Ade ramai kawan kan? Baik-baik, ya. Ada yang rapat tu -- Iri hati...I always feel weird when someone gives me such an ominous (and unwelcome) piece of advice. Especially if the aforesaid someone is a relative you hardly ever see except on the once-a-year Hari Raya visits and therefore, has no basis to form such opinionated conclusions in the first place.
But seriously, when I really sit down and think about it, it does SEEM like I have alot of friends. However, I think a more accurate word would be acquaintances. By strict definition, a friend is: [n] a person you know well and regard with affection and trust. And I don't think I have plenty of those. The few friends that I do have and I feel an affection for, or trust, with even my own life, I will
grapple them to my soul with hoops of steel.I know Hamlet said it first but I really mean it.
And where "iri hati", or jealousy, is concerned, I don't think anyone has a good enough reason to be envious of me. Unless they don't mind being nicknamed "mickey mouse" when they're in NS (which I was, sadly, much to my ignominy). AH well.. but that's another story =)
PS: Besides, I think most of my friends know that, in reality, I'm just a pathetic and harmless little creature -- I couldn't hurt a fly. Just cockroaches maybe...
