These 2 days, I have been really busy. Yesterday, I had to skip my usual Monday after-work badminton game because by the time I finished my work, it was nearly 6.30pm.
In the morning, I received a call from a friend in DID telling me that an old friend would like to talk to me. Then he passed the phone to him. The guy introduced himself as Liam We Lin. I straight away remembered that he was one of the uni-mates in our years of civil engineering study way back in MU. He is now a consultant specializing in irrigation, hydrology and hydraulic. In fact, he accidentally discovered me when this DID engineer told him that "this Alfred Lee did this Putatn Flood Mitigation Study for DID". Guess what, he told this DID engineer, "I know this Alfred Lee Teck Kiong, he came from Sabah". Finally, we met up during lunch at the New Port View Restaurant. After we last saw each other 27 years ago, there was still this one thing in common. Our hair has grown whiter!
During lunch, we exchanged news and updated ourselves about our old uni-mates in civil engineering. Those DID engineers who did their study overseas (not in West Malaysia) were really surprised that we knew each of our uni-mates so well. That's probably one of the great things studying in a local U where most are from the same country but different parts of Malaysia.
This morning, he called from KL reminding me not to forget him when we need some specialist input when his expertise is required. One thing for sure, consultancy work in KL is competitive and tough. Well, that applies to Sabah as well.
2 comments:
Wow… meeting up with an old friend after so many years should definitely bring back warm and sweet memories. Dad, you must have been quite well known in class during your uni days that this guy remembered you. Were you very close? Even now I find it hard to remember all the names of my uni classmates. Then again, I was closer to my church friends and not so much with my uni classmates.
He was not one that was really closed. But we as a class (75 in all)did do a lot of things together like geology excursion, faculty open house. Somehow now that you have been away from U for so many years, you just like to network and link up as much as possible. Still, the closest from are those in the christian group..People like Mary Ooi, Mui Eng etc
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