**** FRIENDS ****

friends are important when you are alone in a foreign land.

never in my life would i dream of knowing clifton, wenyang, louanne, zhenlin and myself when i stepped foot into arizona.

the six of us. WE ARE ALL ONE OF A KIND. most of us hung out with different groups of people in singapore so if this situation didn't bring us together, i doubt our paths would ever crossed.

for the past 2.5 years, we eat, sleep, shout, curse, play together. our lives pretty much revolved around each other.

we do grocery together. we eat together. we drink together. wenyang used to be my pole when i'm upset and clifton is the logical one, who most of the time will help straighten my mind if it becomes too complex and if he is not too drunk. louanne and i lived on the second floor, while clifton and wenyang stayed on the ground floor. mark used to stay in the same apartment complex with us but he moved out later.

is sad.. is sad that now wenyang has moved to japan. louanne might be leaving soon. i'm in california, mark has graduated and clifton is graduating soon in dec.

if not for the five of them, life in arizona would be a complete different story. tucson is a pretty boring town. when my dad came, he lamented that this is worse than sembawang. each of them had brought a new meaning towards the term friendship and life is just so wonderful with each of you single one around [though at times, we get damn pissed with each other lah].

i shall not say anymore. pictures are worth more than a thousand words.

*Recap since 2003 onwards*

enjoy!


Quan Jia Fu