Of friends, new and old

And as we move forward with life, it’s hard to make time for everyone and everything. People get too busy, meet new people, and get too caught up with life and everything that surrounds it.

To me, I believe that if you make the time to meet up with someone, then you truly do care about that person. I have many ‘friends’ and ‘acquaintances’, but it is whether they do make a point to try and meet me when I feel that they do bother. Sometimes it’s hard though. But like a friend told me, do the things you want to do with the people that you care about, before they’re gone, and you won’t feel so sad because you’ll have the memories of them to remember them by. And while that won’t take the pain away, it can take away the sadness by remembering the good times.

So I finally got a chance to meet up with a friend, who stays near me yet is ironically just so far to reach.

Ninja Turtle!

Nice? I like it, but don’t know if I’ll ever wear it.

The food that bonds us together.

Looking through love.

Serene’s pillow/squeezing stress ball.

I wonder who ever reads these instructions?

We stopped by the Prada mushroom too, after a jaunt along the already-dry Orchard Road.

While meeting with the old friends, I met a new one, with a  Fierce and strong pose.

Trio.

One more, for the night.

~Don’t wait till too late to see the people you care about, for you’ll never know what life brings, and when life sweeps you away~

Crashed

Not my computers or various techonological paraphelia, but my mind and body.

I was real happy yesterday to be able to meet up with the cousins, and to have fun. And relief that Aaron was fine when I was imagining he might be in terrible pain.

And today, I met up with some friends from secondary school whom I haven’t seen for a while, so that was great. Though I haven’t gotten much sleep these past few days, and even last night I didn’t really sleep a lot before I had to get up and go off. So I’ve just been feeling a little jam in my body now and then, like it’s slowly deteriorating from not being taken care of.

And now I just received news of a very close friend whose father passed away this afternoon. I feel like my mind’s crashed along with my body. I’m not happy anymore. I’m not high anymore. I’m just sad and tired. Though I obviously wasn’t close to him, I did know him, which equates to me caring about him, and I also care for my friend very much. I wonder how she’s doing right now. I can’t imagine at all.

I’m so sad and so scared. It made me think very hard, and wonder, who can I really turn to if and when something like that happens to me. I have friends, yes, but I’ve come to realize that so many are not all that close to me. Who do I call when I need to talk to someone? I know people will read this and say “Fari, don’t worry, you can always call me, I’ll cheer you up or I’ll talk to you till the night’s over”. But I hate to burden people. It’s not the kind of news people want to hear at all.  I had Gim Siong, who helped me through some of my hardest times so far, and I’m grateful to him. But now that he’s spending 5 and 1/2 days ‘serving the country’ and lacks time for himself and his girlfriend, I haven’t been wanting to disturb him more than necessary.  Thanks to my TP clique and their respective boyfriends who’ve made my boring life interesting. Thanks to my Journ boys who made me feel like I was part of a group which I could belong in. Thanks to Elf, the girl who got me through times when I couldn’t pull through. Thanks to those who sleep late at night constantly keeping me company through msn. Thanks to Tobey for talking to me and giving life before death a little more perspective. Thanks to Jolyn whom  I know I can always talk to, because though we haven’t known each other that long, recent events helped us to be closer. I’m grateful for that.

With life comes death. I just wish the death bit wasn’t so difficult to swallow.

I’m neither a Christian nor a Jew, but I’ve always believed that it shouldn’t matter which religion we’re all from, cause we’re just praying to the same God for health, safety, care and love. And I believe he’ll take care of us even after death.

So though he walks through the valley of the shadow of death, he shall fear no evil. For God is with him. His rod, and his staff, they comfort us all.