FOUR OLD FRIENDS AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE

my outing on friday night went well. it was so nice to see all of my ex-colleagues again after quite some time. we managed to catch up with each other. everyone was just as warm as they were three years ago. it was nice.

one of the girls who came was M. she was a colleague who i hang out most with when i was in jusco. Now she’s working as food technologist (canggih woo..) somewhere in PJ. i barely contact her after leaving jusco.. mostly because she already has a boyfriend. although i pose no threat to her boyfriend, i am always careful when it comes to unavailable girls, especially if the boyfriend does not know me personally. takutla kalau nanti orang kata aku mengacau kan...

i have always liked M. she’s polite and fun at the same time (it’s so hard to find this combination especially among malay girls), pretty and has the most adoring pair of eyes. i have always thought that if i wasn’t a PLU, i would want to have someone like her as my girlfriend. luckily for her boyfriend, i am one… eheh.

after meeting them, i went to damansara for a date (wah!). i first got in touch with this guy from the internet (where else?). we chatted on YM once… and he seemed like a nice enough guy. of course, when u chat with a guy from the internet, you tend to imagine him as the hunk of your dreams. i gave him my photo (after much hesitation) and he gave me a URL to view his pic. But I couldn’t open the link from my PC in the office. however, I secretly searched for his profile at some other website and managed to find his pic someplace else. he looked decent enough and i was beginning to get interested.

anyway, he started to send sms’s a few days after that and i would reply him back.. maybe just 2-3 messages a day. but last wednesday he called. we chatted for a while.. and he was being quite ‘naughty’ we agreed to meet for sahur.. and he kept on referring me as his ‘food’ for sahur. boleh ke macam tu? i decided to discard his remarks... buat tak paham je.

i picked him up from near his house at 11.30 and we went to lepak at a thai food place. he looked really different from his photo that i saw. but of course i can’t tell him that because i don’t want him to know that i searched for his profile on the internet. macam pathetic sangat la pulak nanti (padahal memang pathetic pun...)

i started asking things about himself .. mostly about his family, his work, where he studied. i didn’t want to talk about anything mischievious because i didn’t want to lead him on. i had a feeling that he’s looking for some fun. no can do… first and foremost, it’s ramadhan and secondly, i don't bring guys home on the first date.

when i found out that he works in the entertainment industry, i decided to lean the conversation towards the entertainment industry. i am a big supporter of the local entertainment industry… but i feel that there is something fundamentally wrong about the industry that’s preventing it flourish and develop like other countries (i’ll share my opinion about this in some other entries). so we end up discussing about the industry… for the most part, i criticized the industry and for the most part he justified why some things happened the way it happened.

we left the kedai makan at 3 a.m. and when i got home i received an sms from him thanking me for the drink. he said that he hopes to see me again. i only replied his sms the day after that by asking ‘tengah buat apa?’. the reply that I received was.. ‘ i kat puchong ni. bila kita nak jumpa lagi? bila nak main? :)’ huh! i haven’t replied to that sms until now. i don’t think i want to.

so that’s pretty much what happened on friday night. well.. you win some, you’ll lose some.. right?