yunfei

5.8.07

		of men
		upon zixu's unusual request, we seem to have fastforwarded time to the once-prophesied gathering 10 years down the road. we sit/stand around tables telling the same recycled jokes - of onceuponatime classmates and literature teachers - that we never seem to get sick of. it's interesting that i wouldn't go on to announce, at some future wedding or funeral, that these are the folks who have shaped me into what i've become, because it would be a lie. nobody could have imagined we would have turned out so differently; that peiyi is doing capoeira and i am venturing into contemporary dance, zixu in archi and haogen in law, mikail and liankiat signing on with the army, dennis and shawn caught up in the pursuit of ~~money~~GPAs. and robin is, well, still robin. and yet, we have so much in common. i can pick anyone from this disorderly congregation (except one who seems to have dissolved into the crevices of time), sit them down and get appropriate thoughtful responses for deeper topics; something i can never accomplish with say, my friends from jc, who are probably the ones who have changed me the most. after i boarded the bus bound for home and left dennis at the bus stop, i vaguely recalled a rivalry/hatred going on between us for a while, back in the days of the khaki-coloured shorts. but i forget what it was about and shrugged the thought off. it wasn't important anymore. because now, we look only towards the future. Labels: spirit, tchs