supposed to be going out with weiyu, rosel, minjia and trey to vivocity (again)... was actually in a really huge dilemma because i need to go out with my god-sister, yanyi and quan you... my original plan was to go out with rosel, minjia and trey for dinner then to join weiyu, yanyi and quan you to club at st. james power station... but weiyu came back too tired and well we decided that clubbing ain't too fun... so we scrapped it off... then weiyu said that she'll join us for dinner with rosel, minjia and trey... and tomorrow i cannot go out because i'm reserving my entire day tomorrow with my parents... and the great CMPB can't give me a better time to enlist than 8am in the morning... but... weiyu eventually said that she was too tired so she didn't come... sob sob sob sob sob sob... so, its just rosel, minjia, trey and i...

so well i had to forsake my good buddies weiyu, quan you and yanyi lor... sob sob sob... afterall, i had to keep my promise to rosel, minjia and trey; who are partly to credit for the good grades i might get for A levels (if i get them in the first place)... because they were there to study with me... night after night (ok la, minjia only once for the night study, but still gt study together)... and of course the fun and laughter during night study which at least made me study and not waste my time away staring at the PC when i reach home every night... and in the day too, when we scribbled words on papers and passed them around (thanks or no thanks to the great and strict librarian who kept close watch over us to make sure we don't talk)... they were the only group of people doing that... i wonder why... J2s, we simply talk out loud... and the librarian can't do much about it either...

and i left my house planning to be late because i know that all of them would be late... so i left at 5:30pm, slowly walked to the bus stop and took bus 10 to vivocity... and i reached vivocity at 6pm!!! no comments abt that la... so i walked around and found this performance near the sea... string theory, i believe they were called... it was very very very very interesting... from a distance i thought it was a mime!!! two girls were plucking stuff from the air and look like they were really enjoying it.. as i moved closer i saw that they were plucking strings tied to the vivocity building itself!!! lol... and its really very nice!!! although most of the time the band covered over the sound of the "strings"... but there was once that they played "string solo", and it was PERFECT!!! absolutely amazing.. and it has to be the largest instrument there... because the strings are at least 10 metres long!!! lolx... vivocity... nice place to arrive early...

then i went to meet minjia and trey... and walked and walked as we waited for rosel... went to forever 21, which was a female wear shop, and trey started pointing out all the ugly dresses to minjia saying that they were nice in minjia... lol... then we went to marks & spencers and minjia bought chocolates and sweets before we went outside to sit and wait for rosel...

there trey showed off his "magic tricks" to minjia and i who promptly yawned because i personally am not interesting in card tricks, etc... haha... minjia i dunnoe, just too tired maybe... or hungry...

and trey gave me this bookmark with a hand and a heart in the middle... a very innovative gift from thailand... hehe... i particularly liked the way the wire is twisted... it's complex yet it appears simple, and it's practical too, for bookmarking stuff... but since i don't read much (on the book that is, i'm "digital"), i shall just put it on display... this extends it's lifetime too... hehe... i really wonder how people can buy such nice gifts for others... when i go overseas, i usually end up buying food... hmmz...

soon, rosel came with the presents and wanted to wait for weiyu to come to give me... but weiyu didn't come so she gave me the present... it was a super duper nice fan with chinese words on it... it was a phrase (or proverb or whatever) that contained my chinese name, 何书正 in it!!! so cool right??? sorry, i dunnoe how to read traditional chinese so i can't type it out here... but from what i can tell, its: 何足为奇九洲业, 书者论德浩气正 (very cool right???)... weiyu and rosel are such lovely people!!! this is definitely the best gift from china i've ever gotten larz.. and it's probably the only one that i don't mind it saying "made in china"... lolx... THANKS WEIYU AND ROSEL!!! LOVE YOU PALS LOADS!!!

oh and we ate at this weird restaurant besides swensens... the serving was so small that i told rosel that the food got digested in my mouth... that means my stomach is still empty!!! lol... even the ice cream itself was hollow larz!!! ok la... it's only mine... maybe they are trying to help me go on a diet... maybe...

then we went to the sky garden / grandstand again... sat there and slack... while trey showed his magic tricks to rosel again... took several photos then we left... well, at least there's photos... when i still have hair... in 2 days the hair will be gone... haha... happy or sad, i don't know...

