This week, on the 8th of Aug, my oldest friend turns 17
i like this photo.. very bollywood LOL

i know that the other chinese girl in the photo isn't me -.- but whatever lah.
i wish i could be there.

i've missed all your birthdays since i moved away. :(
i guess since i can't be there to give you a big hug and tell you happy birthday, this is my 'present' for you.

i was gonna put lots of photos of us up. but i realized, even though you're my oldest friend, we don't have any photos together. our friendship isn't marked by the number of photos we have.. because we were simply too young to discover the joy in camwhoring :P

but here's a long reminiscence of the times we shared.

i remember (very vaguely) gathering below the E block for the school bus to come. i'm pretty sure that you took the bus too. that was before MCS relocated to thompson and it was in toa payoh. that was.. around seven years old.

i remember.. (also pretty vaguely) being in the same year 1 class. we weren't even good friends then.


i remember.. in p5, when we were eleven or so, we started walking home together everyday. back then, i was probably the most unfortunate looking kid i could remember, and i couldn't get enough of books. i'd read and walk at the same time, if i wasn't walking with you. you were on the verge of starting to get pimples, and i remember you always asking why i never got them.
i guess puberty hadn't quite hit yet. ;)

do you remember walking on top of the wall on purpose instead of the proper walkway, just cos it was more fun? i think i would be scared now, because looking back.. the ground seems quite far away.

i remember you making me cry in p6. i cried for the whole day T_T and i didn't wanna go to school after that. for awhile we weren't friends.

but that i think, was our only "fight" or whatever you'd call it, in the whole history of our friendship. then after awhile it was all good, and we were happy kids again :D

i remember on your twelfth birthday, sitting in your room telling ghost stories with garene and carmen and candice, and scaring ourselves silly.

i remember your little sister, even then such a carbon copy of you, wanting to come into the room and you telling her to go away. haha, such a meanie, kicking your little sister out. :P

i remember laughing about arunaa and kavya. LOL. i remember how you and garene used to chuck little bits of rubber or stapler or something or other, into kavya's hair.

remember how garene or someone used to suspect that ms tien was lesbian? and how surprised we were one day when she wore a blue dress to school..

do you remember going to the shop and buying those chocolate sticks?

i also remember the day you told me your indian name. *cough* p..*cough* lol

i remember watching harry potter together, and making our sisters sit away from us. HAHA. rmb carmen thought malfoy was hot?

i remember we didn't collect our PSLE results together, coz i was away somewhere and you were in india. but the first day i got back, i was sad coz i knew that we were gonna be in different schools.

then the next year.. instead of walking the road to school, we walked on the opposite side of the road to the bus stop.

you would call me, or i'd call you every single morning (i can still remember your house number) at 6.20 and you'd say "limxinni hurry up we're going to miss the bus!" and i'd mumble "ok going down now.." even though in reality you probably woke me up with your phone call.

but you always waited, even if we missed the bus :) i knew i'd always find you under your block with your arms crossed and giving me a Look.

i remember dashing madly across the overhead bridge for 851.

i remember telling you about a "hot" guy in my class whom i thought you'd really like, and now all these years later it turns out he's attached to a friend of yours. small world, eh?

i remember all the times we'd talk about our parents and be like. 'OMG DEJA VU!'

i remember teasing you about projoy. HAHA. i still remember his name. lollll

and then remember we tried setting up caroline and projoy?

and going down to the clubhouse and eating sushi. and having chinese new year at my house, even though you're not exactly chinese. muahahah. lol.

i remember us swapping stories about secondary school, and me telling you about all my friends.
as it turns out now, you know them too because you guys are now in the same school :)

i remember sms-ing you after a really horrible awful day in sec sch, when some bitchy person was really tight to me, and you met me after school and bussed home and was there for me to offload my troubles.

i remember some of our trips to j8 together, since it was built :D

i remember walking home in the rain together, getting utterly completely soaked.

i remember having long long conversations under your block and you'd shriek 'DONT COME NEAR ME WITH THE CAT!' while i used to play with tommy, that fat white cat.

and going to the playground together during the holidays.

hah. i remember that second nail of yours, that's always orangey black or something. the one you jammed into a door.

i remember you introduced me to your friend roshni :D

i remember talking about who we bumped into from our pri sch and how much they'd changed.

i just wanted to thank you for sticking by me through good times and bad. through ugly, really ugly moments (i cannot believeeeee i had such bad hair.) and really, through most of the moments we had together..

and lastly, i remember me telling you i had to move, and telling you to come to australia with me, when we both knew it wasn't gonna happen.

we cried together for the last time ( well. we haven't cried together since then.), at the same place we always spent ages talking.

and before i left, you gave me a card in your signature fat writing, and a book for photos :)

you were always a phone call away, whether i was bored, annoyed, sad, upset, etc. with every year that passes you grow more and more beautiful each year :D
and holy crap, you were always really smart too.

and even though we always seem to never have enough time to catch up.. yush.. i can't wait for the end of this year to come.. we'll be together again!

LOVELOVELOVE