It may be yesteryear, but my memories in Ridzuan Condo triggered when I was reading about it. Happy times, meaningful moments, sad times, stressful times and a place where I call home away from home 11 years ago. Although I'm not in touched with any of my housemates, I still remember vividly the time when I'm there with them.
I remembered a girl by the name of Selina, she was the 1st christian sister that I met before I start classes, she was my housemate. I started my course with feelings of Joy and Happiness. It was my dream to become a mass commer. I was thanking God then and was grateful that I was given another chance to study. I gave Selina a warm hug and said hello to her asking her which church is she from and she was actually from Sabah. She only have 1 more semester there when I went in, as she is an A level student. I felt at home the instant I was there.
My roommate comes and go. Hannie was the first to leave due to her JPA scholarship, we lost contact right after she left, she is as sweet and bubbly like her name. My room has always been a place to play sleepover and mid night chats. There is always one of the housemate that will shift over to sleep with me when anyone left the house. I believe it was because my room was the master bedroom. It was spacious and near the window, the air is good there as we are in the 11 or 12 floor I couldn't recall already. Unlike Albert, the distance from Ridzuan to my classes in Taylors Bali Campus is just 15 min walk, or just less than 5 min drive without traffic. Sometimes I would take the free shuttle and sometimes I would walk. There are times when I take the shuttle to Taylors Subang to use the library internet access there to check my social network.
My 1st housemates group of housemates were Hannie, Seowleng, Priscilla, Sumee, Selina, and another girl that I couldn't recall her name. I'm closer to Priscilla, Sumee, Selina and Seowleng. Every evening, the whole group of us will go for dinner together in a food place at ground floor named, Cassie. It belongs to a family that has a daughter by the name of Cassie. We were often their customer that they even invited us to their house one day. I remembered Cassie was then learning latin ballroom, she showed us her skirt. She is a pretty young lady, still in secondary school then. We will also send our laundry to a shop where they will 1st weight our laundry and charge us by the weight. I only go to the laundry shop during rainy season or when my assignments are piling up, as I would hand-wash my clothes.
I have 2 classmates that stays in Ridzuan. We do group assignments together, crazy pictures for assignment's powerpoint, chitchat, fill up water from the water machines where we need to pay 20cents and walk to college together. Luo qian had a car after 1 semester, she offered to fetch me back after college, I'm blessed with good classmates like that. When I'm in lipis for chinese new year, she would drop by to meet me in my grandma's house. She is the only one that I still stayed in contact after I drop out of college, but then later we lost contact again. There are many other things that I have tasted in my Taylors years, but it would just be a memory as I can never re connect with my college mates again. I understand it as a bygone and I will appreciate the friends that I still have right now.
If only I'm in Ridzuan for 2 years, I would have most probably bumped into Albert then. But I guess, it would be a different story altogether if we met then. I'm thankful that we have met later, that makes it special.
Living Only for Him and Only He knows my life
