Happy New Year 2005!
Saturday, January 01, 2005
I just got home from countdown.. actually it was not much of a countdown.. by the time we rushed from Burger King @ Millenia Walk to Esplanade (in an alarming 7 minutes!) they just finished counting. The counting was so soft.. probably observing silence for the Tsunami victims I guess... Then we went to eat.. coz toad was hungry (again.. like he ate at the Suntec Food Court and at BK and he's hungry again) But he's not fat.. so he has all the reasons to eat haha (bimbo chio talking here) So it's 2005 already.. and my new year resolutions shall be:
- I will not be late for appointments anymore (except lectures.. when it's useless to be early.. and xy's always late also haa..)
- I will raise my cap to a decent mid-4 value.
- I will be 65 kg by the end of the year.. quite reasonable I think.. means losing 0.5kg a month haa.
Anyway I visited Zhuanquan today.. who's suffering from cancer. For those who doesn't know.. Zhuanquan is a Chinese High band junior of mine who's 20 years old and realised he's got cancer in August. He's undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy now.. hair's half gone.. but he looks fine. I always thought that we're all too young to have cancer knocking on our doors.. but well.. And he doesn't have a family history of cancer as well.. How unpredictable can life be? And how fragile it is too...
So it was a major gathering for friends I haven't seen for a long long time.. Jiehao from my batch.. Zhuanquan and Yanhui.. who were 1 year junior.. Julian and Kanxing.. who were 2 years junior.. and Kok Wee, HongGuan and Gerald..1 year junior from Euphonium and Percussion respectively. It was like being forced back in time.. all of them look the same just that they are enlarged (taller.. probably only me grew fatter). Jiehao and I were saying that we totally lost contact with our seniors while the juniors still bother to remember us.. this group of guys was the exact group when we were in command last time (Sec3 days..).. Days of sectionals every wednesday and main band every Friday.. days of the smelly band room beside the field and the brand new Music Practice Hall.. days when I was student conductor.. days of new instruments.. days of SYF Central Judging where we got Gold once again..
We made it a point to visit ZQ once a month.. yeah which means a monthly gathering as well. How sweet.
I'm officially a poor man. I have $35 bucks in my bank account. Think EZLink is going to take away $20 soon.
Class 95 is playing such nice songs ar night. Oh gosh it's going to be morning soon!
Signed off at
5:23 am
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