Gosh - I haven’t really blogged to this one, have I?

Well… the one thing that irked me today was my friends. Desmond is apparently now in Europe. He was in Paris for work and then travelled to London for a bit of a break with Mel - but of course, I only found out about it when he SMSed me a brief birthday message. Wai Chiew will also be travelling to London and Europe, but only in May. However, he bought his ticket a couple of weeks back at the MATTA Fair, but again, I only heard about it today when I had to call him for some info. Don’t know where Chiew Weng is, but neither him nor Wai Chiew said anything about my birthday. Which further implies that no one organised anything for my birthday unlike the string of elaborate celebrations the last couple of years for everyone else…

Just before anyone accuses me of being petty, I would like to add that I finally spoke to Choong How over the telephone yesterday and it was such a pleasant, cordial and enjoyable conversation between friends which was such a contrast to the one I had with Wai Chiew today. He took advantage of the phone call to ask me for travel tips and after a while the fact came out that he was more interested in being able to boast that he (would have) had travelled to more destinations than to be able to say that he had seen more of, and know more intimately, a selected few cities. Which actually shouldn’t have surprised me, after all, this is the person who calls the address where he spends 8 hours a day “home” and also the person who is on a competitive race of one up-manship with both himself and his imaginary challengers. In short, not quite out of character for him, which in the end is pretty sad, if not apalling.

Posted on March 30th, 2003 by jl
Filed under: Notable: Personal