The plan was to meet at BK @ 1:00pm, and I had arrived alittle bit earlier. With traffic in KL, you can never tell how much time exactly you need to take a cab from my office (situated on the busiest street in KL, Jln Bukit Bintang) to KLCC. It took me 8 minutes and RM 4.20 to reach there, and I got there at 12:50. Nobody was at BK yet, and hence I decided to walk around the Times book store, just to see what they had.

Its true! I walked 2 times around each and every shelf and there was none to be seen. They had business, fiction, non-fiction, history, best sellers, child care, sefl-help, religion, teenage, children, magazines and even comics, but no humour section! Where were the books by Scott Adams? Where were the witty Dave Barry books? None to be found. That was one pathetic book store. How do they plan to compete with MPH? I will never know.

By 1:00, most of the guys and gals from church had arrived. There was Daren, CJ, Matthew, Angie, Alvin, KokLeong, I-Lin, Shahnon, Yen, Sean, Roy, the usuall suspects. We meet for lunch like once a month or something, just to catch up with the working adults in the KL area. Its nice to be able to just talk the lunch away about silly things. I remember one session where Sean went on and on about the birth of his first child. He went into such detail when it came to the birth process, that the table behind us (filled with teenage girls mostly) were clearly ease dropping. This didn’t seem to bother Sean, but rather, he was encouraged and kept using even more technical terms.

Todays lunch conversation however had nothing to do with the birth process, but rather was mostly about our different working cultures our respective offices. Everybody at lunch wore formal clothing, shirt and tie for the men, work suits for the ladies, except for me and Sean. Sean wore slacks and a polo t-shirt, and I was the most casual of them all in my jeans and collar-less t-shirt, which proudly displayed the words “Love not War”. I was the envy of everybody! Daren noticed how he was the only one with a Solid tie, where all the other men wore ties with striped design on them. It was clear to him, that times have changed. Haha.

We talked and ate, and we said our goodbyes. I took a cab back, this time costing me RM 4.00 and taking 7 minutes. And here I am. What a productive lunch.

On this day in History..

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• Back to Bangladesh I go - 2007
• Junk Night - 2007

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