Nobody's Left

Here is a quote from an old work colleague:

"I’m actually back in KL to pack everything up. Time to move on. Places are never as good as they once were and it’s time to treasure old memories and make new ones."

Wow, I had posted about two and a half years ago that it was the end of an era in KL, when Brian and Kosta left. At that time I said I'd be spewing if the last remaining stalwart, being Peter, ever left, as I'd have nobody left to have a beer with! He's the chap in the photo, and was the Exploration Manager with Avocet in those days.

 

So the quote above is from Peter, in a replay to my festive season greeting of a month ago. He has been largely in Canada for ages, so his apartment in KL (5 minutes walk from Changkat no less) has gone unused. He told me a year ago that he'd likely move to Canada eventually, and now it seems, is the time.

Look, I like Peter, and would enjoy having a beer and catch-up with him, but we're not really close. This is more about those days, you know, the 2008 - 2019 period where I had either full-time or part-time involvement there, a group of friends, a heaps of haunts and favourites, and where I largely left my heart. Yep, the bit that doesn't belong to my family, or to Hong Kong, or to a myriad of other things (so possibly not that much). But it feels like a lot, it feels like, as Peter says, this is becoming only a treasuring of old memories. I am making new ones here. Part of me still wants to make new ones there. I wonder if that is still possible. 

As time goes on, perhaps less and less. And that's ok, really. But I'm not ready to give up completely. Not just yet.....