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read between the lines
how i spent the new year the things that happened on new year's eve and the day after were just surreal.i was on half-day on the eve (which came with a nice staff lunch) so after that i delivered a present to my dear agent who was responsible for helping me through the employment process as well as some food to a birthday friend, who also passed me a small goodie bag. i didn't want to be spending the eve pathetically at home so after going home to bathe, i went out and joined a friend's church watch-night service. after that, one of the members had to drive me to another friend's house which was near the church i am currently attached to (they don't do countdowns but they do do dawn prayer service the day after, hence the reason i had to spend the night at my friend's). i have to confess that i lost my temper in the car as my friend wasn't giving me clear directions to his place and the decision to bunk in at his place instead of sleep where i was was pretty last-minute. but we found the place anyway and i got up in time the next day. my friend who drove, fetched another two friends up and we went, in the pre-dawn hours (see where the surreal part makes sense especially here?) to church. after that, i went for an impromptu walk around some stadium and a row of shops i had always wanted to visit (but never got around to visiting) with a friend of mine who was due to leave overseas soon as well as his friend. i had wanted to spend time with said friend before he left but had no idea we would be walking, nor that he would be with his friend. so since i was decked out in the wrong attire (jacket, t-shirt and long thick trousers) i decided to sit at the sidelines while they jogged around the stadium. so there i was, early morning (again surreal, since i am usually in bed around that time), sitting at the edge of a soccer goalpost, overlooking a row of third-storey houses (don't ask me why they have houses in front of the stadium so near you can throw balls into their windows if you wanted to), opening my birthday friend's goodie bag, then sucking on a mini candy cane and reading the enclosed mass-addressed letter that came with it. as i read through the letter, it felt like i was reading about a stranger's life, not a friend i thought i knew. there was a lot of honest outpouring in that letter in the sense that it revealed a side of said friend that i had never got to see before. i suppose that's what the year(s) ahead is for, to know my friend better. all i can say is, i am glad that i got to spend the new year with friends, who are my version of family, because when i got back, my brother, in a fit of anger, stepped on my third toe until it bled after fighting over something petty and the day went downhill from there. |
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