Revisiting A Past

On Monday, I sent the car to the workshop for a oil-filter replacement service which is done on a quarterly basis. However, because this time, the service involves replacing the car's timing belt, it took a little longer than expected, roughly four hours. The car will not be done until before 3 p.m. and as to kill time, I decided to visit my school, St. Michael's while at the same time I could pick my brother up from school earlier since this two weeks is actually the school's mid-term examinations.

School has changed a lot in the last five years. What I am talking about is that there is plenty of interior changes into it. Every year, the school's musical production earnings were used to facilitate renovations and repairs to the building. The most critical of all would be the replacement of the roof since it was in a bad condition and repairs can no longer be delayed. The number of new faces of teachers in the school are pretty much more compared during my time in school. Some came after my time and the number of teachers that I see during my time began to dwindle as time goes on.


The biggest change of all is that the primary school students get to study at their own new school block next to the workshop block and the canteen has been fully renovated. It was no longer the style of the 1990s and instead it is much more pleasing looking than before. So with that building constructed since 05, the primary school block is more pleasing looking than it was as in the old primary school block, which shows its age and it's scheduled to be demolished by end of this year.

Update: Continuation of the post.


The school is currently undergoing the replacement of the roof. So far only half of the main wing has been completed with the other one in progress. It was said that the completed period would be somewhere within next month. The final price tag was estimated to be around at $600K. It was the only way to beat the mites infecting the roof and prevent a possible ceiling collapse.



The cafeteria was first renovated back in 2000 but more changes were added into this sometime after I left school. Among them, you can see there are permanent chair fixtures, new tenants replacing those who left after my time, railings, and proper back doors for tenants only. The doors were painted in blue. Back in the 90s, you would not see that. The number of stalls are doubled compared five years ago. Hence, there were about 16 stalls compared to 8-10 before.

This was the first change to the school's interior right after I left school. This would be the lecture hall, the major changes would be the tiling and repainting. Also, the hall was also renovated to accommodate new benches, a television and a projector as well as air-conditioners.