I made friends with Jeff when we both worked for separate companies in Jakarta, Indonesia during the early 1980's. We were subsequently transferred to work in different countries and lost contact. I had made attempts to find out his whereabouts but Facebook didn't exist back then. Last week I typed his name into Facebook and hey presto! He was there. Definitely him but the hair was a little greyer. I remembered he was from the Midlands but when I contacted him it turned out he had been living in the next town to me in the South of England for the past three years. To the Chinese the number '8' means great fortune. Boom Boom! Card number '8' has brought just that.