Bye-bye Stu

At some point in our life, we have to strengthen up and say goodbye because nothing last forever.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Goodbye sucks especially when you have to say it to someone close to you. It sucks because you have to admit that things will never be the same. People are being torn apart by distance and communication is thereby minimized. You won't be able to talk face to face (physically), you won't be able to walk around in a mall together with them and just talk about random stuff. You won't be able to do strange habits.

There's so much to hate about goodbye but on the bright side, goodbye makes you realize how important someone is in your life. You are a good friend Stu and I wish you nothing but the best there in Canada!

I might not have said what I need to say on that piece of card, cause trust me, I don't even know what I wrote there. Or I might  not have finished what I'm suppose to say. So this blog is dedicated especially for you STUART JOSHUA WIJAYA!

Stewieeeeee

Best Friends Forever.

Here's something you might need to know about Stu:

1. He's smart!
 Ever since he got his glasses he became this total genius that his scores rockets to the sky! and when it comes to grammar, he is kinda a grammar nazi :p

2. He's slow
if the hare beats the tortoise, the tortoise might just beat Stu. Yes, he is really slow in action and especially in making decision. I think it might have become his habit of making people wait for him. A great and undeniable example is exam time. Stu will (almost) ALWAYS BE THE LAST to come together with Leon, which long story short takes just as much time as Stu in exam.

3. He got stress out easily

He's white, he's black, and he's Asian!

Not only that he is slow, but he gets frustrated easily. For example, he stresses because he didn't study the night before the test, he stresses during the test because he did not get the answer for a test, and then when the test is returned he stresses because he is not happy about the score that he gets. But it's pure joy seeing him stress.

4. Deep down, he's a nigga!!!
 He is cool like a panda. He's white, he's black, and he's Asian.

5. And a whole lot other things.
The list could go on and on from random to racist to sporty to annoying, but in the end, he is Stewie.

Honestly, I couldn't ask for a better friend myself.

 "Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I'll miss you. Until we meet again!"

Anonymous

So until we meet again Stu :)

Stu and I (:

Your friend,

Audrey :]

And So It Started With an End

I guess I have to make the story straight, and for that  let me begin by telling you the end...

I am changing the scene, going away from the place that I grew, developed and learned for the last four years. Why? Simply because I'm starting to feel like I am trap in a place, locked up in a dungeon to say the least. May be something like what Rapunzel feels in the tower: happy to be alive but then again sad to be stuck. Not to say that my school is bad, it's just that one feeling  that you have when you feel that there's something more out there. Cliche? Yes...

To be honest, moving school is a long term plan that I have been planning about ever since, say two years ago, but I don't regret not moving until now. This year has been a roller coaster ride. I've been doing things that is completely out of my mind. I'm doing things that I thought will be impossible. I've done lots of crazy things and the best part is my friends are right next to me when it all happen, taking part in each whatever madness we're about to do. My last year was amazing. Nothing more to add to that. It was simply...beautiful.

I have never actually say goodbye to my friends partly because I know this is not a final goodbye, but it is also because I don't want to say goodbye to them. Saying goodbye means forgetting and forgetting turns everything into memories, and sometime memories are lost with time. I don't want to forget about my friends and everything that we do. I don't want my friendship to become nothing but a memory. Because without them, my life would just be a blank piece of paper wanting to be colored. 

June 18, 2011. I began to read my year book comments and the Book. I was reading them in my car and that's when I stop and I cry. I cry because I realize that it all has end. I cry because I don't want all of this to be over. I cry simple because I've said goodbye. I know that that will not be the last time I met with my friends, but realizing that I've said goodbye and not knowing when will we meet again, saddens me. So I cried.

I guess the reason why I am writing this is to say a proper goodbye. 

"Oh clock, just stop for a second
I still see the kid inside the mirror
I'm all grown up, moving on
life feels short, it used to feel long
the flying birds, reminds me
that sometimes we have to go

Goodbye, don't change a thing
I promise, I'll be back someday
I'll miss you, please don't fade away
don't fade away."

-David Choi, Don't Fade Away

Dear friends,

Know that I'm not letting go of anything, of any memories or any friendship. Please know that it has been my greatest honor and privilege to be your friend, and I shall never forget about you and I shall forever be grateful for a friend like you to be in my life.

Till we meet again,

Hugs and kisses,

ALJ