Graduation Postmortem...

It just occured to me that it's been a year since my graduation from Nanyang Polytechnic. Technically, amongst GB it was only Jan, Bunny and myself were the ones who graduated that day in late June. While Jan and I actually attended the ceremony, Bunny was a no-show.

Looking back, it was kinda pathetic that it was only the two of us amongst the rest of the people whom we both despised tremendously. Countless of times we reminded each other what the heck were we even doing here. Jan and I were but a few seats away although I'd have killed to seat myself beside her. I even fell asleep during the video and the speech.

It was that bad.

I mean, in my mind at that point in time was how pointless it all was firstly because I didn't have all my friends with me and that by itself sucked. It totally sucked big time. Nobody cheered loudly for us. Nobody clapped sincerely for us --well, prolly except my parents. Nobody took pictures with us. Nobody really bothered about us. It was pathetic. It was torture. But there it was all in print.

Jan and myself became out biggest fans and supporters. Jan's parents couldn't attend so for a while, she was an orphan. My parents played the role of fosters. The only thing we looked forward to was the food.

Although in hindsight and looking back at the whole situation, it still sucked. But the difference was at least I got to celebrate my achievements --no matter how pithy they were; hey, I'm no Farhannah Sidek-- and served as a reminder that no matter how hard it was back then I stuck through it. WE, stuck through it.

And I think that in itself was an achievement.

Sadly, we don't have any pictures taken on graduation. Our excuse was, for what purpose?? It's not like the whole group was there. It's not a concrete excuse but seriously, what would you do if you were if our shoes?? We didn't even mingle with anyone at the lounge where the reception was held.

Bad as it was, Jan and I enjoyed each other's company. As per the norm. When was there a time when we loathed the other's presence. So I guess the other achievement that came out from that debacle was the fact that we had each other.

Ironic, ehh??

If I were not to be mistaken, I think we spent graduation with Art --for the life of me, I forgot what the hell he was was doing in school-- and Such with some glimpses of PK who's promises to be with us for the rest of the day turned out to be empty. No biggie. We had the other two for company.

We sat our butts down at Mac's and remained that way till closing time, talking about everything and nothing under the sun. Our main energy source was the occassional topping up of drinks and fries.

And so it was how abyssmal the day was for us but hey, at least we managed to get out of NYP within the acquired three years. That was by far the best feeling ever.

Laterz...
Lenny