Old times good friends

In the last couple of days, I picked up my phone and made 2 calls to old times good friends. One to Malaysia and another to Singapore. It's always, always nice to hear the voices of good old friends. We chatted about everything, caught up with things in our life. So much to talk about as the last time we really spoke was 6 months ago. It reminded me how we used to hog on the phone for hours when we were in high school, and back then the phone bill were calculated by the minute. Countless hours, gossiping about 'who like who', LOL! All those hours of conversation, have helped to form a strong bond among us. Somehow as we grew older, we don't do that anymore. We spend less time on the phone, slowly, less time meeting up and now we probably chat to each other on MSN a few times a month, maybe a phone call every 6 months and a yearly meet up, if all goes well. Since when we become so anti-social? 

I remember when I was younger, I thought about why my parents haven't got many friends that they hang out with. I remembered telling them that all my time is filled meeting up and talking to friends. I loved hanging out with my friends and I will not stop doing it. I'm kinda biting my own tongue now. Now I understand why it was the case. It wasn't because my parents were non-friendly people or they're weird, it was because as you grow older, you have more things to juggle and less time for yourself, not to mention time for your friends. Everything becomes priority driven and often you'll find that the time available to spend with friends are lower on the list. Not that friends are any less important but when you have to compare with every other thing, you'll find things like cleaning, laundry, resting, groceries shopping 'surprisingly' top the list! (As if it's a surprise) And as soon as you have kids, the left over time you originally have for yourself is reduced further, possibly to nil. Correct me if I'm wrong, as we get older, we got so much more responsibilities that it's no longer as easy as dialing the number and sit there for hours. Nothing is straight forward or clear cut. It's no longer a case of black or white. 

Why have things become less obvious and more complicated? I don't want to be anti-social, I want to spend time with my friends, I love catching up, I love to gossip again, I love to know about everything about everyone, only if I can find more time, only if there is more than 24 hours a day, more than 7 days a week. 

Monday night

Yet again, it has been a while since I last blogged. Do people still blog these days? I found that the people who used to blog no longer blog anymore. Has blogging been replaced by Facebook? I have to admit that I'm a more active Facebook user than my own blog. I don't necessary think Facebook is the best application out there at the moment, but undeniably the easiest to poke into what all my friends have been up to lately. I just love the fact that I can just look at the photos they uploaded and find out what they've been doing. Invasion of privacy? I don't think so. It's volunteery and public!

One of my goals this year is to blog more about what I learn at work, i.e. geeky stuffs. But I find myself tired after work and end up doing other things than sitting in front of the computer typing. This is one of the rare nights where I wondered what have happened to my blog. For a moment, I can't even remember my own blog address. I guess I should have been more hardworking. I do spend the morning, while I'm the train,  thinking a lot about what I did the day before, perhaps that's a better time to blog. I think it'll be useful for me to look back and see my learnings in the future. Just like now, reading back old blogs brings back a lot of memories.

I should do that!! Some encouragement please... LOL!!