Months ago, my friend Ken, an Australian now, was excited about having a big do to celebrate our 60th birthdays during his short stay in Malaysia. In the process of informing others and because of the poor response, he was disheartened.
After allowing for Christmas, family and golf, Dec 26 was the day he chose to spend time with another classmate and it was up to me to fit in. I had an important appointment (meeting future in-laws for the first time is considered so) and as it turned out, the timing was such that after our friend sent him back to his hotel (PJ Hilton), we were almost home in Section 14, which is just across the Federal Highway. Because we had to attend a wedding dinner and Ken had dinner appointment with sister, we were left with an hour to get ready. So it was arranged for him to drop by for a short chat.
The good thing about old friends, there were no pretence and we enjoyed a few jokes about ourselves, like dyeing his hair for this trip even though it would make his scalp itchy; Ken laughing at us (two old men calling each other when testing the phone, like small kids), and so on. It was only moments ago that I was handed an HTC Touch phone to play with. Know nothing about it, I was at a loss and decided to switch back to my old phone when I left for dinner. Ken showed me a picture of Anwar taken up close, sharing his table meant for four. Anwar was in the Sydney suburb giving a talk to some supporters and he just plonked himself joining them. The funny thing was, Ken said he wanted to send me the photo but did not know how! KC is better at this while I was hopeless with my 'new' phone. It was only after the meeting that I realized that we could have used Bluetooth to transfer the image from his phone to mine!
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