FOR DOROTHY TAY

Don’t say I no heart. Here’s one long sappy letter for you!

I remember sitting behind one another during P5. Back then, we sat according to our height and so the shortest boy got the shortest girl etc. We often swop places cos we didn’t wanted to sit with that disgusting boy who dug his nose and cleans on the person next to him, sneezing into the hankerchief that seems like it had never been washed!

But somehow or rather, due to your slightly more grown head (ahem) you always ended up with him since he was the 5th boy. I didn’t bother rescuing you. Lol!

Somehow or rather, we were sitting near those really tall guys like…. Jeffrey (i think) and they bullied us endlessly. Actually it was targeted at you but why I kena also? Haha nevermind. Do you still remember that opaque egg looking lkke thing that they threw at us! I still had it up till last week before I threw it away while clearing my room okay!

i remember copying homework!! It started off as you do English and Science, I do Maths and Chinese. But we changed the plan to you doing Odds of all subject and I do Evens of all subject. Fairer right! But i always didn’t do my work on time and i end up copying wholesale from you while your momma will ask why you left these these these questions empty? You will always say you don’t know how to do. Seriously, didn’t she realise that those are alternate questions? Haha.

I remember competing to see who can fold the plastic straw heart the fastest and we will always do so whenever we eat fastfood (which was daily?). You always lose cos your fingers will get tangled among themselves. Hahahaha! Where is that box that was filled with those hearts that we made and i gave it to you on one of your birthdays!?

I remember joining netball for you. Tsk. I don’t even like it but Alicia and you were like crazy over it! So bopian lor, joined and played some interclass competition (Believe it or not, i still have those ugly trophies okay!)

I remember walking all the way to Petir LRT to take train home although school is nearer to Pending just so that we can walk you home okay. The mama shop in between and the horrible big field in the middle that we all tried to be the shortest of all cos some dumbass told us that if you are the tallest among the people there, you will get strike by lightning!

I remember how we tried to kill each other over MY phone on the day that PSLE results were released. Your phone died or something and we were going crazy over the fact that we had almost the same score. Okay you had 234 with 3As and 1 A* while I had 233 with 4As only. 1 mark only what
Hahahaha. The stairs that we were wrestling over the phone! Don’t make sense lor,hello that is MY phone. And that was how I had the (bad) habit over yelling HELLO AUNTY into your phone whenever your mum called. Teehee.

I remember how sad I was when you wanted to go Swiss Cottage and St Marg! cos i had to go BBSS so I was really really (secretly) happy that you can’t get into Swiss and St Marg. Hehehe. So we went BBSS together!

I remember buying all the uniforms and books together. And you queued in the queue to try on BOYS uniform. So in the end you just bought 2 more sets of whatever i bought since I queued in the right queue. Textbooks were also just TIMES 2.

I remember the sharing of locker. And my momma fetching us to school. That time your maid was still at your house and she had to walk you to my house bus stop daily just to take a (late) ride with me. Eventually you got really pissed at me for being (very) late and you took the bus yourself!

i remember introducing you to YZ who was LP’s friend at that time. Just nice, you and YZ same class, LP and i same class. But obviously you guys got to take the bus together

I remember Sec 3 when we were choosing our classes and although you were obviously stronger in Humans, you chose Triple Sci cos it was seen as the Elite class and the smarter bunch. (humphs) And now all 3 of you abandon me! Hahaha.

Ans that was the year that you threw me out of the locker as well cos Shaun entered the school (Wahlaoeh). There goes my key bringer. Haha.

I remember sec 4 when we eventually graduated from BBSS. I really thought we will end up in the same school again since you said you wanna try appeal for Biz and i wanted Biz too. But you went ECH! But at least we are both in NP, if that counts as anything. Haha.

Different courses set us apart and we both had different sets of friends to hang out with. We had different commitments and we rarely met. Really wasn’t used to it but I was determined to keep it going so I keep on (pestering) asking you all for dinner meetups. (Now you know!)

And that is a recollection of our 10years as besties
Love me for these cos I typed it on my iPhone and depleting my battery from 60% to 36% now okay!

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