This post is dedicated to the one and only girl i've known for about 13 or so years of my life, which is close enough to saying that she is my life. Rena Zheng. Here is the story of us:
I don't even remember how we met, but we re-met after our families lost contact with each other at chinese school. It's safe to say that chinese school has been the place that really tied our friendship together and it has kept us together after all those years even though we go to different schools and live nowhere near each other. It's where we see each other every Saturday and laugh and cry about our problems and we can vent out everything to each other because we have different friends and different lives. Anyway, after my 'first' glimpse of her at Chinese School, i knew i had seen her somewhere before. I was overcome with a feeling of familiarity... i've definitely met her before, if not, spent an enormous amount of time with her to be able to feel this way. Strangely enough, she approached me and asked if we had met before. I nearly had a heart attack, did i really know this semi-stranger standing in front of me? I was in Year 2. As we walked down the stairs when class finished, I heard really loud laughter echoing through the staircase. I went outside and saw the amazing sight of my Dad laughing and smiling at a woman i also seem to have met before. It was Rena's mum. We soon found out that they had known each other for more than 30years because they attended the same high school, came to Australia together and even lived together with some friends while they were desperately trying to find money as nooby students.
Since then, i've basically turned her house into my second home and we used to frequently go out to dinner a lot. I remember my first buffet dinner was with Rena's family. Yumyum. Not so much now since our parents are both so busy :( I guess she's the only one who can relate to me with my parent problems, in terms of them putting work first and family second and she's always there to remind me that my parents care about me etc. She's the strongest person i know, yet the easiest person to get hurt. Luckily, i'm always standing behind her when that happens but I never do much. It always ends up being her who talks herself better and i'm just patting her back wishing i said something like that earlier. LOL.
She also seems to have this awesome empathy for having a younger sibling, even if she has a sister. I don't understand how she loves my brother as her own and he likes her more than me =__= She has taught me to love my brother even if he's a complete bitch at times, but I gotta say, her sister is sometimes worse :O Women, they're scary beings.
I don't know what we haven't done together.
We travelled to Melbourne together and sung really annoying songs on the whole plane trip there, giggling at the people giving us glares.
We've of course, been to China together and I remember sleeping over at her apartment and she had this awesome bunk bed which had a draw at the bottom and i slept in that for the night :)
We've been to Cairns together which was fun :D
I raid her house every Christmas - New Years for our annual week sleepover. Yah, i basically live there, and learnt the art of walking around and moving furniture silently so it doesn't want her mum up.
I've witnessed some awesome action scenes with her mum throwing a vase at her head during a sleepover. I was putting stuff in the dishwasher awkwardly while her mum was chucking stuff at her at teh same time *sigh*. My dad is exactly liek that... i wonder what kind of epic education they had O_O
Hm here are some photos:
waaaaaay back
oh goodness... plane ride from cairns :)
midnight snacking
being asian back in 2008
cos we have attractive faces
FISHING!!!! :D
rena caught a puffer fish and i was using my cup to suffocate it mwhaha
melbourne jap food
my favourite ^^
Anyway thank you to Rena who has been with me through all the stages of my life where I just couldn't deal with things on my own, and thank you for all the genuine understanding and care that you give me :) You always seem to make rational decisions that didn't make sense at the time but worked out right in the end which i'm so grateful for cos i'm just a lost puppy all the time o_O I'm so glad we have had each other since the beginning and until the end <3 Omgah i've never spoken such corny words, arrghhhhh see how much I am sacrificing for this post! Nah i need to release some mushy Jo once in a while ^_^ HBD RENA!
p.s. i have a confession. Remember the time when your dog was shivering like crazy for the whole day? It was my fault.... I attacked it with my stealth and scared it so much even though your sister specifically told me that her heart was weak. I'm sorry if your dog dies in the near future, but i kinda dont mind cos it scares the shit out of my when it starts stroking my leg under the dinner table ^_^ I will never forget the time you and Catherine locked me and Rocky in the same room for 30mins. I could've died in there. You and catherine's dog are the reason why I now have a phobia of dogs...or any other furry being. ><
