She was someone that was a friend with my twin brother. Somehow, one day, we just decide to hang out at her house and it became our ritual. Our 'girls' time.
Her name is not actually Juliet. It's Syafiqah. But that's the nick that she's been using for years and I like it, so I'm calling her that. Not in real life though, I call her real name, coz that would be too weird and icky. Haha.
Our days would be like this. I went to her house with my bicycle. We hang out at her house, watch sonething on Astro ( back then NOT everyone has Cable tv, I certainly didn't) then went out on our bike to go to the CC for few hours.
Now what is a CC? It's Cyber Cafe! I didn't know if kids this days still know the terms or even use it. Back then internet is not as accessible as these days. We would be there for few hours, chatting on Yahoo (GOD, I Know!LOL), we google our favourite band, and who know what!. Thinking back, it;s a wonder that we were able to spend a few hours surfing internet, given that the fee is RM2 per hour, and I only get RM2 per day for school allowance. It;s mostly on charity of this one good bro who's working at the cc to monitor the usage, and keep giving us extra hours. Yup, back then they still didn;t use the software where your computer automaticly shut down when your time is up.
After our little 'surfing' at the CC, both of us would cycle to the park, buy 'goreng pisang', or ' keropok lekor' and would talks forever about what we just find out or dicover on the internet. We talk about out 'chat's in the chatroom.
This would all sound soo funny and maybe a bit alien to today's kids.
Social media life used to be so fun and about connecting with people. At least it did become the reason that start our life-long friendship. 15 years later, now at 27, we are still friends.
There are many interesting episode that I shared with Juliet. I just need time to remember it. God! I'm OLD!
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