In the last few years, we lost Churchill and then Vernon - there is a chat group where the same several people share their insights and opinions daily. One of them shares a daily salutation at 430 a.m; I suspect he is getting up for work around that time. He sells fried crullers (you-tiao) at the Kenyalang Market, he is a school mate whom I have no recollection of ever meeting in school. Nonetheless, he is regularly in our phones now. I share caption-free abstract black and white photos of our construction sites. Mike share cat photos, because he has 7-8 of them. Sometimes, someone makes a comment and there is a spurt of short lived conversation. Otherwise our 'fellowship' is limited to images that ping into our screens.
Sometimes, I post an open invitation in the group to have breakfast/lunch/a quick drink and see who turns up. Last Sunday, 4 showed up for lunch, as a Chinese New Year celebration, two were class mates from Primary 1; one of them is a engineering works supervisor and has been at his job for more than 30 years. He has 3 daughters, one of whom was in the team who shot our SD video. The other is probably the wealthiest person in class, and rightly so too he was the highest achiever in Form 6. I told him that was because we were all gone; gone overseas to our year 12. He sells the raw ingredients for food manufacturing is probably the wealthiest one
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