A Sunday with Friends

For those of you who never check facebook, yesterday (Sunday) was our "unofficial" 5S1 class reunion at Zen Japanese Restaurant, organised by the ever lovely Sue Bue.

In my excitement to meet up with the most awesome people on earth, I neatly reversed ye ol' faithful Wira Merah into the house gate. 5 minutes later, I left the house with the gate hanging pathetically on its sole remaining hinge, driving a car missing its right tail light to Sunway Pyramid. Meanwhile, the clock on the dashboard cheerfully informed me that I was going to be late.

I arrived at Pyramid at 5 past 12, slotted myself into a vacant lot and hurried down the escalator, where I promptly bumped into Yen Tink. As we wound our way towards Zen past the Sunday shoppers, Yen Tink filled me in on her latest exploits (shopping), her next target of acquisition (Charles & Keith Handbag) as well as getting me to praise her for looking good. Some things never change.

Zen: Jordan, Shu Haur, Caleb and Li Sian were patiently waiting for us at a table for 8. As Timothy and Sue Bee arrived not some 5 minutes later with the news that more people would be coming soon, it quickly became apparent that the table wasn't going to work out. The restaurant staff duly gave us a room to ourselves with a table for 12.

Once Wern Chiet, Zhen Yuan, Ho Meng, and Yin Shean arrived, we started ordering. Tim constantly reminded us not to order too much, recounting his own experience at an "order-buffet" Japanese restaurant (50 plates of sashimi for 4 guys). We conveniently ignored his advice and gleefully ordered away to the tune of heaping plates of unagi, tempura, sashimi as well as 3 "333"s (Soft-Shell Crab Temaki).

Amidst good food and hot Ocha (excepting Tim the contrarian: "How can you all drink hot?"), we discussed movies (Jordan: Public Enemies is OK, Caleb: NOOOOO....lousy!), cameras (a 3 way discussion between Tim, Yen Tink and Caleb), crime, MU vs Malaysia, immigration policies, touts in Pudu and who was going out with who. Sok Keng joined us after awhile while Li Sian had to leave at 1 something-ish. Rachel Ooi also joined us in due course as we happily ate away Zen's profits for the month of July.

After dessert (multiple servings of green tea ice-cream delivered by our overworked waitress), we (minus Rachel, Ho Meng, Yin Shean and Zhen Yuan) adjourned to Pappa Rich for conversation and coffee Round 2. Much juicy gossip, secrets and confessions were extracted during that session (which is why you should always attend class reunions) which left everyone seated around the table feeling rather satisfied (except maybe Tim, target of said extraction). We ended off at 6 and everyone left with promises to keep in touch and meet up again. As I drove home, I quietly wondered how many of us would be able to keep that promise, and for how much longer. Still, as Kelly Clarkson would say: "This may not last but this is now". I'm glad I spent my Sunday with friends.

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