moments like these...

Last night, my housemates and I stayed up until the wee wee hours in the morning trying to finish up our action research proposal.

I can't remember how long it's been since we've sat together on the floor like that, heavy lidded but determined to finish up our work. Since we've started our teaching practise, we've been missing some dorm members and I only realised how much I missed them yesterday, when we just sat there and sang old old songs to keep ourselves awake.

I'll miss these moments.

Nevermind we don't have clean water to bathe in, much less drink. Nevermind the fact that the dorms are so overcrowded that we have to double deck our beds just so that we have some room to navigate around the room. Nevermind that we only have one working toilet and one working bathroom shared between 16 people.

Nevermind all that. Because we're happy.

I love the way we're always there for each other. How they tolerate my 'berkemban-ing' in a sarong all the time because it's so bloody hot and I can't stand it. Nevermind that one of us happens to be a 'gropist' who can't resist rounded breasts on display. I'm just amazed at how we manage to live together in relative harmony (save for squabbles involving the toilet and bathrooms) and how we tolerate each other's little quirks and idiosyncrasies.

I will miss all that when we finish our final year and go our own separate ways.

. . .

I wish that everything would remain the way they are.

But I know, I have to let go. For now, I'll write this down so that I will always remember moments like these.