Many many many MANY thanks to mum, dad, matt, chee seng, fabian, chan, spyke, siumei, jfok, shell, nat, dre, ken li, sim, amanda, fangfang, gerrie, ee ee, james, dan, stel, yan-yan, jingyi for all the wishes, whatever shape or size they came in - no matter if they were missed calls (and I'm so sorry but I heard my phone ringing in class and could not pick it up, because so did my lecturer!) or messages - since they were all of love and care and I would not ask for more!!!

If you press me to tell why I loved [my friend], I feel that this cannot be expressed, except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I.

-Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Of Friendship,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 28, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).