Once again, the weekend came and disappeared a little too quickly.

Saturday saw me trooping down with the boy to Michael’s place for his and Stephaine’s farewell party. – Michael’s heading back to KL to take on a financial post, and Stephaine will be jet-setting all the way to Brisbane to study. Lucky girl!

Albeit the theme of ‘farewell’, it was actually a fun evening with lots of yummy food, green tea baileys (my favourite!) and silly games. We are all going to miss them both dearly! But… I’m sure we’ll take the party down under to Brisbane soon enough. 🙂

Bye Steph! Good luck with school! 🙂

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~ A shoutout from me in my neverland. Hello!

Do you remember playing the ‘broken telephone message’ when you were a kid, where a message is passed from one person to another and where the final messaged relayed by the last person is almost always contorted out of context?

I realise that even as you grow up, this ‘game’ is still constantly being played with the people around you, except this time, it is the real world, with real situations and real messages…and that this time, you are all not going to end up buckling with laughter over the distorted messages. Real relationships and friendships are thwarted by these so-called miscommunications and angry fingers are being pointed at each other for who said what.

Speech and words are a very powerful thing. Today, I was tangled in an ugly ‘broken telephone message’ game.

I am disappointed that this friendship/kinship that I thought was built on a solid foundation could not weather such a storm, -a storm that was brewed out of the ‘fine’ art of mis-communication.

The boy and I were cruising along the freeway in rather heavy traffic when he suddenly jammed his foot on the brakes… screeechhhhhhhh……… and *phew* we jerked to a stop inches away from the car in front. (Hats off to German technology and their ABS, anti-brake/skid and whatever hi-tech system) Halfway through heaving our sighs of relives, we were lunged forward with a loud dull thud from our rear. Darn, the silly cab following at our tail had no ABS system!

We were the 6th car in a 7 car pile up. =(

Kai is sad because he truly longs to be a globetrotter and travel around the world.