somewhat sille, that's me!

my second last evening of 2010 was spent at neway karaoke in cheras, with some of my form six friends. we had been planning to meet up since Feb 2010 (as evident from the FB thread i created way back when), but never did. there were several attempts but they all fell flat. i guess that's what priorities and life do to reunions.

but we finally did, at huishi's dad's wake the Monday after Christmas. it came too sudden, she updated us of her dad's admission to the hospital from stroke just 5 days before Christmas, and receiving her SMS just after the thrill of opening Christmas gifts was quite a sobering moment.

i haven't met some of these guys since the last time one of them were admitted to the hospital from a road accident two years back -- i happened to call the dude (might have been trying to arrange for a reunion), and was told by his mom that he was hit by a car while riding on his bike to his second day of work. so yeah, it has been two years. just like that!

at the wake, we said that we should not come together only when something untoward happen, and before we went on hitting each other with another slew of FB msgs, decided that a karaoke session is in order.

had first decided on RedBox in Pavilion but they charge like 75++, which is roughly the cost of my arm and a pint of my blood. thankfully, hsue suggested neway in good ol' cheras (RM35++, free admission if your bday fell within the month, and we had a december baby among us, plus a 15% discount for each Digi number we hold, so the cost came up to RM40 which is wayyy more reasonable).. of course the ambiance is nothing like pavilion but it was good enough for us la.

it was awesome belting out "OLDIES" from michael learns to rock, westlife, a list of songs from the HK canto rock group Beyond & their king of pop jacky cheung (we sang so many chinese songs that i didn't know i knew! hehe), air supply, bon jovi, green day, oasis -- i feel soooo old and dated, and yet when we sang like the shower singers that we were in unison and in varying pitch, i felt like i was 17 again! :D

and i made sure we sang LEMON TREE by fool's garden cos that song came out when we were in form six.. it was a fun and loud walk down memory lane -- it was all 15 years ago and yet it felt like 5 or less.

some of us have lost/put on weight, are plagued with receding hairlines, changed jobs, bought properties, got married, fell out of love...it's was all very surreal.. but i like how at some level we were still the same (you know what i mean! if you don't, you are too young. ;)


the nonsensical 1-hit-wonder lemon tree by fool's garden -- which was blaring from every speaker in every mall and pasar malam in KL not too long ago :D

i imagine walking and walking one day and poof!, we exit from narnia, back to when we were all be our silly young selves again.