Reconnecting

A general theme for me during the past 2-3 weeks and possibly in the coming ones is reconnecting—I described it to Andy as a reconnecting rampage, and it certainly felt like it. Apart from my now weekly Sunday badminton session (save when my company’s in its production period) with a pretty rad bunch, I generally have not seen most of my other friends as we’ve disintegrated into our busy lives.

It first started when Matt Ong—a good friend from college, and we’ve a pretty cool story to tell about how we met—messaged me on Instagram commenting about my badminton photo, followed by an SMS that I couldn’t reply to when I was in Hong Kong and another when I was in Singapore. It probably took us a few weeks before we finally met when the busy period of my company is over, when we met up over a game of badminton when he played with us for about an hour.

And over the extended weekend period last week (Friday-Monday), we met up again for Thor at Pyramid with two of his friends on Friday; went with Jeremy and friends and Matt to indulge in Broadway Academy’s Two-Way (duet) session directed by an acquaintance of mine, Dom, on Saturday night, before we chilled at Sid’s Pub at TTDI; our first ever late night (10pm) badminton session followed by Murni USJ 9 with the same gang; and then a board games evening/night suggested by Matt where we played a few rounds of Saboteur, Bang!, and Cranium (cards edition).

I’ve also been trying to reconnect with Alvin, whom I consider to be a good friend too and whom I got to know through an unlikely avenue—playing DotA with Ding. Perhaps similar interests and philosophies kept us together, and one thing I’ve noticed is that we easily trade harmless insults even after months of not communicating with each other, as if we’ve always been in touch. We almost met last Friday over drinks but he had to withdraw as his bro has just returned to his house.

Next Monday night I’d possibly meet Carol, a good friend whom I knew through Plurk and some mutual friends, for the first time ever, and then followed by Heng at paintball next Saturday!

I also still need to get on a Skype session with both Ethan and Desmond in Melbourne, whom I haven’t talk to in ages now apart from the occasional message on Facebook and MSN.

When you could talk to someone just as easily again even after months or years of not keeping in touch, you know that’s a friendship that would last through the tests of time.