I just read my friend's post on her blog, talking about how we have moved on from hall. It's so funny, but hall was such a big part of my life once. But now, when I try and recall it off the top of my head, I can't seem to remember very much. It was all about small moments here and there, lots of laughter, and some crying... I just can't remember anything specific straightaway until I try very hard.

What my friend wrote really made me feel sad. We had put up a Queens Central Road signage above our E3 corridor, a sort of marking of our territory, you can call it. While the sign remains, the people that defined E3 have since moved on. It reminds me of how the old seniors would graduate and while I'll always remember how they defined hall for me, it would always be replaced by another rowdy bunch of people. Buildings stay, but people move on. No matter how important it was to you, you start to realise how insignificant you actually are. Why did we take everything so seriously back then? All the bitching, the gossiping, the late night meetings, the stressing to put up productions and ensure that Eusoff was top in everything we did... What was that all for?

Even now, while I treasure the friendships I've forged then, I am starting to realise how tenuous those links are. How often do I meet those friends nowadays? We used to share secrets and they were the first ones I would turn (since they were right outside my door!) Now, your immediate circle friends have changed. Things change. People move on. Effort has to be made to make friendships work now. It ain't so easy anymore. And then you start to wonder whether what you thought was friendship was merely pure convenience... Friendship shouldn't be that dispensable rite? This is a projection of the future. In a few years' time, people will be so immersed in their jobs that they will have zilch time for friends. Friends in turn will get whittled down to that sparse handful. Or replaced by new friends.

On another note, I remember that some of my happiest group memories revolved around people in Eusoff Hall - my block friends, my supper kakis, my jogging kakis, my orientation programmers, my dance production working mates. We shared good memories. And I learnt to laugh a lot.