new year, first flame
happy new year everyone!
"should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?
should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days o’ lang syne..."
with this in mind, i logged onto facebook and messaged my very first girlfriend on new year's eve to wish her happy birthday. well, actually, in truth, i logged onto facebook on the 2nd of january to wish her a happy belated birthday...
background: my first real girlfriend happened when i was in jc. she was my everything: i skipped school to spend time with her, i took mc from school to be with her, i was basically hooked on this thing called "puppy love".
and to show you how really crazy i was...there was this time when i found an envelope left behind in a cab that i took...inside there was a $1,000 note. this "discovery" to a teenager like me back then, was the equivalent of striking toto...(and no, i didn't tell the cab driver that i found the envelope...are you crazy?)
so what did i do with the money you might ask? i bought twosilver platinum rings, each costing $490, and engraved both me and my ex-gf's names on the insides. apparently, this would be a sign of my undying love for her, in my prepubescent mind at least...
and then after that, i think i bought us a nice romantic dinner at macdonald's with the spare change. haha.
there were a lot of memories from that era. mostly too personal to share on this platform, but just know that i was a puppy-lover once. haha.
so anyway, we decided to meet today to catch up...and obviously, we've gone our separate ways for quite some time already...she's gotten married, stayed in hong kong for the past 2.5 years, etc etc...so when she told me that she had a belated birthday / christmas present for me, i was a bit shocked.
but then when i got it, i was completely flabbergasted...
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this was the very first medal of any sort that i have ever earned...it was from a 3-on-3 basketball tournament way back in 1996 while i was still in njc.
i had completely forgotten that i gave it to her...
i was just speechless when she handed it back to me...it's been more than a decade...i can't believe that she kept it for so long...
it's one of the best gifts i've received in a long time...and well, quite frankly, it's quite hard to beat lah. haha. but please don't let that stop you from trying hor! haha.
what a great start to the new year...i hope there's more to come. =)
cheers. =)
"should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?
should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days o’ lang syne..."
with this in mind, i logged onto facebook and messaged my very first girlfriend on new year's eve to wish her happy birthday. well, actually, in truth, i logged onto facebook on the 2nd of january to wish her a happy belated birthday...
background: my first real girlfriend happened when i was in jc. she was my everything: i skipped school to spend time with her, i took mc from school to be with her, i was basically hooked on this thing called "puppy love".
and to show you how really crazy i was...there was this time when i found an envelope left behind in a cab that i took...inside there was a $1,000 note. this "discovery" to a teenager like me back then, was the equivalent of striking toto...(and no, i didn't tell the cab driver that i found the envelope...are you crazy?)
so what did i do with the money you might ask? i bought two
and then after that, i think i bought us a nice romantic dinner at macdonald's with the spare change. haha.
there were a lot of memories from that era. mostly too personal to share on this platform, but just know that i was a puppy-lover once. haha.
so anyway, we decided to meet today to catch up...and obviously, we've gone our separate ways for quite some time already...she's gotten married, stayed in hong kong for the past 2.5 years, etc etc...so when she told me that she had a belated birthday / christmas present for me, i was a bit shocked.
but then when i got it, i was completely flabbergasted...
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
this was the very first medal of any sort that i have ever earned...it was from a 3-on-3 basketball tournament way back in 1996 while i was still in njc.
i had completely forgotten that i gave it to her...
i was just speechless when she handed it back to me...it's been more than a decade...i can't believe that she kept it for so long...
it's one of the best gifts i've received in a long time...and well, quite frankly, it's quite hard to beat lah. haha. but please don't let that stop you from trying hor! haha.
what a great start to the new year...i hope there's more to come. =)
cheers. =)
4 comments:
wow! that's so sweet of her... it's going to be so hard to beat unless another decade later, she returns you something again...
how come ur silver rings so ex one ... with the money can get platinum one liao, no?
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hehe...you're right...my bad...now that i think about it, they were probably platinum rings...corrected already. it sounds nicer that way also. hahaha. =)
Err.. but she gave you back a present you gave her long ago...technically she didn't give you a present what!
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