Long-lost Friend Nbr 1 (last met: 1997):
Received a facebook msg 'Are you my vacation job buddy? blah blah blah.....'. Though her profile pic wasn't exactly clear, I knew it had to be SK!! (from her style of writing) - ever so witty and candid. We met during our vacation job at citibank. She not only made my 3-month stint in citibank bearable, but also enjoyable. In fact, it was this vacation job that inspired me to work in a bank after graduation. Thinking back (of the good 'ole days), I remembered us standing at our workstations processing endless remittance transactions for 1 hr daily after lunch for fear of developing a tummy. We shared common interests and goals - to look slim, lady-like and demure. Hah~ what ignorance!
We arranged to meet up for lunch at Raffles Place through facebook. Though meeting was brief (wish lunch was longer), we spoke lots. Of course our conversation topics now differ from what interest us years ago.. we had great fun discussing how to handle annoying MILs. Ha~!
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Long Lost Friend Nbr 2 (last met: 2000):
Met Gerald during a vacation to US and Canada. Couldn't remember what made us started talking and got acquainted. Affectionately known as 'Lau Beng' to us, he was great fun during the entire trip. We did meet up randomly after the trip in 2000 but subsequently lost touched after he married a Taiwanese girl and migrated to Taipei.
While planning the recent trip to Taiwan, it suddenly dawned upon me that I could arrange a meetup with him in Taipei. Lunch at this Japanese curry house near Taipei 101 was lovely. Had planned to take some pics but forgotten as we were busy talking non-stop. Also, met a new friend and colleague-to-be during the lunch.
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Long Lost Friends Nbr 3 (last met: 1994 (Weimian) and 2003 (Huizhen & Cailing)):
They were my very dear primary school classmates eons ago! The clique I hang out for lunch and did school projects with. I recalled stupidly signing ourselves up for a piano-cum-singing performance during the book-and-music week. While I enjoyed myself playing the piano, the rest are still holding me to it (till this every day) as they felt embarrassed having to sing to the whole school then!
It was Huizhen who organised this dinner. I was really impressed that she had managed to gather us all (except Wenfeng as she is heavily pregnant). Of all days, I had to work OT that evening and was terribly late (for 2 hrs!). Nevertheless, we had great fun that night and laughing uncontrollably while reminiscing the silly things we did years ago!
From left: Myself, Huizhen, Cailing, Weimian
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