Monday, November 10, 2008.

the inevitable post on grad nite must come.

first, a summary of the day:
i arrived slightly late (3:20) and only helped out in a few areas, while spending some time playing bridge and/or a$$hole dai di (it's not bad playing 6-player! i was like, queen, for dunno how long? =D).

that obviously wasn't the fun part.

sneaked off to esplanade library for 15 min with renyong around 6 to settle some stuff (it still hasn't been settled, rarh.) then got myself a drink or two before the camwhoring session started. photos on fb, but i'll try to upload the best of the best (obviously all the unglam ones =D) here.

then was the whole thing, as planned. food wasn't worth it to be honest, but the $65 isn't just for food (DUH.) "nice" songs came up (as usual i just stoned), and the smaller highlight of the day was the -insert adjective here-est man award.

AND.

BOJIAN GOT THE "BEST DRESSED" AWARD! =DDDDDDDDDDD

actually i dunno why we started nominating him for the "Most Uniquely Dressed" award, but apparently Keng Yong and co. thought it was Best Dressed we were going for, so they dragged him on stage 1 award too early. BUT. BUT. we just went mad cheering like siao, and in the end he won it (i think the emcees were also a little shocked at the noise coming from the 2 tables in the middle of nowhere lol. isn't it good to have loudhailers like kenneth and me? then can win more prizes =D)

and FONG won the "Best Hairstyle" award (i feel honoured to be the 1st person to congratulate him xD). See, his hairgel has something special about it, doesn't it?

anyway then the best part of the whole grad nite came, the singing of the batch song and the cheers.

after that we then camwhored till past 11 where we walked back to City Hall MRT. and sorry shneg you didn't manage to pull me into the Northbound Train =D

second, thoughts on the day:

it is the end.

that's something about nature that we must acknowledge. time never flows backward, and until a time-traveling machine has been found (i don't think there will ever be so), we must realise that time is always forward-traveling.

i teared yesterday, with countless others (while singing the batch song), because I didn't want to let go and I feared to let go. We are stubborn people, born to resist change (when it's so good why fix it?). but we know, all of us, deep down in our hearts, that time cannot flow the other way, so there is no point trying to argue against time, no point clinging on so madly to the past, even if it had been the 2 most wonderful years of our lives (oh yes it certainly has.)

there will only be one thing that can beat this evil demon called time.

it is the heart.

in it contains the keys to beating this - memories, and bonds. memories let us travel in time back to the past, and as we relive every memory of ours, as we savour them all, we appreciate all that has been done, as one group of friends, of brothers, of people.

the bonds however can be brought on forever. even as we succumb to time and old age, even as some of us say goodbye to others, as long as the bonds are there we will forever remain as friends. and i hope that exactly 20 years from yesterday we all can meet up at the RI campus, as people of 35-38 years old then, and celebrate the wonderful class that is 4B '08.

but everything needs a full stop. yesterday marked the final dot, the period, right on the class of 4B. 4B will cease to exist in this world (for we will never recreate the exact 4B i have known and loved these 2 years), but we all know, memories last a lifetime, and bonds will forever remain.

onward to jc we go, and may we keep those memories intact forever!

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