It was a buka puasa with my old best friends of MCC (Mara Community College). Pae being the most active one and the most rajin one (if you get the others to arrange this, I bet definitely it's gonna be a failed program) among us had successfully arrange this meeting at CititelExpress Hotel (in Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman near central market). Hmmm...never heard of this place before but what the heck, for the sake of getting together. It was quite creepy when reaching the parking bay as there was a lorry loading the stinct garbage right in front of the entrance! I thought I was at the wrong place since the road heading towards the parking entrance was extremely narrow. Oh man, whom in the world got us here! For the sake of my good friends whom I have not met for quite sometime (well one of them for sure I know I have not met for almost a year after that incident). Once reaching the parking bay, I had to asked the ticket man if the level I was in is the nearest to the lobby. Well one has to be wary of one's safety as well as one's personal valuable asset. Anyway, got myself into the lobby of the hotel. Quite surprise by its main lobby compared to the horrible parking space. Got a text message from Pae asking "where are you gals?" So I thought ok at least one of us is here but I was wrong. I was the first to miracalously arrive there on time while the time showed 6.50pm. "Satu batang hidung pun tak nampak", as expected! The next to join me was Roha.
As Roha has correctly speculated we ended up buka puasa just the two of us when the magrib's azhan starts. The rest came along minutes later like Pae & the kids, Masrah & the kids, Mulia & a kid and Siti & a kid. It's quite understandable for them being late as all of them save for me and Roha had to tag their kids along. It's great to know that all the kids had grown up so fast with most of them age 3 years old. And it's also great to be able to chit chat just like those days while we were in MCC save for that all of us now are married. But our love on crazy things, on ramblings on nonscence are still deep in us.
Mulia with the don't care attitude even plan for our next holiday to either Sunway or PD in November when she had known in advance of Tiger's pre-planned trip to Indon. When I suggested to someplace else like Singapore, they interrupted me saying I'm the expensive type of person. Everybody agreed that we try to settle for the short distance holiday and if we (meaning EVERY single of us) successfully able to find time to be in this Holiday, then we could pre-arrange later for a holiday outside the country.
Funny thing is everyone of us is married but whenever we have these once-in-a-blue-moon get together, we will be seeing like "a single parent". Our hubbies will be either be too busy to join (god knows what they're doing) or too worried of being left-out when we'll be talking on something which man would never understand or just plain lazy.
As for me, I am glad that despite our differences in opinion which at times lead to a stress in a relationship, I could at least brushed the grievances aside and enjoy that moment. Furthermore, now is puasa month and one should forgive and forget. But I wish Suraya could join us as well. Sigh....
"The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow"
