Is there a thing such as pure friendship beween a guy and a girl?

I just saw this statement on some variety show last night. Didn’t care what show, was just about to turn off the tv to sleep. Oh yar my house has a tv, though its not in the living room haha.

Heard some answers though, before I switched it off. One girl (from Taiwan, it’s a Taiwanese show anyway) said that no, because all guys are dirty minded. Another girl said yes, because she was single before. A guy said that yes because not all guys go out looking for girls because of –that─ thing.

A celebrity said that for him, if he ever falls in love, he will never turn back to friendship with a girl. Sighs. And this female celebrity said that when she broke up with her boyfriend, she wanted to be just friends but the guy refused.

Something to ponder about yar?

Here’s what I have to say.

The other day, my junior overheard my phone conversation with a good female friend of mine (for some reason, my friends always know when I’m talking to a girl or a guy. Maybe it’s my tone for some reason. Haha.). Was making an appointment to meet up to do some project. And then my junior was like ‘Chee Hang you are SOOOO scandalous!’ and this other friend of ours who was there said ‘aiyah u are still too young to understand that guys and girls can be just friends.’

Nowadays in JC, there are like a thousand rumours flying around for a school population of just 2000 odd (means everyone is attached haha). What causes this syndrome, if it qualifies as a syndrome at all? Someone once said that its because that the majority of the population in RJ come from single sex schools, when they first come to a co-ed schools they look for companions, and rumours just start flying when a guy is seen around a girl for too long a period, and vice versa, and who cares what the definition of ‘too long’ is. I tend to be quite sceptical of this, cos in my sec school, rumours between guys flew around just the same. But, ok its not about homosexuality here but between the opposite gender so let’s stick to the topic.

What’s more, it’s not just the students who are gossipy. The teachers are equally bad, or even worse. (if there’s one thing I learnt, teachers gossip more than students. Maybe its some proportionality thing. Cos u have 25 students per class gossiping about one teacher, so the teacher can gossip 25 times more? Haha. ) Haiyoh. But why do these rumours keep flying around, and what causes them?

Seriously, I don’t know. I don’t believe it is because almost all the students come from single sex schools. I think that people in single sex schools do get to mix around wif the opposite gender (ie they are not -that- sad) and they don’t go to co-ed JCs to prow (haha). But anyways, here’s something interesting. Borrowed from Gabriel’s blog without permission. Come sue me. Bleahx.

Here's a few tips on how you create your scandal, especially when you feel really shit bored, or trying to keep a few fools occupied in a non-destructive manner.
Step 1: when ppl ask you who you like, just randomly mention a person's name and act as if u're quite serious abt it.
Step 2: with regards to choose which person's name to mention, best to mention someone who's already attached. there's this danger of naming someone who's not going steady, then for some wierd reason u start liking him or her (according to siying la..) then ya it seriously spoils the friendship.
Step 3: TELL the person whose name u mentioned. if u want, both of you all plan on how to follow up on the scandal, hehs.
Step 4: PLAY ALONG. if u want a bit more fun like making someone feel like a fool, just tell everyone except the person that the scandal's a fake, then everyone will notice how foolish he or she is to believe the scandal.
An alternative to step 1 is to act as if u like that person. keep taking glances at the person, hang around him or her more often etc... it'll get ppl's minds thinking off. hehs.


But I think I am getting quite out of point. I wanted to talk about whether it is possible for guys and girls to have pure friendship. Pardon my grammar and sentence structure please.

I suppose it’s possible, or else there would be certainly some people who can be termed as buayas already. (for those who dunno what buayas mean, ask me for some examples.) In any case, not all guys are like –that–, and since it is possible to have friends between same genders why not cross? I mean, it is really too immature to think otherwise.

I’ve a feeling I’m rambling on and on already. Have I really so little things to say about this?

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Anyways, I watched ‘Unlocking the Da Vinci Code’ on National Geography just now, and I think that Dan Brown is either so smart or super dumb to write something to gain so much popularity. But seriously, I knew a lot of things that I would never have learnt through that controversial book. Hmmm…

Times have changed. I wonder when will people start becoming the old innocent them again, to do things the way it was done. No politics, no backstabbing, no evil, just pure kindness. You don’t see these nowadays.

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Had Piano Ensemble farewell yesterday, thank you to the J1s for organising the BBQ (although they weren’t that skilled at starting fires and I was the one who helped haha) Will miss you guys, be good, and dun ever buy Sarsi for your J2s (esp the girls and Ms Ang) again ─ they get high on Sarsi too easily!!! Impossible mann…

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I realised that there’s Maths S tomorrow and I didn’t go and get the tutorial. Wonderful.

-Jackson