So much for moaning and groaning about missing all your girlie get-togethers up north... thanks to Ah Hong's social skills, somehow she pulled a bunch of adventure-kaki's, piled them all into a bus and a car, and hey presto, 11 ex BM Convenites met up at a Chinese restaurant round table on March 7th in KL... Finally i got to see in person wat i hv only so far seen in email fotos... many faces , i m ashamed to say, i took a loooong time to place... (thanks Bee Keok, for being so gracious not to whack me for hugging you w/out even knowing it was you !! Wat to do, this 'lau ee' is (nearly) half a century old...)
Apart from the food, the ting i most enjoyed was actually hearing people call me 'Sai';hee hee, you know its been donkey years since anybody called me by that name..tickle my ear lah! Of coz couldn't 'ketchup' with all 10, but i more than content to chatter with Loo Lin and Bee Keok most of the time... all the old mannerisms, even the voices... wat a flood of childhood memories... esp when we were reminiscing abt the times we put up our Convent dramas written by yours truly the budding (even now still budding) writer... ha ha, Loo Lin the Sleeping Beauty and Geraldine the 'screamer'in some dumb scary-movie script i dished out... has it really been... 30 years??
Where have all the flowers gone? Where have all the young men gone? Where have all the young girls gone? Remember that song? - Long time passsing... and how it ends - When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Well, wat have we learnt all these 30 years? Even as many of the group are turning the beeeg 5-0 this year... (bleh, i m still in the 'baby' group, at 49!)... surely we have gained much, lost much in our journey ... my prayer is that watever/however much we hv lost, we wld hv each gained much of the things that truly matter in life ... as Jesus asked :What profits a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul? A poignant and a pointed question which surely behoves all of us to ask, esp at this stage of our lives, when we hv accumulated 1/2 a century of memories and experiences....
Hmmmmm, maybe one day, once again, we can all sit down around a campfire (anyone recall those scouts/rangers campfires?? - my last one was 30 years ago!!), toast marshmallows, and exchange grandmother - ok ok, ok ,not that ancient, let's stick with 'lau ee ' yarns abt wat we have learnt....
And here's the perfect chance to do just that - join in the GRAND REUNION, now being planned by our efficient social sec Hong and June... announcement coming sooooon....
Check out more fotos on line at http://picasaweb.google.com/laisaikhoon under My Photos klpg nite !!
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