CO Memories

It always feels good to meet up with old friends, that's why I always make an effort to attend all such gatherings :)

I don't know why, probably it's just me. Post schooling days, I haven't been making much friends, those that I can really "click" with. Well, at least until I joined my current company, where I managed to know a few colleagues whom I can really call friends. They did help me go throught a difficult patch in the first half of this year...

That's why friends I got to know during schooling days have held a special place in my heart. It warms my heart to hear news about them and that they are happy & doing well....

Shuzhen

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Never had a chance to share this baby picture with you so since we have a blog now, here it is...Not the cutest I have but the only one I had scanned in for some reason :)

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Ok, this is my very first blog entry, so if it doesn't turn out fine, 请多包含！
[great! glad you came on board!!]

I've never wanted to write on a blog because I don't really like to type things out very much (I don't exactly like to email either) but I guess this is something quite different, so... well....

It really feels good to be at the outing on Thursday. Haven't met up with Meiqi, Shuzhen, Yingyi in years (I do meet up with Weixiang now and then... we share more friends in common) and I wanted to speak out on how I feel.

Friends come into your life, and friends go out of your life. But these friends are very... special to me.

When you hang out with friends, you experience some sort of feeling around them. There are groups I go out with more often, that I've known for a very long time; yet I don't exactly feel comfortable with around, or even a part of them.

For this group of friends, even though we haven't met up in YEARS, there is this special feeling that warms my heart when I am around them. We had a great time in JC, even though I was only able to spend one short year together with them (I am one year younger than them). It was the period when we were all growing up – the period where friends tend to be the main focus of your life. I guess this wonderful feeling cannot be easily erased over time, and remains inside my heart; hopefully it can last forever.

Our goals were once the same: CO. We virtually breathed CO, and would be perpetually seen haunting the miserably tiny yet cosy little CO room when we had some spare time. However, with our different lives unfolding, our priorities in life have changed, and we all now pursue very different ideals in life. Yet, it is comforting to know that friendship does not wane even though our goals have diverged.

[At this point I am so touched. Same sentiments :D]

It really takes each and every individual’s effort to maintain friendship bonds. For that, I thank you all very much for making the effort to turn up for the gathering. You don’t know how much it means to me (though most of us might have lost the ‘wild adventurous spirit’ that we once had – hey, just walking round the fountain isn’t much of an wild task right?!? It is something silly that we soooooo would have done back then. :p )

Looking forward to regular meet-ups in future, my dear friends!

Zewang

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I am looking forward to our next gathering at 小桥流水 place! 16th Nov right? Or we can go watch a concert together.

It was a small group last night but it was very enjoyable.

When Zewang talked about his Lasik operation and of his previous relationship, I realised how much each of us has grown. Ever since we departed from HCJC, we had since then accumulated our own unique stories.

Weixiang made us felt like we were still back then, because he is still so funny, quiet, moody.....

Suzhen has grown prettier and we can always count on her to turn up in every gathering. THanks for being so faithful to our CO group!

Meiqi certainly looked very 幸福. Her glittering diamonds made very good subjects of conversation :)

Hey do come by this blog and catch up often! I will be looking forward to seeing something new here everyday, just like how we used to chase after our CO diary.

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Hi! This blog was inspired after a long-awaited HCCO gathering just now at Suntec. Hopefully we can revive our sweet memories in HCCO and share our present lives through this virtual portal... (Chose this blog server as it provides webspace for uploading photos - more convenient.) :)

Here's a recent picture of my students and me:

Weixiang

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