happy birthday eib

this is a very important entry..
no one should miss it..
especially that someone..
ok? clear?
now.. follow these steps very very very closely..

stand up.

put your hands on your waist.

turn to your right, then left. do this for 5 times.

next, put your hands up, and stretch yourself.

breathe in, breathe out.

ok, done all these?

now, sit down.. take a deep breath before you proceed. (im serious)

make sure you sit up right, with a good reading posture... because what you are going to read is very very very important. ok, get it?

have i already said that this is a very important entry?

ok ar.. important ar.. f.o.c.u.s..

eileen lim yiling.

you there?

yes, you!

happy 22nd birthday to you!

haha.. oh my god.. i just turned 21 about one month ago and there you go, celebrating your 22nd birthday. woah.. haha..

you know.. i was just thinking.. i knew you back in... 1997? that's almost ten yrs ago! mann.. haha.. what im going to say, maybe i have already told you many times before.. but just bear with me ok? the fact that i keep remembering it shows that it really impacted me very greatly.. hhaa..

1997.. sec one..
why you don like me? HAHA.. i mean, i only know this from hero la.. though i donno the reason then, donno the reason now, and wouldn't wanna know the reason. hah, i think you have forgotten it.. thank God for your short memory. haha. (ppl always don like me at first.. WHY?? haha.. is it because i am very black.. hence look bing-chao-chao? haha.. or maybe im too noisy? no la.. cant be.. im so shy. haha.) didnt know you well.. but all i got from you is that.. you are such a quiet and shy gal.. face would turn red too. hehe.. remember how we got to know each other better? bet you forgot already. haha.. let me tell you, it was after a netball game during PE. we were in the same team.. me, you, fifi, tng, sab, fio, anna, aimee, germ, jas.. i think it is all of us.. haha, won or lost, i cant remember, but im glad that friendly game won me a fren. a good fren that is. then we formed our family.. haha, you are dada!! remember! oh!! how i miss that nick. haha.. dada.. and im your daughter. haha.. you used to call me "belle" and "mei nu" and "xiao long nu" and "beautiful" in the letters you wrote to me.. HAHA.. u so nice! but i think it is i force you wan. haha..

1998.. sec two..
God brought us closer. you were always very keen to bring me to know christ.. what with all the TGIF.. and etc.. remember you and sab called me out of class one day, and passed the sinners' prayer card to me? it was a Elim Church card.. i think you cannot remember la. but everything is branded on my memory. :) and one fine day, i said that prayer. :))))))))))))
i was at home alone, eating my dinner.. porridge and got fish. as usual, i was eating and reading at the same time, and opps! got bone stuck in my throat! panic attack! oh mannnnn~ and i just wanted to say that prayer. and i said it! haha. and praise God, miraculously, i couldnt feel the bone anymore! :)))) now the more i think i about my testimony, the more miraculous it sounds to me. hah. anyway, you know who was the first person i told that i accepted Christ?.. yes, you.. eileen lim. i called you immediately. and i remember you were so happy for me. heh.

1999.. sec three..
we were streamed into different classes. i remember during sec 2, we were very very very sad. and everytime we talked about streaming then, tears always welled up. the chalet was the ultimate.. (like wake) haha.. everyone cried their hearts out.. now as im typing this, im beginning to feel a little tugging at my heart again. there was one letter you wrote to me back then, saying
.. "im working very hard already! but i think we won't be in the same class next year, never mind, we cry together at the chalet ok".. and that was what we did.

2000.. sec four.
2001.. J1..
2002.. J2..
drifted apart. how sad. but now, i give thanks for that period of being apart.. coz now, getting together once again feels very very good. :) and it is as though that being apart didnt take place at all.. how wonderful.

2003..
everyone was getting into uni.. and getting used to the change in lifestyles..

2004..
it was the new year dinner at your house that changed everything. it was the first time (in years..) that i swam at your place.. only 2 of us, about an hour before the rest of them came.. we felt worked out, haha, remember? the skin was like "emitting heat".. haha, that feeling.. haha.. then every week, i would go to your house to swim then study.. it was good. it was the smart and fit mondays.. haha. we swam, ate porridge with luncheon meat and egg, studied, took turns to nap, studied again, talked, watched the impossible-to-miss "ren wo au you".. haha, remember? had fun, loads of it..

2005..
continued to study together though not so regular.. but we even came up with the "smart and fit camps".. haha.. hols came and guess what.. we even worked togther! mann. had to see you everyday!!! hahaha... but thank God i had you at work. and our BKK trip! SO FUN!!!!!!!!! haha. and our J-story.. haha.. so glad we pulled through that, thank God we are so open with each other.. we jump over one hurdle, we go one step stronger. amazing.

2006..
just started. life isnt always smooth sailing, that's why God gave us each other.

".. a shoulder to cry on.. i'll be here, a friend to rely on.."

life is always unfair, but God is good. whatever we face in life, we face it with strength enough.. coz God knows how much we can take. i hope even in times of crisis or bad happenings, i can be part of your source of strength.

gal, happy birthday.

you are one bigggggggg part of my life.
thank you for ALL that you have done in my life, keeping me company, hearing me out, crapping with me(our long tau-gay and your scissors), worrying about me.. thanks.. you have been a blessing.

and let's REALLY keep this friendship going ok?

coz.. i love you gal.


Friday, January 20, 2006.11:30 PM