Soya's New World!: Old memories... the fondest of them all....

This morning, i 心血来潮...open my "box of treasures".... dug out something that i hold very close to my heart...

yah... me quite sentimental abt these things... over the years, i became less sentimental but I still hang on to a number of handmade cards my i received since young.... my "box of treasure" really needs to go on a diet... the last time I did some housekeeping, i realised that the weight of the box had threatened to break the shelf where i kept it!

I then proceed to write a short email to my secondary school friends (Nicknamed: Angels)...

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Hey Angels,

It is alwis at this period of my life, when everything seem very bleak... that i dig into my box of treasures...

Everytime I will take out this & look at it... I will flip thru the pages n in my thoughts:

"BLOODY HELL! How did I do it? Why the Hell everyday got test/exams?!"

Yes.... it's the LYS Journal that started in 1996.... i still kept mine as it is a very impt part of my life...

I exclaimed at so many red/purple/pink ink remarks (Those were the test/exam dates)

This was the year that our friendship really flourish...

This was the year that our friendship faced a challenge & we all go "separate" ways...

This was the year that our life kinda really kick start to have responsibilities... the courses we choose etc.... the paths we wanna take....

This was a very tough year of my life cos I really slogged very hard...

So when the going gets tough again (& every once in a while, it does!), I will remind myself n take this out & look at it...

remind myself: the bad news is that life is damn bloody tough.... the gd news is that we only need to do it once...

I dont how we did it last time, so many tests/exams! But we did it anyway & look at where we are now!

We are fine daughters, Wives, Mothers, friends etc...

If the light is at the end of the tunnel.... we are getting there already!

Jia you for those challenging a new adventure in their lives.... balancing work life and family(mother n wife) life, new mother life, new work (new environment, new country)...

One thing never change, our friendship...

Love,

Ah Mei

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Attachments:

Year1996 - Secondary School journal

(our school had recently decided to us a journal to help the students in time mgt)