What makes a true good friend? Is it someone you feel at ease with despite having not seen one another for a long time? Is it someone that makes you laugh till your side hurts? Is it someone who is generous with his money because he believes friends are worth much more?

Once again, I met up with the Primary school bunch. Have met them a couple of times when I was working but this was probably the first time we had most of the people around (sans Juncong as he was recuperating from a slip-disc operation and sans Liwen who had caught the flu bug).

As we wanted to celebrate Heather's belated birthday, and if you remember how we did that last year, you would know why we choose Fish & Co. (Digressing a bit, I didn't realise I have change so much in a year. Look at that bright ghastly hair!)

So back to the topic, Zhong, Geraldine, Heather and myself (the early birdies) joined by Wenjie queued outside the Fish & Co. at Wheelock for around an hour before we got a pretty decent round table for 7 of us. At a little past 8, after we ordered our dinner, Angela and Desmond strut into the restaurant like a cute little couple. Actually they went to get the birthday cake for Heather together but being the childish P-sch friends we were, we started teasing the pair as we have done since 11 years ago. This started a bout of retaliation as we started digging up the past of Cong and Heather, Liwen and Wenjie. Well, as eleven-to-twelve year old kids, what constitutes compatibility is simply similar physique and close proximity in classroom seating arrangement.

Anyway, if you did check out my old blog entry, the best part of the night is about to start when the fish and co staff brought out the cake and forced Heather to stand on this very high chair in front of all the patrons and sang her a birthday cheer.

After the song, they would not let her down until she successfully blow out her candles at a distance of more than a metre away. After much whines and tries, she did it. Way to go girl! I think if it were me, I would have just curl up and die in embarrassment. I mean, considering the location, this is at least 5 times as embarrassing as last year at Tamp.

We wanted to buy birks for Heather after dinner but we were too slow and the shop has closed. Running late, we decided to take a bus down to Selegie's Mindcafe where we made a booking at 9.15. Met some of the TMS netball girls there. Really nice surprise. In fact, I've been bumping into a lot of people recently. Few days back when I was out with the boyfriend, I met Tourmaline and Weiling, then followed by Elim. At Fish and Co., I also bumped into Priscillia. Seems like everyone is out enjoying their holiday eh?

Nevermind, I'm digressing again. Oh ya something happened while we were on Bus 65 to Selegie. The 2 Desmonds didn't manage to get on the bus while the rest of us were squeezed right to the door. When we reached the next stop at somerset, the folks at the bus-stop wanted to get on the bus but the driver did not open the door (bless him) for them as it was full. One of the man started rapping on the door and Wenjie commented that they look like Zombies from Resident Evil. The description was so apt all of us burst out laughing inside the enclosed bus.

At Mindcafe, we were cheated by this guy who sold us a useless $20 Mind vouncher for $15. I hope he get struck down by lightning for being such an evil dick. Anyway, this unhappiness was quickly forgotten as we immersed ourselves like kids in the idiotic games. I personally found the last game was the most fun as it was quite comical seeing my dear friends' strange reaction. We played for 5 hours at the cafe until it closed at 3am.

I cannot wait to meet up with them again as each time I'm with them I'm bound to train my abs and cheek muscles. I don't know what's the exact definition of good friends. But I know I see it in my 11 years of friendship with them. Lastly, thank you Haojie for insisting to treat us to both dinner and games. It's not the $200 over that you have generously forked out but the thought (as you so put it) that matters. As long as we're happy it's worth it. Thank you, thank you all. Let us toast to our eternal friendship.

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