I have received a number of mails in my fan mail box. It seems my fans have been complaining about both the quality and quantity of my posts recently. But thing is, I’ve been suffering from writers block. And when you have writers block, nothings seems to come out from my brain. But today, makes for an emotional entry. A good time to have such a entry too, since thanksgiving day is just round the corner.
I had earlier promised to try to have a few entries on all my close ones. Sadly, I did not keep it up like many of my promises. But it is never to late to try to change, thus I will try to complete this ”mini” project. Today I will like to talk about someone I spoke to my gf about – Zheng Ah Boon.
It have always been on my mind, the next post on close ones will be for him, just that as I mention, I had writers block. But what triggered me now is because Huixin told me about how Mr Boon help her for my birthday surprise. And I was touch (all right all right, im not gay). So here goes……
The year was 1997, and I was looking forward to the first day of secondary school. I went to not so a good school, as my results were not good enough. Thus, somehow or rather I was prepared to meet a lot of crazy people. The first person I met was a certain Mr Ong Zhiwei, his cousin was same class with me in Primary school. Thus I use to see Zhiwei in my primary school bullying many kids smaller his size in the basketball court. But today’s topic is not on him so lets move on…
The second person I met was Mr Boon. He was as serious as you want him to be. With his hair comb to the side, and the all white uniform, he could have pass off as a Rafflesian.
In life, it is somehow base on fate. Whom you meet etc. So as we were in the same class, we bonded. From Manchester United to soccer to copying of math assignments. He was the man whom will definitely finish his homework and he was also the man who will surely let us copy. And copy we did, exactly the same, till the teacher know obviously what was going on. So as a country previously conquered by Japan, we improvised. We purposely copy and did some silly mistakes so as also not to sabo Guowen. We were too good for the teachers, weren’t we?
As Guowen was more guai (at least the teachers thought so), he was elected class monitor. He was my class monitor for 4 bloody years. What i strongly remembered was, he had a file which he had to mark attendance for every lesson. So he had to draw those small lines to show ”tick” whoever was present or not present. Thinking back, it was rather tedious, but then again, as what a type of person he is, he did it with responsibility. Even when I was late, he also will mark me late #$@#%#@%#!.
Secondary school was really great fun. We climb back gates, kick soccer, played basketball, failed maths, give nicknames to people, laugh at people. Just for laughs, the image of Guowen in secondary school was him with his green outdoor bag and a pile of books in his hands binded by a yellow book binder. Though he was often laugh at or disturbed by yes, he was more or less wan de qi (can play up). Of course he did got angry in secondary school days when we disturb him like siao, but I will put that to puberty. Though his during sec 3 sec 4 days, his hormones must have been raging hahaha.
So after we went of from secondary school, everyone had their own life. I came to know Chenghan and co, while Guowen also made his new friends. Luckily for us, we still kept in contact and met up now and then.
It was during army that we sort of drifted apart. I guess it is also because he went into army first, and we were still sort of enjoying life outside, thus we did not understand his difficulty in the army. This is because we tried to ask him out many times, but we got rejected often. The reason might be because 1) he had new friends or 2) he was really tired. But in the 2nd year of his army days, he was more relax and thus started to go out with us again.
I think Guowen is someone whom keep to himself more often than not. He is not someone who expresses his feelings freely. Cause Ive been waiting for him to say he loves me and give me ”only love” disc, but seems the wait have been fruitless thus far hahahaAHAHAHA. But jokes aside, I guess that is the way he is, and either as a friend you accept it, or you don’t.
There was 1 thing that have been my mind for a long time and that i really appreciate was when he was 1 of those that accompany me for nearly everyday during my father’s wake. Not easy, because it was night till morning, night till morning.
Mr Zheng makes me laugh a lot and to be honest the talks have been rather enjoyable too.
Ok this post is like quite long, and my writers block syndrome seems to be kicking in. Let’s hope the friendship last and it’s strong enough to get over any huddles!
Guowen the Hokkien Ambassador: – ”*Cannot be printed*”