老友万岁

For the past 2 weeks I have met up with various 老友s, particularly a couple of times with Ms Nomad...

And just on Friday, I met Mr. D for lunch.
As we sat down to lunch, we realise how long it has been since we last had lunch together.

Not only that, we are now both parents of kids.. it was an amazing change, given that the topics we used to talk about include office gossips and career grouses, our golf and other interests... and all these were done over teh and kopi-O, and even the occasional Tiger Beer at the Kopi-tiam.. Now we talk about our kids, the future of our kids and what we do on weekends with our kids, and how our attitudes have changed with kids..

Time really flew - we attended each other's wedding, visited each other at the hospital during our first born and attended birthday parties of our first born.. It had been an amazing journey.. and something which we would not have been able to imagine years back..

As he went to buy my usual teh-si and his usual Kopi-O, Mr D said it felt like seeing the 老朋友 again.. I can't help but agree, bringing to mind this cheery song of Ekin Cheng..

老友万岁嘿我陪你乾一杯
你说的对嘿做人挺累
不管多困难别放走机会
牢记那一句话要打死不退
嘿老友万岁嘿不可以掉眼泪
放胆去追爱太可贵
光阴拉著流水命运伴著风水
其中那些滋味风吹雨飞一起去面对

Here's a tribute to all the 老友s who have been there and now here!!!