thank you for being you

i have been wanting to blog on this for so long
guess i just have to blame myself for keep on delaying :S
my precious M got engaged last march, 19th march to be exact
and she will officially be off the market this coming 19th!

how time flies~

i started to know her during my IB years in banting
we were in different classes, mine was E03G and hers was E03E if im not mistaken
being the minority, all engineering students got to stay in the same block, same floor
so her room was just a couple of steps away from mine
i used to call her “cucu” due to her cute size compared to the giant me
that was when she started calling me “nenek” :)
we were not that close back then
the most memorable thing was that i used to knock on her door for coins to use public phones
*since Ayah kept on scolding me on my very long phone bills*
she had this one tabung which never failed to please me
another thing was that i could see her on the phone with her beloved T almost all the time, everywhere!
*along the corridors, at the back door, on the iron board, and sometimes in front of the toilet? ;p* and yes i used to borrow her IBM laptop to do my physics extended essay
though i would definitely end up playing zuma, just to beat her high score :D

nearly the end of our banting years when we had to decide where to go
she started to play her role
first she dragged me to lecture hall to meet up with eric cooke
then she started knocking on my door to influence me to go to southampton with her
telling me how great the place is though she had never been there herself
well ofcourse, i just said yes without a doubt
seriously she is very good in convincing, i wont be surprised if she turns out to be a lawyer
starting from that moment we started to hang out more often

there was this one incident on this particular afternoon during our orientation week in soton
we were assigned different groups and we already promised to see each other at the praying room once they called it a day
i waited and waited and waited for her yet she never turned up, i was so worried she got lost or something
the fact that she did not have a UK number yet at that time added up to my misery
i could still remember how miserable I was that tears started to fall down while I walked around searching for her
i even asked some seniors to help me out with the searching
at the end of the day when we finally met her, everyone kept on laughing and saying how silly i was
well she did get lost but she finally made her way to her montefiore :)

being far far away from home was quite a problem in the beginning
especially when i had to go through my so-called midlife crisis in 2006
i was so lucky i have her
through thick and thin, she was always there to push me forward so i kept moving on
well i could say after my parents and family members, she was the one with the biggest impact in my life
through out my studies, my life, my everyday problems, my sillyness, my stupidity
even until i managed to start my working life

well M i know i cant thank you enough
but thank you
you are in fact the bestest best friend i ever had
i thank God that our paths crossed and i will keep on praying that it will never come to an end
all the best for the new journey you are about to encounter

*the only decent picture from our sleepover with mews*

with love