2008 no more.

december 27th, 2008. just a few more days till the big '09. time to reflect.

the best and the worst happened to me this year.
'08 has definitely been eventful.

i was in NS for 3 bleeding months, having everything stripped away from me - mobile, internet, friends, family. on december 28th, 2007, i thought i was being admitted to 1/4 year of hell. i keep telling people about how much i hated it. sure it wasn't the most ideal of places to spend the first 3 months of my freedom after SPM, but i would be lying if i said i didn't have the least bit of fun when i was there, cos i did somehow. after the first 3 weeks of solid crying whilst lying down on my bed with nicholas sparks's the guardian sprawled on my face thinking bout what i had to leave behind, crying whilst talking to my father on the payphone at the canteen with foreign eyes upon me, crying whilst scrubbing dirt out of my clothes in the filthy moss filled toilet, i did somehow manage to let my guard down, shed some pride and make some friends. sure they were not the kind of people that i'd usually hang around. ashamed to have to say this, but they were the kind of people that i used to shun, yet they were the only ones that kept me going at the time. i promised to call them after it was all over, i promised to stay in touch. i even promised to promise. i feel like such a hypocrite now, a liar, a betrayer in so many ways. everytime i see their names on the caller ID of my mobile, i just watch and wait for the calls to go to voicemail. i dont even reply any of their texts. however, as i go through my contacts, deleting the ones i'd never have to use again, i find myself unable to delete the numbers i so very often dread to see appear on my mobile screen. guess i'm just wired weird that way. sigh.

got my spm results and the best thing happened. my scholarships happened. i got both petronas and bank negara. a normal person would be jumping with joy knowing that both organisations are ready to send her to the UK to study. but guess what i spent that one week doing? crying. bleh. sorry, i know my post has started out with a lot of tears. haha. thats just the story of my life. haha. but yes, i was crying and arguing with my dad a whole lot. he wanted me to go with bank negara, but i wanted petronas. and when i wanted bank negara, he wanted petronas. i dont expect anyone to understand this, but it was probably the toughest decision i ever had to make. i remember saying to myself, 'i'm not ready for this. why do i have to choose?' i'm fickle. i know. i just couldn't help it. still am. i'm happy though with my decision, because it led me down a path that gave me so much to be thankful for, things and people that i would never have met if i had decided otherwise.

then i spent 4 months bumming. chores. tv. internet. food. sleep. that's all i did before going into ktj on august 10th. guess somewhere in those 4 months, i became slightly retarded socially. haha. as i recall, jean and i were always alone, everywhere we went. we were the two lost souls sitting at the dinner table alone. two confident-only-on-the-surface girls walking through the hallways of school. we were miserable, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the 3rd week of term, thinking it was just a 2-week hell, but it wasn't really. it went on for a little longer than that. maybe it was cos i was new, maybe it was cos i wasn't used to boarding. but as time went by, smiles became less rare as laughter became more familiar. special people happened. we loved, we cried, we lived and we lied, but it was all good fun. i'm not exactly euphoric with the way things turned out this term, but like what a friend of mine always says, its the things that happened that made me who i am today. so i'm glad.

review of 2008? i have been happy.

PS : i'm very sorry if i've done or said anything that might've hurt you or caused you pain. i'm not one to break hearts, cos i've been much too used to getting mine broken instead.


favourite quote of the year?
"but to see her was to love her, love but her, and love forever" - robert burns.


happy new year everyone!