Saturday, January 31, 2009
Today was supposed to be our class Chinese New Year + Birthday Celebration for Justin and Terence lunch. Labels: friends
We were told to meet at Dhoby Gaut at 12.30, but I guess we forgot that the station is an interchange with multiple exits, and so no one knew where exactly to go. I was waiting for about 15 minutes at the first level near Plaza Sing, and only saw Linh and Elaine, who'd been at another entrance.
After many phone calls, finally there were 9 of us: me, Elaine, Linh, Ben, Kai Xin, Xin Yuan, Jessica, Sheryl and Wan Ting. And we went to the PS basement to eat at Pizza Hut.
Lunch was fun; we were all talking about what we'd been doing thus far. And it's at this point that we realise how old we sound, talking about work, driving, and later on, the army. Like Jess said, we used to talk about homework, now it's about work.
Quite a few of them are teaching, and I think I've been scared by XY's stories of the neighbourhood school she's teaching at. Seriously, the kids didn't even show up for her first class! Inconceivable!
We went to the arcade in the station after lunch (Elaine had to leave), where we took pictures in the neoprint booth using WT's camera, lol. Then they played things like DDR and some shooting thing that Ben's very good at. I suspect he's played very often.
After a while, Jess, Sheryl and WT also had to go, after which Justin and Charlyn turned up. Justin's an army boy now! And he was wearing this fedora thing, and XY wondered why he was suddenly 'so stylish', before realising he was covering his hair, or rather, lack of it!
Then after they got tired of playing, Linh, KX and XY also left, so it was the four of us, and we walked to the Cathay to Ben & Jerry's (Ben wanted to!), where we met Jeremy, who was wearing a cap too!
I confess, we had no ice-cream. We just drank water and talked, and ought to be ashamed of ourselves. As was expected, the two guys were talking on and on about army stuff in army lingo, and giving friendly advice to Ben, who's only enlisting in April.
I was actually concerned about going home in time for dinner, when my mum smsed me to say they'd be eating somewhere else, so I could go eat by myself! But anyway, I just went home, lugging the winter jacket that KX returned me.
I'm a bit disappointed by the attendance today. Perhaps we should have another one at someone's house, at a better time. But seriously, guys are only free on weekends, with different booking out times, and people have other stuff on, like church. It's hard to coordinate!
The main thing about today is that I think I've been struck by how we've 'graduated' from school. I do quite miss it, going for lessons with friends, eating lunch together in the canteen, CCA, etc. Like I said, when we talked, it was all about working, earning, driving, army, essentially conversation that had never occurred before.
And like I said to my parents, it's possible that I'll never see some of them again if I don't keep in touch. Maybe the last time I'll see them is when we're getting our results (supposedly in the 2nd week of March), and then they'll fly off to some university overseas, come back at different times, get jobs, and never be seen again by me. Or perhaps they'll migrate!
This is actually quite depressing a thought. Yup, I'm gonna ensure that we meet again year after year. Organize some annual dinner when we can update each other about our lives, and remind each other to invite the class to their weddings. Yay.
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