Randomness

A rather odd thing happened to me recently. One day, while checking my email, I came across an email from an old friend – someone whom I’ve not seen or heard from in more than 16 years. It was a rather strange sensation, being contacted by someone from my distant past. However, it was also a very curious and interesting experience too!

Anyway, my friend, Angeline had recently dusted off an old photo album while cleaning out her cupboard. So, on a whim, she decided to try to contact some of her old friends. She tried looking some of us up on Facebook but she couldn’t find me. As you all know, I don’t have a Facebook account for numerous reasons. However, as I have a heavy online presence, she found me through Google instead.

After catching up with her, I decided to help out in the hunt for old friends simply because I think it is terribly exciting to do so. I’ve managed to contact another old friend, Umi, who is finishing her PhD at Oxford (they call it a DPhil over there for some reason). She’s now married with child. How terribly fun! If I had known that she was over there, I’d have dropped by for a visit at some point.

She in turn, told me that there’s another friend at Oxford as well! So, we’re trying to get hold of her as well. I managed to recall the last name of another friend and found her on LinkedIn and tried to contact her through that method. I’ve also asked my sister to help me track down another friend who is also a doctor.

I think that Angeline is probably going to try to gather as many people up as possible for a Christmas dinner or something. Well, I never say no to makan especially when it is home cooked food. This is just some totally random luck that happened in my life. I think that it will be good to catch up with the last 16 years of all our lives.

Man, I should also try to hunt down my secondary school pals. I’ve already managed to contact one through LinkedIn. I think that I should try to organise some sort of get together for everyone too. It will also be fun to hear what everyone has been doing this last 10 years or so. However, I’ll only do this after I settle my own stuff first.