just finished watching high school musical 2... and it's damn damn damn sad... it really makes me wonder whether all of us are like Troy, one way or another... are we natural idiots, when the freebies and all the good stuff come to us; will we choose the free single trip to Australia over a $25 3D2N chalet with friends at Coasta Sands Pasir Ris??? or maybe that's putting it too far; but the question is really about how far one would go for a friend, with a friend... when a friend who drives by offers you a ride on his car back home, would you consider the other 3 friends who have been walking with you for the past 2 hours???

as i look back at my own life, i really see that many times i have taken the bandwagon and left many people who were extremely close to me at that point in time... people like Mark Wee from GMSS... i'd always remember him as the one whom i look up to, for wisdom, guidance and almost everything else... the crazy little characteristic of mine was adopted from him... together we did totally weird, but daring stuff in school... and especially for me, climbing the school fence, ordering pizzas right into class, and getting all the after-school detentions... it wouldn't have happened if not for Mark.. but i'm not a big regretful over the times we had together, but on the contrary, i missed it a lot... it's the times of gay [as in extremely happy] fun; coupled with the daily early morning prayers at the GMSS car park with the rest of the Boys' Brigade pals that made my day... and of course isabella, my 'anonymous' "angel" in class when Ms Lam played the Angel and Mortal game... i'll recall the nice notes that really made me say "wow!!! how on earth did you know i was doing that???" and "i hate it when she reads my mind"... ah, the day illuminators... then there's Renee, Ya Ting, Sarah, etc etc... and JC friends, they're all more-or-less gone... it's really damn sad... it's not that we don't want to meet up, but we're all either busy with studies or busy with NS... and i can only count myself way too lucky to be so free in NS...

but well, there's really not much point lamenting over such stuff ain't it... people all just have to move on... but hey, this is my blog... and since i'm really emo after watching high school musical 2, this page shall bear the full brunt of it... and all these add on to this afternoon's lunch trip with Jing Da to vivo city... when i entered it, with my army uniform on, memories of 17th November 2006 just pops back out...

i can only recall the sweet times i had with rosel, minjia and trey together... it's like carefree, and totally awesome... and as i sat down with Jing Da eating Carls' Jr, i composed a message to rosel and minjia... but somehow i pressed "delete"... and when i looked out at the sky garden when Jing Da went to browse for his Nintendo Wii controller, tears formed and almost rolled down my cheeks... very very very sentimental i must say... vivocity became the landmark that signified the friendship forged between the few of us back in CJC... after all, vivocity was the gateway to Sentosa where minjia, trey and i went on the amazing Imbiah Thrill back then... and it's at vivocity that we watched Casino Royale instead of Happy Feet [which i now love soooo much]... and it's also then that we went on board a book fair on a really large ship [Duolos] docked at vivocity then... and let's not talk about the times we spent sitting down at the grandstand playing "truth and truth" [not truth or dare]...