Caroline's family lived across the road from ours. When Caroline and I were two, her mum walked her over and asked my mum if the two of us could play together, and from then on we spent nearly every childhood day together.

Apart from sharing countless memories, we also went to the same preschool, primary school and high school - and although in high school we ended up with different friends - deep down we were always childhood best friends.

Last week we met up for dinner. We're both extremely busy women so as much as we'd like to meet up more often, we end up seeing each other every couple months (gone are the days where we could yell for each other from across the street). We decided to dine at Blackbird Café in Cockle Bay Wharf.

Blackbirds is an interesting place. It's one of those places that is very popular (and tends to get chosen as a venue almost by default) but no one really has anything amazing to say about it.

It's a funky set-up but the best way to describe it is that it's a place that has lots of odd-matching things that somehow fit perfectly together.

The staff offer you casual, cool yet friendly service (they never give you bad service...but they never really give you great service either) and wear whatever they want (in whatever way they want it seems) so that you have this mix of punk and rock that somehow looks quite uniform.

The place is decked out very 'artistically' - there are orange outdoor (great harbour view) tables, with different indoor tables, as well as couches in the corner for drinking (it also doubles as a bar). Although if you were to look at each section separately you wouldn't know it was the same place...altogether it creates a comfortable and modern feel.

The menu doesn't really match (Asian, Italian, Indian, Australian and cocktails), but because nothing in the place really does, that makes sense (and it really is convenient for groups when you don't want to pick one cuisine).The food at least is very consistent - in fact once you know the menu you never need to look at it again because it rarely changes and the meal you order will always taste exactly the same as the time you ordered it before (I have eaten the hokkein noodles for about 5 years and they still taste the same).

Over red wine and our odd assortment of meals and service, we caught up on what the month had brought us and rambled on about life and the future.

Demis once said (when he first met Caroline) that you could tell she and I had grown up together - that although we were different in appearances, lifestyle, personalities and careers - we still shared the same mannerisms, gestures and expressions. I had never noticed that before but sitting at Blackbirds that night, and rambling on as we were - I could see what he was saying...although we were so different, we were also in some way, one and the same.

I guess we're not just what we eat, sometimes we are where we eat as well. In this case, me and Caroline were two people with a lot of odd-matching things that somehow fit perfectly together.