hmmz.. thinking about it, NS is really soon and i'm really not prepared for it... i'm so going to miss coming online (and staying online), chatting with people, and as minjia puts it, hanging out at vivocity...

i'll miss the brothers and sisters in church... aloysius, weijie, qinghui, grace (en qi) and grace (sze en), benjamin lee, yan rui, hui yi, ming hui, jun jie, qiliang daoshi, sharon, etc etc... the group of people who had made me grow spiritually and really enlightened my life with all the lessons that are truly "out-of-this-world"... and of course the really fun time we had bowling, pool-ing, LAN-ing, and steamboat-ing... oh and simon and annie too, the super funny daoshi who really are more like the mummy and daddy of tuanqi...

as for quan you, i'm really gonna miss the times we spent just walking around and chatting... quan you have his girlfriend now... but i'll remember him as the one who attended interact meetings with me, the one whom i "gay-ed" with until sherlyn came into the picture, the one whom i went for two star kayaking course with and the super smart ass joker who tried so hard to teach me chemistry but nothing much ever gets into my head... haha... and for all the "nair mind" and the "you damn neh leh" that we said a thousand times to each other...

weiyu and yanyi i'm so gonna miss studying with them... i remember the time we studied together at toa payoh entertainment centre... it was a super fruitful time of studying and well, mixed in between teases and jokes and "suanings", but work was done and i really enjoyed it... and also the many times we simply sat around and talked about the many serious and non-serious stuff... the chattings on the phone... and the many many many others... and for treating me like a 姐妹, and discussing all the 姐妹 stuff right in front of me... hmmz... ok la... i don't mind them because they are super rare to come by especially for a guy...

i'm gonna miss dear eric and jesse, the people sitting beside me in class... jesse with his handphone that screened videos right through Bernard Yeong's Chemistry, Thomas Ho's Maths, Tan CP's Physics and even DLF's GP... i'll never forget the time i blurted out laughing at his tom and jerry cartoon and ending up with fahy staring at me for the next 5 minutes... oh and the little "philosophical discussions" too... about "does santa exist?" (yes, he's standing in front of me right now) and eric with his wealth of "vocabulary", soniyerbitchernayi, knnccb, etc... well, despite all that junk, you've still kept me entertained and really brightened up my day during the worst periods in class...

to trey, also my "gay-buddy" for i-don't-know-what-reason... but he's been nice and funny... altho this joker keeps teasing me about rosel, minjia, weiyu and liyun... i'll remember night study with you too... during the times when we studied together, just the two of us... hehe... it had been great...

and minjia, who is my interact junior but i know her much more of a friend... she'll be remembered as one who is funny most of the time but can be serious when the need arises... as a cute girl who is really associated from head to toe and back to the head with "fun" and more "fun"... and as a dear friend whom i've grown to treasure... alot... "when all else fails, there's always minjia" hehe... i'll never forget that...

to bingxing and xingcai (and "gang"), whom we started out with a grave misunderstanding, but by god's grace we've managed to patch it up and even got together for pool and dinner... it has been a fruitful lesson learnt, and both of you really taught me a major lesson of life...

and finally to rosel who has introduced me to a wide range of friends such as trey, emily, tiffany, joyce, ado, bingxing, xingcai, shane, andrew, claudio, etc... and whom i had a great time arguing about the various philosophical stuff, although i know i do not have the brains to sustain them... and to the motivation during A levels... and well, everything that is shared between us... you've became my buddy, whom i realise while you were away in china, who makes up a significant portion of my life... i really think that my life would be so different without you around to shape it...

i doubt all of those mentioned reads this blog, but well, i'll just keep it in here... for my own memories... and well, to let all of these people know that they are part of benji's experience... and so far my experiences with you pals have been great...

life is really made up of people... philosophers debate whether the character a person is nature or nurture... for me, i believe its 90% nurture and 10% nature... and out of that 90% of nurture, 80% of it comes from friends... friends whom we talk and interact with, friends whom we share our little secrets with... a person is the overlay of all the friends he has... with all the various characteristics of each and every friend he mixes with... a little of A, a part of B, a chip off C... it forms a totally different person... bio-diversity, as one may call it... i would call it people-diversity... it's not used in a negative sense, but a positive sense... a diverse combination of all the traits and character of others into one single being... and at the heart of it all, are friends... the people around us...

i can't help but remember this song: called "friends"