yang hong was so kind to agree to host the gathering occasion for a big bunch of sec sch friends.
a newly reconstructed landed property with 11 rooms, what a luxury for those who live in smaller residential units.
the catered food was yummy, esp the fried hokkien noodles.
after so many yrs, we finally gathered again. the familiarity of the youthful feeling, the closeness of the past days etc....made us feel great and important.
many faces were recognisable, esp zaidah who hasnt aged a bit. noor hashikin is still as cute and chubby as before. both are now teachers.
olive still looks the same. she was touched when i told her that my best memory of her was as a story-teller representative on stage....siew mui looked the youngest among all, no change in shape and size.
hok ling's son, victor carries a sizeable body and i think he knocked down the x'mas tree. what a sight!
the gathering coincided with yang hong's bdae and hok ling ordered a cake for her. the doting hubby even sang love songs for her, with lyrics 'if there's a next life, i will still choose u..' how romantic. we were touched. i mean, lame besty and me.
joy and claire enjoyed much with serene's 2 kids, ting and ling too! every one commented that ling resembled serene's sch days, but seriously i think, ling is prettier compared to the bespectacled serene then! but, it's her blur look that i was charmed with then....decent, unthreatening, sincere and funny!
on reminscence, my friendship with serene dated back to 13 yrs old....and we hv had many fun innocent days of togetherness. whenever she aggravated me, i would ignore her and then, she would call me 'small gas'...i guess, back then, our command of english was really limited, so broken english was the fun part of our sch days.
we were the last 2 families to leave. the 4 kids were having a whale of a time at the playground beside the house. with shoes removed and running around like a monkey, it was such a bliss to have their friendship established since babyhood!
it's many thks to sylvia and hok ling who made this gathering possible. their safekeeping of updated contact details and effort to coordinate is very much appreciated.
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11 rooms? That must be a huge property!
ReplyDeleteSo nice to meet old friend but I never attended any of my class gathering. Every time I had work to do or coincide with other event like little L's bday or other sort. Anyway, Michelle told me I didn't miss anything because there was nothing to see other than a bunch of people who had aged and grown fat. So cynical. She questioned why I would even think of going. If anyone wanted to keep in touch, we would have. Why wait for a gathering to happen?
Nice to have class gathering. With Facebook now, it is easy to reconnect with old friends.
ReplyDeletehow come i can no longer see White & Red's blogs huh? kind of restricted....
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