Went for a reunion lunch for my parents and (part of) their gang way back from UM CF days. Old friends one table, children (that's me!) another table.
The children's table.
These reunions typically happen when one family is back from the U.S.A. for holiday, in particular, my childhood friends Cindy and Catherine (and younger brother who was born after I left).
Actually, I've always, and still do, call them by their Chinese names. Lotsa memories of playing at their house, as well as an outing to the zoo, among others.
Full version of the camel picture some of you may recognize. The girl behind me is Cindy.
One Christmas.
Cindy and my sister share the same birth date. I would have been seven here.
The last reunion was more than ten years ago, a 3D2N retreat at a private beach in Port Dickson. The adults would have their own sessions, whilst the children (I was eleven) would play on the beach
literally all day. Since Cindy, Catherine, and I knew only each other at the reunion, we played separately from the other (majority) kids. We were all making sandcastles.
And the well-told story goes like this: There was this boy (a year younger than I) from the other group, who would keep coming over to our side with loads of attitude and nasty things to say, especially about our sandcastle. He even stomped down one of our walls! (This fragment recalled by Cindy and Catherine.) He was such an obnoxious nuisance that I often complained to his parents about him whom I only knew as "Su Ann's brother" or "Uncle ___'s son".
Fast forward many years later, I met
Shern Ren at dNA. Nice, smart boy. One evening after camp, I happened to mention him at the dinner table and, being such a unique name, my mom went, "Shern Ren, Uncle __'s son?" I was pleasantly surprised that our parents knew each other,
but right the next second, it dawned on me...
Disclaimer: Shern Ren has long since grown up to be a decent and sociable, albeit crazy, scientist, a mushy poet, and a caring friend. *wink*
Sandcastle gang.
(Shern Ren looks sooooo innocent here. ;P)
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Amusing pictures (=