Memories Tucked Away

Tucked away in some corner of my mind. I always feel that there are different types of memories. Memories you'll always want to remember and keep for life, memories not worth remembering and memories that somehow got forgotten along the years.

It was a rather odd day in school. Figuratively, I felt like I traveled back in time in school today (No, I'm not watching too much of Hiro on Heros to feel this way...) It just felt as if I traveled back to Year 1 college days. All in a day, I saw a few of my Year 1 friends whom I used to be close to and now, lost contact with as we go along our separate ways.

I saw,

Matthias - The straight As guy who was in my LTB group. Funny and relaxed when not working. Focused and direct when working during meetings. Walks from campus down the hill to the busstop talking about church stuff.

James - Studied with. Explained Stats and Financial Accounting terminology to me. Used to share our Christian walk together. Planned to learn diving together. 2 years on, I found out, he still have yet to learn it!

Year one, it feels so long ago but the memories once chucked away, seem so recent and clear now when I see my friends.

And now, we are just hi and bye friends. Changes. We started fresh in Year One, as if we just started drawing on a clean slate of paper. And now, we are really going separate ways. Used to be good friends, now, we talked like strangers. Nothing more than just polite conversations. We thought we would stay as good friends for a long time to come. But we didn't make the effort.

I don't know. This is happening all too fast.

If I want it my way, I seriously would love to find all the time in the world to make time out for each friend to maintain the friendship.

ok. Emo talk. Back to my case study.

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Conversation of the day:
Met up with Lewyn for quick lunch and Strategy consultation.

Lewyn: When I first saw you in our Ethics class in Year 2, I thought you looked fierce. Wild partying sort.

Me: oh man, that's not a good first impression.

Lewyn: You look fierce when you don't smile.

Not the first time someone tells me that. I get stuff like I look super intimitating when I go for my first project meetings with pre-assigned group mates.

Do I look intimitating and snobbish? HAHAHA.

I'm NOT, ok, IF you know me well enough.

Anw, congrats again for graduating with a summa cum laude and nailing that StanChart job! You're easily the smartest person I know from SMU. Haha...