Sometimes i wish i can write as well as Hwei Shan and Marcia...
Hwei Shan has pretty much wrote out everything i wanted to say about yesterday's gathering, so with permission from her, this is what she wrote...
The class gathering at Joyce's place was nothing short of fantastic. While it wasn't the longest gathering, it brought back many good memories. Like the one of Su Phine throwing a packet of biscuits at the fan and it promptly exploding, sending crumbs flying all over class. I'd pretty much forgotten that, until Tessa brought it up and I couldn't stop laughing.
It was good to see so many of the 4A1 people again. Some, like Jiamin (and probably myself), haven't changed a bit in these 4 years. Then there were people like Xing'en and Tessa, who look really different and good now. But the faces stayed as familiar as ever. I was kind of surprised by that; I had expected not to recognise a few people.
And the class spirit lives on, man. I can't believe how comfortable it was just being around them again. It's kind of hard to explain, but even though everyone's doing different things, there's still this incredible pride of being someone from 4A1, Class of 1999. Tessa, on the Channel i news. Jiamin, working with the DSTA on summer research. Becki, probably on the dean's list in SMU.
I'm just so proud of them. There isn't any competition to see who can do better, and I'm really glad that they've managed to achieve so much.
And today i went to my maternal granny's place in Taman Molek in Johor Bahru... I finally know where my granny lives in Malaysia. Previously, i juz remembered that she lives near the Carrefour in Johore. It've been like 1-2 years since i went there i think... Johore is as chaotic as how i remembered it.... i dun think Johore has really progressed much since the last time i was there. Loads of dirty drains and rivers...Sometimes smelly , Messy, and a petrol station every few hundred metres, which i find very amusing. Granny still looks as healthy as ever, the house still looks the same, except the koi pond is now empty as my uncle tries to expand it... It was a sense of familiarity, except the house now does not seem as noisy as i remember it... the kids (me, my cousins, my nephew etc etc) have grown up and not longer come around that often anymore. Sigh. I feel old now.
