a tribute to recis.. =)

I’m not brave enough to call myself as a true recisian because I didn’t graduate from recis senior high school. Although I didn’t finish my high school for the very last semester, (which I regret it now) but I really thank recis for teaching me a piece of something of what we called life. As a representation of my gratitude, I want to write a bit of the things that I’ve learnt at recis for 13.5 years because it definitely has contributed something in to my life, something that I’ve missed since I left it. Something called a true friendship.

Thus, it goes like this…

Some people might think that you go to school just to study so you can get your academic qualification regarding to prepare yourself for your further academic studies. But from my perspective, school life is not just about studying mathematics, science, history, religion, sociology, geography, and whatever it is…for me, school is the first place to understand about the other side of life.

In my kindergarten years, I learnt how to draw, how to read numbers, and how to write and read a letter by letter in the alphabets… but besides all of those things, I’ve learnt how to believe in myself, how to interact with others, how to appreciate the friendship that I’ve made by not being selfish, and respect other people; and more so as I grew up until I reached my high school years.

In my high school time, I knew many things, I learnt many things, and tried many things. I knew how to gain a self-esteem, make self-consciousness exist, have and defense your own thoughts when brainstorming with others, trust your conscience, and also knew the magnitude of a-friend-support, knew how it’s like to have an additional “family”, knew the meaning of friendship, animosity, success, failure, triumph, disappointment, solitude, solidarity, happiness, and a bit of how to communicate without having to say a word… at that time, I also learnt how to forgive, how to love others, how to maintain friendships, how to be sincere and not be a hypocrite, how to tell myself not to be selfish and sacrifice for others, creating a bond of brother-sisterhood, I learnt how to wag without have to feel guilty (ups… =P), and those kinds of things… things that I’ve learnt besides mathematics, history, geography, and whatever it was…

Realizing that it’s been a while since the last time I explored a folder called “Old Stories” in my document, yesterday, I gave it another look and started to laugh immediately, looking at those silly pictures but full of reminiscences. It was my high school memories, which was the most delightful time in my whole life hitherto. It was so wonderful and I realized that I’ve been missing all of those things since I came to New Zealand,,, at the school that I’m attending now, there’s no such thing called ‘a true friend’; they all just an ordinary people which will always come and go in my life. And that’s what I’ve missed…the laughter, the moment, the exultance, and the other things that I used to share with my friends, which I couldn’t do any of them now. In here, I have to do and go through everything by myself. Feel delighted and contented without have to share it to anyone, and feel wretched and dejected without have to tell anybody, coz… oh well, no one cares though... It makes me become so numb and so maverick. But since then, it turns out to be so fathomable relating to what I’ve been looking for since I lost it. I didn’t realize that I’ve been craving all of this time, wishing that I could turn it back to my high school year since I realized that I really missed them and the laughter and those memories in my life that we’ve created together… T.T

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Someone told me years ago, “high school is the best time you will ever have in your life. Enjoy it.” at first I thought, how’s that possible? But now I knew that what that person had said was true… it was the best.

And since then, I knew what they called true friends…
They are friends who are miles away but always there for you whenever you need them.
Friends who are really understand you; accept and love you for who you are…
Friends who will not stab you from the back, but support and walk with you side by side…
Friends who are miles away and will still call you at midnight and sing happy birthday to you on your birthday when no one else does…
Friends that know instantly if there’s something wrong happens to you even when you try to lie to them… and they will ask, “Please tell me the story…and don’t worry, your secret save with me…” with a comforting smile.
Friends that will hug you and comfort you when you cry and say, “It’s all right…”
Friends that tell you “you will always have me” when you feel you’re left behind and alone…

So, do you guys feel the same thing as I do?



Dedicated to all of my irreplaceable friends who are miles away but really close to my heart... I will never be able to thank you guys enough and tell you how grateful I am to have friends as great as you guys… yay! ^^