Dinner Meet in October 2012 with ManLin

We had a uproarious time at that dinner.

As usual it strengthened the bond of camaraderie.

Dinner Get Together on 12 April 2012

Not easy to get our buddies together. Especially on short notice.

Many send regrets and apologies as they are engaged elsewhere or going overseas.

So, seven of us gathered for a bonding dinner at Ting's Cafe.

Along with Chee Kiang and Lee Kiang, there was Swee Pin, Kooi Meng, Yau Kok,Bernard Yeo and myself.

What is Ting's Cafe?

It is a neighbourhood cafe located in SS2 and serves a mixture of Hainanese, Western and some Penang hawker fare. The food is pretty inexpensive and cooked home-style. Very delicious!

We ordered chicken and pork chop-Hainanese style, Hainanese fried mee, pork trotters in vinegar with its accompaniment of garlic bread, mantou and fried egg, fried salad vegetable and fried rice.

Strangely, we did not order their famous ox tail soup. May be next time.

We did have one mighty good time as Chee Kiang brought along a bottle of vodka and Swee Pin went out to buy two tins of Sprite to mix it with.

We had a great time talking about politics as usual and also about property prices and also stocks.

We also bemoaned the declining standard of English.

As usual, we left at 10 pm as the restaurant has to closed for the night.

Chee Kiang played host.

We departed with well wishes for Yau Kok who will fly off to Adelaide to attend his daughter's convocation and Bernard who will be driving up to Penang for Cheng Beng.

Dinner with Wong Ah Soo

A group of good friends met up with Wong Ah Soo at the La La Chong Restaurant in Sg. Ara Damansara tonight. Those present besides our guest of honour were Toh Chee Kiang, Tan Lee Kiang, Yeoh Gim Ooi, Chan Yau Kok, Bernard Yeoh and Heng.

For many of us,the last time we saw Ah Soo was at the Convocation in 1975.

Ah Soo migrated to Perth in his forties and has been in Perth for the past 22 years.He was working at  Murdoch University until his retirement recently.

We had a great time discussing about life in Australia and the dinner session as usual turned out to be a nostalgic trip down memory lane.We had a great time bonding with the hope that perhaps we should all go to Perth since so many of us had good friends there.

It has been years.....

Think of all those good times!

Love a lot, Live a lot!

Happy Memories to Treasure

I conveyed to Ah Soo, the best wishes from many of our friends who could not make it for the dinner meet. Those who sent best wishes were Chia Kwang Chye who was in Hong-Kong and Tan Kooi Meng who was also someowhere overseas.Lay Chooi,Jenny,Patrick, Saik Tat,Say Chuan,Manlin and Catherine also sent their greetings.

One interesting greeting came from overseas. Phaik Ooi said "Hi" saying he remembered Ah Soo very well as he was staying in married quarters besides where she stayed at campus!