"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to the other, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one'."
Dear Nhil,
Guess what? I just wrote you a letter! I bet tonight, a night before the start of your journey, your friends had already been writing you letters, sending you cards, flowers and what have you. Well as you know, just like you, I'm better at writing stuff, so I guess this is my sophisticated version of saying "Bon Voyage".
When I heard that you're moving to Hawaii, I thought a lot of stuff to give to you as a "Bon Voyage Token". I thought of getting you a John Green or a David Levithan book or maybe a DVD copy of your favorite movie (not that I'm not aware that you have a copy of 500 Days of Summer on your hard drive that you've watched for the nth time) and recently, I thought of getting you an original copy of Taylor's RED Album. I also thought of making a scrapbook of our photos during training to remind you of the awesome folks you met during your first "real job" (ahem..). But then, I got a little too busy and when I realized the day is near, I became totally broke that even a book on sale at NBS is something I can no longer afford. So it goes without saying that the only awesome thing I can give you is an open letter posted on my blog for every one to see and to know just how great you are to deserve such an effort (char).
I know I won't be seeing you anymore for the next 3 years, or maybe forever, because after 3 years, you've already became a "super awesome American guy" that you've already forgotten everything about me or your CVG friends. But nonetheless, I wanna say thank you for the short awesome moment we had as friends. You are one of those few people I can have an intelligent conversation with, who never gets bored of my ideas and philosophy. Whenever I finish a new book, I can't wait to go to work and share it with you, because no one else understands how it feels. No one else understands how it feels to be swept of your feet by a wonderful story and hoping you could write something as awesome as that. And you are the only guy I met who likes Taylor Swift. I guess it's because we are both into these true-love cliches.
So I kinda revised Tay's Tim McGraw for you. You can sing it in that tune (just please bear with it, it's inda impromptu.)
"You said your tie doesn't look that nice
and your pimpled face don't match your brushed-up hair
I said, "That's a lie"
You're just a boy in an orange jeans
That had a tendency of getting stuck to your insecurities
And I was right there with you for 3 mos long
Cramming on those exams and mock calls and making it through
Well when you think Taylor Swift
I hope you think my favorite song
Like those stories we've talked about
Like Haze and Gus and Summer and Tom
When you think happiness
Remember the scorecard you've ACEd
All the happy days we've shared
and the new things we've learned
When you think Taylor Swift
I hope you think of me"
There you go. I may be unable to give you a copy of Tay's album but I wrote you a song. And since I was unable to give you a book, I'll send you one. You were wondering about the stuff you got in your email, well that's an eBook of "Let It Snow". I know you could just easily download that since we download stuff on the same site, but it would be more dramatic if I was the one who sent it (o_O).
In behalf of Penguin Wave 54, Bon Voyage mafriend!
Hugs and kisses,
SHIENNA
-xoxo-
