Sunday, November 21, 2010
16:58:00
Yesterday was one of the happiest days I've had for a looooong time.
Besides the usual gym session in the morning which usually manages to make me feel better simply by getting me going physically (which helps to clear the mind, at least for me), there was also AMKSS' Passing Out Parade.
At first it looked like it was gonna fizzle out. Cos I had been hoping for all the alumni of my section to come back and we could go have a mini section outing, just us old fogeys. Basically, the 2007 GWH veterans plus Yu Qing. I really miss them... But anyway that plan was shot down soon enough as Clara had to leave early anyway, for her piano lesson, and Rui Shan couldn't come. So while I had been optimistic a few days prior to yesterday, by the day itself I was kinda 'meh' about going.
Nevertheless, figured that I didn't have anything much better to do anyway so I might as well go and try to enjoy myself. After all, the old guys were going for sure. But things turned out much better. Yu Qing had been hesitating about going at first but decided to go in the end, and I spent most of the time with her and Clara, watching the parade and then just mingling with all the old faces like Hazmei and Brandon. Went up to the band room to check out the new additions; new doors and carpeting. Things have really changed since my time...
So after all was said and done we decided to go for dinner, Yu Qing, Tommy, Eugene and I. Li Ting, Danhui and Shu Yi also went with us to Pizza Hut but for the most part it was 'separated' into these two groups of people talking amongst themselves, if you get what I mean.
Dinner was a cheerful affair, laughs were had and I think we were really just enjoying the company of old friends. It's an unspoken and frankly somewhat indescribable emotion, being so comfortable and happy simply by being with friends from a 'past life', when things weren't so complicated and things were more 'real', when you didn't have to second guess everything someone said or did, when things were more black and white instead of so many shades of grey.
After dinner Tommy, Eugene and I decided to head to Yu Qing's house to chill out. So many years of knowing Yu Qing and I had never been to her place before yesterday. Anyway we spent the bulk of the time learning/playing Monopoly Deal. Eugene had a deck with him and taught the three of us how to play. We played four games and I won one of them. Tommy seemed the most blur of all of us and yet he won the other three games. Sly fox Tom Toms :D
After that we just spent the rest of the time chatting about old times and some potential future plans. Once again the things we talked about don't sound particularly interesting or whatever when put down in words like I'm doing now but, for me at least, there was a very happy vibe between all four of us.
Old friends from days gone by... friendships that have been put on the backburner due to more immediate worries... and yet when we come together again everything still feels so right. It really is one of the best feelings one can ever experience. Maybe because it's such a comforting, reassuring emotion.
Band has really given me so much.
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Of course... YOU played an important part in making yesterday so amazing for me too... :)