of friends

i have a friend who makes sure i study for COM207; she would check whether i have read my readings (yes, she tests my understanding sometimes) and she would scold me if she finds out that i do not get full marks for my quizzes.

i also have this friend who makes me type down all the notes during Literature and Madness because she feels so tired and wants to sleep. and because she sleeps all the time during class, i have no choice but to stay awake.

and there's a friend who stays so near that we try to go to school together every time. though we end up not meeting each other 3/4 of the time, she pretty much serves as my motivation to go to school because i don't want to disappoint her and make her a lonely soul.

oh, and i have friends who try to disrupt my studying plans by asking me out for a movie (because they are all working!!). but i am still thankful they remembered me; and as much as i was not able to make it, i was thinking of them all the time.

besides that, i have church friends who encourage me - though sometimes, such encouragement are build on merely sitting down together for a meal or laughing at jokes and the facial contortions of wenqi - we know we are pressing on together.

similarly, i am glad that i make a nightly date with God, my best friend, even when i am at the brink of dying from exhaustion every night. i talk to Him knowing that He is right next to me even as i lament about tiring days and boring lectures.

it is interesting how i think of my friends when i am in the very heat of mugging and feeling stressed.