Hi ladies
So our 5 year reunion finally took place on 080808! Although it felt more like one of our usual makan + gossip sessions than a full-fledged class reunion, it was just heartwarming to see everyone who had bothered to make the time and effort to come down for this very special occasion. More importantly, I think it also showed that though we have grown, we have also stayed together, and that's what really counts=)
Ok, I sound like a speechwriter.
NIE is... boring. Not to mention, far. Travelling 2 hours to Boon Lay, the backside of Singapore, just to attend lectures on why nouns are nouns and verbs are not adverbs, is slowly killing off my brain cells one by one. However the classes are getting harder now, so I welcome the challenge of keeping my distracted brain occupied.
I never thought I'd say this, but I really miss NUS' efficiency and location. (No offense to the NTU grads among us though, Zihui and Shuhui.)
In other news, I've signed up for the Great Eastern marathon in late October and am looking for training partners! I'm also sponsoring two very adorable little boys in Nepal with my cell group through Prison Ministry! And I've started volunteering with a group of children aged 5-11 in my church... the little ones are the cutest~
Oh, and most interestingly, I get to fulfil my dream of learning conversational Italian for free! I got to know this Italian guy last weekend --he was one of my friends' friends and we shared a cab home after bar-hopping from Loof to Blu Jaz Bar to MOS-- and we are doing a language exchange! He will teach me Italian whhile I teach him Mandarin!
I'm also hoping to start salsa classes once my timetable stabilises. But being the major procrastinator that I am... who knows?
Lastly, I'm slowly building up a corporate wardrobe! I'm on the lookout for pieces that are versatile (can take me from day to night), effortless (doesn't require 3 handmaidens and a screwdriver to get into) and polished. I've found that it really helps to limit the wardrobe to just a few colours too, so I've got only four colours in mine: cobalt, turquoise, grey and beige.
A question to the ladies who are already working (I suspect this is a question Hui and Hami might enjoy answering!): what do your wardrobe basics comprise of?
so sorry for the late uploads. Was having prob with my cameras. but no worries, here are them now!
it started with the hanis ( i think it was him) who proposed to meet at this place , " the triangle" at changi airport t2 meeting pt.(above)
the first few to arrive: rosie, gunni and me behind the camera (above)
we are always in the mood to take pictures! but of course.. they dun always turn out perfect...(below)
this one is blur (above)
rosie got a bit mysterious in this one (above)
finally! our trademark pics - all heads in!!(above)
a proper shot taken for us by liwen (above)
and there was the usual confusion.. was it 3 or was it 8? or was it 33? ah.. heck care! (above)
our two teachers taking the pledge for us.. (above)
hamidah: aiyoh.. should be this way!! (above)
of course, our clever teachers improvised! (above)
and then there was the "Armpit holder holder incident"
victim: gunni
offender: joan
(above)
high 5 for singapore!
note: gunni with the perfect pose. (above)
it was a great 'class' outing nonetheless. we all had fun! too bad daidai and yl not around, no worries, we plan for the next ya! see ya guys at the next outing!
- will try to upload pics on facebook :)
Wow, it's been a long time since I've blogged on Blogspot!
Last Friday, us gals met up for a supposedly whole-JC-class event. One which was set by Hanis 5years ago. Zihui even brought the rectangular piece of handwritten note which Hanis wrote to each and everyone of us in 3302! (Honestly I don't know where mine went!)
On the evening of 08-August-2008 (080808), at 1800hrs... I mean 2000hrs/8pm (yes, we took the liberty of changing our meeting time 2 hours later as everyone was rushing down from work or home.. hee), we met at Changi Airport's T2, beneath the "Meeting Point" triangle. Turns out that only our clique -sans Daidai & Yingling who had something on-- remembered, or managed to spare some time to go. Liwen represented her Vases clique with her presence. Together, we spent much of the evening sharing little tidbits of our lives over dinner at T2's Swensens.
It was really crowded at Swensens, and we kinda concluded that a large part of our population doesn't really give a hoot about the Beijing Olympics. lol~ (The brief repeat telecasts showed that its opening was really spectacular though..!)
A brief run-through of the events of the night...
By the time I took the bus down to T2, it was a little past 8pm. I met Zihui & Rosie who were already there, walking around Cold Storage...
and followed by our "ancient beauty" ;)
Smile, ladies!
(notice their choice of colours for their masterpieces match the colours of their outfits!)
Jasmine and Liwen arrived just in time for snacks and desserts too!
We took more pictures after our dinner+desserts!
LIB= Ladies in Black!
Settling the 'accounts' ;)
We took our trademark 'headshots' photo at the Meeting Point too!
Much of 'em taken by Zihui's camera :)
Last but not least, we had a ball of a time posing in front of a pillar decorated with the "Celebrate the Singapore Spirit" banner!
Look at our 'chers posing! Groovy~!
Hami laughing hard as she does da pose! :D
The one thing which made tickled me so hard was what happened between Joan and I. Because we were all doing the Saturday-Night-Fever pose with our hands pointing in the air, someone said something about "armpit odour". Joan mistakenly heard something else and said, "ah? what armpit holder? like this?", and proceeded to HOLD MY ARMPITS FROM THE BACK OF ME! It was so totally unexpected, I was really stunned for awhile!Laughing uncontrollably after Joan VIOLATED Gunni!
Gunni's immediate proclamation, "I can hold my armpits myself, thankyouverymuch!"
Victim's statement to witnesses present, "When she held my pits, I was so violated that I felt that they weren't mine!"Let's do it together!
One more time!
(eh, Rosie, what are your eyes looking at??!)
With that, we ended our little gathering for the night~
It was good to see how everyone's been doing, how much we've changed, yet in a way, remained the same :) To know that as much as we can talk about the 'big issues' in life, of work, of relationships, of future plans, there's still a child-like part of us that keeps us alive, and not take ourselves too seriously sometimes, and to always look on the lighter side of things...
I am glad to have known each and every one of you, and to have journeyed together for the last 7 years of our lives =) God bless you gals!
A shot of everyone present on 080808 ^0^
