Everybody, Meet My First Love

April 15th, 2008

it is 6 a.m, but instead of sleeping like i should be, or finishing Catcher in the Rye at home and in the comfort of my warm bed like i could be, i am here in Mamak-Near-My-House, STUDYING, with this.. incorrigible idiot who thinks that he can pass his finals by mugging only TWO HOURS before his paper starts. yaaa i cant believe it either. this is exactly why we broke up so many years ago. priorities in life too different, haih.

everybody, meet eeyang.

he is my first love and one of my best friends to this day :) as i write this, he’s sitting across the table from me, mugging for his CSCI paper that is two hours away, from a textbook that he DIDN’T EVEN HAVE, which *I* had to print out for him. my sole task on this fine morning is to sit here with him and make sure he studies and to scold him every once in a while when he gets distracted by shiny things :\ i even had to bring my pencil case for him because i wasn’t sure if he would have any stationery on him -_-

our relationship has always been like this. when we were going out in Form 2, it was one of those classic high school relationship stereotypes where the jock was going out with the nerd in some aberration of the natural high school ecosystem. well, no prizes for guessing who the jock and the nerd are respectively, but i was a very pretty and sociable nerd okay!!! we were from completely different and very segregated circles, but as fate often has it, it was only a matter of time before we found each other and fell completely head over heels in love.

we came from very different backgrounds and we didn’t like or do the same things, but at our very cores we were almost made for each other. we were both rebels at heart - impatient, ambitious and never letting anyone or anything get in our way, we were both all about feelings and emotions, and we really understood each other. where one of us lacked something, the other filled up that void. for the first time, i understood what people meant when they talked about puzzle pieces and completing each other. like i said, we didn’t like or do the same things, but we always took a lot of joy in learning and discovering the other person’s world. i spent a lot of time cheering him on at his basketball games, and he used to come over to my classroom and hang out with my friends, who all loved him. i remember how he gave Aira an entire pack of crackers for her birthday, because we used to call her Pollie the Parrot :P he taught me all about computers, sports and cars, and i taught him all about grammar, geography and history. in Kemahiran Hidup classes, he did all my woodwork for me while i did all his jahitan. yeah, it was one of those relationships :)

we went out for about a year before we split up and he went to a different school. neither of us saw the split coming, and in hindsight it was one of those things that shouldn’t have happened. then came many years of very little contact, where we would hang out only once in a while or turn to each other whenever we had issues that no one else but us would understand. we’ve been spending a lot of time together lately, because yes, we’ve both been having issues and of course we just naturally turn to each other - just like it’s been from the very beginning :)

this is us at Jalan Alor having that clam seafood thingy (informally called chuit chuit but i have no idea what its real name is) where you have to suck the meat out of the shell. like the numbskulls that we are, we could not suck out ANY of the meat, and had discarded 3/4 of the plate before we realized we were sucking on the wrong end of the clams :\ two days ago we both emo-ed over fries and a quarter pounder (i said i didnt want one, but i ended up finishing his), and yesterday i had a super craving for fah sang wu, so he drove me all the way to SS2 just to have a bowl. and today… we are both sitting at Mamak-Near-My-House making sure he doesn’t fail his CSCI paper. tomorrow we are going out for a movie and then making sure he doesn’t fail his upcoming English paper. hehe.

conversations with eeyang:

me: you so totally need to study harder. i can help you with CSCI!
eeyang: eh i’m not doing so bad.. i got 48 out of 60 for my midterms!
me: ……..
eeyang: aren’t you proud of me?
me …… um that’s like a B or something..
eeyang: HELLO??? a B is PRETTY DAMN GOOD!!!
me: no it isn’t. anything less than an A is material for suicide.

me: eh actually how many girlfriends have you had so far?
eeyang: hmm.. *thinks* three! you, koi lin and joey.
me: hah.. elaine leh?
eeyang: oh then four.
me: jessy leh?
eeyang: oh then five.
me: natalie leh?
eeyang: oh then six.
me: then how about that girl from taylors?!
eeyang: what, that one also count?? okay lah then seven. eh but if she counts then so do pei yee, lie peh, sarah…
me: WTF

hahaha sometimes he really cracks me up. we have so much fun whenever we meet up, and it’s so good to know we still get along with each other so well. and that we still understand each other :) we have the kind of friendship where we can just flop onto each other on the couch, watch a really shitty movie and then get up and go home, feeling a thousand times better. we could ask each other for a favour and it’d be granted instantly without any hesitation.

we didn’t break up because of different priorities, but we broke up because i didn’t know what a good thing i had then. but i know now :) eeyang, if you are reading this, can you please go back to doing your work!!!!!! stop talking to me about random things!!!!!! i am not going to answer you anymore!!!

ooh, this just in:

eeyang: do you know why i’m so panicked over this paper?
me: you are so not panicking. you’re like too calm for your own good
eeyang: NO, i’m damn panicked okay!
me: okay… is it cos your paper is one hour away?
eeyang: no lah… it’s cos this exam has 2 invigilators. so my classmates and i can’t copy or exchange papers like we’re used to doing :D
me: WTF

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