Jakarta International School
Naif

Have you ever had friendships so strong that once you are seperated, then only you realized how much you miss each other? Then when you meet them years and years later, nostalagia hits back at you and you burst into tears? heres the story....

I was at JIS for 5 years. I had my primary school education there. You see, I love international school, JIS was my favourite. Till today I still cant get over it. Its like my first crush. I love the school so much that it affects me today. Everytime I day dream, my mind wanders to this place, I remember the times I spent, the friendships I developed, the nice teachers, everything. Whats so special about JIS you ask? The people. The people are soo fucking nice. You meet people ALL over the world, all races, all religions, all traditions, it was just fucking incredible.

My last year at international school was at grade5 which is the same as standard5. Our class was very special, we knew each other, and we were so close. To make a long story short we were very close. Then I went back to Malaysia... The day before yesterday I decided to register at JIS alumni at their official website. I went to the directory with my JIS yearbook in my other hand I searched for former classmates. I couldnt find any of them untill I found: Clare Thatcher. She put her email, so I mailed. At this moment I was so fucking excited, you just have no idea. I was thinking "damn i bet she has friendster". I quickly went to friendster and tried finding her name, and what luck, I found her.

I look at her pics and my eyes got watery, dont ask why, because even I dont know the answer. Maybe because she looks exactly the same except shes ssoo big now. Shes soo hot that I was drooling. My mind was running all over the place, i couldnt focus. I knew it was her because everything about JIS is still fresh in my mind. i could tell she that she doesnt update her friendster regularly, so I went to myspace and searched for her. Again I found her profile. I looked all her pics, again nostalagia hits me. The memories came back, i was excited and tearful at the same time. I couldnt explain my feelings.

I was in a state of euphoria. I was in cloud nine. I msg her like so:

Hey,
I'm using my friend's myspace, I dont have one, but I have friendster though. Look me up there. Anyway, I'm not sure if you remember but I'm naif shazili, you can check me up in the yearbook. We were in grade5 together, miss jone's class right? I seriously miss those days. I still remember you had this crush on jonathan raho.err, I emailed you a lot of time but it got bounced back. so sorry for that. neways, keep in touch k? heres my email: xxx@hotmail.com

she replied:
OMG heeey!!! of course i remember you Naif. And excuse me, john raho liked me too lol. how is everything, where are u now?

This is what I replied:
so u have msn? i got so many questions....

Her reply:
i just added u to my msn

We chatted for so long. Most of the entire converstaion consists of like "how are u" "where are u now" " what school are u in" "remember so and so?" " they still know u naif".I was soooo fucking excited man. I asked her so many questions. i found out that most of my friends are still there in JIS and they all still remember me! shes giving my contacts all my former classmates. I cant wait. It appears that they have reunions in Jakarta every year. One of these days I have to go.

most of you I know wont be able to relate to this story. But imagine if you were in my place. We were so close to each other, and for me, i thought i was the only one who felt this special bond. When I ask clare if she felt it too, she said yes. In fact all my friends did. Everybody who went to JIS says the experience they had there was unforgetable. the thing I want to point out is this, guys, ck, farouq, syark, james, and gang, pls never loose each other.

To all my JIS friends- I love u