I just attended my old high school friends wedding, lunch and dinner today.
This friend got married in the small chapel in my old high school (St Peter’s College). It was a simple, beautiful wedding. Lunch was fantastic, it was yum cha at the Citizen Restaurant in Adelaide. Dinner was at a function center called San Giorgio La Molara. Stupid me, I thought we were going to have an Italian dinner for an Asian wedding reception!!
The food at the dinner was far beyond excellent, I can’t find words to express my satisfaction. It was a traditional 9 course Asian wedding dinner. Every dish had a seafood element. This shows that no cost was spared!
All in all the whole day is a day to remember on many grounds:-
- I reconnected with some old lost friends,
- I communicated with some old friends like I never had before. There was one in particular who I remembered from high school that I didn’t really communicate much with. Not sure why, but tonight we talked and talked and it was great to have finally connected with him in this way.
- Spent some meaningful time with my children.
I realised today that no matter what you go through, the business partnerships that fail, challenges that you face. Friendships which were forged during your youth, relationships which are pure can never be broken by time.
My friend who got married today knew me when I was a young punk kid, a no one, no money, no career, an unknown future. We were friends at a time when friendship was just pure friendship. A relationship built on helping one another for no reward just the satisfaction of helping out a mate.
We have gone different pathways, infact, he now lives in Brisbane. But the friendship we had back then, is still the friendship we have now. We are now older, wiser, more mature. But its good to know that I have someone I can call and good old friend.
Juen Phie
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