Took with me her well wishes without even realising!!!
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De: Qi Ah
Para: Gabriela Alves
Enviadas: Sábado, 8 de Janeiro de 2011 4:11:22
Assunto: Saudades
Hi Gabi...
This email should come earlier than expected.
May i wish you and Tiago a very happy new year... Let whatever you both wish for be showered upon and to your love ones too!
Had been real busy on my job and helping out with close friends wedding arrangement... spending alot of time withmy family and also preparing nephew (2 yrs) in looking for school...
Personal wise... i am not making any progress... still the old me! Smoking, being the joker and sharing my odd thoughts with friends whenever they come for some heart-sharing session about their personal life.
Oh... care for some gossip... I saw that 'dor de cotovelo' in Keppel but from a distance, still as charming but the heart doesnt beat as fast as i thought it would... Legs not shaking! Lets see if these two 'sticks' will start to tremble when i had to face him eye to eye... Ha!
Got to end this email, like any human being.... Its hard to forget some one thus even when without my email (vice-versa), your well-being and this fated-friendship will be chunk somewhere in my little head!
Do excel... Keep going... In career, love, family, and personal life... watch your health while juggling all these!
Look at your wrist and you will see me... About that long hugging arms... My nephew love it so much... so does my sister... so it became their ownership now... seeing it remind me how you are doing!
Beijos,
Ivy Soh Wei Chyi
阿琦
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:54:43 -0800
From: Gabriela Alves
De: Qi Ah
Para: Gabriela Alves
Enviadas: Sábado, 8 de Janeiro de 2011 4:11:22
Assunto: Saudades
Hi Gabi...
This email should come earlier than expected.
May i wish you and Tiago a very happy new year... Let whatever you both wish for be showered upon and to your love ones too!
Had been real busy on my job and helping out with close friends wedding arrangement... spending alot of time withmy family and also preparing nephew (2 yrs) in looking for school...
Personal wise... i am not making any progress... still the old me! Smoking, being the joker and sharing my odd thoughts with friends whenever they come for some heart-sharing session about their personal life.
Oh... care for some gossip... I saw that 'dor de cotovelo' in Keppel but from a distance, still as charming but the heart doesnt beat as fast as i thought it would... Legs not shaking! Lets see if these two 'sticks' will start to tremble when i had to face him eye to eye... Ha!
Got to end this email, like any human being.... Its hard to forget some one thus even when without my email (vice-versa), your well-being and this fated-friendship will be chunk somewhere in my little head!
Do excel... Keep going... In career, love, family, and personal life... watch your health while juggling all these!
Look at your wrist and you will see me... About that long hugging arms... My nephew love it so much... so does my sister... so it became their ownership now... seeing it remind me how you are doing!
Beijos,
Ivy Soh Wei Chyi
阿琦
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:54:43 -0800
From: Gabriela Alves
Subject: Res: Saudades
To: Ivy Soh
To: Ivy Soh
Hi Ivy,
Thanks! We (Diego & I) wish you and your family a very Happy New Year as well, filled with joy and peace.
Things for me are pretty much the same, but I am now working at OSX like I wanted to, so the year started out on a good note for me.
I believe we are constantly progressing even if seems we are not changing much, so I’m sure when we meet again, in a few years, you’ll seem very changed to me, but still the same helpful and fun person you are.
The break up is still kinda recent so It’s normal to feel a little something for the guy, but the longer you stay away the less you’ll feel for him when you see him again.
You are always in my thoughts and prayers, and will always be a cherished friend regardless of the distance.
Every time I look at my watch I think “I wonder what Ivy is doing right now” and then I remember “she’s probably sleeping” hehehe.
I’m glad your nephew and sister liked the big huh.,,,when I bought you the shirt I imagined the girl on it as being you climbing the corporate ladder or steps in life…always moving up…and the pink cat, as opposed to a black cat, as good luck in your life, which is what I wish for you.Beijos,
Gabi
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Me & Gabi didnt started off as close colleagues... i met her on my 1st day at work back in Oct 2007 in Technip-Rio office. Her name was mentioned as one of those Brazilian ladies talking bad about me behind my back!
'This lady is so skinny, she must be having some kind of mental illness to be so slim... who knows she might be digging her throat right after each meal' Ha, till date i didnt even bothered to asked if its was true!
Well... there are also gossips about her saying that she was so full of herself, proud and think she is the most pretty lady in the whole Technip building.Couldnt remember how we got so close even when she left Technip (both took effort to meet up once every month for lunch or dinner) for a better local company but one thing that really took me by surprise was the time when i fractured my nose bridge, she issued a cheque (BRL 699) to the hospital for my anesthetic as the hospital in Brazil does not accept such dosage procedure to be paid using the company medical insurance and neither do they accept cash. I can only placed a cheques to the hospital and then the insurance company will reimburse in cash back to me after then. Sounds crazy eh?
At that moment, i was touched, thinking why would she want to risk me not paying her back... knowing that any typical Brazilian do not have the habit to save up their monthly earnings and she will be very tight-up if the insurance company took forever to process this claim.
There was another thing about her that made me admire her so much, that so-sure responds to hang on for love... to accept a guy who was 11 years younger as her lawful husband. Looking at the aplenty challenges that she will face in this relationship makes me pray to God silently... please let her have the power to keep going!
Hmmm... never will i imagine that there is a friend right there in Rio waiting to meet up with me... To had to fly 10,000 miles before realising there is someone who awaits me for 26 years... This is what i term destiny!!!
I ought to stop rambling... Dinner time!
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