this year's xmas is quite a different one for me.
at least i think.
giving christmas pressies for the first time.
[and tan yy still refuses to gimme mine. me santa wont you give it to moi? grin]
very caught up with meeting different people this year at this time suddenly.
maybe cos i just met up with the china trip people today

somehow i think the china trip we had in the year end of 2000 impacted us alot.
in one way or another i suppose.
i wonder if those reading my blog think so too. wenyang, yy. wonder if dQ reads tho. im pretty sure the rest doesnt. i bet. muahaha.
it was nice to see today, when we all got together again after not meeting for nearly 3 years [or is it more i cant quite remember. did we meet in dec 2004? when was the time we went east coast to cycle?], everybody could still talk freely and easily. of course, there were awkward silences here and there occasionally, but i still enjoyed myself. everybody dint seem to have changed much. wenyang, cos i still saw him around in sch last year. dQ, still striked me the same as before. yuxian, still talking all sorts of nonsense all the time. aaron, still the same though i was kinda surprised he joined canoe. come to think about it, wont angela be his senior? you guys still remember the aaron song? muahaha. oops. grin. and of course dearest maxine, still as demure as ever. took a group picture, i want the photo! it shows us all, after 4 years.
went back to look at the photos when we were all in china. and yea i love the macs photo too.
those taken outside macs when we couldnt find any space inside to sit.
and to think we were considering repeating the feat of sitting on the steps outside macs if we could find sth like that in singapore. but we never got to do that ultimately.
shit la. all these has gotten me thinking about the past.
i still remember them clearly. how we had so much fun, young and carefree in the strange lands.
away from stress and school and books [tho we still had maths olympiad lessons in CHINESE! blearh i wonder now how we managed to understand the chinese language of mathematics.] and soaking in the culture in china.
doing silly stuff like yy's chinese dance and singing to huanzhu songs cos that was the fad then.
angela going on and on about how cute aaron was [and still is i must say. muahaha.].
busy buying cds like crazy at the cd shop near suzhou fan dian cos it was damn cheap. renminbi 10 yuan i can still remember clearly.
the stupid dare the rg girls made on one of the ri guys. was glad that me yy and junhui werent involved in such childishness. the rg girls even argued because of that. and the worst thing is that the guy aint even good looking. just charming. oh wells.
i had so much fun, i dint miss home at all. and it was my first time away from family for such a long time overseas. my mum had to call when i was in the showers. heh. oops.
i wrote a diary during the course of the trip. and i still have it and i just read it.
the dairy and photos really bring back tons of memories.

now we're all older.
cant imagine them in ns hairstyle. hahaha.
time passed us and now the guys are enlisting next month.
me yy and max are going into the second sem of our uni year one life.
junhui is already in the far lands of uk.
really really glad that we met up and caught up with one another.
cant put my finger exactly on the reason why im really glad, but it just felt appropriate and nice.
maybe we wont meet so often.
maybe we'll meet only at significant times.
like then, we girls finished Olevels. and it was one year after china trip.
like today, when the guys are enlisting soon.
i predict, the next time we meet would be when the guys are out of ns and about to enter uni.
or before people start flying overseas for overseas studies.
do you guys think im right? heh. i think so myself.
but its always times like this when you realise, some friendships can withstand the length of time easily no matter how long you havent seen or talked to each other.




never do last minute christmas shopping.
i hate the christmas crowds. and im going really really really broke. blearh.
there's gonna be negative figures in my bank account very soon.



somehow i cant seem to meet him in the eye last night.
him being so caring. so nice.
i think my crush on him is reemerging again.
oh wells. fleeting crush anyways.
heh.