Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Yay! I pulled my first Christmas cracker today and wished people merry christmas! haha! Christmas is coming!!!! *gRInZ* Merry Christmas!!
Riddle from the cracker:
Qn: Why did the baby brick cry? (see ans below)
Was reading andee's blog and some of it's quite funny, like this: "Forgive my weirdness. The lack of sleep and coherent thought has made me kooky. Kooky. Kookle doodle doo. Quack quack. Meow." LOLx. As well as the bit about his googling himself ;) Haha, i tried googling myself as well and found links to NUS sport climbing, economics/commerce as well as wrestling! haha... not too bad i suppose :) waayyy too many blog posts in one day.
GOODNIGHT! =P
Ans: Because its mom was up the wall and its dad was round the bend ;)
11:20 PM
"Remembering the past is such a wonderful thing. In remembering, you can often see the things you missed at the time. It's as if the mind can contain everything you have ever seen, smelt, tasted, or even thought, and in the business of our lives so much of what we are is forgotten." ~Shadowmancer(G.P.Talor)
After the doom and gloom of yesterday, this quote caught my eye. It reminds me that change need not be for the worse... That the tears of today are not everlasting for what is life without sorrow? How can one truly know the pleasure of happiness without having tasted the bitterness of pain? Partings need not be forever; friendship is a bond stronger than we think and it is only in parting that we learn the depth of its value. Though we cannot possibly retain friendships at the precise level it is now (change is the only constant: with time, bonds either grow stronger or become weaker; they do not remain the same), we can still meet, talk, laugh, and hopefully, such friends as we have made in jc will never become totally lost to us.
"you in this world look through life as if through a clouded mirror: you see but a vague reflection of what life is really like." ~Shadowmancer (G.P.Taylor)
7:10 PM
Monday, December 06, 2004
2 years have come and gone. JC, which seemed to drag on forever, has passed, but now it seems too soon... Yee Yen left this morning to take a flight from Johor to UK to go for her Oxford interview. Success would mean her staying there for the next 5yrs to come. Either way, it'll be a loonnggg time before we can all meet again, study together again, play canoepolo again, everything that we did during the last 2yrs seems like just yesterday yet it'll never come back; all we have are the photos, the memories which capture precious snippets of our lives and store them in our hearts for safe-keeping... Yet all these shall fade, one day. It is such heartfelt treasures of Friendship that must be continually renewed through letters and meetings, conversations and shared experiences...
Yee Yen, you have truly been a blessing in my life. SSC, study group, OBS; you were there in every single aspect of JC which changed it from the horror i dreaded into an experience i cry about because it is no longer the present. You (in ur TKGS uniform), Ee Sang n i were the first girls to arrive at the spectator's gallery at the very first ssc meeting and i'd never had thought we'd come this far... We shared intimacies, flew fantastic! paper planes in the concourse/canteen, called Andee cute (Hiap Loh is cute too!!;), played games (alliances?! what happened to MONOpoly????;) and studied together all over Singapore :o) I can only hope that you would get into Oxford Medicince and fulfill your dreams! Singapore had better watch out if you become the first female prez of Malaysia (yeah yeah, i know u're not bumiputra, but with you, anything's possible!); just make sure we always have water. *grinz* And u can make the wabbit/underwear song the Malaysian national anthem! Haha! All the best my dear friend *hugs* till we meet again! (2007!!!!!) =)
PS. you have yet to teach me how to get names right! lolx
PPS. u have also not yet gone ice skating with andee present (oh yeah! we -andee, dhruv, terrence, kenneth n i- managed to catch alvin yesterday!) hahaha
PPPS. love u lots :) :) :)
Andee, i know u'll prob see this so i shall be less mushy! haha. Well captain, JC life never would have been the same without you :p it's hard to imagine, sometimes, that you weren't with us during the first 3mths... Somehow, all my memories of SSC (excluding the basketball games/ canal runs which hardly seem 'ssc'-like) have you in it. Canoepolo, overnight camps at Paddle Culture, kayaking and what not. Despite (or perhaps because of) your dislike for making decisions, u're truly a natural leader and the most trustworthy guy i know ;) a lot of the stuff i mentioned to yeeyen (above) apply to u as well so, yeah, go read that ;p just so u know, i was really touched by u and dhruv's coming down during prom to help me crash (haha, i hope them j1 counsellors don't read this!! lolx). It's the little things that matter and u do a lot of those ;) Well, i know i keep teasing u abt army but i believe u'd do very well in there (i just can't imagine u as one of those guys running along east coast in the gray army tees and ULTRA-short shorts *GRIN*). Just hope that u'd enjoy ur 2yrs there and that life would be as good to u as u are to others! :-)
PS. Andee is cuuuuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (didn't think i was gonna let u off did ya? lol ;)
PPS. just coz u're humble (sometimes a bit TOO humble;) doesn't mean it ain't true
PPPS. if u let any of this get to ur head, i swear i'd buy u a box of pins for ur birthday to take the air out!! ;P but u still rock *hugs*
