A letter to my 16 yr old self

Read from Cruz Teng's blog about him writing a letter to his 16 yr old self and I thought that it is fun to write one to my (old) self too.

Dear young pH,

And so your 16 yr old bday is approaching, and you are feeling old and wrinkly and fat. DO NOT WORRY. Because 7 years down the road, you will be oldER, wrinklER, and fatTER. I am not trying to scare you here. So if you want to look betTER, start exercising like, NOW. IMMEDIATELY. Whenever your friends (ky, yq, viv, rl, jason) asked you to exercise, heed their advices please. and do not disappoint them. Most of all, do not let yourself down anymore and start JIAN-fei-ing!

I know that you are worrying about how your olevels will be like and whether you will be friends forEVER with your sec2o2 buddies. dont worry. All will be well :) You will get into your dream course and get to know extremely WONDERFUL friends who will be there for you - though you'll realise that you are not really cut out for your dream course.

As for your sec2o2 buddies, a smaller group call "MOCHI" will be formed, and you will continue to stay in contact with them, and even plan trips with them. So dont fear of losing your friends. You might feel kinda weird that most of them went into JC and UNI and you.. poly and then pt uni. Despite the differences, you will still be you, maybe just not as happy as before due to the responsibilities of an adult (sigh).

In 2004/2005, something will happen with you and one of your best friends & her exbf. DO NOT INTERFERE. I REPEAT. DO NOT. It will be one of your biggest regrets of the next 7 yrs. Moreover, everything bad between them will be over and she is currently happy. So please dont do anything and that will help to salvage the friendship.

In 2006/2007, you will be displeased about how irresponsible one of your groupmates is. JUST. VOICE. OUT. You can throw whatever temper you are capable of throwing, but just say whatever you are feeling instead of trying to care about that person's feelings. It might aid in the current situation, though I doubt that it will help much. But at least, you tried, and you voiced out your frustrations.

In 2007/2008, you will get to know a group of great friends from an online forum. Try not to get yourself hurt from one of them, though I dont think you will heed your own future self's advice.

After your poly, dont even think of trying for local ft uni. NO NEED WASTE TIME LAR. just enjoy working with your temp colleagues and nice friends - limei, valerie, benson, jie ying, jing yi, yi feng & weimin. they are people whom u will always remember from your first FT job.

You will then get a job at a respectable company in Singapore and though the pay basically sucks, you will make wonderful, WONDERFUL colleagues whom you will call FRIENDS (: It must be something excellent that you have done in your past life to have such colleagues and please do treasure them!

In 2009, there will be a crisis in your family and through it, you will learn to be stronger in times of crisis, as well as treasure and love your family more. You will also find yourself depending on the rest of the family for support - especially your siblings. They may seem noisy and useless and ARGHHHHHH! now, but trust me, they will always be the ones who are there for you though thick and thin. And dont worry, everything is fine as of 27/5/10, so there is nothing you should worry about (yet).


OH and please stop thinking of DM. 7 years down the road, he will turn into a little sparkle of the past. AND sorry to disappoint you, he will be happily attached and -uglier-. Oh well, life goes on.


Lastly, learn to accept vulgarities and embrace the wonderful of profanities :) You will love sprouting them, especially in times of despair and frustrations. It helps to ease the tension in you. So go ahead free free (it's free anyway) to slam as much profanities as you want, just not in front of your family - out of respect.


Love,
the older pH.


p.s: you will still looooove purple.
p.p.s: pls start listening to MAYDAY SONGS and memorise their lyrics. it will come in handy at their future concerts =P