old stuff

was clearing a bit of stuff in my cupboard earlier and came across a whole box of old stuff... stuff that i held dear and had not thrown away since as long as i can remember. there were greeting cards, my primary school report book, photographs, secondary school autograph book, junior college autograph book, etc... and then there was this one single item that reminded me think so much of the years gone by - it was my pocket calender. this was an all in one little book for me. something similar to what we have in our smart phones today. it was my scheduler where i penned my appointments, my to-do-lists, important dates that i must remember, birthdays, anniversarys, etc. it was also some sort of a diary where i would write down things that i thought was significant. and reading thru it, it brought back lots of memories... here are some entries that made me smile... 1985, jan 05 (sat) - visit botanic gdns with r, pk, s, pc, cx, etc 1985, jan 06 (sun) - see show - `owl and bumbo' with r, pk, s 1985, jan 13 (sun) - see show - `longway to gallaway' with r. we shared a fruit tree mango. 1985, jan 20 (sun) - had kentucky with the group 1985, jan 25 (fri) - overnite at beach with group 1985, jan 26 (sat) - r came over to my place to sign the photo 1985, feb 3 (sun) - meet pk, s at 1pm - meet r at 2pm - beach with jm, r, pk, s, xm, cx, pc, mh at 9.30pm 1985, feb 10 (sun) - cg outing to chinatown - r confinement (jm - joo meng, r - roger, pk - puay kheng, s - shirley, pc - pei cao, cx - zhaoxi, xm - xue mei, mh - mun hoon) well, it's not difficult to see who my life revolved around in those post-jc days. those were the days where weekends were so important to me becos those were the only times when my best friend r and i would be out of camp and where we could meet. and usually, my catching up with him would be done as part of the group. frankly, i missed those times where we would chat through the night at the beach. just two of us. something that we would do over most weekends when we were in college. but given his very short weekends, i had to join in as part of the group. and that was how i would spent my weekends until 3rd qtr 85. after tat, due to some discomfort amongst the group and i, i started drifting away from the group, and eventually lost contact with r. :-)