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10 years

It has been 10 years since I knew my group of galfriends....all the way back to the days of good ole arts club days at AS5, busy with rag and flag, freshman orientation camps, jam and hop! hah...seems so long ago..

NUS has changed so much but yet, the same windy pathway amidst old trees is still there, steep staircases after staircases to fight through the crowd all the way from LT11 to canteen....the char kway teow or my fav laksa stall...the segregation of heaven, earth & hell seats in the canteen...our fav is still the hell seats..where we usually gather for our meals...SMC at Library, where we occupy the long table..at times the individual cubicles around it..so many pranks and jokes shared in the quiet of the library...missed those days when we slept at AS7 or Arts Club room doing the float, practicing the dance performances to the tune of Vogue & Uptown Girl at AS7 for the camps with the rest of the arts guys, watching SooAnn & Melvin doing their everchanging strange dialogue, the funny little episodes during orientation camps.

Those days, we joked and teased, with not a care and worry that stressed us out for long..save for exams and friends...actually i'm quite proud to say, we did make efforts to keep the group together despite so many changes of the way each of us have lead our lives and moved on to the different stages of lives, no longer are we bounded by the common quest for a degree...when we venture to the working society, its just so comforting to see each other faces even if we don't see one another so often but yet, conversation still flows and being shared so easily...Now in our midst, we have 2 new mothers, 1 mother-to-be, 3 married blissfully & the 3 singletons....really must dig out those photos we took and start comparing how much we changed..

Recently, a few mths back when the 3 singletons were talking abt the future, realised that maybe in the near future all 3 of us may not be in Sg, and suddenly we, rather esp me, started to feel..hm.. a sense of loss? and started to say, 'ahh...if u r not ard, wat wil happen to me!' then at that point of time, i realise the deep bond shared between us. My first thought was oh no, who do i call when i have problems to share? who will go shopping with me? drink tea with me? definitely not my married friends...and all the more, i thought of sumiko tan's article on the Lonely Hearts Club that i blogged abt earlier on...

And what spur me on to write abt this is because my dear friend will be going away soon...out of Sg, of course not forever, but enough for me to miss her around...BUT after all that happened, I'm glad for her cos she is seeking her own happiness after so long and really deserve this 100%.. :) Dun worry, gal..there's your Sony Vaio, MSN & phoenix card! :O

posted by Ling @ 1:26 pm