The greatest thing I’ve learned about friendship is that, in times of a friend’s crisis, the best you can do is to lend your support no matter what.

When your friend goes through a break-up and later says he’s fine with it, you know that as a friend you are inclined to believe it.

Then comes Beer Night at the apartment you’re renting with some classmates, where the guys bring over a truckload of beer cans (okay not a truckload, but almost). All of you munch on junk food for a while and soon enough, the beer guzzling begins. There are shotguns, there are push-up competitions, and all that other nonsense you’d come to expect and accept - boys will always be boys. You’re the only girl there and decide not to join in on the barbaric acts, so you merely sit back and watch and laugh.

When Broken-Up Friend starts shotgunning his fifth can of Carlsberg at the balcony, you let him but you keep an eye out to make sure he doesn’t topple over and make that fall four floors down… ouch! He mutters something about how he can now spend all his money on booze and ciggies… And when at 1:30 AM he suggests with excitement that we all go to Q Bar, you shrug and say, “okay, let’s go.”

At Q Bar, he is so far gone. He is grinning happily as he dances and flirts around, while managing to down even more beer. You and your other friends look at each other and can only smile in amusement, not bothering to stop him or to rain on his parade in any way. Maybe post break-up syndrome calls for this - a crazy night out or two to do whatever the hell they want. Maybe they’ve gone through enough to earn the right to screw up, just for the moment. Maybe they need to get this out of their system, and all will be well again the next day.

And all you can do is to stand by them, to catch them if they should fall. You don’t bother to point out to him what’s right or wrong, because he’s smart enough to know anyway and we’ve reached the age where we don’t tell each other how to live our lives - see how parents try to do that to their kids and how they fail miserably most of the time? Friends allow you to make a mess, and then stick around to help you clean it up afterwards. It’s so easy to offer advice and to throw around words of wisdom to a distressed friend. But perhaps all they really want is for you to be there for them and take their side when the rest of the world is against them.

Hours later, the entire group is sitting at the mamak and he is now somewhat sober.

“I haven’t gone out like this in a long time,” he remarks.
“Hmm?” you respond, not comprehending.
“Without a girlfriend. Just… free to do whatever I wish,” he elaborates.
Oh. The freedom sounds bittersweet. But what’s done is done… “Well, cheers then?”
“Cheers.”

You both clink glasses of iced tea, maybe it was a toast to celebrate, or was it to mourn? Probably both. But life goes on and you know that he knows everything will be okay. And that’s as much as a friend can ever hope for another friend.

This entire week I was down with flu, headache, sore throat, and a horrible cough.

But I’m pretty much okay now, so yayy. :D

Here’s basically the recipe for my recovery…

-DotA-ing hours upon hours at the cybercafe with fellow DotA addicts *cough* you guys know who you are
-lotsa dancinggg
-quite a bit of alcohol intake
-walking in the rain
-not enough rest

Yup, that’s about it. It’s kind of amazing that I actually got better from my sickness, actually. :P

Well I’d just like to say that I’m in a giggly mood tonight. It’s an unfamiliar but really nice feeling. I’m all hyper and tingly, and it’s all a natural high! No artificial ingredients involved here. =] The sensation will probably wear off in the morning, and that’s fine with me. I’ll just.. enjoy it for the moment. *giggles*

Just like a child, I’m believing in possibilities. Just for tonight. :)

As I was watching the movie ‘Into The Blue’, it reminded me of the ocean… and I kinda miss it. I want to go back to Pulau Perhentian and Redang, float around the crystal blue waters and poke my head in to look at all the pretty fishes and corals. *dreams away*

Okay, apart from the nice underwater scenes and a trip-happy soundtrack, there’s nothing else I liked about ‘Into The Blue’. In fact it brought back traces of my shark phobia that was triggered long ago thanks to the ‘Jaws’ movies. ;( So no, not recommended.

Whenever people asked if the movie was worth watching, this is what I say to them..

Go catch ‘Into The Blue’ if your reason for watching is:
1) Paul Walker
2) Jessica Alba

And DON’T go if your reason for watching is:
1) Not Paul Walker
2) Not Jessica Alba

Simple as that, really. :)

Then on Saturday night, a couple of us decided to be adventurous and chose to watch this local horror movie called ‘The Legend Of The Red Curse’. Oh. My. God. It was beyond bad. *laughs* People were leaving the theatre halfway through, and Sabrina (who’s back from Melbourne, yay) fell asleep. Ahahah. Before we went into the cinema, Sabrina was saying, “I hope this isn’t one of those budget movies with people running around an island and getting killed.”

Well it was! Except that the characters were running around in a jungle, instead of an island. And yeah, they got killed off, one by one. Hehe. What a waste of RM10. But it was FUNNY, all of us were looking at one another and going “what the heck??”. Never again, eh? *winks at Sabrina, Raymond, Ian*

So I thought I’d just watched the worst movie ever made in the history of films. But then as I was describing the movie to Garick over on MSN, he shared his own scary experience -

Garick: u ever heard of the movie callled Youngary?
Garick: and its supposed to be an english movie?
me: hmm nope… what’s that? hehe
Garick: the worst movie i ever watched in my life
Garick: it was like 4 years back… it looks something like godzilla but much worst..
Garick: the lead actor actually played the role of the scientist,the hero and a few more roles
me: LoL
me: budget movie??
Garick: all the roles that he played all died except the hero
Garick: yes… budget kau kau!!
Garick: when the monster was chasing the humans…it was like they were running on the same spot
Garick: the explosion all looks damn fake
Garick: the monster chasing the human part…they actually reuse that part of the film for a few parts
Garick: it was all the same
Garick: hahahaha
me: ahahahhahaaaa.. omg!
me: that sounds worse than the legend of the red curse by a mile!
Garick: for me, it will go down as the worst movie ever shown on the big screen

Now that made me feel a lot better. :P Teehee.

I’ve been laughing a lot lately. The kind that makes your cheeks ache and you’re holding your stomach, wondering when it’s gonna stop. :D Even bad news can sound funny sometimes… Last week in a matter of 48 hours, two of my friends got into car crashes. They were minor ones, thank goodness.. EngSeen’s car got hit at the rear bumper, then the next night LeeChuan’s car spun and knocked into a divider. And you won’t believe how the second accident happened - LC got too excited when his favourite song, Crazy Frog came on the radio, and somehow lost control of his car.. and bam! Hahaha please tell me if that doesn’t sound hilarious??

It just goes to show - nothing good can come out of listening to that Crazy Frog tune. Eesh. :P