Chapter 33-- Army pals(wksp) gathering

Had a wonderful buffet dinner with my army pals at suntec city yesterday. Was rather excited to meet and catch up with this group of friends who had endured about 2 years of bittersweet hardships with me in camp. Thanks to han xiang who was late in picking me up from my home and then having diffculities finding parking space in the mall car park, I was late for the gathering... Quite paiseh since I am the coordinator for the event and my hand phone was ringing non-stop from people who had already reached city hall mrt station( was supposed to meet them there before proceeding to suntec together but ended up with me asking ah kong to help me gather and made their own way to suntec since I am already running late). By the time me, han xiang and dong yang reached, the rest of the guys were already happily tucking into their food( aren't they supposed to wait for us? Talk about brotherly love! But then, we do not care about such things lor and that's why I feel so at ease with these guys compared to some of my more "well mannered" friends who like to play the "I wait for you before I start eating" game friends). Had really great conversations with them while eating and was glad to find that most of them are doing really well. Just pity that some of the guys can't make it due to work commitment or other personal reasons and share the fun that we had...Never mind, I see some of them around during the coming ICT in 2 weeks time. The only bother son thing during dinner is that we have to remain at constant vigilance to avoid ugly candid snap shots of us being posted on friendsters or facebook. Trust me, some of these guys have perfected the skills of a private detective on their quest to reveal the ugly side of us. After dinner at approximately 10 plus, there was more photo takings of group photos as everyone whipped out their mobile phones with like functions like 5 megapixels which is able to take crystal clear photos while I stare at my pathetic 1 megapixel Nokia phone brought 4 years ago. Never mind, I can always grab the photos I want from their facebook accounts :P
We then proceeded to star bucks to have more chit-chatting( although initially we wanted to sing Karaoke or watch movie but k box was charging crazy exorbitant prices while the cinema has only 2 pathetic films showing at late night). Order my favorite ice vanilla latte while we talked about Taiwan variety shows and gossip about some tv stars. Feel so happy that there is finally a group of friends that I can discussed about tv shows as friends around me nowadays seems to be sooo ignorant about tv shows though I could not really blame them due to their hectic work schedules which may makes them too tired to watch tv after work. Perhaps that is also why I bonded so well with these guys, we always seem to have a common topic to talk about even if we do not meet frequently. But alas, time always pass quickly when one is having fun and by midnight, me and dong yang shared a cab home while the rest of the guys living in the west and north west took their own way home.

Wonder when will be the next wksp gathering?

Regards,
Yongster

Still many more good years ahead...