and yet another cocktail party

Last night I went to yet another cocktail party this time hosted by T magazine to launch their 100 best restos book for 08. Wonderful SFDV* crowd. I say wonderful because sometimes it's actually refreshing to mingle with these AB market GB4-5 faces after slugging it out in the office trenches bent over your computer the whole afternoon. So with a clink clink of your wine glass, by osmosis you also become a bonafide SFDV face. And sometimes, just sometimes, I see some familiar faces from twenty five years, ten lifetimes and a gazillion trips-to-the-confessional-box ago. Like tonight. one, two....three! One greeted me warmly like nothing happened, which was good, (for after all, we keep bumping into each other at these gatherings anyway, as in, ho-hum) and I beso-beso'd his stunning wife and asked her about her r business. Wonderful couple. You've done well, L. Another - OMG - this I do not believe - just looked right thru me and not even a hair on his eyebrow quivered with recognition, maybe because I reminded him of the a.h. he once upon a time was, and not the big time business leader with the genteel and gracious wife he now is. Hmph...him with the family name that dates back to those sailors on the first Chinese vessels that sailed to Manila in the 1600's and intermarried with the natives. But I did catch him glancing my way a few times, maybe thinking, hey, we're supposed to be the same age, why does whats-her-name-again look absolutely sensational and ten years younger than me now (yahoo!!! hehe) . Oh T, eat your heart out. And finally the third, a very friendly third. At least he was friendly, but might I say a wee bit tooo friendly, who remembered too many things. So without further ado, at 7:55pm sharp, I said my adieus.. Adieu!!


* same faces different venue

NOTE: All initials have been changed.