weddings galore

i went for two wedding dinners in subang sheraton a week apart. it's a prelude to my own hahahaha. i now know the food really well. i can even skip the food tasting now.
the first was the wedding of a uni friend, and it was a sort of reunion of pals not seen since graduation. it's so sad
that we only meet up at weddings nowadays. well, better than nothing. as Ad said, the whole table was full of finance nerds. hhmpphh...

the hang out buddies in years past: adelyn, me, soo lin, ti jean, kat, andrew, li may, alina.

it was fun catching up with who's doing what and who's going where. actually, don't you think it's only fun when you yourself are actually doing something or going somewhere? otherwise yo're just on the outside looking in. reunions do that to people. sometimes i think you have to be really confident to show up, especially if it's been eons since the last reunion. everyone will be looking forward to see if you've changed or whatever.

my uni pals are a great bunch. i just wish i took more effort in spending more time with them in australia. friends you make in university are the epitome of acceptance. they've seen you grumpy, stressed, with bad hair days, full-of-zit days, seen you acting stupid and silly and making a fool of yourself. they've even seen you BEING full of yourself. and still... it's about living together and seeing each other almost everyday. sort of like family.. where all the quirks are out there, and they still talk to you! it's rare to find that in normal circumstances.

of course, it isn't the same trying to recapture what we had. life was so much simpler. it was just you and them in a foreign country. everyone fought their own battles of homesickness, insecurity, expectations and the need to want to really live it up. i mean, you're only there for two years!

now everyone is grown up, we've been pawns in the perenial game of commercialism for a few years already. we've had our idealism eroded bit by bit. our lives are now invaded by the necessary evils of work, car loans, housing loans etc. not to mention the joyful additions of significant others. losing touch with old friends becomes the norm of the 21st century urbanite now. how sad. i don't think we really understood that this would happen one day.
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claire's wedding to teik was quite a large affair. he's such a joker, always saying what everyone really thinks but doesn't dare say. it's quite refreshing being in the company of someone who just doesn't give a damn if he's offended your sensibilities with something honest. it doesn't even embarrass him to say such things. i do admire people with such an absence of guile.