- How are you (doing) today? (how ya doin?)
- How's it going? (This means "How are you?" not "Where are you going?")
- How's everything?
- How's life?
- What's happening? (now)
- What you up to?
- What's new? (What interesting has happened since I last saw you?)
- What've you been up to? (whatcha been up to?)
