Wednesday, March 29, 2006 @11:27 PM
TE is in town this week. YC and I arranged a dinner catch up with him. I think his last trip to the continent was months ago.
Anyway, have you tried Lebanese food? It was my first time tonight and I like it. Yeah right, sounds like I just love all food. :) We were not that hungry so we decided to order several dishes of tapas-like Lebanese food. Ok, I admit I felt the hunger after digging in the first two dishes.
Ok, it wasn’t just about food for the evening. We had some fun chatting about different topics. I wonder what do you chat with your guy friends? I was sent to a girl’s school for both my primary and secondary education. So up till there then, I only hung out with female friends. The only time I had some interaction with guy friends was when I participated and co-organized some extra curricular activities with people from other schools. It was certainly a drastic change when I did my senior HS in Country B. Not only I had male classmates but I started making friends with guys too. Since then, my social circle has been expanding and become more and more balance with friends of a mixture of both genders.
All my friends, boys and girls have different personalities, characters, backgrounds, nationalities, races and ages. When I hang out with certain bunch of friends, I will automatically switch the communication board that matches with them. I think in general; when I hang out with female friends (regardless of age), we can talk girly stuff, gossips, complain about anything that seem to be regarded as feminine. What about to guy friends? I used to think I tend to talk about masculine stuff like politics, economics, work and stuff like that. Occasionally I find it funny that I do gossip or talk some girly stuff with some of my guy friends. I did not realize this finding there then. It was just so natural and mutual that I can talk about those things with some of them. I guess maybe at that point, it was either I treated them as my girl pals or they treated me as their buddy! Hah, I sound like a sexist, don’t I? Probably this assumption isn’t true. I should not generalize anyone. There are really guys who do gossips. Gossip is not exactly a female’s thing.
YC is usually a gossip type of person though he denies it all the time. When it is a one-to-one communication, he would instantly reveal his gossip trait; whereas TE is relative more “masculine” in this aspect. So what happened when these two guys meet? What would they talk? How do I usually interact with them? Well tonight we made jokes about our common friends, some current affairs and teased each other.
The night ended up quite early though it was still an hour later than I planned. It was good to be able to catch up with TE and to hear him updating news from the other side of the world. You know, funny how it is that at one point an interesting question just popped up in my mind quietly while chatting. So to all my female readers, how do you hang out with your guy friends? What do you guys talk about usually?
