Other than the SHSS aunties, I don’t have many close friends. Relationships take a lot to maintain and I don’t have so much to give to these other relationships. I am already very blessed to have this group of friends who literally grew up with me. What’s more, the friendship is now extended to our kids. God is Good!
Anyhow, I did meet up with my Keppel ex-colleagues 2 weeks ago and was motivated to arrange a meet-up with my Uni mates. We met during an uni hall orientation camp, and went on to plan an orientation camp the following year. They were then my lunch kakis and we also met during lectures and tutorials, taking similar majors and modules in the arts faculty.
Our last meet up was months ago. We have a bigger turn up this time.
The conversations circle around “what are you doing now?”, “your kids are so old already?” and “how bad is your presbiopia?”. Lol.
Among us, there is a teacher and it was school week. She was the 1st to trigger going home bcos she has an early morning and long day tomorrow. Most of them drive and now that I don’t live in ulu Jurong West, I got a free ride home. Woohoo. I was home in about 15 mins. Very nice.
On Friday evening, Daddy Lim bought us tickets to a Dungeon and Dragon event held at Molly Malones, a pub in Boat Quay. Zaky has been very much into D&D and Nana sometimes play along. I got to know that Daddy Lim once played D&D in his younger years. I was a total newbie. We got to join a den of 6 with another couple.
This was my very 1st experience with D&D and I was very lost. We got to select a character from a pre determined list and I was an elf fighter so that I can whack people. I was told that D&D is a role playing game. Our setting was a tavern. Ok, let’s drink some beer. The event encouraged the participants to buy real drinks and food at the bar, adding perks from these real $$ spent.
The event was from 7pm to 11pm. About an hour into the event, I was already bored. Lol. But bcos we had other people in the “den”, we cannot just leave the game like that. Nana was also bored and wanted to go home at 9ish and was shocked when I told her that we can’t just leave. She has a whole day school event on Saturday and was telling me how tired she was and how tired she would be tomorrow. Eeerrrr… ok…
The set up was done in such a way that there were different tables (dens) and what we do at the table could affect others (vice versa). The experienced players were clustered in one of the big tables. There were a few breaks in between and at 10pm, we had the choice to either continue at our table, or moved to the experienced table where they would be fighting dragons and the big boss. We took the opportunity to leave. The other 2 players at our table, who were much more experienced, went on to join the dragons fighting.
Zaky said that it was a very fun experience with all the props but he would enjoyed playing with his friends more. Nana and I were more lost than anything. Haha. Well, at least a Friday evening of doing things together as a family, though a tad expensive.
Zaky benefited from the fanciful dices that we could bring home after the event.
Mummy Lim
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