It's weird how life is.

Sometimes you just want the time to pass so fast (e.g. during a boring lecture, when stuck on a bus with TV mobile blaring and 44 more mins of Just Kidding reruns to go, when you're so overwhelmed with projects and deadlines that if only the holidays were already here), you wish you could take the hands of a master clock and spin them forward.

But then there are the other times - when the lectures and projects are over, signaling the end of a term. Or the end of a 4-year journey where friends and memories were made in tough and tender moments.

And it was such a time today, when I finished my Strat presentation at 9.15am. Immediately a rush of relief flooded my being, but when I whipped out my digicam to take a group shot after class, the realisation hit - I won't be seeing these friends anymore, except during the taking of the exam, and then we all go our different ways. Some for grad trips, some to work, some back to school (like me, still stuck in the modified term :P).

But no more meeting at Ficus during lunchtime and hoarding the powerplug for the charging of laptops, no more laughter and passionate discourses over coffee as to how BT can compete more effectively, no more discussions on other things like life and love.

And it's not just them I'll be missing, but an entire batch moving on to the next phase of life, into different corporate worlds or different family developments (as of now, I know of 7-8 of my peers who are getting married this year alone!).

Some say it's a quarter-life crisis. Well, whatever it's called, I will miss the days of youth (not that I'm o** :P), and while I'm excited about what is to come, I will treasure the memories of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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