Whoa.  Is this weird or what.  I just heard from Preedee that he recently randomly ran into Kyla at the Japanese place in San Luis Obispo where he works as a sushi chef.  One of the other sushi chefs also working there said that Preedee was Thai, and so Kyla (who isn't Thai by the way, she's half Japanese) mentioned that her best friend from when she was younger was also Thai.  So, more talking ensued, and after a while she mentioned that her childhood friend's name was Lynn, and so Preedee realized that it was me she was talking about.  She couldn't remember my foot-long, Thai last name, but all is forgiven, hehe.  It's the never-ending plight us Thais must endure together, lol.  But anyway, wowww, what a coincidence.

Kyla's one of my old best buds from eons ago, back during my elementary school days in Fremont.  After I moved to Los Altos, and she to Hayward, we still managed to see each other every other Xmas, but after I moved to Thailand, we completely lost contact.  I remember how we used to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles along with Anabelle (my other best friend from when I was a kid), religiously, like every single freaking day.  We also used to swing like mad on the playground monkey bars until our palms would blister and bleb; and then once they were healed, we would do it all over again (we were regular olympic-level monkey bar swingers).  I was also with her during the California earthquake of '89, rockin it out on her bunk bed (initially, we thought the reason the bed was shaking was because we were jumping on it - until later we realized that it was actually from the quake, hahaha).  Wow, lots of memories... those were fun times indeed.

I myself just recently connected with Preedee through Friendster (which is absolutely brilliant by the way).  We used to go to Wat Thai every Sunday together, but were in different classes.  I didn't really know him much back then (because, back in the day, boys had cooties and were contagious beings, hahaha), but if memory serves me right, I think our moms used to know one another, too.

*breaks out into song* "It's a small world after all..."

OK, off I go to hit the books again.



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