slackers

this was supposed to be another post but i just got off talking to joel and i really felt like writing something down. i love the slackers. i feel like an idiot for missing joel's and king k's birthdays but i think it's just been happening lately yah. come on, i even missed my own mum's birthday. that should tell you how bad i am at dates.

anyway, the slackers. the best group of friends money can't ever buy. i think besides my family, you guys are the folks i miss the most. the funny thing is, in all probability, you guys would live up to our group name and never read this. but i will write on anyway.

honestly, i get very annoyed when people say that their group of friends are slackers cos they don't know what that means. we were the original slackers and we'll always be the slackers, formed at the back of 3A4 while i was taking a nap in 3A3. the posts in the government might be meaningless now but i'll always remember that i was the minister without portfolio or as amritpal "the king" singh called it, minister "boh" portfolio, just because you guys thought i was the slackest of the lot.

the sad thing is that we've all gone our own separate ways and are all over the world now. by that i mean in the greater pacific rim. you know, i wanted to stay in hawaii for a while and so when i found out that i could stay until the 7th of jan i was pretty happy. the only thing that made me sad was missing new year's eve at joel's place. that was it. it was not even christmas with my family.

i like tradition and i like our tradition. it's a small tradition but it's a great tradition. oh man, i actually feel like calling up northwest just to see if i can get an earlier ticket out so i can spend new year's eve at thompson. hahaha. but just sitting together drinking whatever the drink of the day is and then just talking and talking and talking the year away and ushering the new year in with stories.


i am saddened by the fact that the huge group that we were are no more but i am always delighted by the fact that we all survive in small pockets. i love the fact that we all go and visit wayne's dad just because we love him so much and miss him. haha, i remember telling my other friends that i was going to visit my friend's dad and they were all like, what's wrong with him and in all honesty, we go to visit him because he's alright and alright by us. in all our parties, i enjoy most the time when we're all tired and just sit down like the slackers that we are and just talk. we talk until all the girlfriends get bored and do something else and we're all still there talking.

i think this is the most meaningful post i've ever posted in my blog because my brain isn't in the equation at all. this is all heart. i really can't wait til all of us are all back home together. everybody. just slacking and being ourselves and you guessed it, talking story. (new hawaiian phrase i've learnt, same meaning as talking cock but it sounds much better and somehow i think it actually describes what we do better)

so here's a shout out to everybody... i'm not going to mention names cos i know i'll miss a few... i love all you guys and can't wait to see you all in a couple of months time...



This was all caused by something joel got me to read. it was a conversation that happened between him and kudus. it reminded me how much the slackers mean to me. i looked at the photos i was going to post and i was pretty close to tearing. i just started to remember all our glory days and memories are beautiful and painful at the same time yah. i also realised how few photos i have of the slackers but how many photos i have of random inconsequential people. but don't worry, the most important photos i've ever taken have not been taken by a camera but by my eyes and stored in my head and heart. i will never forget you guys no matter what happens. you are my closest friends and will always stay that way.


the best thing about the slackers is that we are a growing group and there are always new members who will come into the slackers and will remain slackers for life because we all share the same life motto... "sometimes we might drink to forget but never will we forget to drink..." - (taken from the Sandhu family credo.) this goes out to all you guys as well...

to all those people reading this, here's hoping that all of you have found your own group of slackers who you hold close to your hearts just like how i hold close this bunch of jokers i call my closest friends...