I couldn’t even wake up today, my dad had to wake me up. First thing I
heard as I opened my eyes as, ” My daughter that sleeps too much…” It
was still really dark, had been raining the whole night and the morning
as well..I didn’t know Kuching had so much rain. Anyways, naturally I
thought with such a comment it meant it’s really late already. I was
supposed to join my parents for breakfast and do some shopping with
them. I looked around but no clock in the room. so I struggled to wake
up and went looking for a clock, and hey it was only nine in the morn.
Pretty early..
So it was a day of running around..first we went to this place far far
away just to buy some ducks, then it was to the other end of the city
to give some stuff to their friends. In return, the woman blessed us
with some great big fish and prawns. Then only after that we stopped by
some coffee shop for breakfast, Kuching’s famous Kueh chap, a kind of
noodle with all parts of the pork cooked in soya sauce soup. Sounds
gross? Well, my old people happened to love it.
After that, it as off again to buy lamb meat, all these food for the
open house on the first day! You can imagine the crowd. So I rested
much and managed to do some work for the web, at 7:30 I was on the
prowl again. This time with an old friend, Amy. Amy had been my
childhood friend, been classmates when we were just 7. In two more
years, we would have known each other for two decades! WOw, talk about
long term relationship. So, she’s the only person I’ve met since I got
back…she’s taken me to some coffee place, and tonite we just went
shopping around and then stopped by a Taiwan tea house. Lots of such
places have been mushrooming around the town! It was a nice little cosy
place, with cushions on the floor. So we made ourselves comfy, ordered
something to bite and went on the chatter. Lots to catch up as I only
see her once a year. It’s amazing to me how after such a long time, we
never fail to find stuff to talk about. I mut admit I had drifted away
from some other long term friends once the thing in common back then
just wasn’t there anymore. With Amy, it was a little different. We
never really had anything in common, but we can just talk about
anything, from people to property management, to love issues.
whatsoever….
I can’t wait to meet up with more old friends later on chinese new
year. Sometimes, we count on this short celebration to bring us all
back together again. I wonder when we should have a proper reunion.
Afterall it’s been nearly ten years since we graduated from high
school. How time flies.
