Where did my 6 years go?
Not long ago, I stumbled across Mandy's site, who then pointed me to an Alumni site for my high school back in K.L.
Going through the site was weird. First of all, my grasp of the chinese language was bad enough, I could barely understand 1/4 of the content on screen. And then, when I happened to click on the photo albums, I saw pictures of all these familiar faces (I think it was class of 95 reunion *maybe?*), I'm pretty sure I was in the same class with these people in the pictures at some point or another, but for the life in me, I cannot remember their names.
Of all my childhood memories, the high school memory is the vaguest. I mean, I'm sure I had a good time then, but I was such an outcast amongst everyone. I got along with everyone on the surface, but I never did really connect with them like I did with my primary school (equivalent of grade school here) friends. My outlook in life, my aspirations, even my everyday behavior wasn't the norm within my circle of classmates. And the irony part of it is: most of my best buddies in high school were actually my friends from primary school. Friends like Pearly, Keen, Jeet, Adrian, I've known them way back.
After I graduated high school, I literally disappeared off the face of the earth. Other than my best buddies, nobody knew what I was up to. Years later I found out that most of my former classmates were scattered in the U.S. in various cities, working on their respective college degree, but it never did occured me to contact them. What was I going to say? It'll be a really awkward moment that I'd rather not have.
It's funny how I didn't even realized that a part of me has already left me, until I came across the photos with familiar faces and names that I don't recall.
Like I've always said, "oh well, life goes on..."