Random pieces of memory

I was digging through my last pile of rough paper to print prelim package answers, and I saw this piece of book summary that I wrote in sec 1.

The book is simple; it is a Roald Dahl book that contains some of his less interesting stories, and the summary was pathetic. The book itself is a bad choice for a piece of literature homework at secondary school level, but the summary was by no means a summary; it was two full pages long. The language?.......

But what caught my eyes wasn't the bad summary nor the childish langugage, it is the harsh, biting remarks that was put forth by a friend of mine (apparently this piece of work underwent peer editing) who bluntly wrote "probably Lingxuan loves making people curious, but...her style of writing seems to be a blurb." She even calculated how many pages each story takes up (using maths equation!) and concluded that my summary was too lengthy. :p

She used to be a very close friend. The date written beside her name (15/08/06) reminded me that together we just completed a Geography project that received full marks (one of those rare moments when I was interested in Geog), and we were very, very close. Perhaps that was why she didn't hide any distain over my choice of book (Yes I know. I used Roald Dahl in secondary school). But on the other hand this IS her style of communication. Direct, blunt and sometimes biting as well. I had no memory whatsoever of this summary, and I would have forgotten it forever had I not kept it as rough paper for future printing purposes (i.e. to be used in JC2).

This friend is no longer around; so is our tight bond that dissolved sometime when we were in sec 3 (or perhaps sec 2 when I decided to go for exco interview). In some ways she and I shared a lot of similarities; I used to be extremely untactful in what I say (and still do it occasionally), and we were both stubborn and direct (a characteristic Taurean). But alas, both the friendship and the person involved are lost forever.

P.S. I can't believe that was what I wrote in sec 1. The poor writing horrifies me. Is it how my essay is perceived by GP teachers????