"Iwan Oh Iwan" by Nurhayati

Another story about me, written by a good and close friend of mine Nurhayati. Enjoy & Comment!

I was talking on the phone with Iwan the other night. It has been quite some time since we chatted. It was nice, conversation flowed easily as normal. We were giggling and gaggling like mad as usual. Then at one point of the conversation, he told me about the gal who wrote about him in her blog. After giggling and gaggling further, we decided to write something about each other in our blogs, just to irritate each other. he even came up with some opening lines which were so funny, we end up laughing even harder.

Iwan is the pet name we gave him as I remembered that back then there were a few Ridzuan's in the group. So we decided to use pet names for them so as it is easier to identify them apart.
We were not close back in poly. I know him by face and talent (he has a wonderful singing voice), and he knows me as a friend of a friend. We only grew close only while he was in NS, and me already working. Actually when we found out that one of my god-brothers is his uncle, then we grew close. And the mischief that we did... hehehe. Pity abg Zai has to tolerate our nonsense and our fail attempt to matchmake him wif one of our friends.

We were the prepeptual bachelor and bachelortee of the group. Never feeling pressured when others in our group started pairing off and stuff. We always know that we can always count on the other to go to a function together, have a great laugh, without having a partner. He is one of the rare guys which I feel safe with, which is a compliment to him.

One thing I find very enduring about how he got so irritated with me about my sense of direction. I forever getting lost. After an incident of me getting lost in tampines, my own hometown, he dropped the bomb, "Sudah, next time you just wait for me kat the bus stop, i gi fecth u." hehehe.

I remembered when he was down about the certain someone who irritates me whenever i hear her name for being mean to him, I was on the phone with him often to cheer him up. I mean to nag as well. hehehe. We always turned to each other for advice, as we believe that we could always give honest opinons to each other. He was like my male mirror, telling me his honest opinons through a male's eyes.

Iwan is a self-less person, helped me alot back in those days when grey clouds loomed over the sky. I also remember our trip to Toa Payoh to buy shelves for my class. I remembered on the way back he asked me,"Yati, u tahu mana the new Irsyad will be?" Dengan sardine I jawab,"Tahu... kat Bradell" Hearing my remark, he shake his head," you sebenrnye tak tahu kan... itu kat depan mata lah". He pointed to me the construction site in front of us. We laughed, coz obviously my sense of direction has not improved.

I remembered when I went to Abg Zai's wedding with Jufri. Iwan tried to talk to Jufri, even carried Jufri. BUt that little boy just totally acted dumb and ignored him. Poor Iwan, buat penat aje u layan dia.

That night conversation brought back alot found memories of my dear friend. I always like to refer him as a teddy bear. Always fun, loving and kind. Except when it was his turn to nag at me...hehehe.

I hope our friendship will remain intact as we are moving into different things in our lives.

.....The End.....