Shervon

This is possibly the first post i have used one of my friends' names as title!

Had a wonderful fish head curry with her tonight, we ate at around 10pm after delivering some photos to dennis (if you consider 1000++ photos "some"). it's now 5+ am and i'm feeling just a tad hungry, not bad, it lasted a while, i did eat ALOT tho!

I remember when I was hung up over cheryl when i first got back at the end of 2001. shervon found me my first job in singapore even BEFORE i returned from australia. heart broken, in a "foreign-familiar" place, new job, new life, i was totally beaten. my break up with her was chronically acute. shervon was one of the few that helped me recover. those overnight phone calls, then reach work the next morning (we were colleagues then) stone like shit... ahhaha, then lunch time she would ask me, what do you want for lunch? i said "happiness", and she said, downstairs sold out liow, anything else u want? and this is like our daily ritual, this conversation. such wonderful memories amongst tough times.

i remember she was going thru shit too, i think it was Nat. so two lonely pple having a shit time and making each other worse by chatting on the phone but not sleeping. ahhaha....

then after that we both quit our jobs and partnered to do graphic design and print services. had our office, had an opening ceremony invite pple come and eat catered food somemore. we were BOSSES. man, if i start talking about that period in our lives, u would be bored, so, suffice to say, it was ALSO a memorable time in my life.

btw, if u haven't already figured it out, the business failed, badly, i might add, but the friendship grew stronger!

after the business, we didn't really see each other all that much, i went to work in banks, and she went to job hop (still doing that now mauahahhaa) then i turned full time photog and even busier, didn't see her much at all, sometimes months at a time.

tonight i realised that our friendship is still strong. she is ever supporting and encouraging in whatever i do, and has a level head that enables her to trudge thru this world with amazing resilience. she has this "quiet strength" that perhaps even she herself doesn't realise. it's been this strength that's not all that visible, but certainly the basis of our friendship over the years. anyone that knows me well knows that i'm not the best "glue" when it comes to friends, i can get a little apathetic at times.

shervon, this is for you. altho i dun say it much, or at all, u are a great pal and i wish the best for you. i'm still looking for that "happiness for lunch" and when i do get it, rest assured that you will certainly be a big part of it. i'm also wishing sincerely for your happiness, maybe u can have it for dinner instead!

take care always, and feel free to use all the "credits" that has accumulated over all these years being an excellent friend!

*hugZZZZ*