Last saturday of mine is a fruitful one. After I collected my used-to-be-spoilt phone, I met up with my primary school friends. Initially when I reached at 9.30, there were only 3 of us. And I thought, oh well it is not easy to meet 7 or more people. But to my extreme surprise, its not that they will not come, it is just that they are later than me. Around 10+, almost everyone has arrived. And it is not just a few people, in the end when the full force arrived, there was a grand total of 13 people. Primary school ex band members. People who were ex-classmates, ex-schoolmates, seniors. I really cannot believe it. Then, it suddenly dawned on me. Why is it that I am able to meet people whom I have met 10 years ago and had lost contact with some of them but my outings with my JC mates will never exceed by 3 people? Jc people whom I have just not met for 6 months the most. Why is it so difficult to even meet up for a simple dinner. For the impromptu gathering which we had last sat, it was meant to be just a dinner and meet-up but it turned out to be extremely successful. Why, you would ask? Because they make the effort to come down to Thomson from wherever they were, be it Bugis, Orchard, Paya Lebar or Sin Ming. The effort itself was enough for everything. And when I told them that it was practically impossible to meet just 7 people of my class, they all laughed at me. Now I understand why.
