saying goodbye
Graduation is in 3 days! I am getting really excited.Yesterday Mingz and I went shopping for our graduation gown, tassles and cords. I actually got mine from another friend who was a commencement speaker last December, and realized her gown is designed a little different from the gowns we buy at the bookstore. Realized the gowns for the Masters students and PhD graduates are really beautiful. Oh well, gotta wait another 7 years before I can wear that.
My entire family is coming for my graduation (and while it won't be as fun as the ones in UK); though the truth is that I'm just excited to be going on a family trip after all the graduation madness.
It's at this point where I should also be saying goodbye to friends here....come to think of it...I've never been good with biding farewell to people. Most of the time I just leave without telling people...quiet exit without fanfare. I still remember 4 years back when we had just left high school and were preparing to leave for the various destinations around the world to further our education. The first to go were friends who would be pursuing their higher education in Australia. So in Febuary, the airport would be filled with teary parents and high school kids straining their necks outside the airport customs booth to say goodbye. After going through several rounds of what resembled the Mediacorp Channel 8 chinese drama serials (i grew up on those "poisonous" shows)....by the time it came to my turn to leave in July....I only told my closest friends I was going on a holiday (partial truth) and left Singapore without much fanfare.
So over the years...I've always sought to make saying goodbye a jolly event. I guess everyone is conditioned in a different manner....the girl who left a summer before me had cried buckets, and they probably expected the same of me. I must have struck them as odd because I was laughing and joking as I left. Do i miss them and think of them? OF COURSE!
And it's the same this time around....there are people I know I will want to stay in touch with for life....there isn't a specific geographic location I want to come back to since most of these friends won't be in Ann Arbor by the end of 2006 or in another 2 years. (Although I have to point out half the gang will be in Europe. Ahh...) No matter what, I am really excited for them because everyone has wonderful plans for the future.
So come Saturday....it'll be as always -- champagne in my right hand toasting to the future. Watch our world...here we all come!
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*sigh* it hurts that i didn't get to say goodbye to you. Give me your address in Malaysia so that İ can send you a postcard!
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