This is the story between BabyKewpie and Vinci (our nicknames on ICQ).... Many people may not know the real story behind us... In here, I am going to be honest with you and tell you the real story behind BabyKewpie and Vinci.... How we met... How we shared happy times together (although, short)... How our relationship has turned the way it is now... The story of us begins here....

I met Vinci around July 2000... It was on the internet... Two completely strangers who shared similar life stories.... We are both migrants here in Australia... Studied in USyd and currently studying the same Master degree in UNSW... Both lost and lonely in Sydney.... as well as broken relationships from the past.... We remained as net friends who have no intention to meet each other face to face... We just wanna friends to talk to on the net...

I was unable to find work after uni grad for 3 months.... Around September 2000, one night Vinci asked me on the net how I am going with my job searching... I told him I am getting nowhere... He then said to me, if I can trust him, he can forward my resume to managers in his company... He might be able to get me a chance of interview.... Within few days time, he told me to attend an interview in his company... I went to the interview and got the job...

I started my job the following Monday, 4th October, 2000.... It was a very strange day for me because I got a job from someone I don't really know... I was unable to find work for so long and then, with the help of a stranger, I got a job in a finance company... I went to work the first day without knowing what Vinci looked like... And yet, I have to pretend in front of my supervisior and manager that I know him from uni... I had an agreement with Vinci that we will tell people that we met years ago in USyd...

The first day went by very quickly... I kept my eyes out and ears open, hoping that I will know who Vinci is.... Because he was in a different department on different floor, I was unable to spot him out.... I felt like I am in the open and he is in the dark... That night, I saw Vinci on the net... I told him that he must let me know who he is, otherwise, it will be a very strange scene if we happen to bump into each other at work.... He asked me to have dinner with him the next day... but I asked him to have lunch instead... I told him, I still don't know what he look like.... He said it doesn't matter because he knows already... He did came down to my floor that day to check me out....

The next day, I met him for lunch.... umm... In my mind, I have an image of him being fat and ugly... but when I met him in person, he is not what I thought.... It was only then I realised he can speak Cantonese as well... We have been speaking English because I thought he cannot understand Cantonese... I know he is Singaporean but I thought he only know Mandarin... We had lunch together in a Japanese restaurant at the bottom level of Hunter Connection in Wynyard...  The first impression of him was quite good... He's got this sense of humour that kept me smiling and laughing throughout lunch... He was just like his real name, full of shine and brightness... I can still picture that day in my mind... what we ate and what we wore on that day.... as if it was only yesterday....