I met Alex on my 27th birthday night on a taxi stand. I was desperately needed a taxi to my birthday dinner and I was late. He was at the head of the Q and I shamelessly approached him to share a taxi with me with my good reasons. And he did. We were friends since then.
He is known as the ‘Google guy’, the head of SEA regional director of Google, he was. He is probably not the coolest person I’ve ever known but he is certainly one of easiest person to talk to. We talk about almost everything and anything, we communicated at a same level which I took a big pride of - When I say something, he will not just take its face value, he will try to see through it, understand it, digest it and able to give me his piece of opinion (there are lot people that I’ve talked to don’t any of these processes). He can be a little boring though, hehe… but probably that’s because he is extremely rational. We have a lot in common, therefore shared a lot of similar views on things, yet he still managed to surprise me with some very different perceptive and they are all very genuine. One thing he taught me is ‘to be true to yourself, even it’s your darkest desire or flaws, it’s ok.’ We are not always agreed with each other but we always understood each other. We have drawn to each other personalities, essence of principles and outlooks of life. We are totally ourselves we are in each other’s company. It was that effortless and enjoyable. Yes, indeed, I enjoyed his company.
He is all that good, one note though, I am not sexually attracted to him, at all. And that is a good thing, it is one of crucial requirements if you have friends they are opposite sex.
He is leaving Asia for good, at least for now, going back to San Franco where he’s from. So we arranged a weekend visit to Singapore to farewell. He took me out to his favorite hangouts with his friends and gang, Sentosa, Overeasy, Butter Factory etc, it was all good! I had some tears when I said good bye to him this morning. I will really miss him.
Here to my most humble friend - you always be a friend whenever I wanted a conversation, with substance.
This is what he said about me – not afraid of expressing and pushing the boundary to celebrate the recent liberations. That’s how much he understood me.
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