Ah LOng Jie is a prolific writer indeed! Check out her classification of the subgroups in SAC. :)
My memory is hazy after 30 years of leaving school. But I remember the prefects , the athletes , the basket girls and low-socked girls, the science class and the 'other' girls .
School girls were sort of grouped into those who played sports like basketball, tennis , running viz the athletic type. Often times they had short hair and they were brown and tanned . They were secretly admired for their prowess and would have a girl fan or two. ;)
The Basket girls loved to carry the baskets bought from Arab Steet.
Pink, blue, beige , pastels - the baskets came in all colors but the girls shared one trait - viz the feminine type/ sarong party types .
Low -socked girls pushed their socks all the way down the ankle. I must say they were creative in elongating their legs. Not that they needed it, they always had pretty faces to match.
Science class girls were the smartest and brainiest - the intellectuals of the school. They were not just bookish , they were gifted with musical and dance abilities.
The prefects dressed totally different from the rest of us. They had special uniforms just like policemen who wear uniforms to patrol the streets - except they didn't carry weapons ; they discreetly carried a thin paged blue 555 notebook and a pen (presumably so you can't erase naughty deeds off).
Mischievous as I was , I was careful never to get into their bad books...literally and metaphorically.
To me, the prefects were " perfect " angels chosen by the teachers to wear the fashion statement clothes .
The other girls- that's the rest of us . They didn't have a group but that didn't matter.
What mattered was the joy of attending an all-girls school, free from bullying boys, free from the worry of discussing kotex pads, growing breasts and puberty in a co-ed environment.
We could dare play, dream , excel as boys do.
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