The begining before 8 - 11 - 8

8 – 11 – 8

Seems symmetrical and incidentally a Saturday.
Maybe I should say, a Saturday and incidentally a nice looking date
The time is right, the finances are right
It is the right time to tie the knot.

Been 7 years since I first met teh, 6 years together.
Meeting for the first time outside the bookshop in NYJC during the lunch break from Elementz

Well I didn’t know she was my classmate as most of the orientation period, I was involved in this foreign student organization committee to set up a bazaar. Not that I am very proactive to join these kind of stuff, but basically all foreign students were “strongly encouraged” to do so. Everyone had to cook something from our home country and sell it. Duh….what you can find in Malaysia is about the same as that as Singapore…I’ll leave out the debate of whose tastes better. So I was missing the first few classes, and apparently I was grouped with Cynthia and dunno who else for a GP assignment. I only remember Cynthia because teh was to inform me of my group members, and yeah she only remembered Cynthia, and only then I knew she was my classmate.

Besides talking about GP and Elementz, we began crapping – eventhough we have never met in class or anywhere before, together with her friend Nina and my friend Pak Hang. Seemed comfortable to talk to her…….

So 3 months went by, having a close knit friendship with people like Terence, Shawn, Sean, Feng Ling, Moses, Qiu Ling, Yan Xiang, Jie Han, Guo Jin, Kevin (a.k.a Superskyhawk) etc.. always hanging out on weekends and after school – favorite places, bowling alley and pool & snooker in Lavender. Well, the girls seem to like to hang out with guys that can play pool better (so that they can learn, not flirt…)……not as if I can play well, but only OK…..Well somehow I began to kinda help teh as her shots were quite miserable and of course because she was more vertically challenged..haha(sorry dear)

Well, after a few sessions, less and less girls turn up as they were probably bored with their slow progress in learning, only teh was determined to learn….so usual people that hang out – Jie Han, Terence, teh, Shawn and me. Probably, with the so many outings and crapping, both of us seem to have a closer relationship – more like being very comfortable with each other’s company.

Remember our first F-maths test, almost everyone failed except for Jiaming I think. Then there was this AO level pass ~40 - 45% – so Shawn proclaimed: “I have an AO level pass leh” Ms yau shaking her head, these idiots just happy to get 40 – 45% for tests.

The first 3 months has ended, time for O’ Level results. Most of our classmates were very comfortable with each other that we all wanted to remain in NYJC for the rest of our A’ Level education, only a few have other pursuits. So confident that I will get NYJC again with my results, so I put in NYJC as my first choice, and the rest are the top JCs. Well, wouldn’t be surprised if I failed to get my first choice, I’ll something crappy. True enough, I got my 11th choice. So I had to appeal……I dunno why I felt that I must get back into NYJC, even if I had to resort to only take 3 main subjects instead of 4. So I went for help, looking for a few tutors.

One day then, Ms Queenie Wong, HOD of science called me, asking me about my Elementz project and saying that my appeal was approved. Even more surprising is that I get to take the 4 subjects I requested for. So it seemed that Mr Sim had strongly recommended me. The way God had blessed me, first to sign up for Elementz for the first 3 months and then this. How amazing.

Well, since I got back the same subjects, I have a 50% chance of being in the same class as my friends – some got in the 9A (terence etc), some 9B (teh etc). So teh was very happy when she saw my name in the class list…..So only 2 of us from our “clique“ was in 9B. So when we hang out with our new classmates, we stuck together, to bitch about the others of their indecisiveness and fickleness during outings. So there she was, my bitching partner. throughout the year we began to settle well with our classmates.

Somehow, for a GP project (ICPW) both of us and Pei Qi and Jia hao formed a group. Because we were all man united fans, I suggested doing a stupid project thesis. Even though we dun know a shit about business models, sociology or etc, our project objective is to study the man untied branding – lalala….we looked stupid during our presentation because our presentation has almost zero substance.

Still close, and she wanted me to be her elder brother for some reasons she later admitted……and for at least 5 months I played that role, and she my little sister. Never had one before as I am the youngest child in my family, and she never had any older sibling.

The final promo exams passed, and it is the year end holidays. Had a chalet right after teh came back from a school trip in Thailand. She rushed down to the chalet, despite having stomach runs and ……. as well. There again, we were bitching partners. Somehow, on our more personal chats, I began to know her and her family background better. It seems we developed a more intimate friendship, confiding in each other…..

We never really met until our OGL camp where both of us were teamed up together, Zhiwei and huiwen the other. Each class had to send 4. We had a great time together during the camp as well as the orientation for the freshies as well. I guess she really cared about me, as she asked someone to help me out when she was sick on one of the days…..I still feel very touched when I think about it.

There it goes…..love blossomed, and one day I decided to ask her out for dinner – JUST THE TWO OF US, after the S3 Seminar. Popped the “boyfriend, girlfriend” question on our way to the seminar………went to bugis junction to eat yoshinoya, then to white sand for a walk and taking a long trip back on bus 88………

I love you my dear and thank you for loving me these years. I thank God for you and how He brought us together and kept us together. That we are taking a step further, to be soul mates till death do us part………..