Our first reunion after 30 years!!!

After much cajoling, persuasion, and FB-ing, finally a group  of grey-haired and fast-ageing ex-students of Blackpool College of Technology and Art had their first reunion after leaving Blackpool. In fact, its been thirty years since most of them last met.

The first few minutes were spent coyly surveying and scanning their long-lost friends for signs of wrinkles and grey hair. Next, they started comparing the size of their ever-growing belly paunches. Once the ice was broken, there were jokes and laughter all around as people reminisce and chatted to catch up on lost time.

My, how time flies!

It seemed like it was just a short time ago when I used to take the tram from Norbreck to  the Gynn Square to visit Khalid and Hasni at 34 Hodgson Road. And, whenever I think about it, I can still feel the tiredness of the laborious but necessary trip to Preston to buy ayam, daging and coconut creams.

Sedar tak sedar, all of us who turned up at the reunion were well into our fifties.  Well, almost all of us. Me, I'm still fourty-nine until this coming May. So I guess I can stake my claim to be the youngest : )

Thank you to Tuan Yaacob and Salwa for initiating the meeting.

We are a lucky group of people to have been chosen to go to UK and ended up in glitzy Blackpool. All the memories and experience - yang pahit dan yang manis - helped to turn us into what we are today.

And we are even luckier for the fact that we are able to have the reunion and to continue sharing our experiences and memories with like-minded friends.

Semoga hubungan sillaturrahim terus kukuh, insyaAllah.

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