Reunion of the Primary School Gang (for CNY)!

Today 6 classmates from 6/1 of Clementi Town Primary School (no longer in pure existence as it has since merged with Clementi North Pri Sch to become Clementi Pri Sch) converged at each other's house after donkey years (actually only a couple of years lah haha) to pay CNY respects to each other haha.

We were supposed to meet at my house at 1030am but all came late! Some by 30 mins! What is this?!! Obviously their bad habit of inpunctuality has not changed over the years! Haha. Franly speaking, I think I'd be late too if it were to start at another person's house but too bad, I was the organiser today! What I said count!

Finally we could settle down after all the bickerings and lame jokes (we still use the SAME old lame jokes after all these years!) for a group photo at my place.



After that, we proceed to walk 2 blocks to my best friend's, Stanley's, place. He has recently moved to Tampines with his wife. Next month would be his new home's house warming and we look forward to it to have another round of his lame jokes (yes, same ones again! haha). Below is the pic taken at his parents' place. He's the chubby guy at top right;p



Finally the last stop in Clementi before we headed off North to Choa Chu Kang area. This was the first time we went to Soo Yean's home to bai nian as he rejoined our gang only a couple of years back after MIA for so long. We played Wii Tennis at his place and were relunctant to go as we'd great fun. Soo Yean was the only guy who played by the rules of CNY ie he wore red! haha.



Oh! And this was me doing a Roger Federer's forehand! hahahha



Next we were off to CCK. The journey was uneventful with Weimin deciding to take the Jurong East route while I followed behind Guoxiong's car via Ngee Ann Polytechnic. The only real "excitement" was when some inconsiderate driver cut in Guoxiong's lane unexpectly and he was forced to brake hard. As I was following closely behind, I reacted instinctively and narrowly missed kissing his backside!! haha

We arrived safely at Guoxiong's house after that and continued our gaming experience with PSP2 Winning Eleven. Weimin still led the pack, followed closely by Stanley. Below pic was taken using my faithful camera's timer function as GX's parents left for another appt:




And I secretly took their personal photos while they were too engrossed in the game! heehee



WM: I'm getting sleepy from winning too many easy matches...



GX: This is boring match! No fight at all... Zzzzz



SH: I think u shld move yr player to the left...



Peggy: I cant understand why guys love soccer so much!



Stan: Scoreee.........

And the guys got the stupid idea to skip lunch and so we ended up immediately at Peggy's house. Peggy was the only female member of our gang and a very pretty one hehee. We continued with more Wii at her place. This time was bowling though. Her dad was waiting to challenge us all! And we had a good thrashing by him (should have known better to challenge him...) Ok, the defeat photo...



Damn! I was last (I think) but at least crossed the 100 points mark hee (just only hahha)

Group photo at Peggy's house:



After a few more rounds, we decided to throw in the towel to Uncle. Last stop, Weimin's house. Peggy got to go for a casting and would meet us at WM's place directly (She told us it'd take 5 mins only but end up more than 1-2hrs! Lucky we din follow her! haha)

More PSP2 at WM place. This time is car racing.



By this time, I was hungry like mad! We ordered pizza hut and I really fested! No group photo was taken at WM place as Stan left early to go home sweet home for dinner with his wife.

It was a most joyous and tiring and hungry=( day but it was worth it!

Looking forward to next year!;)

There is something about kids...=P

It is quite obvious... I like kids... (when they are not crying hahaha)

Today, while on the way to office, my bus stopped at a red light. Beside me happened to be another bus. Looking through the window of that bus was an inquisitive primary school boy (I think should be lower primary) who was smiling happily and looking at things all around him.

His eyes caught me.

He looked at me.

Then, very shyly, he waved his hands at me.

I was dumbstruck as to what to do, so I smiled back.

He was so happy and excited that he turned to his mother beside him to tell her about his findings. His mum ignored him at first.

He turned back to look at me.

He waved again.

This time, I smiled and waved back=)

He immediately called his mum who turned to look at what was happening.

She also smiled.

The middle-age couple, seated behind them, curious at whwat was happening, also turned to look at me and smiled when they realised what was going on.

And all these good chain reaction happens as a result of a young boy's goodwill in greeting a blur stranger on his way to office=)

May we retain such innocence and purity even as we progress materially=)

Think U Can, Think U Can't, Either Way U r Rite!

Think You Can, Think You Can't, Either Way You Are Right. This is the table topic for NUS Alumni Toastmasters Contest in our February Chapter Meeting. I was one of the "fortunate" competitors in this contest. Or should I say, I was conned into the contest! haha.

I joined NUS Alumni Toastmasters last month as I want to improve my public speaking and presentation skills. I volunteered for the table topic during my first meeting and had a rude shock when I failed terribly. However I know practice makes perfect and I decided to try again. Though I want to practise, February meeting was the club's contest for International and Table Topic. Thus I was not too sure if it would be appropiate to participate, especially as I believe the standard would be very high! The coordinator conned, oops I mean, encouraged me to join and thus there I was breaking out in cold sweat when I received subsequent emails which were very serious like proper dressing and the large number of audience.

Still, there is no turning back for my ego! haha. I just have to take the risk. It would still help me to practise anywhere. As I got the topic and started to speak, I could not help but want to "take revenge" on the coordinator haha. So I started with talk abt being conned into this contest and what followed was a truthful and humourous speech which touched the judges' heart. The 2nd runner-up was the ensuring result=)







To find out more abt NUS Alumni Toastmasters, pls see http://nusalumni.freetoasthost.org/.

This link was given to me by a good friend with very interesting write-ups about the above table topic (I especially like the story ahhaha): http://www.upgradereality.com/whether-you-think-you-can-or-cant-you-are-right