Memories

Having ignored my Facebook account for many moons now (much like my blog, I guess, :-)) I decided to check it out just recently. As expected, I was bombarded with the usual stuff - notifications, friend requests, game invitations - and I quickly dispensed all those with my magic finger (i.e., clicking "add" to all those who request to be my friend and simply ignoring the rest). On a whim, I took to checking out the pages of my friends from my childhood years, and boy, does the nostalgia really hits.

Thinking back, when I was seven, I was a shy, little boy who was afraid of the dark. I came to school with my mother, and we 'tumpang' with a neighbor of ours, Mr. Chan who had with him his son my age, Andre, who would soon be a very close friend of my throughout the many years. It was a whole new world to me then, and there were many strange faces in the classroom. I did not cry when I was left at the kindergarten nor did I cry when I was left at school, but it was still a strange experience, I guess, to be alone toddling after my mother for so long. Seconds turn to minutes, minutes turn to hours, hours to days, days to months, months to years, and soon I was 12, and ready for my UPSR, always surrounded by my friends. The faces which were so strange when I was 7 became constants in my life, and looking back at the photos makes me lost in reminiscing.

Of course, not all the memories were good, but seeing that its a good ten years since then, I would like to say that perhaps, in this case, a good memory is unpardonable. We have all grown up, some working, some studying, some in a relationship, some alone, but regardless, the children that we were are now adults ready to face the world and whatever challenges it will throw at us. Truer words were never said when the Bard quoted, "Parting is such sweet sorrow." While this words maybe ten years too late, it is perhaps because of this ten years that the feeling is more acute than ever.

So, to all my Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Marong classmates who might ever stumble onto this blog, I'd like to thank you for at least making my primary school days worth remembering. :-). Good luck in whatever you might choose to do (or are doing at the moment)!

To that, I bid, adios!