How time flies...

I've not seen Sai Hsia and Lee Mun [my secondary school friends] for years. I received a surprise call from Sai Hsia yesterday and made plans to meet up since we've not been in touch for so long.

We decided to have lunch at Sutra. Jessie came along. As the 4 of us sat at the round table at 1 corner of the restaurant, I noticed a drastic change amongst all of us. We're not the girls we used to be 10 years ago, nor the kind of friends we used to be back then. We used to be so very very close back during school days. Now, we're all women in our late 20's meeting up for lunch for casual catch-up.

I felt a stab of sadness at how much we've grown apart. Both Sai Hsia and Lee Mun are married and are mothers, whereas Jessie and I are still single girls working at our careers and letting our hair down in the weekends by partying. It's like staring at familiar faces of strangers. Both Sai Hsia and Lee Mun are leading such different lives from Jessie and I. They have different priorities and worries. They're mothers. Lee Mun is heavily pregnant with her 2nd child. Sai Hsia already has 2 kids, a 6 year old boy and a 5 year old girl. I can never imagine being married, so, being a mom is really still a far fetched idea to me.

And their description of child birth are both excruciating and horribly scary. Made me almost decide never to have kids. Urgh...

Sigh... This lunch made me feel so old, so out of touch with my old friends and so not ready for actual adulthood [read: marriage and motherhood]. So, when will I be ready? I'm so comfortable with my life now I don't want it to change to drastically. I have a boyfriend whom I love very much and who loves me equally as much and I'm happy with things the way they are. Not keen to change anything in case it'll be for the worse. I'm taking tiny steps at getting my career into 3rd gear. I like being responsible-free and I like being able to party, go out and have fun. And all these are not good wife and mother criteria. Well, hopefully, I'll feel ready soon...

Other than feeling a bit lost, I had a great time catching up with the girls on old times and listening to latest news and gossip about old friends. Sai Hsia never failed to amuse me with her funny talk and gestures. The food was good. I think I should start making an effort to keep in touch with my old friends more after this.

At close to 5pm, Sai Hsia hadta go coz her part time maid's gonna be at her house. So we bade each other goodbye and Sai Hsia left with an instruction to me to call her often. Okay, will do!

After the long lunch, Jessie and I walked around The Curve and shopped a bit. I bought a darling little jacket and a smart black skirt from Elements. So happy to be able to find outfits my size :)

After doing our purses some damage, we had tea at Winter Warmer. I simply love the blueberry milk tea there. It's so milky and sweet-smelling. And it's served in cute little china teapots and teacups and saucers. Very English-style.
We then drove to BU to pick Yaacob up and went to Work In Progress at BSC for dinner. The place is nice. Food's great but I couldn't finish my pasta coz my tummy's still full of tea :)

Then, we had dessert at Dessert Bar. I couldn't fit anything into my tummy anymore. So, I just sat there and chilled out. Yaacob and Jessie each had choc ice cream. It seems that I've been eating non-stop the whole day. Time to take a break.

It's overall a long fun day. I love having girlie outings like this. I'll try to make time to organise more of these outings in future :)