band posting is out. i'll be kidding if i say i'm not worried for you guys. maybe cos i can still remember all of you as recruits, still think of you all as recruits. i wish to think of you all as sec 4s too, kind of hard to imagine.
just can't scrape that blur blur sec 1 recruit image out of my brain, so just prove me wrong.
all the best, you guys! time to grow up. believe in yourself and trust in your fellow ambians!
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i think i've been doing work for too long. i'll getting disorientated again.
maybe that's what jc life is all about.
hmm. okay. how about this.
the story of one umbrella and four friends
this afternoon, i was sitting by the window doing my work. the sky was overcast, and rain fell in lashings. obviously, when you're indoors, you enjoy watching raindrops fall. so i was subconsciously staring out the window, taking a mental break from maths. as i was looking, at nothing in particular, my attention was drawn to this pair of friends. they were wearing cat high uniform, looking about lower sec? or maybe it's just the shorts. well, back to the story, they had one umbrella between them, and they were watching from a shelter to another building just a short walk away, about 50 metres. so they started out walking together with one boy holding the umbrella. in a mere 10 metres or so, they started to quicken their pace. faster and faster they went, until they broke into a short run. by then, umbrella boy was in front, leaving the umbrella-less boy trailing behind. even though it was just a short period of time that he was not covered by his friend, i believe he must have been soaked, what with the wind blowing and giant raindrops.
maybe that's what happens in life. two friends may start out together, having the same destination, the same journey. but as they progress, one friend gets left behind, abandoned by the other. it might not mean that the two friends don't care for each other anymore, it's just that one of them cannot keep up, and that's the way life works; it stops for no one. if you can't keep up with its current, then that's just unavoidable.
barely 5 minutes later, another pair of friends make the same journey. this two boys were either from RI or RJ. so they were walking, slow and steady to the building. i turned back to my maths, attempting to steer myself into finishing my tutorial. that obviously failed, because unaware, i had returned myself to watching that path. again, there was that same umbrella, bobbing up and down. puzzled, i looked intently at them. hmm, didn't i see them reach the building a while ago? curious now, i continued watching the two of them approach the building. there they were, slow and steady once again. they even stepped with the same leg in time with each other, as if they were doing a slow march. umbrella guys reached shelter of building, and the one holding the umbrella, once again, foraged into the mercy of mother nature. it was then that it dawned on me: there weren't just two RI/RJ boys, there were more! yup, i looked back to the shelter, and there, was the last of them. this final pair hunched under that tiny umbrella for the last time. they walked. left, left, right, right, stepping in time. it was apparent the the umbrella wasn't doing a good job sheltering two guys, and both of them had half their bodies soaked. but still, they walked. one of them eventually changed feet, so they looked like they were in a three-legged race. at last, they were under the shelter of the building. the other two friends, busy drying off, joined them and they went off all together.
such a thoughtful action right? if it was me, i would have just ran without the umbrella. but in this case, yes, maybe that's what one does for a friend, sheltering him from the elements, even if one has to make some sacrifices in the process of helping.
that's what friendship is about, i guess.
it's hard to find friends whom you can say know you well, and whom you know well too.
& all along, its only what I thought.
11:49 PM
