Recap 2016 (I) - 20th Anniversary

These few years I meet up with old friends a lot lesser than in the past.  In the past, I have many different groups of gathering, like Sec school/JC//NTU friends/Deloitte/Gul/Chartered/Jabil. 

Back in 2006, I initiated a 10th year anniversary gathering with the folks from Deloitte, my first job upon graduation in 1996, where I meet WK.  There were 9 of us from NTU that Deloitte took into group 5.   Joc was very excited about that gathering back then, and she opened up her house for the occasion.  Then she said for quite many years that she will remember to organise one in 2016 for 20th year anniversary.

This year, she moved house.  Like 10 years ago, she stays alone, so she open up her house for the gathering once more.  However, during that Sat in Oct, only 4 of us could make it. 

It was the first time in 10 years that I met up with William.  He is still our 老大哥，initiating and leading the catch up topics.  The difference this time round was that he did not bring his children, who are already in Secondary school.  And the other striking point is that I was pregnant back then, and this time we brought Lynn, who was turning 10 year old in 2 week's time, to attend the gathering .  That was the first gathering.

 

Someone initiated a replacement date, and it was fixed on 11 Nov.  It was a dinner at Tiong Bahru area.  And all of us made it this time round, expect for Serena who is in Australia. 

We manage to catch up a little, since time was short and there were 8 of us.  Poh Chen, Soo Hui and Hazel did not change job for these many years.  We did not have much opportunity to catch up on kids. 

And then we went for drinks, and took these 2 pictures to send to Serena via Whatsapp.  We talk about more frequent gathering, but I wonder when will the next one be..