Mini-reunion

I left school five years ago and obviously I had not been able to keep in touch with many of my schoolmates after that. Recently, a friend of mine, Ernie, held an open house for Gawai. I was invited and decided to join a few of my ex-schoolmates to visit her house for a 'ngabang' (or a mini-reunion) session.

A lot has changed and some stayed the same since then.

It was kind of fun to meet up with familiar faces that you had seen for almost everyday in the span of five years sometime ago. It was a bit awkward too since I was not really buddy buddy with some of them. However, we have the same circle of friends and we used that to make small talks among ourselves.

Catching up with each others' studies and work seemed to be a normal conversational topic after five years of not meeting with each other. In another five years, more things would have changed and perhaps, our conversation would revolve around real jobs and families...

Time flies. I still feel like it was not that long ago that I wore those school uniforms and played around in class. The idea of finishing my degree in less than a year seems surreal. The real life waits for me next year (insyaAllah) and I do not know if I am well-prepared for that. For now, I'll just buckle up and go with the flow before I start to build a 'life' that I can finally call my own.

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