A Meeting With the (few) Shan Dong

Location: Bro's Room, @ Home.

What was supposed to be a short and sweet rendezvous turned out to be a (almost) 3-hour-long laughing down memory lane... In short, putting 4 members of Shan Dong clan together can be pretty scary... Think we actually scared away some people there in that Ipoh Garden East's Kopitiam.

Anyways, seeing them again suddenly brought me back to the days when we were talking/crapping daily in our 5sc1 classroom (Block E of PGS), school canteen, prefect room; every Monday and Thursday in Maziah's place; every Tuesday in KC Leong's tuition center... It's hard NOT to notice that we've... grown up.

Suddenly everyone's talking about what course they'll be taking, which uni they're interested in, etc; While I was driving back (yes, the whole driving thing and the fact that we can meet till 1 am are among the many visible signs that we've grown) I can't help but see how would we be like in 10 - 20 years time?

Would anyone be married by then? If yes, who?

Would we look all weird looking like OLs then?

I hate to state the obvious but would we even have the time/chance to get together?

I really treasure my friends and the friendships we have...

And So, I came back eagerly to watch How I Met Your Mother's Season 3 Episode 13... There's this scene **Spoiler Alert!** where Stella (Sarah Chalke aka Elliot from Scrubs)was asked on a 2-minute-date by Ted Mosby (not the porn star... inside joke for those who watched the earlier eps of HIMYM) and this song came up...

The song struck me as being REALLY familiar (and needless to say, heart-warmingly romantic) and then I realized that I've heard the Garbage's version of it more than a couple of times, but this guy version, has a certain naivety and the simple Simon and Garfunkel way of performing this song, possesses a slight difference to the way that Garbage presented -- This song almost seemed innocent. (And come to think of it, it reminded me of V Mars, the scene where V was walking pass the pool and started to think of the time when Duncan & her were an item...)

THEN, while I was trying to get this song on imeem(sang by Elliot Smith ofcourse), I stumbled upon this song titled (coincidentally) Thirteen by Ben Kweller (Click to watch the vid - no off, he looked like a nerd - see how a correct hairstyle can do to a person?!)

For you who are too lazy to watch it in youtube, I embedded it here...

ANYWAYS, way WAY off topic here, if I were to put a song in the background if we were to make a film outa the little gathering we had, both 'Thirteens' would definitely be my top 2 choices among the haystack.

"...Won't you let me
walk you home from school..."

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