Study group, without you all, i'd probably have flunked JC! (not that i didn't come close anyway) :p Still, i can't imagine having to stay at home, alone, mugging for all the numerous tests/examinations we have had for 2 years!! With you, studying became a pleasurable (instead of intolerable!) experience :) :) :) Remember studying at coffee bean next to the humongous Shrek balloon (all the cute kids!)? Remember Starbucks and the silly "this table is for non-studying customers only" sign? Remember all our heated philosophical arguments (esp the one above borders) and our highly intellectual discussions??? -grinne- I remember. And with this, i shall always remember :) The next time we meet shall take us to Fullerton's chocolate buffet *drool* and 10years later when we are all successful ppl, we shall meet again and return to Sakura and try all the dishes we haven't tried! =) Nizam: idealism is a wonderful thing and no matter what other ppl say, we can't all be pragmatists right? ;) i hope u fine the girl of your dreams!! And if any of us get married, we shall tell each other and receive invites to the wedding RIGHT?!!!! *gRInZ* Friends can be forever, and in a hundred yrs time, we (or whatever remains of us anyway;) shall be testament to that! *hugs* love ya ;)
SSC, where can i start when there is so much to say?? Well, i cannot imagine what JC would have been like without sea sports, without all of u guys n all that we did. For me, JC was sea sports (apart from the exams aniwae) and that it no longer exists officially makes us all the more precious and all the more exclusive. Though we had not the chance to tekan new j1s, we, nonetheless, did many more things that shall forever change us and mark us out as SSC-ers. We won the U19 championships in our very first year (YESYESYESYESYES!) kayaked all over Singapore waters (so sad i didn't get to join the sisters' islands expedition) and camped out at PC playing dead at the beach and majong in PC; we managed not to get last in 3-on-3 (yeah we rock!) and saved triathalon atheletes from drowning... Yes. SSC life was very fulfilling :) :) :) Come to think of that, what happened to our 3star course????? :P haha! Keep in touch everyone! Perhaps when we're retired with lots of time in our hands, we could officially set up a sea sports seniors club ;) lolx!
our song:
Friend: "A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts." Well this definition is undeniably true, it fails to adequetly convey the depth of meaning in the word. How did we become friends? Conversations, time spent with each other, triumphs and tears... Slowly, we creep into each others' hearts until one day, when we stop and think, we realize that life would never be the same without each other; that partings, once meaningless, suddenly becomes terribly difficult, for we feel bereft without each other. We were so caught up in examinations, so deliriously happy at having finished them, that it is sometime before we realize that jc is completely, irrevocably, over. Graduation night, though fun, also carried an underlying sense of foreboding. Sitting in the corridors of Conrad hotel with no one around, hearing muffled sounds of partying through the doors, i felt as in a limbo. It seemed that everyone partied their hardest with the subconscious knowledge that something wonderful is about to end, fervently refusing to let the specter of parting descend. It was not till the morning, when Dedrick, Derek, Hui-En, Andee and i, sent yee yen off, that parting was no longer an insubstantial dread, but a tragic reality. The guys will go to army, the girls, off to uni. Being rafflesians, half of us would end up overseas in UK or US. I know we'd still see each other again, but things will never be the same. Times change, people change, and knowing it as inevitable does not make it any easier to accept. When together, friendship is an easy thing and oft taken for granted. The test of true friendship, however, comes from Time. It is the effort of keeping in touch which makes for a lasting friendship; as, while some may degenerate from lack of use, others would mature and strengthen such that a parting like this is not an end, but a beginning.
Life is an ocean and we have our own boat. We set off from shore and forray into the unknown, travelling towards some distant land. The ocean may be stormy or it may be calm. The weather may be beautiful, balmy, unbearably hot or terribly cold; but the ocean is not so vast that we remain alone, for there will always be another boat on the horizon. Sometimes, the boats bump into each other and we hold hands, not wanting to be alone. Thus, we journey together for a time; yet hands can slip in a raging storm and such is how friendships get torn apart. Some boats, though, attach tow-lines to each other, so that no matter how often they drift apart, they would always find each other again and always be there to help the other in times of need. Then there are the islands of respite, where we may stay idly for a day, or two. Yet the Ocean still surrounds us and the sound of the waves draws us inevitably to our boats and the continuation of our journeys. Though the waters give us life, they may also be our doom. No matter how sturdily constructed, all boats may capsize and only the strong-willed survive: either we swim for shore, or we drown. While the fortunate encounter another boat willing to lend a helping hand, not all can count on that. Life is so much happiness and so much sorrow, so much trouble yet so much joy. No matter how far we travel, or how long, it is the journey which matters most, not the end.
Love u all :)
10:40 PM