:: Memories ::
you have them, i have them too... loads of them... beautiful memories... and of course the ugly ones... but never mind those...

i was sifting through the pile of junk under my study table last night, and came across this old shoebox... plain to the average eye, but it held the treasures that i hold dear to my heart... memories from my secondary school days... sigh... in the box were letters... tons and tons of them... in fact... there were 4 years worth of letters...

back in those days... it was the in thing to write letters to pals... close friends... best friends... we wrote them all the time! during class, during recess, during detention... the list goes on and on... and it was filled with everything and nothing! who liked who... who hated whose guts... who was dating who... and all the stuff teenage girls talked about... boys, parents, friends, not-friends...

i think back to the days when the term 'Friends Forever' was something that could happen... something that could not not happen... i mean... what would i do if my best buds Jing, Jingxuan and Karen disappeared on me one day? major catastrophe! we pledged to be friends for the rest of our lives... sisters at heart, and all that... but well... the twins had to transfer out of the school... and then we each had to live our seperate lives... and we just drifted apart... i missed the girls tremendously! i mean, we tried hard to keep in contact... letters every week and phone calls when we could... but it could not be denied that we had very different lives... and the letters slowly fadedinto the background... and the phone calls were almost non-existent... it dwindled to the fact that we only sent christmas and birthday cards to each other... and that disappeared after a while... i do think of the girls now, from time to time... especially when i start reminising about SJC... i wonder how they are now...

another few letters i came across were those exchanged between my bestest friend and i... Frances and i wrote to each other just after she left S'pore for Perth... and those letters just brought tears to my eyes... there were those dated in the year of 1997... and then some were in '98, and even '99... after that... we switched to emails... hehehe... reading those letters reminds me of how much i've changed since my teenage days... oh gawd! how i miss those days... so carefree... and almost stress free... the woes of growing up... *weak smile* Frances is probably the only SJC-ian that i'm still close to... and i thank the Lord for her whenever i can... i mean, how many people out there can seriously say, 'We've been pals for more than 8 years!'? not many...

i'd like to say a big Thank You to those who have made my life so far a great memory that i can continue to carry on... secondary school pals.... Jingjing, Jingxuan, Karen, Andrina, Frances, the whole of the SJC Swim team... the list goes on and on and on... and those that i hold dear to my heart now...