reminiscence

carmie said: "blogging helps u sort out stuff.. helps u reflect." indeed it's true in every sense of d word. since yesterday thots haf been flooding my mind n they floated above me in a huge bubble, incrasing in size as i went along with my stuff, so much so tt i cld not simply juz wave them away. haha.. literally.. anyhow it's a gd thing i feel. perhaps i shd haf done this long ago. put all my bubble thots into print. but someone had to inspire me to start it. n tt's u. :)

it's a wonderful tuesday morning rite now, no more time for blues cuz it's a great day out there with so much to do. n i, for one, am supposed to be busy. yeah, i'm busy with typing. n soon to be even busier with many other things so i shall get this over n done with first.

met up with jiao lian n some of the ny old girls of my age but 1 batch more senior after work yesterday. dinner was to be at crystal jade holland v. i was filled with much apprehension as i neared d place. wld it be awkward with them? it was not having to see jiao lian tt i worried abt. it was d rest. i haven't seen them in like ages. considering how it was with other older seniors who weren't really very frenly, my fears were completely justified. anyway it turned out i was being a total idiot! d entire evening was anything but awkward. far, far from it. haha.. silly me..

i suppose it was d fact tt jiao lian draws us all together, it was like we were back in ny all over again despite how different n changed we all were. we were juz 8 of us. bingling, huiping, shinta, huiyi, mingshi, mingfang came a lil later, n of course jiao lian. no doubt not everyone was there, but those few who were, i cld tell tt they felt thoroughly at home. i felt at home. we discussed many things, reminisced of the past n how silly we looked in our teenage days. den came the more serious issues, jobs, boyfriends n stuff, n getting married blah blah.. gosh! haha.. den she mentioned pretty abrubtly tt those who were not tied down with bfs shd expand their vision, travel abroad n see the world all over. at tt point it seemed as if she had many whacky ideas up her sleeve. but come to think of it, she's apparently much more "qian2 wei4" den any of us so called youngsters. happening eh. i cld tell tt none of us wld be able to put everything down n juz earn our food n lodging as we travel. too much responsibilities, too much commitment to let go of. she wld haf done tt. had she been younger. wait a minute, she did tt already.. dear me.. i suddenly looked at her with renewed awe. there u go. my dearest jiao lian always :)

after a sumptuous dinner, mingfang fetched jiao lian back while bingling drove the rest of us. mingshi had left earlier cuz she had to visit her grandpa in sgh. he was in d late stages of badly spread cancer which started off from his lungs. when she shared dis, dere was momentary silence, of which i suppose d notion of d transcience of life struck us all. hmm.. i see death in a diff way now, prolly cuz of dis book i read. which was really good.. shall talk of tt sometime. anyway, back in d car i was gonna mention. ended up catching up on a more personal level with huiyi, n i enjoyed talking to her n all of them too. we drove ard trying to pick out d best route to huiping's house in serangoon, but not d best always happens! it was fun though. had a great evening.. hehe.. i juz realised.. i'm long winded rite? :)

ooohh.. hammie carmie juz sent me a morning msg. how thoughtful haha.. how did hammie come abt? hmm.. only d 4 of us wld noe eh? *wink*