Same As It Never Was

Finally got a chance to meet up with Brenda and Miao Ling... Last gathering was approximately 2.5 years ago? It was definitely a great catch up... I missed the times working together with them... I still remembered teaching Miao Ling on product knowledge when she first joined the team...

I believe all of us missed working as a barista...
The feeling of being dominant and powerful when you stood in the bar counter...
The countless order chits enticing the rush of adrenaline to complete each drinks perfectly in the fastest manner...
The sense of satisfaction and triumph one gets after tackling a crazy lunch crowd...
It was something special... A one-of-a-kind experience which I don't think I'll ever get again...

Talking to Miao Ling made me once again realise how similar we were... The habits and weird antics we shared... How synchronise our behaviours were...

This was a 2007 post...

1) No egg yolks
2) Hate seafood except fish (no salmon please)
3) No internal organs of animals
4) Chicken is the best, beef is alright
5) Towel we use must not be too rough or smooth and it must be able to absorb a significant amount of water.
6) Only Sunkist orange
7) Only green grapes
8) Eating sweet stuff after a meal
9) 3 different types of cleansing product. Hair, Face and Body
10) Cleaning toilet bowl seats before use even though it's clean

This was a post by Miao Ling yesterday...

#1. At Xin Wang, he ordered fried noodle with luncheon meat & egg whereas i ordered mee sua with luncheon meat & egg. it was unplanned and the difference was only the noodles used.
#2. We don't eat fried egg yolks.
#3. We didn't eat our xiao bai cai in the noodles.
#4. We eat tomatoes but not cucumbers.
#5. I don't eat prawns, and he doesn't fancy them much either.
#6. We don't give tuition 'cos we feel that we can't teach.
#7. Sweet tooth (he likes to eat sweet things after meals! i knew this from long ago haha.)
#8. We both don't wanna learn driving simply because we've no interest in it, despite people around us telling us we should learn.

I have to say not much difference after 3 years... Haha! She was my delinquent duo and she still is... I don't think I can find another one to replace her...



Every now and then, people enter into your life...
Walked the road you've traveled...
As time goes by, they become relatively distant away from you...
Not that the relationship has taken a toll, but the fact that they've just simply moved on with their lives...

I sometimes stopped and reminisce about the past...
Laughed at the fond memories I had...
I'm grateful for the past...
If you asked me who do I missed the most...
I think the person would have to be Damien...
He was my caretaker, my elder brother, my happy medicine...

I was suppose to meet him next week but a twist of fate made the meet up realised a tad earlier... We used to walk the streets from Raffles Place to Little India every time after work... We would stop by for our favourite Yuan Xiang fried rice in Bugis midway...

This routine was reenacted yesterday... The scenery changed so much in Singapore... Despite that fact, Damien was still the old him I knew 5 years back... I was happy to be able to do that routine again... It was literally "a jot down back to memory lane"... How cheesy... Haha!

2006




2007


2010



Looking at the past photos, we did mature after all these years... A tinge of melancholy toppled with an abundance of nostalgia... That's how it felt...