Friday, November 16, 2007 . 2:26 AM

yosha! got a job! but a temporary one, sadly. but no problem! its still a few hundred bucks to pocket! why not? first time working.. wonder how it'll be like. hope nothing screws up! and hope the part time job i applied accept my application. fingers X-ed!

i've been thinking.. theres something that i read on the internet not too long ago. it says that 1% of all friendships last forever. so when people say the magical 'friends forever', they're actually lying. well unknowingly of course, nothing harmful. perhaps its true. before we left primary school, the four of us promised each other, friends forever. jian jie, ben tan, nicholas and me(note: not tan kin jon). after we graduated, we met up ever so frequently to play. but as time passed, nicholas began drifting away from us. then ben slowly followed. by the end of 2003, the four great friends were reduced to just two. we struggled to make this friendship as solid as we possibly can. long chats over the phone, smses, and still frequent meetings for games and meals. but as the major exams came on, our efforts began to grow thinner and thinner. phone conversations seized. meetings became very rare and we only sms-ed each other occasionally. and now, 2007 is coming to its end. five years ago, four friends promised each other to be friends forever. and now, two promises had been broken and the last promise is hanging by a very thin line. that sets me wondering, five years later, will all these current friendships still exist? or will it just fade away into memory.

as time passes and life goes on, many great people will come and go in our lives. fortunately, quite a number will become friends. but only such a small number will become so close that we can consider them a family. but as i said, as time passes, even these friendships will fade away and these people will leave. its just a matter of time. these bonds were never meant to last forever.. even if you give it all you have to maintain it, it will eventually fade away. but maybe, just maybe, some of us might be able to keep these bonds locked together for eternity. perhaps that would be the special 1%...

all we can do is pray, pray that these bonds can hold. pray that these promises will remain unbroken until death takes it apart. if not, then just pray that may it be in future that our paths may cross again...