class outing

Once in a blue blue moon, we'd have our JC 00S23 class outing, and usually, not more than 15 would turn up. No exceptions for today. Hehe. *counts* Including people from 1st 3 months in that class who I actually don't really know, 12 people turned up! Not bad.

We had Fish & Co at Glass House opposite Plaza Singapura. 2nd time I'm there, 1st time with my Centr0-mates (no not the club..it's my OG haa) and it was freezing. Today not as bad as I was prepared with my new sweater I bought from China and I lent it to Val cuz she was freezing. Haha. Maybe I'm used to the cold in China..fancy 3 degrees Celsius! After dinner, we moved on to Orchard..hung around and talked a bit here and there. Love the talking and catching up with friends really. If only there's a nice cosy place to sit down and talk to each of them properly, though today's was kinda sufficient already. We went arcade and played games like Daytona haha. Quite fun, though it reminds me of the time I first stepped into an arcade more than 7 months ago...

Come to think of it, fate is really important huh? Why do you meet certain people in your life, out of the millions of people in Singapore? Some people you meet earlier in your life (e.g. in primary school) and if you cherished the chance, you'd have a good old friend by now. If not, you just learn the importance of friends later on in life, which is still not too late, just that it's harder to get close friends as you grow older. Anyway not to digress, my point is that it's really fate that brings two people together, whether to become friends, family or whatsoever. Who knows who you could have met but did not meet? Subsequently, you can make a choice, but obviously only with the people you've met.

As one of my tour guides in China aptly said, 十年修得同船渡,百年修得共枕眠。We may not think much about people we meet because we take things for granted or just because we're so used to knowing new friends, taking it as something very normal. Of course there's nothing wrong with that, but I just feel that it's a waste that we can't make the best out of every opportunity that may pass us. Opportunity costs of work and other material stuff would usually outweigh the opportunity costs of friends and etc because the effects of the former is more tangible. Eventually, things we do may hurt others but because the effects are not intangible and not visible, we don't realise our loss. Come to think of it, don't you think it's really sinful to hurt whoever you've hurt before? No matter whether it's intentional or accidental, a wooden fence that had iron nails pinned into it once before would never be the same again. *look at the holes!*

I think I'm digressing again.

Oh well... Anyway what I initially wanted to write in this blog was something JY said. Of course I knew this all along, but when these words come out from his mouth, it just takes on a special meaning because some memories came back to me. 往事只能回味。。。 Indeed. Sometimes you don't realise your loss until you've lost it forever, and it's too late to reminisce and think of the good old times. It'll never come back again. Opportunities rarely knock twice on your door. (If only disasters don't strike more than once too.) Appreciate what you have. It's a waste to let go or give up without even trying. What you should have done, what you could have done. It's too late by the time you want to turn back the clock. Time waits for no man. Also, to repeat myself from a previous blog entry, memories are beautiful if you don't have to deal with the past. You can reminisce, but things are just not the same anymore. Think of the beautiful memories, sure. But you'll also inevitably be reminded of the sad/negative memories associated with the same person. It's too painful.

If you don't understand what I'm trying to say, just ignore me as usual. Lol. I'm just feeling slightly moody.