Class gathering

It has been a long while. Today is such a rare occasion where we had a class gathering. A tenners class gathering, 12 of us excluding Ms Lee, our GP tutor. We were at CHIJMES, Prive. It was a beautiful place, albeit the weather was not giving any mercy to us, as you may know that place has no air conditioning and we sat outdoors under the trees. Well well, can't avoid those UV today!

It was a good day, I am happy to see them again. This is also what drove me to type this post which otherwise I would not have. They are such a wonderful cute bunch of people who are so unpretentious. It seemed like time had turned back to 10 years ago when we were still in school. Yes, we had know each other for that long, actually it should be 11 years.

We had the pleasure to have Ms. Lee along with us today, did a mini celebration for her because tomorrow is her birthday. :) She looked so thin, and yes she had aged abit with a little bit of wrinkles on her face, but still the same old Ms. Lee looking stylish. Suddenly I recalled that QY said that Ms. Lee used to wear white tee shirt with huge necklaces and "we" used to ask her where she got them from. Actually its only QY who asked, heh.

Time flies, we have all grown up, aged. I think the gem found is how fond we were of our JC days and how everyone seem to be able to connect and remain true even after long being jaded by the working world.

YL shared her story of her getting lost in the Malaysia jungle for 3 days again, a mandatory sharing. She also got robbed in Cambodia, CS got robbed in Australia. Jiang is studying his PHD cum MBA, the 6th person only to enter into this prestige arrangement. Ari is going to Germany to work for 2 years, and she has a bf based in Aus, wow! YL is going UK for a year for her nursing degree. Seok is getting married, everyone is progressing. It's good and I am happy for them.

I was also awed by how some of them didn't know that Ms. Lee had a daughter which is already 7! Then I realized that it was such a privilege to be her fb friend. We also did a calculation, 6 of the 25 are in healthcare / Pharma! Wow, that is like more than 20% of the class. Ari said something very amusing, if one day the whole world were to die, 10/04 won't die because we have people from all trades and we can survive as one entity. I literally LOL-ed at that. Think about it, 6 in healthcare, 1 police, 1 MFA, about 4 in auditing and finance, 1 in PUB, 1 in teaching, 1 in law, 1 in transportation, 1 in MHA and etc.

Also food for thought, the discussion of a meaningful job was brought to the table, while some said that it is important to have a meaningful job because that is what you are doing majority of the time, there were differing school of thought on how a job should be viewed, at times just a tool for you to earn and live your life meaningfully.

Meanwhile, let me ponder on this. ;)