The following is written by one Ah LOng Jie, who requested that I post it for her:
When air-conditioning was still a luxury in Singapore in the late 70s,
an entire school of blue-and-white-attired convent girls had to use it as a
necessity. It was a necessary evil to keep noise pollution down as the
school was located at the junction of busy crossroads.
As we
muttered under our breath and cursed the annual donation drives to raise
money for the aircons, we secretly knew that we enjoyed the little
white box which yielded us oxygen, provided cool relief after a sweaty
physical education class and helped us dry our wet hair and armpits.
We were the only air conditioned school Singapore.
In the literal and metaphorical sense - we were the coolest school!
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