the class and wanted to have nothing to do with it, were cleaning it up, and thinking of ways to make the class a nicer and more appealing place. i was awakened at how they have differed from my earlier stereotype, and i was pleasantly surprised. then we got to play "I Never..." which is quite entertaining, just that i think guys are on the losing end =P.

perhaps this moving over to the left side might not be such a bad idea after all. my reasons for staying at the right side is no longer as strong, and there is nothing stopping me from going over (except maybe varun). To the new school term, i am adding a new seating plan, and a new environment (sort of). "Change is the only constant" so i am changing to my benefit!