ks aka peace

i texted ks yesterday to ask if it was his birthday. i vaguely recalled 22 nov to be the day. he replied in the evening that it was and wished me the same too, one month in advance. haha... but seriously, i don't think he'll recall the exact day. but that doesn't matter.

ks (aka roger to other people) was someone i was superbly close to when i was in my late-teens. we were so close we were almost inseparable. we got along extremely well and the concept of sexuality was something we did not even ask. but of cos, he's straight whereas i am gay, and i was totally oblivious of my sexuality back then. we lost contact after my uni first year in 1997 (?) and we did not establish contact until sometime in the mid-2000s when he called me in my office. i had written about him some time back but had not spoken about him much after that. 

anyway, after he contacted me, i came out to him. he was shocked and ignorant about homosexuality. don't think he is homophobic but he certainly had a very wrong idea about gays. but well, that didn't matter. he re-established contact to get closure about why i stopped contacting him and we had met up at least twice after that. we are still in contact but do not make the efforts to meet up regularly. we have gone our separate ways over the last 2 decades despite being so bloody close back then. we had so many things in common. 

when i contacted him again yesterday to send him my birthday wishes, i noticed one very interesting thing. his nick in his whatsapp is "peace". that is exactly the same as my blog nick. and interestingly, my whatsapp nick is "omm", same meaning. lol... guess after all these years, we still have some things in common.

haha... let's not read too much into it.