Hi Eunice of course I know you hehe (: My schedule changes from week to week, but for this coming week I'm working on Tuesday 6 - 11, Wednesday 6 - 12.30, Friday 7 - 2, Saturday 7 - 2. Pretty late huh?
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I met up with Becky today to pay a visit to our previous church, after THREE plus years of not being there! I think we shocked a lot of people and even had a couple of the musicians on stage waving to us as we walked in. Haha! Very cool to meet up with all our old friends and find out what had happened since we were away. Seems like a trend to have intra-church relationships (just like it is the trend to have intra-JC or even intra-class ones)!
Everyone was nice to us and all, but I guess the long absence was a cause for some of the awkwardness. One of our closer buddies in church seemed completely stunned into silent shyness when the 2 of us bustled up to her enthusiastically half-screaming ... She was so strangely quiet and I could hardly hear the few words she mumbled to us and ... I don't know. It was a little weird, after the initial "HELLOOOO it's youuu!!!"s the novelty died off and I guess we're just no longer part of that family anymore.
We went with a bunch of friends to a snooker room / arcade. I played Daytona for the first time, screamed my lungs out every time I smashed into the barriers (ie. I was constantly screaming), and ended up last out of the 3 of us. Exciting.
We were known in church as Bim and Bo some years back (no idea who's Bim and who's Bo though) so we figured some photographic evidence was due.
Went over to her house for a while, and the rest decided to play pool again (oh those addicts) so we crossed the road to her OTHER (condo) house which had a pool room. Saw the very jaccuzi that caused the German dude to drown ): Do you remember reading that in the papers quite some time ago? I thought it was awfullly sad.
Sleepy to the core, and reluctant to play pool with the others. So we left them there happily pool-ing away, and went for a walk. For which I am very thankful, because we ended up kicking off our heels and having a crazy fun time at the playground making friends with little kiddos! 2 Koreans and a big bunch of Aussies. They were SO CUTE omg and we had so much fun amusing them and ourselves. The kids ended up showing off their acrobatic skills to us and laughing at these 2 big jiejies who couldn't shimmy up poles or flip over bars, we had lots of races which involved us huffing and huffing about the 'race course', we chitchatted to the kids about kiddy things, and then there was hide and seek.
Perhaps this is really cliched but I really miss being a kid. It's so easy to make them laugh, and they're just so simple and unassuming and bluntly genuine, no pretence, no airs, no facades.
Becky and I packed like sardines in a purple tube thing, during a game of hide & seek.
The seeker found us, and obliged when I asked her for a photo! Such a cutie (:
Amusing conversation of the day -
(I was squatting under the BBQ pit above Aussie kid, because we were sharing a hiding spot.)
Aussie kid: There are ants at your feet.
Me: Ahhhh! (waddles away while trying to stay out of sight)
Aussie kid: (giggle) I can see your knickers!
Me: (giggle) I can see yours too!
(Whereupon the both of us rearranged our skirts and recovered our modesty.)
Everyone should go and make friends with kids. You can do and say all sorts of ridiculous things and they will laugh :D and you will laugh :D and the best part is when they tug on your hand and beg you to play with them. Heehee feel so loved :D
Anyway I'm so glad for Becky because even after all these years, when meeting old friends can become somewhat awkward, it's nice to know that some things don't change. Some friendships sour when left aside for too long, but for others, slipping back and comfortably picking up from where you last left off is easy as pie. If only it could always be like that!
If you can't tell, today was a Good Day for me (: Much love <3 to pretty Becky who will probably never see this.
I need to meet up with lots of people, but it's so difficult nowadays, seeing that everybody's always so busy, myself included. Please call me for a date thank you very much. (: