It’s really nice knowing that after so many years as friends, after going through our individual trials and group tribulations, after experiencing life-changing… well, changes, and after traversing our divergent paths, we can still be the same with one another. We can still talk about the things that worry us the most; we can still walk around aimlessly, content in one another’s company; we can still be ourselves, without the uncomfortable masks.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

I think the line between good and great friends lie in the fact that great friends will do everything possible to try and nudge their friends towards the path that they believe will do them the most good. It may not be the easiest, but I guess difficulties sometimes exist to show that something is worth fighting for.

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On a separate note, Y Camp visit today was rather enlightening! It’s nice to understand things from a different perspective, and I feel that we’re so often lost in the overly-exaggerated emotions and narratives of our individual chronicles that we fail to consider the less fortunate.  

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Ah, and now that Run Ting has bought herself a digital camera, I think Taiwan trip will suddenly see a rise in potential number of camwhorish moments. Not that I mind, of course :D The combined prowess of Soph, Run Ting, Hui Min and Royce will definitely capture many of our (I foresee) best moments in film - though I guess ‘byte’ might be a more appropriate noun. Well, Chin Yang, Wai Sum and I shall do our best to cheer on the honourable efforts of our comrades (: 

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As we grow older, we find ourselves more conscious of the multiple sides to ourselves and how these selves submerge into or diverge from one another to the cadence of life’s rhythm. There is a child-like side of me that is not afraid to ask the important questions, to embarrass oneself, to explore the knowledge of the universe, to tease and be teased, to act on matters deemed ‘nonsensical’, and to soak in the unparalleled beauty and symmetry of life.

There is also the intellectual side of me that likes to muse about life, love and the universe, to read up on tons and tons of information on things both esoteric and frivolous, to experience the gaping regret of hindsight travels, to understand individuals and why they do the things they do, to analyse situations and interpret context, to introspect and to identify changes, and to look for new forms of knowledge to be excited about.

I think individuals are vessels in which our multiple personalities reside and share the common threads of memory and history.

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This will, in all likelihood, be the last post on this blog. 

I have been struggling to motivate myself to update my site template in the past month to little avail. A brief sketch has been drawn but that’s about it. The hardwork is yet to be done. Hence, until I have completed my next template, it’s sayonara from me (: A notice will be posted when I’ve successfully migrated to http://www.nicholastong.com!

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