Flashback: New Year’s Eve
Jan 04, 2005 in Diary-writer
On New Year's eve I had a closed party for my AIESEC friends. It's become a tradition to have reunions of this sort annually, and somehow, along the way, my house has become the place for such events… which is quite cool really.
The resident chef Carmen was in her element on Thursday night, shopping for fish cakes and crab sticks, and on Friday afternoon, it was my turn to do the additional grocery hunting, while Eric decided to sponsor the carrot cake for the 'ushering-in the new year' ceremony.
As usual, we had an avalanche serving of food, and the sausages just seemed never ending. The prawns disappeared in the first fifteen minutes, of course, and the bottles of wine just went and went, while Chee Fai busied himself to the honourable job of (un)screwing the wine bottles.
Looking at the photos and the videos of the night has led me to realise that we've all grown up, the bunch of us who used to rush from faculty to faculty seeking lecturers for forgiveness… or skipping classes due to an over-exciting night at the Bukit Serdang mamak after a long three-hour AIESEC meeting. Everyone's working now, and many of us have found an other half… my mum mentioned that it was like a 'come, see who I'm with now' party as well?it was quite fun seeing how Mr Boyfriend treated my girl pal, how Ms Girlfriend treated my boy pal, or how so-and-so have hitted it off with so-and-so…
At 2.30 a.m., Raja and Whitsney were going gah-gah at the sight of Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity when Eric decided to come back for a visit. Then, as we sat watching the two lovebirds argue about God-sent signs of 'The One', we giggled like little kids while remembering how perfect things seemed and how akin to Serendipity our lives really were at the moment…
Later at around 3, when all had left, and Carmen and JC retired to my bedroom (amidst one-minute intervals of sms beeps emitting from JC's handphone), Eric and I sat in the dimmed lights of my living corner, watching a rerun of the movie which I had put on to play, and we talked about our lives past and the people who have left footprints in our hearts. The night was calm, the air was cool…most importantly, the company was warm and the feeling was exquisite…
So New Year's Day was perfect?while the rest of the world whirled around us in the wake of the recent catastrophic events, somewhere in KL, rest assured it was ushered in in goodwill and trust, and a great many toasts to friendship and love.