Thursday, January 06, 2005

recollections

we're funny things... we cherish what we have only when its running out.. its enlistment day tomorrow, or should i say later? haha doesn't matter, cos i can't sleep.. or rather, its because i know how important time is.. and i can't bear to let it slip away so cheaply by sleeping..

its been an eventful 2 years in hC.. i dare say i've learnt much more stuff in these 2 years than in my 10 years in primary and secondary school.. friends.. sports.. teachers.. they all carry a deeper meaning than the ones back in pri and sec sch.. i've learnt so much, yet i feel that there's again much more for me to explore.. then again, somehow i feel that we're beginners in the school of life. in the school of life, you learn by experiencing, you start by sharing your experiences, and you graduate when you're ready to start a new one of your own..

if you told me two years back i'll be the guy that i'm now, i'll probably pull back my head and laugh... i've definitely mellowed... used to be arrogant, inconsiderate and reckless... then again, i'm still pretty much the same old dennis back when i was six years old... cracking jokes and making people laugh... laughter somehow is my companion, i take joy in making people laugh... nothing can beat the sparkle in someone's eye, or that statisfaction knowing that you've brighten someone's day by telling a joke... and i've a confession... sometimes i make jokes that are crude, or cold jokes knowing that it'll fall flat on me... haha you guys may find me dumb.. haha but i enjoy doing that... knowing that you guys will... laugh (or at least smile =p)

and i'll be damned if i left hC without having left an impression on people.. sorry to all those who i've interfered with now and again... haha then again, i've always like interfering with other people's business.. its part of me i guess.. the idea of changing something for the better... kinda appeals to me...

dun like the idea of regret.... it sounds really horrible.. to look back and ponder over what might have been and what might have not been... so i try to give my best and ponder over choices available to me before i make them... regrets again... are horrible... the feeling is horrible... everything abt it is horrible... so please people.... do things you know that is right or for the better... you don't wanna waste time looking back... and regret...

its been an eventful 2 years in hC.. to all the friends that i've made... thank you for everything.. you've been a great bunch of people! haha hope tt i've touched your life one way or another... for the better or the worse.. can't really imagine what i'll be without you bunch of fellas so yeah... thankew again...

been thinking of what to do in e future... something that offers me satisfaction would be good... moral satisfaction... like what i always tell others... a doc? policeman? teacher? haha failing which i'll probably go and do banking and finance... dunnoe why.... but haha always had a dream of opening my own restautant or bakery... hahahahahaha.... i'll probably sell cookies, not pastries.. or european crusine, not chinese stuff.... mwahahah... still remember my first dream of opening a restaurant... a burger joint actually... a place where one can order his own custom burger... with his choice of patty, bun, veggie, dressing... sounds good and original rights? hahahahaha~ it'll be one of a kind...

dennis will be dennis. he'll be the clown in the middle of the circus.. he'll be the friend you have when in need.. dennis... will be dennis.. he'll never change... thats a promise he made to himself..

haha i'm gettin emotional again...

but its time so sleep...

and also time for NS...

so here i go~~~~






denn~ strode past at 3:14 AM
------ Sunday, January 02, 2005

happy new year!!

spending new year's eve in town waiting for the countdown wasn't exactly my idea of fun... the crowd was big... too big for my comfort... and there wasn't much to do anyway except stand and smile and shake your hips.. (the other highlight of the day was when i shared a can of foam with aK to spray at cliff, and when he snatched the can from us and simed wrongly, spraying himself =p), otherwise, yeah...

walked for eternity after the countdown at chijmes to lao pa sat.. haha its sure been a long time since i last spoke to my friends... was it last at the street soccer court? haha so there we were, the five of us eating, drinking and talking under a cloudy sky... haha tt was sure fun.. especially when we stayed till 3am...

left the place to continue our chapter of the vagrant's story.. ahaha cliff had to leave for his party (with his "cell"mates and of course, his girlfriend) and yeah.. yap left to go home... so yeah.. aK bert and i... the 3 vagrants...

and a vagrant's life can be so exciting... like wandering around the streets.. finding a suitable place to sleep or lie down... running away from the rain... finding even more places to sleep.. kicking bottles into the singapore river and nearly getting caught by some police patrol.. my idea of fun? definitely!! =)

sat at some stone stools next to the stanford hotel... tired.. but continued our conversation anyway.. the two of us, minus bert who was really exhausted i guess.. talked abt some guy stuff.. then abt army... you'll be surprised how much guys have to talked abt.. then dawn broke... and we shuffled our feet to the mrt station, beat, but happy (well at least for me) =)


denn~ strode past at 7:10 PM
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