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wasn't really anticipating such a day but did cross my mind once in a while to meet some of my really good primary school classmates one day. as days gone by, i can only resigned myself to the fact that i am really bad at keeping friends. as my circle of friends is pretty much limited to my ns days ppl, internet, sporadic uni coursemates and a few colleagues. without technology such as internet, mobile phones etc, anyone i know prior to my army days were pretty much lost. so am really grateful that i managed to bump into one of my secondary schoolmate at udders. and with him at the same table was one of my uni course mate whom i also havent seen in qte a long while, small world eh?
apparently he still kept in touch with one of my primary schoolmate whom i last saw in like a decade ago or so. many excuses to explain that erm....laziness to keep in touch? first foremost, unlike both of them i went to a different jc and uni. also, we both shifted from our old place though it's ironic that our new place is actually much closer. not exactly cannot be bothered but somehow it just didn't cross my mind to update and inform. in any case, he suggested we should get together one day to catch up and true to his words, he made the arrangements to meet a month later or so.
felt really lucky it all landed on my lap just like that without me even making the effort to find them back, was all excited to see them again until an hour or 2 before. as i had no idea what have become of them after so many years, some of the most far-fetched awful scenarios ran through my head. so to play safe, i probably should appear a bit more reclusive and speak only when necessary instead of shooting my mouth off. something i failed to do when i eventually saw them - that unexpected sense of familiarity won over me, it's felt too much like the old days.
one still as self-deprecating in the most ridiculous sense you wish he dun mean wat he said though you know he really did, one still the same smart alecky type but none of the pushiness or overbearing confidence to turn people off or perhaps i know him enough to overlook all that, heh. finally, one whom i had some difficulties trying to grasp his wavelength in the old days, and sadly, now still do. the self-deprecator is still reeling from his breakup of a 7 years relationship a few months back which makes all his self-deprecation all the more unbearably justifiable, the smart aleck is still the one with the most ideas and most updated information on where to go and what to do and somewhat frustrated by our (over?)easygoing-ness and the one .... well, ya know..... the sort whom you are genuinely concerned about but for some reasons, your conversations just don't go anywhere. be it for better or worse, am really glad that all three of them stayed pretty much the same all this while. of course, there must be some changes, which am likely to discover in the meet-ups we'd try to arrange in the near future.
apparently he still kept in touch with one of my primary schoolmate whom i last saw in like a decade ago or so. many excuses to explain that erm....laziness to keep in touch? first foremost, unlike both of them i went to a different jc and uni. also, we both shifted from our old place though it's ironic that our new place is actually much closer. not exactly cannot be bothered but somehow it just didn't cross my mind to update and inform. in any case, he suggested we should get together one day to catch up and true to his words, he made the arrangements to meet a month later or so.
felt really lucky it all landed on my lap just like that without me even making the effort to find them back, was all excited to see them again until an hour or 2 before. as i had no idea what have become of them after so many years, some of the most far-fetched awful scenarios ran through my head. so to play safe, i probably should appear a bit more reclusive and speak only when necessary instead of shooting my mouth off. something i failed to do when i eventually saw them - that unexpected sense of familiarity won over me, it's felt too much like the old days.
one still as self-deprecating in the most ridiculous sense you wish he dun mean wat he said though you know he really did, one still the same smart alecky type but none of the pushiness or overbearing confidence to turn people off or perhaps i know him enough to overlook all that, heh. finally, one whom i had some difficulties trying to grasp his wavelength in the old days, and sadly, now still do. the self-deprecator is still reeling from his breakup of a 7 years relationship a few months back which makes all his self-deprecation all the more unbearably justifiable, the smart aleck is still the one with the most ideas and most updated information on where to go and what to do and somewhat frustrated by our (over?)easygoing-ness and the one .... well, ya know..... the sort whom you are genuinely concerned about but for some reasons, your conversations just don't go anywhere. be it for better or worse, am really glad that all three of them stayed pretty much the same all this while. of course, there must be some changes, which am likely to discover in the meet-ups we'd try to arrange in the near future.