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seems like i'm all about the yesterdays now.

but yesterdays are worth recounting! so here goes: yesterday was an awesome day. not because of the walk about town in all the familiar places, not because of the interesting things i've seen that otherwise would only have been a picture on the internet, but because of the people i met.

it was jun zhe's 21st birthday party and of course he invited some old chs ruggers. i was perhaps the least qualified there, because technically i didn't play for chs. but it was as if we'd known each other all along.


i think a lot of why we love rugby is the stories. everyone always had that one story that would would be worth a million dollars and worth being retold a thousand times. and people would not get sick of hearing it. there's always the highs and the lows, the suspense, and then the climax, to which everyone would burst out into laughter. and the characters would seem to come to life. "oh you know this guy..." seem to be the phrase of the evening. and everyone seemed to be connected to someone who is somehow connected to another person and another, etc. it was one topic that started the never ending conversations that carried on into the wee hours of the night even after the host himself had to leave for other engagements.

it really unites people. even though we shared a common alma mater in secondary school, we tread down different paths for our respective jc's, yet there was that warmth and passion that never seem to be exclusive.

sometimes people really need to dwelve deeper into the cliches, the platitudes and understand why they are cliches and platitudes. i'd just like to repeat once again that winning isn't everything.


+listening to: wait til tomorrow by john mayer