Then and Now

Since a month ago, I found quite a numbers of my mates back from university days. Those were the good old days where none of us have any problem but have fun and laugh all the way till final year. Well, we do have our classes and assignments to complete but life was a like ABC. Life was easy and no worries. We owe each others money because we had no money and the cost of buying art equipments were expensive, even during our times. I wonder how the students today cope with the ever more expensive price. Anyway, we were living off each others pocket money and allowances. We share what we had with each other, of course of overdo it so the rest of us stay away when it came to money with the leech. No matter how terrible the person, we were one big-happy-jovial-naughty-crazy-laud-family. And we loved it!

11 years have passed and everyone achieved something in their lives. Most are married with few kids and a stable career. Some success in business, some doing their PhDs, some teaching, some working for GLC, some work in corporate but everyone is happy to found each other.

Recently, there was a gathering but unfortunately I was unable to attend. Timing not right as I just came back from a trip. when I saw the photos published on facebook, everyone looks different now. Older and wiser... Looking back at the photos some of my mates uploaded on facebook, we have grown up. Some of my cute lecturers are going bold and grown spare tyre on their belly. Funny, right?

One of my mates has task himself to locate all the lost 'souls' so we can have a proper gathering for class 1998. How times flies. From a carefree young adults with no worries to parents or career people with a lot of responsibilities and burdens to shoulder. We now have to provide for our families, manage the staff, manage our bosses expectation and more. Life is no longer fun-cherry-happy-go-lucky anymore. Finding each other and able to share the sweet and crazy memories bring some joy and motivations into our lives. We somehow look for each other more of a moral support and encouragement. This put a little smile back to everyone face. I know I have and I have started to design again. My business desire lighted up again. How I wish this could last forever. Will it? Only times will tell...