13 to 30
That was the phrase uttered by 1 of my HJ-bunch of friends yesterday..
We had dinner last night to celebrate the first 30th birthday of the bunch of friends.. Went to Table 108 at CHIJMES, which I frankly think was a slightly disappointing experience, partly because of the glowing reviews that the restaurant got. Apart from the chicken and beef skewers, the rest of the stuff (like spring rolls, Vietnamese rice rolls, crabmeat fried rice and mee goreng) tasted pretty normal, except they cost 3 times the price you'd pay from the similar-quality neighbourhood stall... would be a nice place to bring out-of-town guests to try local / Asian food tho, I guess..
But anyways, it's amazing, but we've known each other from when we were 13, and we'll all hit 30 at some point this year... At the table of 8 yesterday were HJ, the 3 of us (TL, GL and me), YF, and his sis and her family... It was not planned, but as HJ mentioned that we were the ones who have, together, seen him through all the shit in his life...
Last year was a year of change for him, and this year will be as well... he's going to be relocating as part of a job transfer, which means that we won't get to meet 5 times a month like we currently do.. somehow in our minds we haven't, and don't want to, address it yet, but it's gonna be strange not seeing each other for maybe 2 months at a stretch when usually the furthest we go is 14 days..
Of my 3 best friends, the 17 years I've known him is still more than the other 2 (9 and 5 years) put together.. really, we've seen each other grow up and crawl our way through all the trials of life.. his mom passing on when he was 13, moving house 6(?) times in 18 years because a lot of the time he had no other choice, clearing out a fridge full of rotting food because he had no money to buy a replacement.... we've gone through it all together...
It's sometimes hard to guys to say or do certain things for / to each other... like we've hardly ever hugged, but somehow we know we'll always be there for each other... I would fly 3 days emergency leave just to fly to meet him there is there was a need to, and imagine he would do the same for me..
We'll see..
We had dinner last night to celebrate the first 30th birthday of the bunch of friends.. Went to Table 108 at CHIJMES, which I frankly think was a slightly disappointing experience, partly because of the glowing reviews that the restaurant got. Apart from the chicken and beef skewers, the rest of the stuff (like spring rolls, Vietnamese rice rolls, crabmeat fried rice and mee goreng) tasted pretty normal, except they cost 3 times the price you'd pay from the similar-quality neighbourhood stall... would be a nice place to bring out-of-town guests to try local / Asian food tho, I guess..
But anyways, it's amazing, but we've known each other from when we were 13, and we'll all hit 30 at some point this year... At the table of 8 yesterday were HJ, the 3 of us (TL, GL and me), YF, and his sis and her family... It was not planned, but as HJ mentioned that we were the ones who have, together, seen him through all the shit in his life...
Last year was a year of change for him, and this year will be as well... he's going to be relocating as part of a job transfer, which means that we won't get to meet 5 times a month like we currently do.. somehow in our minds we haven't, and don't want to, address it yet, but it's gonna be strange not seeing each other for maybe 2 months at a stretch when usually the furthest we go is 14 days..
Of my 3 best friends, the 17 years I've known him is still more than the other 2 (9 and 5 years) put together.. really, we've seen each other grow up and crawl our way through all the trials of life.. his mom passing on when he was 13, moving house 6(?) times in 18 years because a lot of the time he had no other choice, clearing out a fridge full of rotting food because he had no money to buy a replacement.... we've gone through it all together...
It's sometimes hard to guys to say or do certain things for / to each other... like we've hardly ever hugged, but somehow we know we'll always be there for each other... I would fly 3 days emergency leave just to fly to meet him there is there was a need to, and imagine he would do the same for me..
We'll see..
posted by Woof! at 11:48 PM
6 Comments:
:) That is a very sweet post. I wish I had a group of friends like that, but it was hard to maintain long friendships esp since I;ve moved about 10 times in my life.
FF: I miss you! *smooch*
I miss you too Woofie! Don't forget our date when you're back from your trip. :)
i wish i have such long time friends like you do. it's a blessing :)
nice post
PP: you have Caleb... what more can a person ask for? hahaha... just kidding..
actually caleb and i are long time friends but we live very separate lives. and the fact that each and every year we grow older, we become more and more different. not that we dont regard each other as close friends but we dont meet up and hangout every week, and we dont really do similar things anymore..
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