today i received a pleasant, pleasant surprise in a form of a phone call from a long lost friend
the last time we saw each other was way back in melaka, on our spm result day which was in 1997 (God i'm old!)
i remembered we were making jokes about me doing accounting and him venturing into medicine course while looking at our spm results (it was a joke back then u see, me doing accounting course.. ironic..haha) and i think that was probably the last thing we talked/laughed about

he sounds different, very.. mature. i swear i wont recognise him if he didnt introduced himself as my ex-HUSBAND. it's amazing how we settled into catching up mode so easily after that introduction. he is warm, as he used to be. very comfortably and conveniently warm. as we talked i recall our series of love letters, our 'small little family', the occasional flirting, the song dedications.. hahaha.. then the jealousy, and the end of it all.

it's good to hear from him after 7 yrs. and he hinted that i'll be hearing from him again soon for the 'nasi minyak invitation' . i'm simply happy for him (in fact ecstatic as if i'm hearing it from my bestest of frens)

i guess it doesnt need a real relationship or the best of friendship to etch a memory as significant and as good as this. we were not having anything emotional going on. while we were not enemies, we were not confidants either. heh, we were not even classmates, so that discount a whole lot of hours spent together. but those brief encounters at the locker area, or the walk to the dining hall after prep classes and those msgs and letters conveyed through our juniors. yeah, it must be those letters! those were the things that help build this memory. in fact, the letters helped me, in a way or two, went through the turmoil in that school at that time. they made me feel good and worthy.

so, maybe this is not a real relationship or the best of friendship to etch a memory as significant and as good as this, but who can forget an imaginary husband huh?
and for that i thank u my friend, for giving me this nice warm memory, and not freak out/embarassed to call me some yrs later to remind me abt it. thanks man. i honour u with this entry. may God bless u always.