Saturday, March 01, 2008
dinner.
the evening was filled with the sweet smell of jungle foliage and kids trampled around on the wooden platform. the tables were immaculately dressed in crimson and surrounded by six people, a family reunited.
"so what are you working as, cheryl?"
"well, i'm working as a tutor and customer service officer at mom!"
"what about you, joey? getting up to something lately?"
"nah, just jobless for the moment... waiting to intern at the business times in march. got transferred away from the new paper to the business times. sigh."
"what! why are you sighing! it's so much better being at the business times. at least you write some solid stuff, not tabloid crap!"
laughter roared through the table and the night moved on to a hearty dinner of yummy verandah cuisine - prawn masala, baked fish patties, curried chicken and vegetables, naan and pizza (the last one is obviously NOT indian -.-) - and a greater dose of spicy gossip.
it was quite a rare chance to get everyone (or, at least, most of everyone) to get around the dinner table and have fun just eating and chatting about our lives, triumphs and screwups. though most of the bio guys didn't make it for the dinner, it wasn't short of the familiar warmth that i had come to expect from the company of 7e buddies. spirited conversation, wonderful ambience, delicious food... honestly, what more can anyone wish for post-graduation, when people get increasingly apart from one another as weeks and months slip them by?
for that, i want to toast you all, ladies (cheryl and joey) and gentlemen (yifan, kh and jez), for being such great guests and classmates! thanks for being there so that we could all congregate and have some good j3 fun together, be it munching on spicy savouries, whacking balls at the billiard table to no avail or walking down the hill to the main road and talking under the dim moonlight...
cheers!
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