Quality > Quantity.

Yea yea JC's stress and tough that's for sure. Undeniable. So these days when I get the time to go out with friends I can't feel grateful enough when I get the time. So I realised. It's not about spending a lot of time together with your friends.. That'll be great of course, but sometimes reality clamps us down and we gotta be satisfied that we get the chance to go out together. Even if it means like once in one or two months.

So we had actually planned to go out together to buy myself a guitar. Jisoo suggested sunday, since she has church and performs every week (or so I think). YC, Jisoo and myself we all three play the guitar, so she suggested we watch her perform and then head on to buy my guitar before having lunch.

It's the first time I've seen Jisoo perform! I still remember her playing my guitar at the SA canteen, although can't really recall what song she performed. She said she played the electric guitar, so I was really looking forward to listening her perform.

As it turned out, she didn't perform those songs which I thought would be able to show her technique - it was for church! How can I forget. But still the smooth, flowing melodies were nice, and I could feel for the guitarists who had to strum none-stop for the whole session..!

I wanted to take pictures of her performing but our view were blocked by the group of singers in front of her! Ha. So nvm, we just sat there quietly (and clapping) with Jisoo's sister listening to the melodious tunes. Oh and I didn't know Jisoo's dad was some head for the korean church (The bible society). He was reciting the prayers as the three of us slipped through the back door silently. Ha. His dad looks like those type of dads who are strict.. and conservative? I think. Not really sure how his dad's like.. I've never hear jisoo talking about her dad, but that's my first overall impression. ha.

With just a mere budget of $250, I knew I was always gonna experience some difficulty in getting an acoustic guitar I'll really like. We went to peninsula there, and, as i expected, many shops were closed on sundays. So that limited my choices even further. We spent some 2 hours i think, walking around and trying out the guitars. It was really quite embarassing for us coz we seemed like the only noobs around there! =X

Finally I managed to find a guitar I really like, but it costs $380! It comes with an inbuilt tuner, amplifier and a guitar bag. It's worth the money I think. I'll try to convince my dad to get me one of those I hope. That's my target (minimum), and that'll mean I'll have to work extra harder to save even more if I wanna satisfy myself. Ha.

Jisoo was starving, so we went off to.. SUBWAY! Insatiable appetite I had cause I was hungry too, and craving for those subway sandwiches which I haven't had for.. MONTHS! Had loads to chat about, ranging from PAE, to our new schools, what our future career choices are like, to how's life been for us recently. Jisoo actually wants to be a dentist! Ha.

After lunch at subway (which we spent around 1.5 hrs), we went walking around aimlessly in marina square. Moneyless, cashless, aimless, we could only touch and envision ourselves possessing those materialistic things we can dream of having. Hai. That really emphasizes again the power of money in today's world. Without it, there's so many things we can't do. But with money, we probably will never need to wander around craving for those.. with our friends. ha.

It's really quality > quantity.
It's been quite incredible how we can come so far from being regular, casual friends from PAE, to becoming friends who just enjoy each other's company, no matter how seldom we actually get to enjoy that, it's still quality time spent. Everyone's future come first. What we can do is encourage each other, and hope we'll stick through these tough times together.

Really hope we'll get to stick together for the many years to come.