Hi i'm back after eons! Maybe no one's reading badminton1st anymore they got tired of seeing me thank my friends for the birthday surprise, then people gave up persuading me to blog through the tagboard.. But hey it's sincerity you see, cos' Gratitude is on front page (front of the page) for almost 2 months.
Recently i met up with old schoolmates from elementary after a good six donkey years. I've to say it was the first time i appeared for a gathering despite various invitation (some i din't even hear of), so i'm considered rare guest. So my new year resolution shall be to be less antisocial (not that i was), and it was a long time since i had such good laughs cranking up jokes with random people whom i haven't seen in ages. Some have changed to the extent that i wouldn't recognise them on the streets but others look the same.
It's a good feeling, reminiscing about those childish acts that we did when we were 10, and realise how we've all matured and grown. In our primary school days, we gave each other nicknames, like how kitty khoo can be "chicken backside" (translate to chinese for effect) or rachel goh can be "chili goh" (translate to chinese for effect) . To be mean, we can call fat people "fatty bom bom".. and realised how stupid they all sound and we laughed our heads off..
In those days, whichever boy you sat with was your boyfriend (thats ultimate, i probably had lots of boyfriends then, and changing one each day.) and so aaron was my boyfriend for a year. Friends wrote "you jump i jump" on our tables and on my birthday card by zhixuan was "jaslyn + aaron = jack + rose = titanic" (maybe titanic was hot stuff at that time). Boy am i good to keep cards dated way back..
But we were pretty healthy back then, self initiating captain ball matches with 6B, and having a showdown till unhappiness arose. Everyday after school we headed for hougang cc like free birds with no homework to do, and played ball for a straight 3 hours. Our showdown was brought to attention to the HOD of Pe and Science (i wonder why) and HOD of Sci asked with concern..
"Who Won?" "We won.. but they want a rematch." "No! no rematch we won!"
We got so good, HOD of pe suggested that i join netball in secondary school. But i got stuck with badminton without regrets.
We haven't met for such a long time that we forgot some people in the class. And there was a trend going on at that time where "No fringe and high socks were cool". At that age, girls with long hair tied their hair back till no fringes were seen. It was a phase that long haired girls would go through and it's evidently proven! 10 girls in my class were long haired and all had the same hairstyle, goodness me. And that goes the same for sam's sis and xj.
We flipped through zhixuan's old autograph book, and we laughed at ourselves for rating our friends as gold friends, silver friends, bronze friends.. or head, shoulder, knees and toes. -__- And the hates in our class, thank goodness they weren't checking out the autograph book!
Hi everyone. I should say you must be scrutinizing every part of my blog to be reading this arent you?
Well, if you're that bored or interested in me, this is me you're looking at.
Just a typical mundane human being living in this distorted world filled with what we call friends and foes.
It's just me to get all maudlin and touchy about friendships and covalent bonds that i painstakingly built,
and it's most dreading to realise what you call friends are actually fair-weathered ones and ditch you for others.
You know.. that sort of ambivalent feelings which arises with such friendships.
From young, my pedagogues have complained of me being temperamental and from there i have learnt and seen the world beyond me, where there happened to be people fairing far worst than i do.
I realised in this period of isolation that life turns out to be happier for everyone if people knew how to be sate with life.
It's just in the genes that human beings have to take things for granted and learn to appreciate things only when they have lost it. Sad isn't it?.
I admit possessing that characteristic, which led me to losing what i should have treasured most, with great regrets.
Now, like Krishna, we are inclined to seeking comfort from things that we are familiar with, unaccustomed to changes.
It may not appear to be me on the outside, braving the winds of the outside world, strong and unbeatable.
Like the saying goes, never judge the book by its cover, and i believe in that, in the way i credit people.
We all treasure private space don't we?.. It's just human nature.
And of course it most dreading to feel deserted by your friends isn't it.. ? To feel cheated and betrayed..
Well, live a sate life readers!
liKez.
+memories of the past..
+2/3'04.. where i met all of u..
+4/7'06.. the past.
+And. badminton.. where unity lies. love the ppl in it.. especially my batch of peers and the seniors!
+07s56 and jie-meis! the present.
+vjc shuttlers.. the domination of spasticity.
+you.
