Friday, December 14, 2007

The Post McNair Report

Its a weird feeling - to leave a place that you've called home for the most of the year for the past two years. For good.

That was what most of us JC2 scholars from McNair lodge felt when we bade farewell to the hostel for the last time on the 7th of Dec, 2007.



McNair Lodge

For most of us, our relationship with our hostel was mostly a bittersweet one. For one, I really hated the place when I first stepped foot into it. The rooms were so horribly small, and to add insult to injury, they had the gall to cram up to 5 scholars to a single room! Besides the problem with the small rooms, the hostel had a tiny puddle for a swimming pool, as well as the assortment of random wildlife and pests that we have come to accept over the past two years.

Things seemed really bad at first. I had a friend who suffered an asthma attack in the MRT, a friend who got hit by car while jaywalking nearby, a friend who broke his neck while diving into our puddle of a pool and so many other creepy incidents in the first few months we were there. It was really creepy, and people were like always on their toes, wary that yet another accident would befall us.



Abhishek - The dude who got hit by a car and lived

Thankfully we had each other. McNair lodge was composed of scholars of various nationalities, the Malaysians (we are the largest group there), the Indians, the PRCs, the Thais, the Indonesians, the Vietnamese, Cambodians, and even people from the Philippines.

We were a diverse, motley crew, but as we faced challenges and some even traumatic events together, we began to grow closer to each other. We even made so much noise once we began to grow closer the police came over to tell us that we were making too much noise, not once, but twice!

Things started to get better with the hostel once we got used to our small rooms. I had really cool roommates who were all really different and unique individuals.



Room 201 - 2007
From left to right, top to bottom:
Nikhil, Mun Hon, Nayan, Seng Yen, Kevin

Nikhil was our resident Bollywood star who has yellow fever, Mun Hon was our resident 79 pointer, Nayan as our resident professor, Seng Yen as our resident internet minigame gamer, and me the really crazy one. Yup, thats me alright.

Things just got crazier as we got to know each other better. When the inhibitions started falling away, we were more at ease just being ourselves.



Nayan and Mun Hon treading the monastic path



Fun with a little shaving cream

The hostel was more than just one room. Crazy people were all over McNair Lodge. These crazy people really made our stay in McNair truly a more enriching experience.



Chia Wei and Junyi


And of course I would have to mention Roger, McNair Lodge's resident PUA, who came into my room in the wee hours of the morning every other night to discuss issues of great importance to the male sex, if you know what I mean.



Roger with our resident turtle

We sure had good times in McNair, and even though at times things were bad, the good memories made it all worthwhile.



Hostel outing at East Coast Park




Saints, UP and ON!


Guys from McNair Lodge, I'll definitely remember you all for all that we've done together. All the late night chats and gaming, the birthday celebrations, the communal cooking, having dinner together, playing all sorts of games together, sneaking out of the hostel together, breaking curfew together and even staying out all night illegally together. Thank you all for making these 2 years bearable in this tiny hostel. In the end, its the people you meet and the friends you make that made my JC experience in Singapore meaningful.

Speaking of meaningful, I really think it's important to cherish the people that mean so much to us, every moment we can.


Waiting for you to come back to me again baby. I'll patiently wait for that day to come soon.

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