Friends

One of the worst fears of my life is to lose touch with friends, to become irrelevant once we part. And everyone knows that parting is inevitable, i.e. graduation, work and probably marriage and kids later on. That's why I hate changes in life. I used to be paranoid that I'll just fade and disappear into the background, stuck in a rut in the past while everyone else moves on and lives happily ever after sans me. Yeah, I'm narcissistic like that and I have a tendency to think that the world revolves solely around me. Hee~.

But of course, that fear is unjustified for I have some of the greatest friends ever! These past few days have been a great source of encouragement (especially since I got the posting LOL). From friends whom I always sakai with (i.e. Slugudia and Evilelyn), thanks for bringing lotsa cheer into my life with all your humourously funny working stories or your cooking escapades or just plain ol' gossip, hee~, to friends who like to scare people by pretending to be officials from JPA telling me that my appeal has failed (at 6.45 am!!!) thanks for the laughs and jokes and I suppose in a way, concern (and if you call and pretend to be a nurse when I'm on call next time, I'll kill you!!! :P), to friends who offer contacts to help in settling down in Sabah albeit amidst lots of evile laughter at my predicament, to beloved hometown friends who immediately called to offer a shoulder should I need to cry (lol) and who always prove to me that time and distance are not barriers to our wonderful friendships (thanks Hadi and Sankar! although you guys don't need to be so paiseh when I express appreciation LOL), to those who offer much help and encouragement all the time (Soo Fen, Yieng, Pui Ee and numerous others!), you guys all have made my day all the sweeter.

All this definitely makes life all the more beautiful. Indeed, friendship is the treasure that never grows old.

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

-Elizabeth Foley.

Yup, I'm growing sentimental in my old age. Hee~.