24.3

At Ben's, Pavilion. The decor of the place made me feel like I was in LA!

This trip back home has been the fullest, most satisfying/interesting one I've had since I left for Singapore 4 and a half years ago. It started out being filled with lots of anger and jadedness and disappointment, but at the end of it I felt so hopeful and so contented that I feel like if God were to ask me to drop everything and go back to Malaysia right now, I would be able to do it without grumbling or bitterness. My heart would be able to rest in the knowledge that wherever God calls me to be is THE best place for me.

I'll probably post more about what God taught me throughout this trip later when I've had some sleep/time to reflect, but for now...I just can't stop being amazed at the friendships that He has handpicked and put in place for me over the years. I've been good friends with Mei and Malvin for 12 years now, and they're probably the only 2 people who would be able to guess some of my passwords [coz they've seen me at all my different fangirl stages hahaha], and they're probably the only 2 people in the world who can still recite my house phone number even though we don't talk on the phone anymore and haven't for many many years now.

I'm so thankful that even though we've drifted apart and don't even really have the same interests anymore [at least for me], yet somehow something still keeps us together [apart from our shameless love for stalking others and people-watching hahaha] and for some of us [like me and Malvin, who are antisocial introverts :p], the only people from school we ever meet up with is each other!

I feel that this year God wants me to focus on building, strengthening and celebrating relationships. And this trip back has reminded me of how important all these people are to me. I hope we'll still be friends even when we're old and can barely articulate our thoughts. We can probably just sit in our rocking chairs and read each others' minds! :p