Merry Christmas!

To all,

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

P.S.: Anybody else in FB? So happy that Peishan and Lijun found me in FB and have added me! I don't really do much in FB, except accepting friends though =P

CNY 1995

We visited our maths tutor Miss Tan at her place during chinese new year in 1995. The girls were probably still in their respective universities at that time and us guys were serving our national service.

Four birthdays in the canteen

Official class photos and autographs

The more interesting aspect of this are the autographs, or "bird speak", left by the guys in the class.

Memories from Primary School

Aha! Who can spot me?

I am sure most of you will find the classroom setting familiar.

The other chinese class - 20 May 07

This gathering was held on 20 May 07 at Brightsong's place. This is a popular condominium located very close to AMK MRT Station -- obvious? As I mentioned in the title of this post, many of those who attended were from the other class (dunno which class actually) that we joined for our Higher Chinese lessons. In attendance was also one of AJ's chinese language teachers.

Dinner at TCC, Novena with LJ and MH

For my friends from 19/92, MH is also an alumni from AJC from class 27/92. LJ and MH were fellow mates in the Chinese LDDS then. They were also classmates of NUS subsequently. I did not know MH very well in AJC then but as fate would have it, we were posted to the same unit after SISPEC during national service. We had a lot of fun together with our fellow sergeants for the (close to) two years in Sembawang.

Let's take a look at the food we had today. MH and I both had the Seafood Aglio Olio ($16.50). LJ had the chicken pasta (forgot the price haha). Compared with the agglio olio in Borders Bistro, I would say Borders Bistro serves the tastier and heartier version.

We chatted quite a bit today. We met around 7.30pm and left Novena square a little after 10pm. Besides the typical TCSS, we also talk about our time in AJC and undergraduate days and I realised the two of them had a more active social life than I had. Darn, should have gone to NUS instead!

We also talked about our love for chinese but somehow all three of us did miserably for our Higher Chinese. But the poor results did not deter MH from taking up a career in jounalism (you might have seen him on TV few years back) and later teaching chinese to a younger generation.

Seafood Aglio Olio

Chicken pasta

After the meal, we adjourned to Spinelli for coffee and dessert

LJ and MH

LJ and me

MH and me (can see evidently that I have grown another chin). Actually, there is a technique to being photographed -- you need to lean forward which I forgot to.

Barbeque Outing at East Coast Park

My mum dug out these photos for me. If not for them, I would have forgotten that we had such a gathering. Did we stay overnight?

Thanks, Jinbo

Dear Jinbo,

Thank you so much for your help! Haha... know what? You might have just saved my family!

Really touched by the nice gesture you've selflessly extended even without my asking.

So proud and blessed to have you guys as my friends.

~ Lijuan ~

Another birthday

This time, we gathered in Changzhu's house, if I am not mistaken. Whose birthday, I again have no idea. Why were Mae and I the only ones in uniform whereas the others were in their civies.
These were probably the birthday boys and girls.
All the girls.

Somebody's birthday

I think this occasion was to celebrate the birthdays of the four of them: Yuxiong, Quansheng, Mae and Junping. Where was the cake? Did they share the huge slice of watermelon?

Yulan's Farewell

In an hour's time, Yulan will be leaving for Australia.

Things will be different for us, without her around. Things such as, when we make reservation for dinner, there will be one person less; when we celebrate one another's birthday, she won't be around to help us cut the cake.

However, as much as we are sad about her departure, we are glad and excited for her. It will be a new chapter in her life and we hope that she will enjoy every single day of it.

Just remember to take care and drop us a call anytime!

We will miss you ... ...

Mae's First Born Jaelynn

For those who missed the visit when Jaelynn was born, here's a photo of the Baby Jaelynn.

There is of course the obligatory class photo.

天冷就回来

I mentioned in the email I met Yanling at the musical. Besides that, I also had the opportunity to take a photograph with my childhood idol, 梁文福. Here are the two photos.






So to Yulan, who is leaving Singapore to migrate to Australia, may I wish you all the best and leave you with the lyrics of the song.

天冷你就回来别在风中徘徊
朋友的眼里有明白还有一份期待
天冷我想回家年少已经不在
今天的雨点撒下来那滋味就是爱

Gathering at Spageddies (Marina Sq) on 31 Aug 07

This was technically our second gathering. The first was visiting Mae in the hospital after she gave birth.

Sorry for taking a full 24 hours to file this report. We had a very successful and enjoyable outing. I reached Spageddies at around 7.25pm. The first to arrive was Quansheng. The rest came progressively. Nengjie was the last to come after making sure his children were tucked in to bed. Like I said, he's the super dad.

Junping also qualifies as super dad. He is staying in Woodlands now but makes a daily commute to Tampines to send his three-month-old baby to the nanny's place. He will soon be moving to Punggol soon and looks forward to PUB's plan to beautify the waterways in that area which will invariably add value to his flat. He is working as an engineer at TECH semiconductor.

Lijun is working in the British Petroleum. Although BP no longer has kiosks in Singapore, but Singapore is one of the three global petrochemical hubs so BP still has a presence here. Lijun is dealing with tax matters and frequently travels overseas for business and in business class.

Quansheng is working as a procurement engineer for Hewlett Packard. He travels overseas frequently as well, but in cattle class to places like China :p Quansheng drives a Skoda Octavia (it is a Czech car) because it has a volumous boot to store his golf bag. Quansheng has a girlfriend of 6 years.

Meiyan works in A*Star as a senior officer. As you all know, A*Star's work is rather hush-hush so we did not get to know much about her work. To make up for the lack of info, Meiyan foot the bill for dinner and we all forgot to pay her. But that's another story for another day.

Peiqin now drives the classy Nissan Sylphy which she shares with her hubby and kid. She works in the People's Association and her work ensures that Singaporeans are prepared for emergencies.

Nengjie (Lijun reminded us tha Mr Albert used to call him Ninja) works in the corporate communications dept of the Ministry of Home Affairs. He deals mainly with the media, very demanding job, can see it...haha. Nengjie paid for our drinks (we adjourned to Marina Mandarin). Did we pay him back? I couldn't remember as I was drunk after drinking a Cool Green Latte.

Jianhui could not join us as he was worn out after his Teacher's Day celebration. That shows you how busy teachers are nowadays. He did offer some useful information though. His A-level results were A-B-B (darn).

Since we are on A-levels, Lijun got A-A-B, Meiyan and Junping also A-B-C. I forgot Peiqin's. As for the rest, lets just say we were hanging our heads in shame...haha. But we all made good ultimately, which is what counts, I suppose.

Lingzhi could not take time off work so could not join us.

The seven of us agreed to meet again in Oct in celebration of my 32nd birthday (sigh). We will discuss in more detail towards that day. So lets keep in touch and try to see if we can locate more of our classmates.

Now I will cut the long story short and simply post the photos taken.

Those were the days, my friends

Let me start off with history. And history is expressed no better than in a photograph. This class photo was taken in the later stages in the second year of our study in AJC and subsequently appeared in the yearbook "Horizons 1993".

Those were the days that brought us together as a class. I have many fond memories of those two years.

Let this blog then be a common point to keep in touch.

And hopefully, for all the classmates we have not found, perhaps one day they were to google "AJC Class 19" or something like that and find out blog.