Recent spate of friends (actually only 2) blogging about social relationships, and about our friendships after JC. I must admit that coincidentally, I have also thought about that today (before I read their posts). A thought struck me that, for all the friendships that I have built up over these 6 years, what would happen after JC? Do we just go on living our own lives, making new friends over again, and only occassionally meet up and catch up in those awkward outings that you don't know quite what to say and what you want to say? Or will we totally lose touch and only remember each other when we have nothing better to do than remenisence about the old times?
Being an optimist (nothing to do with whether the glass is half full or empty, but essentially, whether you believe the future will be better or worse), I do believe (and hope) that our friendships will continue to blossom and develop. While I guess we may not be as close as we are now, or see each other as often, we can still remain friends, and in some cases, good friends, no? After all, with the marvels of modern technology, the world has become a smaller place (as it was always small, just smaller now), and we can communicate with each other as and when we like.
Furthermore, with guys, we can always find some games that all of us like and bond more together with those games. Though arguments and unhappiness will undoubtedly arise (as they will from any competitive game of any sort), it will do much to keep us close even after we have moved on from JC.
All right, so the above was probably rather superficial and nowhere near as thought-provoking as Linus' and Clem's posts, as I guess it mostly just echoes what most people think anyway. But I guess I just want to state my belief that we will still remain rather close to each other even after we have moved on.
And yes, Linus was (and still is) right that 2M remains the most bonded class I have ever been privileged and lucky to be in (God knows what I will be if i was in 2N or 2O, no offence though ><). And while the good ol' days can never be relived, at least we still have our friendships from then, and even after 4 years, it would not be wide off the mark to say that most of us are still rather close. (Our successful end of year chalet last year being a case in point) 2M really has provided me with my closest friends to date: ZK, Mogie, Clem, Alvin, etc (though ZK was from before 2M), and Im glad that Im still close to them. I mean we like talk almost everyday, and well, any topic under the sun is a possible topic. (Which is one of the problems with talking with girls, cause there are just some stuff that can't be mentioned)
And another thing. To this date, even though I have had 2 new classes since the days of 2M, the group in my msn that consists of all my 2M contacts still remains labelled as "My Class", while 4M and 08S6N are labelled "4M" and "08S6N" respectively. And I assure you (and myself) that this isn't due to my laziness to rename the groups and what not. 2M really is my class, for 2 years from 2004-2005, and forever. (cliched, cliched, but oh well) (And 4M and 08S6N people reading this, which would probably be few and far between, dunid to be sad. Lol. Just too bad that you weren't part of the fun shit called 2M2005. And no worries, you all are still good friends to me)
Ok, that rather long bit about 2M was rather unexpected.... just came up spontaneously. Oh well, I guess I would really like to talk about social acceptance and stuffs liddat, but I think that's for another post. So I guess now comes the conclusion which, I personally feel, is hard to write. (And writing my thoughts as they come, such as now, can be pretty retarded too, but oh wells....). Guess I shall just end off with this thing from blogthings.com:
Your Brain is 67% Female, 33% Male
Your brain leans female
You think with your heart, not your head
Sweet and considerate, you are a giver
But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!
Err.. not too sure what the results actually mean, but its slightly embarrassing? I mean its nice to be sweet and considerate, but my brain leaning towards female? Hm.. redid the test twice with 1 or 2 changed answers (asin I changed the answers that I was rather iffy about and could have gone either way), and got 60% female and 50+% female. Shrugg...
But I was thinking, all this stems from what is conventionally labeled as a "male" characteristic, or "female" characteristic, no? I mean, just because say, 80% of the female population displays this characteristic, do we then have to label this characteristic as "female"? Are there no sweet guys, or no tough girls? I guess this is another of those spasticity of society. And why do we have to classify a brain as male or female? Why can't a list of corresponding characteristics just be listed, instead of assigning each characteristic to a gender then telling you whether your brain is more male or female. So I think actually a more accurate result would be, instead of "67% female and 33% male", it should be " your brain is 67% of what society percieves as female, and 33% of what society perceives as male". After all, what society perceives and what is the real thing can be rather different. (Yes, this is open to much debate, like what is true beauty, and isnt beauty defined by society, etc.) Alright, guess Im being rather pendantic here (siao application of what i learnt from gp).
And NO, these comments arent just because my results show that the gender of my brain doesnt actually match my actual gender, though I do admit that if I had a slightly more balanced result, I might not have typed all these. Its just that the result provoked me to think about it slightly deeper, and ta-da, that's the result.
And so, my blogpost ends up being longer than it was supposed to be. I guess that makes up for around a month of inaction? And I think I may be considering writing a Gundam Seed or Artemis Fowl fanfiction soon. Already have some ideas and main plotlines in mind. Just need to find the right (write) state of mind to start.
