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08/14/2006: "Nostalgia, Nostalgia!"
music: Eight Days a Week - The Beatlesmood: Nostalgic
Oh my gosh, the most amazing thing happened.
I'm currently in the midst of a giant spring-cleaning, aka THE 大扫除* - and as I say this, I can already anticipate some friends of mine shaking their heads and sighing since I'm notorious for always wanting to clean up my room but never finishing the job. To the extent that one of my friends, SY, says of me "She's always cleaning up her room." :p
But this time I've been determined to succeed, and I think I've been doing pretty well so far. I've even managed to sort out a large pile of stuff to throw away and papers to be recycled, not an easy feat for a giant pack-rat like me who feels very 心痛 everytime she has to throw anything away, no matter how rubbishy it may be. :p
An upside of being a giant pack-rat, though, is that as result I've been digging up a lot of memories - I've managed to unearth all sorts of old stuff, from cards I wrote to teachers for teachers' day back when I was in primary school but never sent, to all sorts of craft thingys or just plain weird things like a pseudo Pyramid Game type thing cut out of drawing block, complete with windows that you can open to reveal the descriptions of the categories. Amazing stuff, really.
But that's not the amazing thing that happened. While sifting through my pile of letters, I came across a bunch of letters that I wrote to a friend called Annie whom I was really close to back when I was around upper primary, but whom I pretty much lost touch with after I went to secondary school since she moved away to New York and both of us basically sucked at keeping in touch. So it aroused a lot of nostalgic memories for me, and I started thinking of all the silly stuff we used to do and how incredibly naughty we were - like how we once tried to melt chocolate in her microwave oven but left it in for too long and it started smoking, or how we used to love climbing up to her roof even though her mom kept telling us how it was dangerous - needless to say, her mom spent a lot of time scolding us for our misdeeds. :p I even remembered stuff like how once our mutual friend's mom drove us and that friend from that friend's house to mine, which was really nearby, but the catch being that the car was a sports car with only one passenger seat - so the three of us were squashed in the passenger seat with our faces practically pressed against the window and with the mom driving really slowly. :p All sorts of lovely memories like that. XD
And guess what? Today, who should give me a call but Annie herself! 0_o Turns out she was in Singapore for the holidays and remembered me, so she got my contact from a mutual friend of our mothers' (That "aunt" is the reason we first got to know each other as well) and decided to give me a call. I mean, what are the chances, right? And she admitted to me that she also had all these half-finished letters meant to be sent to me but which never got beyond her front door. Told ya we were both terrible with keeping in touch. :p
Anyway, I'm really really excited that she called - she's leaving Singapore on wednesday, though, so we're planning to try meeting up tomorrow to do some shopping together. Hopefully all goes well - I think it will, since we both managed to do a lot of chatting on the phone together. I suppose that even with all the missing years between us, we're still the kind of friends who can manage to talk each others ears off. :p
And man, now that I'm digging up all the letters that my angels and mortals gave me in JC, it makes me want to drop them a line to ask how they're doing. More my juniors, since I was never all that close to my senior angel and mortal. But I dunno if it'll be weird to do so, since I pretty much stopped writing to them after the latter half of JC 1 and never kept in touch after I graduated either.
Also, I think I've pretty much been bitten by the nostalgia bug - now I want to try and find a way to contact my ex-neighbours whom I ALSO lost touch with when I moved away in secondary two and forgot to give them my new address and never sent the letters I was supposed to. ^_^;; It's always been one of my greatest regrets that I lost touch with them, since we were really close for those years we spent together, but I'm afraid that they may find it a bit weird that I'm attempting to contact them all of a sudden after so many years. Not to mention I'm not even really sure how to get in contact with them since they moved house a while back as well, according to my maid who once bumped into their mother. ^_^;;
Oh well, I suppose I shall see how things go - if I manage to get the contacts of my ex-neighbours and ex-junior angel and mortal, I suppose there's no harm in trying. It could be part of my attempt to become a person who's better at keeping in touch. And if I can't figure out a way to get into contact with them, I suppose that's the end of that. :p
For now, I really need to clean up my room first. *grin*
*大扫除 always reminds me of this topic in my primary school Chinese textbook that was about the students of a school having, you guessed it, a 大扫除. It's amazing the nonsensical things a person can still manage to remember about primary school. :p