Status: Joyful
Music: Signal Fire - Snow Patrol


Josh and his cocky shirt.

I just arrived straight from Grill Queen in Teachers’ Village where I had my dinner with a really good friend Josh de Beauvoir. It was my first time to see Josh after more than seven months! The last time we met up was when we had dinner together some time in (early) November. To be completely honest, I really missed him. Although we weren’t from the same college or department, and we were only classmates in one subject (French 10), we were very, very close. In fact, I’ve considered him as one of my most-loved university friends, to the extent that I had treated him as my little brother. He was sooo childlike and innocent (but his mindset had always been mature), then. Now, he’s grown — confident and independent.

Josh: You should’ve paid for our dinner. It should’ve been your treat. You passed the diplomat thingy qualifying exam, right?
Yoshke: Oh no. I noticed that in the last few meetings we had, I was the one paying for our meals.
Josh: That’s not true! We’ve been taking turns!
Yoshke: A-huh? When was the last time you treated me?
Josh: I can’t remember.
Yoshke: Exactly! No treat for you tonight, you damn Frenchman.

I remember my Junior and Senior years in college when we would always have lunch together, and we would take turns in paying for our meals. “I’ll pay for our lunch today, you pay for whatever we’re gonna have tomorrow.” We were very used to that, and until I graduated and we still tried to meet up occasionally, we would still follow this little “rule” we imposed on each other. Aside from that, I also miss the many unusual things we used to do such as walking from Math Building to the Mass Comm Building, staying at the Sunken Garden for hours while waiting for his next class, trying out every canteen in the university and sometimes just waste money on Chocolate Kiss foods, and walking from Math Building to CMC, oh I already mentioned that. Hehe. He also used to force me to sit in his Math 14/17 class so he would not be alone, but I often ended up sitting outside his classroom because I was afraid his professor would ask me to solve some damn math problem. I also miss how we would ring each other’s mobile phones with those missed calls. Damn!

Those were the days. Now, we only get to talk thru text messaging. And whenever I send him a message, he would reply with a heart-breaking “Who is this?” Hahaha. That’s because I always forget to type my name at the end of my message. His phone has some kind of amnesia, being unable to store contact info, after a very traumatic crash. Some phone. And we only get to see each other every once in a while.

Our closeness has become more like the doctor-patient kind. We really have to plan beforehand to fix our schedules for an “appointment” because we’re both busy; unlike before when we could just see each other whenever we felt like it. It’s annoying, really.

It’s not just Josh. I have so many friends that I haven’t seen in a while now and I miss them so much. I will post something about them on this blog when I finally get the chance to catch up with them.

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