HS connections in KL

Soon after we moved to KL, we received word that one of Doug's high school friends, Marcus LeMaster was living in Singapore. More surprisingly, we found with his new consulting work, he spent much time traveling around SE Asia, and we might be get together.

So this past weekend, we reunited, trying to catch up on the past two decades. In high school, Marcus was a year ahead of me (Doug). We played water polo together, and swam together (well, okay, Marcus really swam while Doug flapped around in the water pretending to get in shape for water polo). I succeeded Marcus as captain of our swim team, and now, two decades later we are both in SE Asia.

We enjoyed hearing about his work, and enjoyed meeting his girlfriend, Velle, who flies for Singapore Airlines. Hopefully we'll get the chance to meet up again in the not two distant future, certainly less than two decades.

Rania is becoming quite the energetic girl, whose latest hobby is looking at "bebe" on the computer (meanings slide shows of various pictures). Her vocabulary includes bebe, birdie (which she uses more than anything) ba- (ball), aqua, water, daddy, mama, Ree (Reeve), ma (more), buk (book), uh-oh (including uh-oh bebe), aw don (all done), watisi (a tonal sort of question), hi (including hi daddy), bye bye, ca (car), as well as the very important name of our neighbors' maid, Caca (our neighbor's maid).

She also knows a number of sounds including dog (woo woo), baa (both horse and sheep), mwow (cat sounds). As she is on my lap insisting on seeing bebes, I'd better end this for now.