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Winston Zhang
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
00:04:00
According to the computer clock, it's currently 12.04am, March the 1st.
I always had an affinity with the month of March, which is weird, cos only a few important events occur during this month.
1) My birthday haha. That's at the end of the month, on the 28th.
2) The birthday of my best pal, Boon Wei. That's 9 days before mine, on the 19th.
3) The birthday of another good friend, Timothy. Now I don't keep in touch with him much anymore, though when we talk we do as if we never stopped. That's brilliant, and I wish that were the case with every friend I know now, or will ever know in my life. At any rate though I forgot the exact date of his birthday, haha. If I'm not wrong it's on the 21st.
4) Usually it's the month of the first school holidays. This year it doesn't matter for me, of course.
And see, that's all really. Only 4 things. However I think I feel this special connection with the month because of very fact that points 1, 2 and 3 are for real. I'll just recount one little tale to illustrate how close the 3 of us were back in Primary School:
It was... Primary 5. Yep, I remember. Register number-wise, Boon was 3rd last, Timo was 2nd last and I was the magical number 40, as I usually was every year in Primary School. Now usually this wouldn't be anything special (the register numbers), but, as you know, during exams we sat according to our register numbers. So, while for most people it meant a minor upheaval in their sitting neighbours, for us it was like 'FUN TIME!' or something, haha.
Now, we were all already good friends by this time, so it's not like we only got to know each other that year, or anything like that. There was this other kid in our class, let's just keep him nameless eh? (Ehhehehehe) This kid was, well, abit of a twat (warning: UNDERSTATEMENT). It'd been that way since Pri 2, I think. Allow me to state an example as to how unpopular he was: At the start of every year there was the swearing in of prefects, right? Well, if the person up there was popular there'd probably be cheers, and applause was the norm for everyone else. When this dude went up (yea he was a prefect, don't ask me why or how), not only was there silence, there was a smattering of boos too. AT PRIMARY 3! You'd have to be seriously unpopular to get BOOS AT PRIMARY 3. That's how twat-ish he was.
So, back to the main story. Seated in the exam seating arrangement, the three of us were together and we decided to straighten out this guy abit. Now, exams were only 4 days long back then, and usually there'd be just over a week left to the holidays after the exams, right? All this occurred in that slack period of time. So everyday we'd go to class, the teacher would just say something like 'Go do your own thing, don't make so much noise' and the class would start dividing up to the respective cliques, some play eraser games (you know them, with set rules of either 'flip to win only' or 'shoot off table for wins only' or both. Ahh, sweet nostalgia), some just talk, whatever. The three of us would usually just talk in between ourselves with some other guys joining in. Football, cartoons, erasers, girls (YES, EVEN BACK THEN LOL), whatever.
Now and then though, we'd either call this twat-ish guy over on the basis of 'talk football' or any other semi-plausible reason, and, slowly but very surely, would proceed to rip into him, and rip DEEP. We REALLY took the mickey out of him. The funny thing was, this happened almost on a daily basis, but he never decided to stay away. He'd fume off after one session, usually, but on a day-by-day basis, he never stayed away. Amazing, innit?
Now, go ahead and call us sadistic, but hell, back then, that guy DESERVED every metaphorical piece of crap we threw at him. Oddly enough, IT ACTUALLY WORKED, and the next year he was a much better person. He's since become an alright friend to all of us. However, I've heard some things in the past few months which suggest he's gone all twat-ish again, but in a different way. Don't really wish to go into that portion of it, cos I don't know the full details and I don't really care that much anyway.
It's odd what brings people close. In a sense, this twat helped the 3 of us become the best of pals. Boon and I still hang out alot, and Timo, as I've said, rarely speaks with me but he hasn't changed abit, meaning we're still good friends.
It's a special month. For those few years, my two closest friends had their birthdays within 9 days of mine. I don't really look too much into these kind of things nowadays, but this... Phenomenon has always stuck with me, even up till now.
I hope the people who read this post can laugh out loud in the process of doing so. I certainly did while typing it.