A Small, Little Primary School Class Get-Together

Met up with a bunch of classmates from primary school for dinner last night. Pretty disappointing turnout as there were about 8 of us. Nevertheless, it was still a good one.

We were there at the quiet, little cafe for about 4 hours, just eating, drinking juices (we recommend the Soursop juice), catching up on each other's lives, yakking away about our primary school days, and listening to the songs they were playing over the speakers.. Songs from the 90's.. Songs that were played during our younger days like "U Can't Touch This", "Lambada".. Gosh, don't we sound old? We celebrated Pek Sian's birthday too. Well, it was supposed to be a double birthday celebration for her and Yee Pin (they shared the same birthdate, cool eh?), but Yee Pin couldn't turn up. And we had funny moments where Kok Hian and Huat Sing kept winking at each other, or Kok Hian and Yat Mun kept comparing their muscles, and got Meng Loon weirded out. Hehe..

One thing I like about reunions like these is that, we try to make it no matter what. We're not there to see who is doing well, or who is earning the highest $ or to compare anything at all. We're just there to meet up with old friends (And I mean, reaaaally old, friends of almost 18 years), to learn from each other's experiences, and to laugh about our shared moments many years ago. I don't know about the others, but it never fails to amaze me how there were so many more stories that we didn't know back then or that we had all forgotten about. Days when Chin How actually 'extorted' $ from a fellow classmate (Poor him..) 20-30 cents everyday, and Yok Tien just tagged along like his 'ma jai'. Days when the guyz would all hang around at Suben's house, lighting up fireworks and see them fly across the drains or neighbours' houses. Days when they went to somebody's house and watched videos (Can we assume that they were watching *ahem* porn? Hehe..). Days when we girls oogled over a Trainee teacher, Julian, whereas the guyz were more into their marbles and spiders. Days when we were all so 'gian' about badminton espcially during the big hype about Thomas Cup (when Malaysia won the Cup!).

It's nice to see that these people are actually the people that we shared our childhood days with. These people who used to be 4 feet and under tall.. Short, little 'ku chee rats'. These people we've never seen for 12 years since we left school, and when we meet up, there was never a quiet or awkward moment. It just felt like there was never the 12 years gap between us. I know that most people would be astounded to hear that we were actually meeting up with our primary school classmates. If say we were all from the same 'kampung', going to the same schools throughout our lives, that will be a different story. But for us, we all lived in different parts of PJ and KL, we went to the same primary school, but we all parted for different sec schools, colleges and unis, went our separate directions in lives, and we finally met up after all these years. I'm not trying to brag here, really. It's just a nice but at the same time, undescribable feeling. That's it. Who knows, 20 years down the road, when we all start to grow white hair and have wrinkles all over our skin, we would still find the time to meet up over a cup of coffee or two, with our kids running all over the place. ;)

With the Internet and perhaps a little help from your yellow-stained autograph books, it's not too tough to track down your old friends. All you need is a little effort and the heart to do so. You know what? I'm already looking forward to the next gathering yet again... Hehhee...