Last Saturday was a day that I strive to pull most of my good old friends from Octopus Online together - Sidney, Joey, Gary, Fung, Eugene, and Yen Leng. It has been a very long time since we came out for our usual makan ritual while we were still colleague back then. These were the bunch of friends who stuck together for most of the lunches and meals we used to have near HVD in Cheras since 1998, these were the people who worked hard to make something matters through an entertainment website once called Octopus, sphereheaded by Eugene, these were also the gang who 
enjoyed endless teh tarik in between works and sat through those sessions, simply talking about films and things that seemed to matter to us back then. These were also the same gang who turned up for our wedding more than six years ago. Those time seemed so far from us all now, now that some of us are all caught up in our own separate works, family commitments, and the many other things we need to accomplish in life, in order to just pull through. Sometimes, I just can't help but feeling a little sad, for we no longer have time for the small little details in life - things that what make friends much closer to one another, like talking endlessly and passionately about films over a cup of hot teh tarik with a special friend - which seem so insignificant in the bigger, so called more responsibility-driven daily activities where we try to just make ends meet.That night, I only managed to get Sid and Gary with his wife, Catherine and adorable daughter, Isabelle to come for a simple dinner at Kluang Railway Station, but to me, that was a real good get together already. I wish the next time, it would be a much better turn out. But Gary is still the same old chatty guy, except that he is now a passionate and devoted father. Sid is still very much involved in his creative work of arts, comics, paintings, his love for films (and making them) though much of his old straightforwardness had seemed to diminish...
enjoyed endless teh tarik in between works and sat through those sessions, simply talking about films and things that seemed to matter to us back then. These were also the same gang who turned up for our wedding more than six years ago. Those time seemed so far from us all now, now that some of us are all caught up in our own separate works, family commitments, and the many other things we need to accomplish in life, in order to just pull through. Sometimes, I just can't help but feeling a little sad, for we no longer have time for the small little details in life - things that what make friends much closer to one another, like talking endlessly and passionately about films over a cup of hot teh tarik with a special friend - which seem so insignificant in the bigger, so called more responsibility-driven daily activities where we try to just make ends meet.That night, I only managed to get Sid and Gary with his wife, Catherine and adorable daughter, Isabelle to come for a simple dinner at Kluang Railway Station, but to me, that was a real good get together already. I wish the next time, it would be a much better turn out. But Gary is still the same old chatty guy, except that he is now a passionate and devoted father. Sid is still very much involved in his creative work of arts, comics, paintings, his love for films (and making them) though much of his old straightforwardness had seemed to diminish...
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