Good Colleagues r hard to come by....

Time have realli passed so quickly. It has been 7 months tt i left teaching. I dun miss much of that kind of life, other than my good, close colleagues, my cutie students & the feeling of being in class etc.... Anyway, I met up with my X-colleagues @ No Signboard Restaurant on last Monday's nite for dinner. There were two purposes actually - to have a meeting-up session & to have farewell dinner for Mrs Lau who is is retiring & Hwee Hwa who is going to teach @ prison school - Noble yet brave! Anyway, we arranged to meet up @ 7pm. I was the 1st to reach as the route to Vivocity from NUS is of less traffic, at least. Took the West Coast Road, juz have a number of big trucks though. Luckily I was earlier, managed to get a big table which is actually meant for 12 people, for the 9 of us. Subsequently, my X-colleagues came in groups. Some went home first to rest & change while some came straight from school. Mrs Lau even brought a bottle of champagn!! We ordered set dinner for convenience as we were busy chatting away. As we waited patiently for our food to be served, we decided to have sips of the champagn first. So all of us were given a wine-glass, except myself!! Reason - *Shh, cannot say* So sad, everyone was holding the wine-glass but myself, holding a tea-cup!!! How ironic... But no choice! Anyway, we toasted to wish both of them happiness & good health in years to come. Food was finally served around 8pm. As we feasted on the food, we chatted and laughed at Chelvam's jokes. There was this funny one that i must share with you. There was a particular afternoon when Chelvam was around Geylang, after his 'A' Level Exam briefing. As he was walking along the Even numbered street, he was being "approached" by a Chinese woman. Of course, Chelvam could not understand a single word tt she said. She then took out her handphone and punched some numbers into her phone, which she later showed to Chelvam. It was 60!! You know wat it meant? Yes, u may have guess it right. That was the price tt she quoted him!!!! Upon seeing this, Chelvam quickly shook his head and walked away. Hee! Wat an experience that he has in the broad daylight!! We laughed and even spectulated that 60 may be in Pounds or US$.
It is not that we were mean to discriminate such women, it's juz that we found tt the way she communicated to Chelvam was rather hilarious! We thought we will only see such an action while bargaining @ Phuket where the stall-owner will take out a calculator to punch in the price. Who knows, maybe in future, there maybe more "different" methods to bargain abt prices. Anyway, this is just something to share.


These are some photos taken during the dinner.
Seated (L to R) - Xiao Huimin, myself, Waiping, Kong Lin & Hwee Hwa
Standing (L to R) - Mrs Lau, Ai Phing, Jake Hooi & Chelvam
See my teacup???




After the nice dinner, it was about 10pm. Since all of us were feeling great and not wanting to go home (my hubby is not around too, hee!), we went to Coffee Bean to have 2nd round of drinks + cakes!! Sinful, but we didn't eat much though. We continued our chatting and laughing till 11.30pm, when the shopping mall's fire signal rang. Initally, we were not sure what's that. But after the signal, there was an announcement to say tt the shops will be closing...So, that could be the alarm to inform tt the shopping mall is closing. Hee! I only reached home ard 12am...God, i dun feel tired at all!! Hee!


Surprisingly, i dun feel tired on Tuesday! I even went out to meet Yingwei's secondary buddies @ Maple Bar, our usual Hang-out on Tuesday. The bar serves free-flow of sushimi & clam up to stocks last. Guess tt they just started to serve fried chicken wings...we ordered 16 for 6 of us...Chatted happily and only reached home ard 11pm...Not feeling very tired still. Think i am beginning to enjoy this period......So nice!