yesterday when i was at the toa payoh bus terminal, something incredibly exciting happened.

i saw the bus captain from yesteryear!!!!! like the dude who drove me to school almost everyday on that hot, stuffy, smelly 155 along with 1/6? of the cedarian population, some maris stella boys and some random people going i dont know where near potong pasir.

it's been what, almost 10 years? since i stopped wearing that blue and grey school uniform with that troublesome-grey-and-gold-striped-tie. 10 years since we stopped declaring we hated boys and would never have contact with a single one, 10 years since lau hui chiang turned around and introduced herself at the first day of morning assembly, 10 years since we took photos with the classroom cleaning equipment, 10 years since i ordered xia-mian-meepok-tang-la-jiao at the second stall from the most right, 10 years since freaking PSLE made a change to my life, 6 years since i stopped having to take 155 daily, 

i've grown, maybe lost a little weight off my face, met more people, done more things, gone to more places, become, i dunno, more jaded?

but this dude,

this dude who drove the bus i took every morning to school

is still here!!!!!!!!

and he looks the freaking same.

except for a little stubble on his chin.

i felt this overwhelming urge to run up to him when i boarded the bus, 

and to exclaim in pure happiness 

YOU'RE STILL HERE, HURRRRRAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!

but i did not, 

of course.

ha.

but it made me very happy.

for the rest of the day.

and yesterday was qiuhan's birthday!

we're going out tonight to celebrate and hc says chicken rice at novena but that's so random. plus at 10pm since she has the temperature screening job at TTSH and cant meet earlier. but the point is just to meetup and have a good time, which i know we will!

it's been 10 years and she's the single best thing that has happened to me [i think? maybe] and probably the true reason i didnt do so well for PSLE and had to end up getting to my 4th choice secondary school. 

IT WAS ALL DESTINED BECAUSE WE WERE MEANT TO MEET! HAHA.

i dont believe in fate,

because i always believe man can change fate.

but i feel lucky, anyway.