my funny friends & me

yonks ago i wrote a post (that is now lost & not found in the twilight zone) on how i never pass an opportunity to make friends & how some of them become very good ones. recently i did a quiz in a daily (nothing better to do la) - question: how many friends do you have? choices were i think something like less than 10, more than 10 & perhaps i have no friends. i think i chose less than 10 but i was referring to good friends. sad? who needs quantity when you have quality. maybe its more than 10 i don't know but who cares.

some time back a couple of them got together for lunch at a restaurant, owned by yeah you guessed it a friend. so half way into lunch, the owner comes by our table & asks if everything is going okay & for some small talk; as he usually does. he, being the lovable gentle person he is, was (is) very polite. then this conversation came up:

she: he's the owner of this place ah?
me: ya
she: he's so polite. how come can be your friend?

funny eh? what's the thing about opposites & attraction again? hey, i can be polite when i want to be. like jlo said 'someone's got to be an adult sometimes'. so there, i can be nice, polite, charming, pompuan bukan melayu terakhir - all when i want to (bwek, bwek, bwek).

then just a couple of days back, we wanted to meet up again to eat, drink & be merry. jlo asked me this 'so who else in (my ex-employment) do you want to see?'. goes to show i wasn't very famous back then or perhaps famous for the wrong reasons. so this less than ten people & i went out to lunch yesterday. its always the same group of people, so i created a group in my email address book & labelled them 'people i like in (my ex-employment)'. aptly named, no?

i'd love to say a thing or two about the polite & not so polite people in my life but there would be so much nasties to say about them that the kids might need pg to read this blog. ha ha ha. i'd like to think that these friends of mine are comfortable enough with me as i am with them, to allow remarks like 'jlo, i'd love to hug you right now but you stink' only to have her laugh & say 'yeah, its a natural repellent'. just so you know, she didn't have b.o but she just had a fag & she smelt like a walking ashtray.

so lets see - here's to my ten or so frens near & far, polite or otherwise, bitchy or not without trying too hard, pompuan or dot dot dot; thank you for being my friend and yes, you are welcome too (ya ya i have no shame, so sue me!!). and i didn't put in any names as i have this affinity to forget one or two & then i won't hear the end of it. so i'll save myself the trouble..