The good old days..Dedicated to ex-KMM 99-2000
I have been feeling a bit nostalgic lately.
I catch myself flipping through old photo albums from the yester years and smiling every now and then whenever some fond memories flashes across my mind.
"Those were the days…" I sighed.
This particular photo I found just filled me up with immense joy the moment I saw it. It reminds me of the many friends I made back in college and all the fun that was had with them.
This was Mary Ellen’s birthday. We tried to celebrate everyone who was a Sabahan on their birthday and I recalled one of the ‘organising girl’ going around, collecting money and always secretly passing around cards to be signed. The organiser would be from the room the birthday girl was in. The monies collected (usuall would often be for cakes and keropoks, and the host room would serve some hot drinks. In this photo, we had teh - o. As if a tradition, we’d set the cake and food, waited for everyone to turn up and surprise the birthday girl ( sometimes they pretended they were =P ), pose for a few clicks of the camera and had cake. There would be occassional chats thereafter, with some lingering on longer than the ‘rajin’ ones who usually excuses themselves to finish assignments. Sometimes we even had silly tickling, and mini gusti sessions!! I’m often one of the ‘lingerer’. =) Thinking back, everything was so simple, naive, child-like but yet, gratifying. This was our way of curbing homesickness.
The VERY vivid memory of an outrageous birthday bash was of Suzanne’s. I can’t remember who else planned the evil idea but I remember being one of the follower. We had the cake and it’s trimmings for the usual thing, but at the same time, we had saved a few buckets of the cafeteria’s stinky,slimy and gross food scraps with help from the ‘abang kafe’s’ , in the bathroom. SO, after the party, everyone in the pack went into the washroom, with Suzanne who was unsuspecting of ANYTHING, pretending to wash and clean utensils.
THEN, HELL BROKE!! =P we started spilling buckets and buckets of the grossy things on her and for a moment, the bathroom was a playground of 5-6 nineteen year old girls, screaming, laughing, bullying the poor girl and just being silly. It was crazy!
Suzanne bathed and washed her hair 3 times that day.
But the stench only came off after 2 days, according to her.
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Fast forward to now, 7 years later..so much new things have hapened.
Some are married , engaged, just had a baby, soon to be married , having succesful careers and some, just didn’t cross paths with me.
My dear friends, wherever you may be.. I’d just like you to know how much more interesting, fun and wonderful you’ve made my life. And wherever you are, whatever life brings you..may you always find happiness.
