guy friends

sometimes a girl's gotta have her guy friends.

i'm perfectly comfortable being the only girl in the company of guy friends. one, two, three or more guy friends? doesn't really matter to me.

tonight i met up with 2 guy friends i knew from school. actually i spent more time hanging out with one of 'em 'coz the other was pretty late. i hardly get to hang out with 'em and we don't keep in touch much either. but it's always great fun when i do meet 'em. i'm actually closer to one of the guys and we had such a laugh while having dinner and waiting for the other guy to turn up. he always asks such strange and almost inquisitive questions which sometimes sends me into peels of laughter 'coz it's like him to be so weird.

but while i was having a good time, i was also reminded of someone. i knew 'em all at the same school and we used to all hang out occasionally. of 'coz that was before someone kept flaking out on us and i grew tired of inviting him along. besides it's not like he ever suggested a meeting up with us despite all our efforts to meet up with him. but i have to admit that a part of me was struggling internally not to contact him and invite him along. i definitely wanted to see him and hang out and yet i tell myself that i can't always be the one extending the invitation with no reciprocation from the other side.

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i just received my birthday pressie from my london guy friend. the sweetheart bought me 3 medical thriller books.

now this doesn't sound like chocolates and cotton candy romantic, and he didn't even send a card (which i had hoped he would). but i love books. and i love medical thrillers specifically. patricia cornwell, leonard goldberg, robin cook, tess gerritsen, michael palmer... i've practically read 'em all. and he knows that. he knows that almost nothing gets me more excited than finding a new medical thriller book that i've been wanting to read. so i thought his pressie was sweet. it almost moved me to tears. this is a guy who paid attention to one of those many random things i've said and then put thought into a gift that he knew i would like.

but i don't know... maybe we're just friends?