Rendezvous
21 November 05 : 01.34 PM
This is for you guys. Fel, the ever so artistic one with purple hair for the last 4 years. Sam, the one nobody can hate but would love to hate. Yvonne, the adorable one with a side no one wants to trifle with. Christy, the quirkycute one everyone adores. Sandy, the vivacious one whose laugh no one will forget.
Sam wrote this on bugtown. "Why are we always known as the bad kids and big bullies! I'm no spoilt brat. We try not to scold teachers, try not to hide in the toilet, slacking away..."
Remember, when we were 13 years old, and hanging out 'till late in our (i hate to admit) school uniforms? It was only us, Sam and Fel and I. I miss that. We stopped wanting to go out in school uniforms years ago, where it was, and still is, only acceptable to hang out in school attire on weekdays.
What about us, hanging out at boat quay? Such an embarrassment! Yao and all was working there, so I was there to meet them (that's my excuse and I'm keeping to it). It was one of those places we went only because we were 14 going on 15 and couldn't really go anywhere else. I remember, us, borrowing ids to enter some club/pub there where the entry age was 16.
Remember that day, two years ago, we were bored outside rocky master's and decided to go up to guys and ask for their numbers? but only if they were weird. We had the nerd guy, the poseur hip-hop guy,.. and we ended up getting a good laugh and a whole bunch of numbers that I still have, written on an old ice cream coupon.
Remember the night we saw Sam cry, for the first time? There was a fight, all because of that cheap whore. I went to town to meet you guys at 10pm even though I had an examination the next day (which I missed, in the end). Everyone was there for you, Sam. We all came down for you.
Then there was having conference calls everyday to come up with a plan to get back at the cheap whore. You guys came up with a plan that you didn't wanna tell me because you knew I wouldn't like it.
But in the end, I had such a good laugh when I smelled the concoction (of expired milk and mayonaise and what, DJ Y's urination and whathaveyou) in the school canteen, and I imagined how she'd have looked all drenched that way. Yvonne and I poured gravy and stepped on her mobile phone, but we both missed the fight because our examinations ended a little late. Once, in that same canteen, Yvonne took the fork she was using (with chili on it) and pressed hard against Sera's cheek condescendingly while shouting at her, and I felt really bad for Sera then, like she didn't deserve to be hated that way, but I lost that feeling of sympathy after I found out the things she'd been saying about me and everyone else.
During Fel's suspension from school, we, all of us, went over to her place quite often to keep her accompanied. Sandy would go over almost everyday, and when I called Fel, I could hear Sandy's laughter in the background.
Sam and Yvonne, that one time after recess, we were supposed to go to our respective classes. We went to the toilet and sat by the sink, intially, we were like, okay, 5 mins more then we'll go class.. then 10 mins, then 1/2 an hour, then 1 hr went by.. Since Yvonne was not allowed to skip class, we had to come up with a story of why we did, and I came up with the most absurd idea, to tell the teacher we were late because Sam was possessed by something supernatural. Yvonne excitedly agreed, and we ran all the way to my biology teacher's class, leaving Sam alone, and managed to tell the story without laughing. Sam was against the idea, but had no choice but to comply because Yvonne and I already ran out of the toilet. We were made to write a reflection form for the discipline mistress, but everyone forgot about it after a while.
Christy's 16th birthday! All of us was there! In the hotel room! Sam, Yvonne, Sandy, Sylvia, Christy, Fel. Kenneth asked me to join them at Music Underground, the excruciatingly techno club. And I agreed, asking him to bring the rest of us in and he couldn't actually, but Alan brought us in by the backdoor. We ended up having a whole lot of fun dancing on the podium, and being high on bass beats and laughter. We haven't done this whole clubbing thing, all 7 of us together, for the longest time.
I always remember that one time when we wanted to study together. It was a month before the GCE O's. We met at about 7+pm, reached the esplanade library past 8pm, and the library is closed by 9pm. We studied for barely 15 minutes, when we all started taking pictures and forgot to study. Then we walked around the esplanade until we wanted to take a cab home before the midnight charges.
What about when Yvonne was still under probation (and needed to be home by 10pm), so we went over, all of us, for once, to drink? We reached her place a quarter to 10, before the rest of you came, Yvonne and I was alone in her room, and she showed me pictures of friends she used to hang out with, and friends she used to cherish, how only a couple of them remains. I remember thinking we'll be those friends to her, those that will remain. We dimmed the lights in her room and blasted Urban and R&B music and danced and laughed. Sam and Yvonne were speaking to a HongKonger on the phone in Cantonese. We hid the vodka initially from Fel, but was laughing too much and let the secret out. I'm sure you guys did that often without me, because I wasn't one for drinking, but I'm always remembering that night.
The last time we had this much fun together, all of us, was the night at Pacific Plaza. We were supposed to part at 8pm, but ended up taking so many pictures and videos outside the bistro we go to so often, that we parted at 10pm instead, or close to 11pm. But that was before we all went our separate ways to meet our respective friends. It was telling, wasn't it? Although we always had our seperate lives, and separate friends, (Rosanne was Yvonne's friend and was mine, but us three could never hang out together) somehow we could stick. We still stuck close.
So many more memories that will only make sense to us.
We do the silliest things together. From people watching to being narcissists together. I'm always leaving you guys, time after time, but everytime I return, we pick right off where we left.
We should stay close.