Had lunch today with Hang Papa, my bday treat. Hee..Deliberately didnt informed him tat I was bak though I told him I will when I was in Taiwan. I mean who will ask for a treat rite? Still, he remembers his daughter and asked me out, saying he wun wait months to give me my bday treat (oopppss..) I think I did tat..hee..
I am glad I still keep in contact with this old fwen, aside from my 3 sisters, he is the onli 1 I keep in constant contact from my poly gang. He mentioned that we are fwens for 10+yrs oredi, times flies.It seems like yesterday onli when we are still schooling. Giving him wake up calls everyday to make sure he comes to school, its a chore to make sure he wakes up when I call him. More often den not, I would have to keep asking him whether he is fully awake or not cuz he would go bak to slp after putting down his phone, so I resort to keep toking to piss him off n make him wake up. My mum use to say I sound like a crazy woman in the morning, screaming into the phone to wake him up. whahah
Tat being said, I did the same for another classmate who later dropped out of school( not becuz of me hor) and I was very upset. Its like I did so much to help but yet he choose to give up on his studies, years later when I met him for tea 1 day, this classmate told me that he hated school and the best thing it ever happen to him in poly is to know me as a fwen. It put a smile on my face, knowing that he appreciate my efforts back then and him doing well, getting more matured though he didnt go thru poly studies.We lost contact after that somehow, and I hope he is getting well now:)
Mugging in the library durin exam periods is also what we all will do together.Somehow the uncle gang usually would be able to get more notes, past yr questions to work on and the answers and sharing with us, hehe..Thus we always stick close to them to access to the materials.
During pratical lessons, I would sometimes need their help too. I remember Hang papa helping out on the EMD lessons where I cannot seems to figure out how to design the circuit breakers..The onli thing I can help him back is to do his japanese homework when he dun wanna write the 习字 ...
All is not so rosy among us initially, I still rememebered that I dun haf a good impression of him at 1st along with his pal Mason..Too loud, too flashly,too hao lian..When he told me he was on the national bb team, I scoffed at him, onli later to learn from some1 that he was not boasting. Hee, come to tink of it, I was more impressed with Ah Cai being on the dragon boat national team den Hang papa being on the bb team.whahah..
Once he took a thousand dollar note and asked for smaller change, the 1st tot that came into my mind is "shit u, who the hell will have this kind of change for u...even the stall vendors will not have so much change lo.." It was later den I noe its his pocket monies from his dad, but still...I dun remember was it me who loan him the monies for lunch or wat, but the got thru the day and went to bank to exchange for smaller note if I am not wrong..
Not sure how we became good fwens later, but I realised it is just his way of protecting himself being loud.Comparing him to Ah Cai who is the more sensible and caring fwen, you can feel the difference, but both are as dear to me as brothers though we have a bigger age gap den me n my own brohter. Perhaps of this, they haf always regard my gang n me as kids and thus would monkey ard us..
As we chatted over lunch, memories came flooding back. Once, we nearly fell out over an issue. I was crying 1 nite after a project meetin as 1 team member pull out of the team when our presentation was juz next day. It was the last semester oredi and I desperately wanted to do well. The blow of not able to get thru the presentation put a strain on me and I did wat I didnt do before in front of my classmates before..Tat is to Cry..Never in my life I cried infront of others except my own family. I was stubborn from young.
Hang papa was with us tat day and went dinner after our project meeting. I remembered him buying some noodles for me as I said I am not in the mood to eat and when I sat there tearing silently, refusing to eat my dinner, he got angry and dumped the noodles into the bin. I was even more angry at that point. I am onli worried thus not wanting dinner, and there he was, throwing his temper at me for no reason. So, I stood up, took my bag and went home. I contemplated not waking him up the next day for school since I was still angry with him for throwing temper at me for no reason but decided otherwise as I'm afriad he would not wake up in time and we did have a important presentation on that day. Called him but did not tok to him like usual to make him fully awake.
It was later my fwen told me that he tot I would not tok to him again and his alarm clock is gone. Wahaha I did consider this option to be frank. We did go bak to tokin terms later ( I forgot how) and this incident was neber brought up again. I neber got a chance to ask him why was he so angry with me that nite to the extend of dumping the noodles away and I neber got ard telling him why I was so upset that nite. And if you muz noe, I didnt tok to the guy who pulled out of the team ever again. I blamed him for making me cried infront of my classmates, for making me worried the whole nite before the presentation as I am afraid I would flunked and this is not even a core subject, most importantly, I blamed him for being so selfish, pulling the whole team down and pulling out even though he knew the lecturer told us she wan see TEAMWORK. I got A for this subject in the end while the others for B..Perhaps its becuz I went all out to do my best for the presentation to cover up for the lost team memeber...whahah..
I always suspected he was interested in the gals of my gang and thus he stuck close to us though we are kids in his eyes. Maybe is Miss A, maybe is Miss R. He neber admit no matter how many times I drilled him over this. My bet is on Miss A who is more homely, caring and down to earth than Miss R. But then again, Miss R is more trendy, more fashionable..Aggrrr..He refuse to admit till today so I have no way of knowing..Keep maintaining that he dun eat & shit in his own backyard.The other gals namely, my sisters should be not his cup of tea, thus I realli have no other candidates in mind oredi. haha...
The onli regrettful thing is we didnt graduated together as something happen in the final exams making him stayed back for half more yr. Ah Cai & me was so worried back then that we keep urging him to go school and completed his diploma studies so as not to waste the 3 years. And knowing his stupid big ego, we keep reminding him not to be too headstrong with the lecturers. We knew he was stubborn and on top of it, all of us graduated oredi and he would have no other pals in school. We were relieved that he eventually listened and graduated. Though half a year later, but still he did it.
Years later, I am glad all of us are getting well in life :) Though neber realli contact Ah Cai oredi, sometimes, Hang papa will update me about his well being during lunch. It feels good to have a bunch of fwens who went thru ups n downs with you and see you thru all these. People like bestie, my 3 sisters and Hang Papa. I know I always have them rally ard me. To me, they are as good as my siblings..I am blessed to meet them in some point of my life and the relationship stayed. May this be a life time of friendships my good old fwens..:)
