"Oh my Gawd! Jasmine you look wonderful" , "Daaawwnnn woman, gorgeous as ever and congrats on your recent wedding nuptials. Caught the photos on FB and u looked radiant" , "Suzanne? small suzanne?? hahaha wow!", "OK you, Nazreen dearie I've seen a fair bit of the past year ;-)" , "Mah Su Ling haven't we turned out all lady like. Finally decided to trade in the tomboy look u had going down pat eh?" All this and more interjected with lots of hugs and cheek-to-cheeks.
I don't think the staff at Park Royal, Penang knew what hit them that Saturday morning. A bunch of 37yr olds ooing and aahing over each other. Sitting now and recollecting the scene in my head, I wanna laugh hard but hey I was in the thick of it too.
OK first order of the day after checking in and reassuring the staff the we were not out to drive their guest away was to the beach. Out came the swimsuits and bikinis, sarongs and pareo, sunblock and suntan lotions. I swear to god I was the only one who plastered myself with sunblock and yet still managed to get burned...the peeling kinda burnt. Oh what the heck! I won't see the sun for another 3 more months.
And for the next few hours, and i mean few hours, over mojitos, wine and lots of water we talked about what we had been doing over the past 21 years, which would have been when we all last approximately saw each other, save for a few. It was interesting to note that apart from Nazreen, the rest of us had settled abroad. Of course us being women, conversation also digressed into fashion, jewelry (Tiffany was voted the fav amongst us) and the men in our lives.
The best part of the weekend getaway was the 1am conversation, where we were all cramped in the suite, comfy in our pj's reminiscing about our school days. "Do you remember.....", "Crap, I can't believe we did that and manage to get away with it.....", "Hey remember that time when...." The stories of CGL vs CLS for SXI boys attn and how good we had it with the PFS boys...hahaha.
I heard names which I hadn't heard in yonks and fondly wonder what has become of them. Who knows if facebook can bring the rest of the missing souls together since it has gotten us this far :) Who knows maybe in another 2 years or so. Needless to say the rest of the weekend was a wash for me as i fell ill and pretty much spent it in bed :(
I wish you all a safe journey as you return to your home countries and let's do what we said we would. Keep in touch babes, it was a blast!
3 comments:
i can just imagine what a commotion you gaggle of women created. . .but it sounds like you had fun. you know i cant remember many of the girls i went to high school with. . .
commotion is too sedate a word to use sweetie...penang knew we were in town!
u can't remember cause as we discovered today your memory is pretty iffy :))
I'm looking forward to my reuninon... i hv to many groups to reunite with ...lol!!!
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