Very Special day indeed.
First and foremost, i am proud to announce to the whole wide world that I, CHEW KAI LONG, HAVE COMPLETE the ARMY HALF MARATHON! And i am still standing! For all those of you that doesn't know what that means, it is the running or riding at a steady slow trot for 21KM! TWENTY-ONE FREAKING KILOMETERS.
That to think when i couldn't even complete my 2.4km NAPFA run in sec school without stopping! And with a sprained ankle suffered from Brunei that just doesn't seems to recover, i really though i will like die halfway thru the run and get pictures of me posted all over the news etc....
BUT WHAT THE HELL, I made it.
Hurray to that! (=
Which brings me to the 2nd point on why this is a special day.
21 years ago, a little baby by the name of Cassandra Lee Shu Xian (I really really really hope i got the full name right), "kissed the world ". Yes i do remember (=. I am not really sure about the kissing part ya but yeap, i guess its a rather nice way of putting it. And so it happens that somewhere down her little road of life, 13years to be exact, that she bums into, well, ME.
We got on pretty well the moment we met. Doing away with all the formalities and straight into the casual "Shut Up!", "SHHHHHH!" and "TSK! TSK!" type of conversations, mostly me on the receiving end.
It was around a year or so later on,contrary to what other guys in my class thinks, that i discovered she did possess the capability to listen and engage in 2 way conversations. She is quite well in it actually, in fact, so well that i would flood her with all my sorrows and pain in the many unfortunate incidents i got into those days, incidents which i would, ahem, rather not elaborate. Reminded me to not drown her completely, which was quite possible at the rate i was going, but not a single time did she complained.
The mother-tongue classes! O how can i forget them?! I never really paid attention to those classes in sec sch, that i admit. Most of the time, i will just be dozing away and day dreaming. But with her, its 'Building Sand Castles In the Air', literally. I told her my dreams and she told me hers. And for once, i could see those dreams get nearer, just a bit closer. Its like a small little thought bubble will pop out in front of me. Instead of me alone laying the bricks now, i can see her laying her castle's brick too. Its that feeling, that feeling of common ground that is comforting, Knowing that someone has a dream so like yours, impossibly hard to achieve and yet, stills look on to it as ever so possible.
I will never forget the day. It was early in the morning where i i was making my way to the parade square, still half asleep, when u came charging and screamed "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!". I was surprised as normally people wouldn't give me advanced Birthday greetings so early. In fact, exactly one month earlier. I will never forget the expression of your face when u realized the silly mistake u made. (=
Do you remember those times, at the last day of your primary school/secondary schools, classmates will go around taking down phone numbers and addresses, telling each and everyone to stay in contact? All this fearing that as we go on with our life, we forget about a part of our past and lose our friends? Well, to me, friends move on with you in your life. They don't get left behind in the past. True friends never gets left behind nor do they leave their friends behind. Its only then, at the end of you life, you see your real friends around you. Not 20 or 30 of them and certainly not the 200 or 300+ in Facebook. Normally, its the handful that always sticks around. It doesn't mean that they have to meet every single day, know every single thing. They just always appear at the right place and the right time.
I can't say i will know what's gonna happen in the future. But what i can say is, i am glad that i have met you.
Happy 21st Birthday,
My Friend.
From
Kai Long aka Bronto
=)
