Jan 26, 2024

I met Badet again after 5 years! She brought along her husband of 2 years and we all had dinner in BGC! I honestly cannot fathom how long it has been ever since I've seen her. I've kept up with my past workmates, and even attend some of their celebrations (as the "baby boy" of the company). But for Badet, we haven't kept up much and ony recently decided to see each other after she moved in with her husband. Her humor hasn't changed one bit, as she says, and I can clearly see that she still makes the same old jokes as she did in 2018-2019. We're still very close, despite not talking much for a very long time, which honestly surprised me. Before we met, I finished a lot of my major work duties and had my fair share of fun at a monthly company event, VHH. My friends are gonna be unavailable this evening and for tomorrow so it was the perfect time for me to meet and hang out with old friends. After a few hours of "me" time, I went to BGC and got there pretty early at around 7:40. Since they were doing church activities, I decided to play Wangan Midnight to kill the time and I got a lot of good wins. I progressed through the story enough to max out my car's tuning. An hour or so later, they arrived and I got to meet up with them. We ate at Samgyupsalamat again, which is kind of funny because I just ate there recently, just last week. And they treated me to dinner since they were so late (the meetup time was 8:00 p.m.). Funny enough, we only ordered beef and I believe I ate so much again. It was just me and Badet talking about their plans for the future as husband and wife, where they're going in life, and how I'm planning to change my life this year. Badet was really insisting me to go to Canada with them and I appreciate the gesture. Maybe in the future, if I don't have ties in this country, I might take them up on the offer. Once we were finished eating, we walked around for a bit to burn what we ate, and this is the part where I open up to Badet about my current situation. Like all of my friends I've told this story to, they gave me the advice that I should be following, but she praises me on doing what is necessary for my situation. She and her husband then share stories of their horrible trip to Cebu and we laugh about some things. They invited me to come over and use their PS5, or just play games at a gaming cafe when we have the time and I agreed. After that, we got a single car home that stopped by their and my place. On the car ride home, I was mostly trying to digest how much time had passed ever since I was in KVH. It's been 5 years and I still keep up with them, which was frighteningly weird. I got to catch up with Meryll a bit before going to bed, because we had originally planned to watch a movie this evening. But after that, I went to sleep.