Something worth staying up for

I am chatting with my bestest friend now, and it's been some time now since we chatted, laughed, reminisce, encouraged each other, talked about life's ups and downs and making fun of each other.

It has also been sometime now since i've slept this late but again, who cares (this is for you, che!). To me, it's something worth staying up for, once in a while... ;p

She's a high school friend. We used to mess up each other's hair, pull out each other's shirts (which is against the school's rules!), quarrel until we cry and stop talking to each other, fight and hit each other so hard until the area being hit becomes red and itchy..

You see, she was the head prefect and i was the assistant class monitor and we are both supposed to show good examples. Instead, we fought with each other in front of the girls' toilet during breaks, we talked in class until the teacher had to ask us to stop talking, we changed seats in class when we're not supposed to, instead of throwing rubbish we put it in each other's pockets, we pass notes in class and talk about what happened in 'All about Eve' the night before when the teacher's teaching in front, elbow wrestle with each other in class... etc etc etc..

But somehow it's really funny how it started, she says it started with a birthday card she gave me cos she felt like she wanted to make friends with me, but i thought it was because of someone we know in common, some habit of that someone, something that makes us go 'yeeee' but also 'hahaha! hahaha! HAHAHA!'.. Anyway, doesn't matter how it happened, i'm just glad it did.

She is someone whom i don't have to say anything and she can tell by my facial expression what is going on, she is someone, who like me cannot stand this...

"Hey, guess what?"
"What?"
"Nothing lah..."

She is someone who likes to write lonnnggggg poetic messages to me on my birthdays and also the day i left for Tassie, with pretty pictures and stuff that made me cry my eyes out on the plane.

She may be the one who started all this but i must say, i am the one who always speaks first to end all the cold wars!

I won't be able to count all the times we cried quarelling with each other, all the times we laughed and made fun of each other, all the times we made each other fall and embarrass ourselves, all the times we argued about life about God, all the times we did things for each other.. and how many times we spoke words to encourage each other even when we didn't really know what's going on with each other and yet the words speak right to the heart at that very moment, for that season, in that situation..

And when we got older, we put our childish ways behind..
And it feels like nothing can break the friendship. Not distance, not silence, not time, not quarrels. But who knows someday, something might challenge our friendship...

I thank God for a friend like her. My life would have been quite different had i not met her. Maybe, less stress, less wrinkles i'll get in the future from crying about silly things, less injuries.. but definitely less FUN, less JOY, less ADVENTURES and truly i wouldn't have known what a true friend is like.

Oh, she has requested that i mention about the recent beach outing with a friend li hua, where we got crazy pushing each other into the water and splashing all over like mad girls while poor li hua stood by the side watching us go mad! And also the late night we had talking about *ahem* secrets some many years ago.

And this is to remind us about the many adventures we had when we were young, should we get Alzheimer's one day. But of course, we won't cos we are mentally active people. =p

I should rephrase my title tho, it's 'someone' worth staying up for, i'm sorry i spoke of you as a 'thing', friend. Hah!

Oh, and she says again, "don't miss this out, still remember our friendship mangrove tree?"
Yeah, we planted 2 trees side by side each other at the Bird Sanctuary when we went to sort of help clean up the place and pick up rubbish, plus plant new trees. But i doubt we'll be able to find the 2 trees now. Well, we can just say that it's in our hearts. =)

And oh, the jogathon she pursuaded me to go for. So we walked for and together with the disabled to raise funds, which was a good cause. =) The thing is, i was driving that day. And as we arrived, we saw a nice tiny parking spot so I parked swiftly, right into that spot but i didn't realise how tiny the spot was until we both couldn't get out of the car! It was really close i was stunned at how i actually got into that spot. I didn't tell my sis about it tho, it was her car i was driving. =p

Anyways, before she starts telling me to put down more stuff here, i will stop and head to meet with my bed real soon. But before that, i'm letting out a secret.. when she was younger, she bit her sister's cheek! =p
Sorry friend, you are allowed to do this to me in your blog next time!

This is just a tiny bit of all that we've been through together as world's bestest friends, and i hope we'll create more memories in the years to come!

Continuation from previous post: Lord, increase my creativity and spontaneity. I want to love you more and love life more! And Lord, let me see more lost souls saved! Thank You, Jesus!

You make all things work together for my good!