yesterday was the 1st day of school, and after school I was kinda gloomy thinking mainly about my class. Cos my best friend there xin ling wasn't around, and moonie too, so there was this moment when I just sat there being anti-social. mao said something to me, and i retorted back, (cos well he usually "insults" me) and then i turned back around. and after a while i decided to just act abnormally and just initiate a conversation even though i had nothing to say. and well, it didn't turn out ackward.
wait i'm getting somewhere with this.
so today, in the morning, the paper bag containing my baby bean sprouts(as mao puts it) grown by melvin split and out came the container and it burst upon impact with the floor and flooded it. People came to look, but no one offered to help. but giving them the benefit of the doubt, i suppose rushing to class is higher priority. i don't want to sound bitter, but I would have stayed to help. no matter who it was. but i guess my expectations are really different, and i know it.
but later, after i came back to class again, felicia was there and she helped me. =) and in the bathroom, she asked me, no one from your class helped you? well, I guess. but later mao came over and tried to help. haha.
i will get to the point.
and today morning xin ling and marcurse was there too. and during the short break he started randomly pasting the boards on the wall trying to "help" me set up the notice board. and in the end he and mao did something that totally cracked me up.
so here is what i want to say. I'm really really glad that there a certain people in my class.
xin ling, who is always ready to help and open and everything. I really thank God sent her to be a friend that gives great company. mao, who was always nice, very nice from the start and still is. amazing up bringing from his older sisters. yes, i have notice a trend among boys with older sisters that they are nicer=) and marcurse, whom earlier i thought i couldnt be comfortable with, but with his steadfast friendliness has broken the ice. and just seeing his "ready to insult prisca" face cracks me up. and moonie, never failing to be really nice and making people feel good when she greets others enthusiastically and always RUSHING to help people. and others like zab, colin, clement, paul, zi qiang,chin leong,marcurse ds,jj and (maybe haha) khalid who i can talk to. and the others who like ashok and the rest provide amusement and whom I have to make an effort to talk more to.
So I hope this year, I hope I don't take these people for granted and instead of wanting to know what they can offer me, I'll try to think of what kind of friend I can be to them. =)