about a very good, lost and found, very strong, changed friend

Thursday Nov 3' 2011 : 11.57 PM I received this sms :


K : Thank u for giving me the best gifts anyone cld ever give- the gift of new found confidence n excitement towards doing something tt I love( singing) n Tt I loved ( dancing).

Thank u Mel.

I m sry if I've hurt u in past. I admit I tend to get lazy at times wif friendship. Dun make enuf of am effort but jus so u Noe ALL of u in team A the old arms I mean all hold special meaning in my heart. Cos u guys saw me thru my ugliest, lousiest, weakest moment. In fact looking back I din cry Tt much Wen my dad died cos I wad too bz looking after mom n worrying to cry..

So THANK U FOR BEING THERE THEN N NOW. always told sis I Hv this group of special frens where tho we dun meet often we will ALWAYS b there for one another in time of need. And I meant it then n I mean it now. Always knew that I could count on u. Wen I stained my skirt.. Oops Tt was June haha n lost my contact lense rem?? I was still quite uncomfortable n new in team A n u helped me look thru the rubbish bin. I will never forget that. Love u Mel Mel.N thank u for .. Maybe helping me relight my love for dancing again. :)



and I replied this :

B : HahahahahahhaMy pleasure to be a blessing for ur life... HAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I noe u lah... That's why even when that happen i know u dont intentionally did it... And that's why I get over it....

If that's ur ugliest.. Then i can tell u this : IT'S NOT THAT UGLY !!!! don't think so badly on that period okay ? Anyone.. Who went through what u went u through..will do even MORE UGLIER things than what u did....

Fact that u LIVE....and living LIFE even more.... If I'm a writer, i want to write a bookabout ur life...

U are a living testimony of the good old story.. That it doesn't matter where u came from... It doesn't decide where u can go in life.....

God is good in ur life... And I want u to wait to see even more what God can do to you.. And THROUGH YOU !!!
Will give u bible verse .. Wait for it okay ?
Good nite... Good rest pls...
And for ur info... U put more effort in our frenship....If it's for me... We wouldn't be talking by now coz I wont bother to ask u lunch... Hahahhahaah



and she replied again:

K : Haha Wat Eva I like Ur company so I will still ask n wif u I can b myself. So yeah. TOO BAD!
A great teacher not only transfers knowledge, she's able to inspire her student. N u my fren has inspired me. :)

Thank u for Tt.N yes I will wait for the verse. :)

Uve come a long way urself too. Admire ur courage n independence. I cld never do Tt. Cldn survive hall already. Ha.N YOU at such a young age bought ur OWN PROPERTY wif YOUR OWN MONEY. Not parents BUT ur OWN MONEY hard earned n saved in a v disciplined manner over the yrs. So U SHD BE V PROUD of urself.

N of cos we wun be where we r without Him.Rest well too. Gd night my fren. God bless us all. :)




This is a blog entry about a friend named Kiyoko.
Some of original blessed version 1 would have heard about her, long way back to 2005. We first met in 2004, became colleague in the good old ARM days.

In '05, I told much of Blessed V1 about her struggle, having just broke up then. Like seen above in her SMS, it was her ugliest days. It wasn't pretty for sure.

So 2 girls sitting next to each other, both melancholy, both soft, both silly, both juniors, both have very differrent approach towards neatness (me neat, she likes to mess up my things, me very serious, she just like to pull a prank on me ), we blended. Blended quite well. If u ask me to point one closest colleagues who has turned into a good friend, I'll point to her. Hey 7 years of relationship (knew her since '04) goes a long way don't you think ?

But in actual, we've almost lost touch in between, with me being annoyed that she didn't really see how our relationship the way I saw our relationship. I knew that it was probably just me being sensitive, but me and my strong head in my sensitivity decided not to give a damn to mend the broken string.

I wasn't bitter, I didn't cry when I talked about our broken relationship then, and I never cry even till today. I just thought, hey I'll still be here when she needs me. She doesn't have to know how I feel about our relationship, but honestly I will not put in anymore effort in this thing. I won't ask for lunch, I won't email, I just will not do anything at all...anyway who cares ? right ?

Best thing about her, she never care about how I feel towards her :P *that should be bad right ?* but no. With that confidence, she always step back into my life with her usual way of annoying me, always try to guide me but fail, laugh at my clumsiness, making me laugh with her idiocracy, sharing good quotes, motivates each other to carry on with life coz it always goes on and it's meant to be lived beautifully in abundance, not knowing that I almost wanted to kill her :P hahahaha :P

Simply said: she went back bugging me for lunch right when I'm ready to write her off my "current friends that I foresee will be friends for life" list. Thank God, I did not stay being stubborn rejecting her lunch. What happen between us affirm my previous postings that things are not always what they seem to be.

When we make up, she found a better me, and I found a changed her. 7 years of life added in our age have definitely taught us some lessons to live this life with a better strategy.

But other than that, we're just the same 2 girls finding comfort in the good old friendship, and expanding it to new frienships along the way :)

And for things that you could never have thought and imagined before, she now believes in the living God. Attended Catholic church lunch mass, reading scriptures and downloading bible apps which SHOCKED me *but I tried not to show* when she told me. Her name is Kiyoko for a very good reason that she used to believe in Japanese Buddhism.

I have no part in this salvation works. I was even away from her life when it happened. God is the ONE and only GOD who cares about her. I just hoped whatever role I have played in her life, me and my weaknesses have done our best in shining His love to her :)

And for all that I know : The Kiyoko now is really a changed woman, then the girl name Kiyoko in 2004. I thanked God I've found back my best friend in my office, and thank Him for finding her back to His love.

to even hear this from her :
"There's one thing that I want us to do if we ever get through to final. I want us to pray before our performance"

and :
"remind me to pray before we practice later on "

and :
"Mel !!! We forgot to pray today !!! No wonder I can't seem to get it right. Can we pray now please ?"

is a sweet melody to my ears.
Thank you GOD for finding me, and letting me keep, a beautiful friendship with a living testimony of Your work. A very good friend indeed.

If you read this friend, please keep her in your prayer so one day she can openly attend a church service without any fear. She's still unable to do so.

And after hearing so much legend about her, David Chandra managed to finally meet the legendary Kiyoko on the day I decided to buy my home. They were there with me on the day I made the biggest decision in my life (so far). 2 persons I will invite on my home grande opening day, are both of them :) *Vid, RSVP open from now...hahahah*

bombie {=^o^=}