change
today as i was flipping through the sunday times aimlessly i saw a picture of my pri school friend, Bernard.
Flashback to 1997, when he was the boisterous specky kid sitting immediately behind me, who kept twirling his sweaty PE t-shirt in the air and making a din, trying very hard to irritate the girls(sorry Bernard, and congrats, by the way). When i saw his picture in the papers, decked out smartly in his olive green military uniform, flanked by proud beaming parents of an SAF scholarship holder, I could hardly contain my surprise. It's amazing what seven years can do to a person, and seven years isn't exactly a long time, by common standards.
Leads me to wonder how i'll turn out after five years in Australia, and I wonder if i'll achieve the goals that i've set for myself. I don't know if i'll be gone for a long time- 5 years, 10, maybe 20? And when i come back to Singapore and see everything and everyone changed, I wonder how i'll react to these upheavals.
We always tell ourselves that we haven't changed one bit, that we have remained as the (insert applicable noun) people always knew. But i guess, that;s just one of the biggest and most pernicious lies we often tell ourselves.
Flashback to 1997, when he was the boisterous specky kid sitting immediately behind me, who kept twirling his sweaty PE t-shirt in the air and making a din, trying very hard to irritate the girls(sorry Bernard, and congrats, by the way). When i saw his picture in the papers, decked out smartly in his olive green military uniform, flanked by proud beaming parents of an SAF scholarship holder, I could hardly contain my surprise. It's amazing what seven years can do to a person, and seven years isn't exactly a long time, by common standards.
Leads me to wonder how i'll turn out after five years in Australia, and I wonder if i'll achieve the goals that i've set for myself. I don't know if i'll be gone for a long time- 5 years, 10, maybe 20? And when i come back to Singapore and see everything and everyone changed, I wonder how i'll react to these upheavals.
We always tell ourselves that we haven't changed one bit, that we have remained as the (insert applicable noun) people always knew. But i guess, that;s just one of the biggest and most pernicious lies we often tell ourselves.
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