How do you distill a year's worth of experiences into words? After much pondering I figure the recipe is as follows:
1. First, one must catch a friend. Said catching requires the following equipment:
- A slice of luck (Getting an interview call at one of the Big 4)
- A spoon of coincidence (Both your interviews being on the same day)
- A dash of surprise (This haughty looking girl actually spoke to me??)
2. Once the friend is caught, bonding with her will release a little essence of friendship. A little silliness (like sneaking cameras into the workplace and taking random photographs in the bistro!) acts as a catalyst in this process.
3. Heat the essence of friendship over a slow flame of togetherness. At this stage, add an additional chunk of luck (being the last batch to go out of town for training, and staying in a 7-star hotel, no less!), and stir in a few pints of the stuff that cheers and inebriates. ;)
4. Your essence of friendship should now have swelled. Leave it to stew in its own juice for a couple of months of idle time. Throw in a few gratings of audit file archiving, and a dash of spice (like displaying your own bitchiness)
5. What you have now is thick friendship. For seasoning, add a few long chats about peacocks, apes and ivory during class hours, and longer chats about life, the universe, and everything during lunches, and even longer chats about ships and shoes and sealing wax and cabbages and kings during a memorable Sunday spent together.
Serve warm with love.The whole to be taken as often as needed, with sips of humourous (and not-so-humourous) lemonade. ;)
The thing about friendship is, you always get by-products from this recipe. What I got is warmth and trust, and pretty much as close to bliss as anything can get. Thanks to a certain friend.
Happy birthday, S.
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All I know is, you only make a once-in-a-lifetime friend once in a lifetime.
- The Li'l Rascals
