The simplest things in life can touch our heart, only if we let it to..
Had dinner with sis yesterday in a SS2 restaurant late at 10pm, sitting next to our table was a group of seniors in their 60 perhaps.
They obviously gone a bit tipsy, talking loudly and laughing even louder. I could see a few empty bottle of red wine, they sure know how to enjoy life.
Enjoying my meal, I wasn’t bothered much, until they started singing a birthday song.. I turned my face, and I saw a happy face, an old man smiling broad, and suddenly I was touched.
It’s a blessing to have your friends remember and celebrate your birthday every year, and someone must have a wonderful life to have their friends celebrating their birthday in their aging years.
I sure hope when I reach the days when I couldn’t chew on a steak, that my friends will still remember who I am, and blow the 60+ candles with me.
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June 22nd, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Listen to The Beatles’ “When I’m 64″
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:52 am
I just hope that I aint alone when I’m 64!
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Tanya.. ermm never heard of the song, got to find it in YouTube or somewhere.
Yvy.. no worries, your hubby will always be with you.
June 25th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
a very touching post indeed.
and thanks for dropping by my blog. I’ve replied to your comment ;)
June 26th, 2006 at 8:36 am
I paste the song here:
“When I am 64
When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a Valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine.
If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four
You’ll be older too,
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday morning go for a ride,
Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four
Every summer we can rent a cottage,
In the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera Chuck & Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me.
When I’m sixty-four ”
June 26th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Friends stay forever, though I won’t say the same for marriages.
I do hope that by then, senility does not set in and everyone remembers everybody.
Treasure today, because it is the present!
June 26th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
daphne.. thanks for lyric
Robin.. hmm not all friends stay forever, they come and go and only a few stay for lifelong. Treasure today, u’r right.
June 27th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Friends stay forever. I agree… But STAY doesn’t mean live near and meet often. If he/she is a friend, no matter where he/she goes and how long you haven’t see each other, your heart will be together. When you get in touch again after long time no see, you still feel so warm and excited. If they, who “come and go” as Jee said, are not real friends and become strangers one day. Then we needn’t to be so painful.
Regarding marriage, my idea is you lover is also a friend who you will never forget. Just like the other friends, sometimes close and sometimes far to us. When close enough you marry, otherwise depart.
Then friends and lover are same based on this point.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Nicely said Daphne, brava brava!