I bought an album which I had always wanted to buy today, and another magazine which I had wanted to get since I saw it.

An unexpected trip to meet jiali in town landed me these two items.

I am listening to the CD now.
If you manage to get on uncle Joseph’s cab, ask him to play my CD and the first track which I am listening to now is the track which you’ll get to hear.

When I sat in town’s starbucks drinking the iced mocha today, many memories has rushed back into my mind.
Ochard mrt station’s exit has already been closed and a new one has been opened.

Just like many exits in my life has closed, either temporary or for forever, and several new ones has opened for me.
I find myself missing alot things, simple things which many people hasn’t realized to be of such precious value to me.

I remember, about a year ago, when all was well with my computer, the time when I was always been on msn, I had been chatting to this friend on the msn while being on the phone, suddenly, I halted in conversation for quite a time.

It was because hot tears had been streaming down my cheeks, rendering me speechless.

I remember my friend asking me, cause I had paused in my typing and all he could hear was the music from the background of my side.

It was Angel, from westlife.

If you browse back the imeem playlist for this blog, you’ll be able to find this song.

I suppose he wasn’t aware how affected I was at that point of time, or might had found me ridiculous, cause we lost contact soon after that.

When I was looking at the pictures which we took at the glasshouse some days ago, I had the sudden urge to read my archives, for the cny dinner we had last year.

Many thoughtful people unexpectedly turned up.

I remember Alfred following us all the way to chompchomp, just to have a drink before leaving. He was complaining that why the others are late. I suppose many didnt remember but he made an extra effort to go all the way just because we said it was an reunion dinner.

I remember that fateful conference we had on msn where we had discovered a giant crack in the onions.

I remember Matthew saying that he’s innocent and I remember ham expressing her dislike for people who unknowingly got into our group.

I remember joel saying he’s netural and Eileen was trying to argue back when yiyan and jit was retaliating back with quite angry words.

I remember me trying to calm everyone down, in the end becoming that I was scolded by everyone else.

I remember almost breaking down in front of the com during the mist of the conference cause I thought it was the end of our friendship.

I remember talking to yiyan on IT school’s concourse and we described that the onion’s situation at that point of time was like Tsunami cause there were so many unknown undercurrents.

I remember when going to Chimjes to drink during the first day of 2007 and jit got drunk and hid in the toliet and made me and leon freaking worried when all the while he only did fall asleep inside the toliet. I remember matthew smoking so much cause he was too freaking drunk that poor carrot had to follow around chimjes. I remember Eileen’s friend who drank to much till his heart hurt. I remember shuhui sleeping at the place we always sit when we go chimjes.

I remember hugging Eileen on 2006’s christmas eve in cine’s arcade cause we saw a certain someone and Carrot was looking quite envious then behind her back but she wasn’t aware.

I remember us prata-ing and caroling away at boonkeng on christmas morning.

I remember me, huii, jit, leenx, tian gege, heading to the beach at paris ris after school and playing around with the swings and water at night.

I remember matthew dancing some super old school and techno dance and all of us were trying to copy him in thai disco.

I remember the time when we went to chimjes and all of us got seperated in all corners of chimjes and sam was asking huii at that point of time if she needed a ride home.

I remember me and joel eating buckets of ice when playing cards cause everyone else went hiding in different places and sam thought we were crazy when we asked him to join us.

I remember going pubbing the first time together with onions and darren and jit got so high that they needed me and tian gege to carry them.

I remember leon being late for my birthday celebration at chimjes on 2006 and i forced him to finish the cake which I kept all the way from PS mac to chimjes.

I remember carrot, yiyan, darren and ivan hiding inside PS mac while the others was sitting outside and ivan and darren was covering yiyan and asking me to guess who was behind them. Poor jit looked so sad cause their trick was seen through by me. Yiyan even mgsed me the afternoon before to tell me that she couldnt come for my birthday celebration cause she’s sick.

I remember me, huii and jit watching the stars at paris ris beach at night till the next morning and I was so tired that I fell asleep sitting outside a random 7-11.

I remember us walking past the cemetery near huii’s house to get to the playground and we saw this guy whose friends claimed that he was being possessed and we left quickly after that.

I remember meeting daddy at TM’s long john and the first time I saw him wearing shorts and the first time I see him not styling his hair.

I remember me and eileen met those who went for SIP the first time and ivan asked a question and leenx gave me a stunning reply. I still remember the clearly stunned and priceless expression ivan had on his face.

I remember countless msn and phone conferences we had randomly.

Times when I browsed through my phone book and knew there were so many people whom I could call in times of trouble.

Times when I smiled to myself knowing that I had this priceless group of people with me, no matter what.

There were two people who had told me c121 (or the onions) were the best thing that had happened to them. And we’ll always be here, being the strong pillar of friendship.

One has “dropped out” of our group.

I told the second one, not to hold such high hopes for everyone.

I suppose we’re all growing up.

But do things need to change for the worse during the process of growing up?