Thanksgiving..(cont'd)

I signed off the last entry aft thanking my family. Thinking back, frens are also a part of my life, though my frens seem to come and go. Since pri sch, i have only a small grp of close frens, who will eat, play, laugh and cry with me. (in no order of preference):

Liwen (kuah) > My Sec 1~4 classmate. The way i get to know her is interesting. It was my 1st day in NYGH, and it was orientation day. My parents brought me there and seeing that i was the only one from my pri sch there, they tried to help me 'look' for a fren. Mummy spotted Liwen in the queue and went up to her to intro me. Haha, so from then on, we became best frens. Kuah, thanks for being with me all the way till now, though we lost contact for a few yrs during JC, i m glad i found u again and its really one of the greatest gift in life to know you. Kuah, looks like we gotta thank my mummy for intro-ing us. haha :)

Shuwei > My pri sch pal. We were in same class since pri 1 and lived very near each other. I m glad to know her, though our frenship was not a super close one, we maintain a nice, light-hearted and understanding relationship. We keep in touch with MSN, sms once in a while, never forgetting each other's bday (and it has been for 16 yrs > can u imagine?), CNY, Xmas. We get tgt occasionally and still feel as close as during our pri sch days. Shuwei, thanks for being my long-time fren, u mean a lot to me and is a part of my pri-sch memory. :)

Youya (yaya)> Another gd fren from pri sch. Youya sat beside me and sorry to say, i bully her. haha, but its just some minor tantrums and Youya, being the nice and quiet gal, always give in to me. We meet up occasionally and despite the short meetings, i'm always able to snuggle up to her and tell her my true feelings. Yaya, we must keep in contact ok!

Jingyuan (dear) > My uni fren/course mate. Have only known her for a few yrs but it seems like we know each other all our lives. She will always be with me to share the happiness and grouches at work, in life, and before in school. She majored in Civil Engi, specializing in logistics and tpt, now working with a renowed flight carrier. Haha :) I rem when i could not find a job during june~july period, she was the one (beside my family) who supported me and said would help me keep a lookout in her office. She told me not to give up and will def find a job. She was one of the frens to rem my 1st day at work, concerned abt every one of my interviews and the first fren whom i share my job offer with. Thanks dear! You will always be an integral part of my life and hope our frenship can sustain for years to come :)

Tingting (fren)> This fren is special, i was in the same sec sch as her but i dunno her, until we come to uni and in civil engi. haha, the first day in CE, Fren saw me and saw if i going to welcome tea and whether i was from NYGH too! haha, only till then we became frens and went thru all the boring lects, mafan labs and demanding tut tgt. We even take the same modu and went thru some punishing lects tgt. A test of tolerance by us le :P we would eat, sing k, laugh, joke, read and do projs tgt. Complain and grumble tgt also :) Fren! How can we ever forget the times we had in uni?

Wenjia > This is my cosmetics and perfume pal. Met her in uni, yr 2, CE too. Wenjia loves to do make up and read up on it, so we would discuss tgt, go to her room and i help her to do make up. Hair is also our fave topic. I hardly find anyone who likes beauty as much as i do, esp in make up and hair. so wenjia is also a treasure! She is a Christian, but unlike other Christians i know, she will not try to push me to believe in her belief. Instead we always have open discussions abt hers and my religion, we would also share the diff aspects of the two. Wenjia, do u rem wat happen during HRM?? that was a period when i was interested in 'something' and u were the one who share with me! haha :P

Liz > My hair stylist. She is the one who will recreate my style for me every 3mths, with a major makeover once a yr. The only reliable person whom i ll approach for a perm, cut and color/highlight. Liz taught me the ways to curl/set my hair, how to use various Re**en pdts, how to care for hair and maintain my hair shape. During our sessions, we would talk abt life, health and travel too. A good fren and nice stylist. I tink she is the only one who will cut and touch my hair, other than myself. I only trust her hands. No Liz = no haircut!

Angela > Another angel in my life. My beautician and life consultant. I went to her aft using some famous Jap beauty product, and with pimples (big ones) on my cheeks and jawline, i wanted to 'die' b4 i went to Aunt Angela. She saved me and my day by treating the pimples and changed my entire beauty/cosmetic line. Every one of her pdt is gd and reasonably priced, and it comes with after-facial consultation. I m her only customer who will go back to her once a wk aft facial (which is once a mth) to do mini-facials (absolutely FOC). She treats me like a VVIP and i feel so fortunate to meet her! I m tutoring her daughter now and i enjoy our sessins tgt too :P Aunt Angela is really an angel in my life. We would talk abt life and how to live happily and healthily. After meeting her, even Mummy is happier and feels lighter :D

I have other frens whom i did not mention, but i emphasized that all of u are impt to me and makes me a better person. To those frens whom i broke off contact with, though u made me very sad and betrayed, i must thank you too, coz u made me a better person and made me see thru ur true colors.

Last of all....

Zijin (Duckie) > Did you tink i miss you out? I could never erase u from my life, though we are not as close now. My sec sch fren since sec 1 too. Kept in touch all along until now. Frenship with her was nv smooth-sailing as we had many interferences betw us, as i met LN during the course and became closer to her, hence neglecting Zijin. She expressed her unhappiness to me lately and though i have never apologize to her for this incident, i sincerely am sorry and do not blame her for distancing herself from me now. Some things gone can never come back and i kinda accepted this truth now. But a person must be grateful for what she has had b4, i had the absolute frenship of Zijin then, but being an insensitive person, i lost her frenship and drifted apart. We went thru thick and thin tgt, the most significant two events were: when i did pooly in O'levels prelims and could not go to HCJC for 1st 3 mths. Was terribly sad then and one day, Zijin came to me with a bar of CA***ry's Fruit & Nut choc, wrapped with a strip of paper. On it, she wrote: Though u did not do well, u shld not give up and should perserve. >> Though until today, i cannot rem the exact words unless i refer to the strip ( i still keep it), her gesture warms my heart and its a frenship which i ll nv forget. At that time, i was feeling down and all other frens were busy with o's preparations, she is the only one who rem to comfort and encourage me.
Another time was in JC, when we both had bfs, i just broke off with CW and was sad b4 a-levels. She comforted me and when she met with any prob, i also comforted her. I was terribly down then, and she was the only one who lent me her shoulders, listen to my whims and tears and grumbles. A crucial period for us and we managed to pull thru. Duckie, still rem wat happen? Though its a painful memory for u and me, i m glad we pulled thru and i m glad we stood by each other at that time. :P
Duckie, u may not treat me as ur closest fren anymore, just a normal fren, but to me, you will always be the one who knows me the best. More than just a lunch-chit-chat fren, but someone who knows me more than i know myself. If i can turn back time, i promise i ll nv compare u to LN, never to neglect ur frenship. But life always has to have regrets and this is one big regret in my life :(

A very long post and only the patient ones will read till here. A fren just reminded me that day that she is waiting to read my Hokkaido trip. I m sorry that i did not update and i ll do so this wkend when i have my lappy and pics (in lappy) with me.