to a very precious friend..

feels like yesterday when u were this cute lil boy irritating the brains out of me...

and as u grew, sadly ur brains didn't grow proportionately.... sigh...

and EVERYTIME you got on my nerves, all u had to do was gimme ur disgusting-brown stained teethed-heart melting-anger dissipating smile..

and u'd away with it so easily.. grrr..

and then finally u grew and grew into a fine young man..

ok maybe not so fine after all....

our friendship grew too.

we went through so much together.

we celebrated all our victories.

we cried over our pain.

ok this is going nowhere..

oh well matt, u know i'm not good with my words..

but i guess, all i wanna say is that i'm glad i had the guts to wear that ugly red swimsuit and plunge into the pool at KSAS to "kill" myself training with all the crazy fast swimmers many many many years ago..

coz if i never did, i would have never met you..

and we wouldn't have what we have today..

i love the way we still run back to each other when things go wrong even if when we're so far away and so busy with life.

i love the way we can be so honest with each other about everything, without any fear of being judged or embarassed.

i love the way we can just talk and laugh on and on even after not seeing each other for a long long time.

i love the way i can tell u all my secrets and emotions noone else knows.

i love the way u love me for my qualities and even for my flaws.

and despite all the times you've laughed at my sinking backstroke,

farted potent stink bombs,

ate up all my food,

burst my badminton racquet,

merajuk with me for 4 ridiculous months..

you're still one of the most significant people in my life

Happy birthday Matthew Lee Yee Loong.

i love you!