Friday, May 22, 2009

Time Didn't Stop

I can blog because the right music is playing and I'm feeling just serene.

I haven't felt this way in a long time.

xxx

I love the weekends. My best friend stays online till late and we talk about everything :)
She's been asking me to blog about her for a long long time and I believe I've done so a couple of times before. But as she requested again, here you go Tevava.
:)

Lets go back to when we first met, I was so small and so were you. We were both lil shorties. You were in red and I was in purple. We came to school really early for sports practice, since we were such goody-two-shoes.

I said "Hi" and so did you.
I asked your name and repeated it.
You said I was the only one who's gotten it right on the first go. You also told me a lot of your friends call you "Teh-Vah-Nia". But they fail.

That's not your name.

It's "Tee-Va-Nee-Ah"
But you know that, don't you?

Yup.

I think you used to think I was annoying. You were right, I was. :D
So annoying. But you still invited me to your birthday parties and talked to me online every night.

We became rather close.

Like most people, you learned to like me as soon as you got to know me. Unlike a lot of people, you gave yourself and me, the chance to get to know each other. You believed that there was more to me than meets the eye.

Tevava is an oddball. In school, she didn't have any Indian girlfriends. So she hung out with the Chinese students. The Chinese students from other classes always wondered why we were so different. Our class was one tight group, consisting of Chinese, Indian, Malay, Siamese, Indonesian. A lot of us weren't even pure. We didn't swear in Cantonese or have dyed hair, we were pretty smart too and the teachers, they loved us.

From my last two years of high school, I realized that despite whatever mentalities there were, based on religion or race or culture, people should generally be able to get along. I did it. I did it just fine.

Mind, Teva used to piss me off. We'd fight. Except our fights were more like cold wars. I wouldn't speak, neither would she. Even if we did, we never looked at each other.
The funny thing is, we never used to be fighting with each other. She'd be upset over something at home or something with her boyfriend and vice versa. But we'd end up punishing each other. Hence the cold wars.

Teva was never pissed off with me to the point where we totally hated each other. In that sense,I guess we never really fought.

We're totally different.
She's the practical girl, that wants to be an engineer or study pharmacy, and I'm not so practical, wanting to sing, dance, act and speak.
However, we're equally sarcastic and cynical, we like the same music and take it very seriously. I also think she's more Chinese than I am.

Teva likes me for who I am. Of course, it's much easier for her to like me because she's so weird herself. We're often outcasts. But of course I've always managed to fit in a little better than her, as the people in school would discriminate. But it never changed anything, because I'd choose to spend time with her over anyone else, anytime of the day.

Teva likes Nasi Lemak and Magnum Ice-Cream and Claypot Yee Mee. She's extremely picky with her food. She laughs funny and she always has a cold during exams. She likes to hit people at random, just because she feels like it.
It would hurt. A lot.
Plus, she likes to draw on people's hands. Especially mine.
I've seen her drool.
Teva doesn't eat beef, or pork and she doesn't like pan mee. The girl would rather starve than come over for pan mee when she's hungry.
She can be lazy too, she'd rather starve then drive to KFC, park her car, get off the car and go eat. She's a difficult person to handle but that's what makes her special and that's why I love her.

Knowing I can handle her pretty well, knowing what to say when she's sad and what she likes to eat and where she'll hit me, makes it much easier for me.
Mind you, it wasn't always easy, I've paid the price for having a best friend like her, and I've done my time. She's the kind of person you need to really get to know because it would be a waste if you didn't.

I want to watch Transformers and eat lolo/cendol/ABC with her.
I visit her in college and she drives me home. I'm so glad we're so nearby.
Plus her friends are cute :) YAYFORME.

I syg Tevava bykbyk.

So, here's to my best friend forever :)

Hahahaha.

xox, trish

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