Meeting up with old friends somehow always needs a reason. The best reason is when someone who has moved to another country returns to home town KK for a visit. This time, Ah Miao who now resides in Hong Kong came back for a holiday.
Of all friends, it is still the friendships that were developed in the secondary school and the university that last a life time.
When we are now in the greying process, the frailty of life and the transience of time is felt so very real by all. Since some of us met up some five years ago (Read here), we have now decided to meet up again in November, sooner than originally targeted.
While the men all show sign of greying and balding, the ladies prefer to conceal this aging process. Thanks to the technology of hair colouring!
While the men all show sign of greying and balding, the ladies prefer to conceal this aging process. Thanks to the technology of hair colouring!
Some may wonder what do these "old people" talk about:
One ex-classmate told us of his recent catchup in a meeting with another friend of the same class. When he mentioned names of some of the classmates, this other guy simply said that he had no recollection of them. Then the wife of another ex-classmate complained that the husband just simply forgot to close the main door and front gate whenever he left the house. That led to a lot of heated squabbles and harsh words because of the wife's concern on the security of the house. Then there is the wife of yet another ex-classmate who told us of a frightening incident just before the husband's health deteriorated. He insisted on driving the car out when the wife told him not to. Hardly 200m away from the house, he rammed into a stationary container truck.
These stories may be laughable but the painful truth is that they all reveal the fact of life.
One ex-classmate told us of his recent catchup in a meeting with another friend of the same class. When he mentioned names of some of the classmates, this other guy simply said that he had no recollection of them. Then the wife of another ex-classmate complained that the husband just simply forgot to close the main door and front gate whenever he left the house. That led to a lot of heated squabbles and harsh words because of the wife's concern on the security of the house. Then there is the wife of yet another ex-classmate who told us of a frightening incident just before the husband's health deteriorated. He insisted on driving the car out when the wife told him not to. Hardly 200m away from the house, he rammed into a stationary container truck.
These stories may be laughable but the painful truth is that they all reveal the fact of life.
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