about catching up these days.
personally, catching up has always been a big problem for me.
firstly, it's just plain awkward to just go over to say hi after not meeting for so many years.
secondly, there's this rush of words or things you want to say but somehow, you're not sure of which ones to say. and most of the time, you end up just waving and saying nothing at all. or in my case, you just end just saying "oh my God! oh my God!"
y'see, time does funny things to people. for starters, it makes some of them look so damn different and you can't recognise them anymore but they can recognise you. funny, huh?
today's post is about a childhood friend(who's a cousin of a girl i had a crush on in primary school) who went with me to piano class(lowrey music school i think). so, as time would have it, i didn't see her for a good six years, that was until we met again at cjc. it was during orientation and all, and it was during one of 'em meal times and i was talking to po xian(i think). then came this girl, who looked pretty fierce, who came over to our table to ask if i was "alex poon". i said, "yeah. and you are?" deborah. "deborah what?" wong. "er, oh." at that moment, i thought i was in some kind of trouble or something. no one has ever gone up to me during an orientation camp to confirm my name before. it was scary mann.
there were a few more things she said to help me remember who she was. but i can't remember what they were now. but most importantly, the last thing i remembered saying was "oh my God! oh my God!" mann, what a doofus. i meet a friend from some light years away and all i could say was just that. well, you could say that i was shocked. i couldn't recognise her, for one. two, i totally didn't expect to see her here, of all places. if you ask me, i thought she would wind up at RJ or something. three, yeah, i was just stunned.
time does a lot of funny things to people. for her, she went on to become the head prefect in her secondary school. like wow. as for myself, i pretty much stayed as nothing. okay, then again, time didn't do that for her. she did it herself. respect mann.
anyway, i finally got myself some courage to say hi to her(i always have this fear of screwing up catching up sessions. y'know like how you run out of things to talk about after you say hi.) on MSN messenger just the other day and we kinda caught up and all. she's aiming for FASS. she's doing relief teaching now. she thinks that i dislocated my shoulders tackling fat people(i should have told her the truth, but mann, that'd be just messed up. cos in rugby, it ain't always about tackling fat people, sometimes, it's about the fat getting tackled.). she kinda messed up her math and now she's worried about the 'A's. and yeah.
it was nice i guess. keeping yourself connected to the people you used to know and all. and maybe, by doing that, you actually remember who you are too. funny, isn't it?
firstly, it's just plain awkward to just go over to say hi after not meeting for so many years.
secondly, there's this rush of words or things you want to say but somehow, you're not sure of which ones to say. and most of the time, you end up just waving and saying nothing at all. or in my case, you just end just saying "oh my God! oh my God!"
y'see, time does funny things to people. for starters, it makes some of them look so damn different and you can't recognise them anymore but they can recognise you. funny, huh?
today's post is about a childhood friend(who's a cousin of a girl i had a crush on in primary school) who went with me to piano class(lowrey music school i think). so, as time would have it, i didn't see her for a good six years, that was until we met again at cjc. it was during orientation and all, and it was during one of 'em meal times and i was talking to po xian(i think). then came this girl, who looked pretty fierce, who came over to our table to ask if i was "alex poon". i said, "yeah. and you are?" deborah. "deborah what?" wong. "er, oh." at that moment, i thought i was in some kind of trouble or something. no one has ever gone up to me during an orientation camp to confirm my name before. it was scary mann.
there were a few more things she said to help me remember who she was. but i can't remember what they were now. but most importantly, the last thing i remembered saying was "oh my God! oh my God!" mann, what a doofus. i meet a friend from some light years away and all i could say was just that. well, you could say that i was shocked. i couldn't recognise her, for one. two, i totally didn't expect to see her here, of all places. if you ask me, i thought she would wind up at RJ or something. three, yeah, i was just stunned.
time does a lot of funny things to people. for her, she went on to become the head prefect in her secondary school. like wow. as for myself, i pretty much stayed as nothing. okay, then again, time didn't do that for her. she did it herself. respect mann.
anyway, i finally got myself some courage to say hi to her(i always have this fear of screwing up catching up sessions. y'know like how you run out of things to talk about after you say hi.) on MSN messenger just the other day and we kinda caught up and all. she's aiming for FASS. she's doing relief teaching now. she thinks that i dislocated my shoulders tackling fat people(i should have told her the truth, but mann, that'd be just messed up. cos in rugby, it ain't always about tackling fat people, sometimes, it's about the fat getting tackled.). she kinda messed up her math and now she's worried about the 'A's. and yeah.
it was nice i guess. keeping yourself connected to the people you used to know and all. and maybe, by doing that, you actually remember who you are too. funny, isn't it?
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