Penpals

Yeah, finished my exams! That cycle of feelings that was last felt 4 yrs ago:
stress a few days before - so many things to study! panic the night before- i dun rem anything! worried 2 hours before- what if I missed out something? resignation 5min before- ah, fail then fail lar; relief after paper; lost 2 hours later (yar, I came home and suddenly feel weird that I did not have to study..)

The inclination to do bo liao things tend to heighten during the study period. So, I suddenly had the wild idea that I could visit my penpal in Wales during summer break.


This girl from Wales called Michelle, we started corresponding via snail mail since secondary school, so that must have been > 10 yrs ago. We are still corresponding now, though its only once a year during Xmas when she sends me a Xmas card, and the occasional mail from her when she updates on big events in her life (her dad passed away, baby born etc). I've asked her for email/msn before, but she dosent know how to use the internet, so we still use the snail mail now. I'm actually grateful for that, because we wld have probably lost contact via email, and its always very heartwarming to receive an overseas xmas card every year! Though it will be really sweet to visit her, I also thought it'll be weird.. what to say to her? and to travel all the way there...

I've forgotten how I got to know her.. it must have been during the penpal craze in secondary school. I've had 3 other penpals before- a guy called Ricky from Hong Kong, 2 gals called Niki and SaraJane from Korea. I've lost contact with all of them since but I vaguely remember one of the korean gals was also called Min Jung Kim, so I thought it will be fun to google her name..

and found out that there was an SBS (TCS equivalent in Korea) actress by the same name !

That was so cool, what if she's really my ex-penpal? What happens if she becomes famous like Song Hae Gyo one day? Haha,I've no means to verify, coz apart from that she's younger than me, i cant remember any details abt her..

But anyway, yah, that's one of the bo liao thoughts I had when I'm supposed to be studying.

To YJ: i think i got to know Ricky from your penpal-his sister, who was called Mandy or something like that, do u remember?

To The-damsel-in-distress-whose-ABC neighbour-helped-to-kill-a-cockroach-in-her-bathtub: since u're in HK, maybe u can lookout for a Ricky Chan for me, ha!