15 Years ON..(some 20)



Vera singing proudly:

"Together as a team
Fulfilling our dream
To achieve all in all
A standard for us all
We'll be proud to be.....we'll be proud to be.....
EH we'll be proud to be WHAT ah?"

"Cedar primary, cedar primary"

"Ya, that's after. we'll be proud to be what?"

"that's the part we mumble and then move on to cedar primary, cedar primary"

"Some kid upstairs is gonna throw eggs at us and show us how to sing it"

"the school song still the same meh?" jack suddenly asked, "don't they change it every 2 years?"

"it's a VERY good thing you're not a principal, where got school song change every 2 years wan!"

just for the record, the word is "loyal".

"we'll be proud, to be loyal,
as pupils of Cedar primary sch"
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15 years on and 12 of us are still in constant contact.
that's an amazing statistic.

we even have more contacts,
thanks to facebook and super kaypoh networking skills some of them have,
but those are the ulu ones we seldom meet.

this time round Jack managed to get Mrs Ban to come.
All these years and her address and number remained the same.

Her son thought Jack was a conman from China and refused to believe he was her student from 15 years back,
until Steph stepped in and used her HR powers to chat up with Mrs Ban.

As we waited for Mrs Ban to arrive,
I started asking Steph

"Does she sound old?"
"She sounds the same lor. how to sound old?"
"do you think she'll have white hair and walk really slow"

Amazingly Mrs ban looked almost exactly the same as she did 15 years ago.
wow.
all that spa must have worked wonders.

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it was a really nice catch up session.

some of them brought autograph books and we laughed at the silly "roses are red" rubbish poems we kept writing.

and then there were the

"好好学好华文" one liners that the teachers wrote in angie's book and some super cheem line in someone else's book. ("15 years and i still don't understand it")

there was even a "i hope you will talk to so and so before graduation" and "to err is human, to forgive divine" on some weird family feud thing.

"How did it start ah?"
"Her mom scolded me then my mom stepped in"
"but you threw the ball at her during PE that's why her mom scolded you right?"
"No lei don't think so."
"i think so lei"
"no la. oh by the way i'm not driving you home anymore"
"k i'd better shut up then"


"oh look old photo of Mrs Ban! we can blackmail her!"
"that's you behind lor"
"Is it? OMG i'm so ugly!"
"ya la dunno you stand behind kaypoh what then now you want to blackmail pple somemore"

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and everytime we meet,
there will be THE question.

who pushed lao sa and scarred her lip.

"it's either JL or yvo"
"the scar looks good on you what" Jack quipped.
"MUST be JACK"
"no la, i was sitting behind you"
"CONFIRM JACK"

"lao da let me pray for you. dear Father pls release this burden that lao da has been carrying all these years..."

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it was really really cool.

after dinner at Jen's we went down to the airport for Popeye's (!).
But sensibly after taking up the biggest table we decided to couldn't eat anymore and went down to Macs.

"what's the difference between Macs Potong Pasir and Macs Airport?" i asked Linnet.
"it's more cosmopolitan here. More globalised you know. the milk less melamine"

And there we chatted till past midnight
from "the apple dippers are actually potatos"

to

"the chair is stuck to the ground! can't move! super uncomfortable!"
"then move the table la"
"oh"

to

"lao da you used your fingers to twirl your hair until so curly ah"
"no. i spent $120 to PERM it"

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It's always fun somehow to meet up with old frens.
we're all different and yet still the same.

vera is still as loud as ever "wah sit beside her like got surround sound. buay tahan"
and the stories remain evergreen.

there's a warm glow in my heart i can't express.
we're all different, and yet still the same. :)

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now time to get some work done.