Growing up and Tying the Knot!

Yup, the two best friends are engaged! Both going to tie the knot by the end of the year. This picture of us was just taken 2 and a half years ago and so much has changed, yet nothing has changed since then! So much in that, the three of us have finally graduated from university. Fasyah has moved back home from the UK, and is now on her way to becoming a full-fledged teacher! Yuyee finished her one year exchange to Australia and is now earning the big bucks as a PWC Auditor back home. Me? Finally got out of Ohio and moved to a new state to begin grad school from scratch, knowing no one. So much has changed in each of our lives, and yet, my friendship with them still remains the same. Maybe we don't talk as often, and obviously we don't get to see each other (at all!)... But I still know that the both of them will always stand by my side and be there for me when I need them. I think back to our Sri Aman days, and I can't pinpoint the time when they started becoming my best friends. But somehow, and some time, they became the ones I look forward to meet the most when I go back home. They're the ones that I play 'driver' to all the time when I'm home. They're the ones I shop with, or pay cellphone bills with, watch movies with, do random stuff with... They're the ones I want to cry to when things over here gets rough.

Now she's engaged. And ready to be married on 9/9/10. Fasyah, when you and Riza have your own place, when I'm back, can I still come over whenever I can? Can I still be your driver? Will we still go to TGIF for mocha mud pies? We have to okay?! A holiday back home for me will never be complete if we didn't get to hang out - just like last year's. Let's never have a repeat of that, hopefully! Remember in Sri Aman when we did so much together? - PRS, Prefect, Ketua Barang Rampasan... those were the days!

Simmie, you're going to tie the knot some time in November. And then you're moving to Australia. And you're never coming back because I know how much you hate flying. Promise me you will come back, especially when I'm back home! What if we never see each other again? If and when I make a trip to Aussie, will you bring me sightseeing and introduce me to your new life? Remember in Form 1 when you thought I was a stuckup snobby biatch... I didn't mean to be one. 

I hope the both of you know how difficult it is to give up a part of both of you to your men. Riza and Marcus are the luckiest men alive. And I really mean that. Riza, you have the most caring person by your side. Fasyah is always loving, never judging and always happy. She may be silly at times, and say the weirdest things but I know the both of you will be very happy together. Marcus, Yuyee has a hot temper, that I am very aware of. She hasn't shown that to me, but I know of its existence. Both of you, give in to each other sometimes, give and take, and choose your arguments... Yuyee hates to admit it but she's sensitive and emotional, yet always supportive and never afraid to stand up for what's right. She seems like she doesn't need someone to take care of her, but really she does, and I know you, Marcus, will take care of her.

It kills me that I can't give the both of you hugs of congratulations and best wishes. Kills me even more that I won't be there on both your special days. 

Know that I love the both of you oh so dearly! 

 

 I wish I had Sri Aman pictures of us to put up. But I guess this will have to do! :)

“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.”