51st Anniversary Celebration

As the liaison of the 4th Batch OSs, Liang Chye made a proposal at the monthly gathering at the Ang Mo Kio ITE Central Canteen in January 2018 that we should find a date to celebrate our 51st Anniversary. The response was spontaneous as usual. He sent WhatsApp message and sms to announce the date, time and venue to communicate with the team members. Registration came in very smoothly because everyone knew that it was an opportunity for all teammates to meet and chat again. Fuzari Ross made an extra effort to link up with Haroon Arifin and Mohd Yaicop Gani. They are now added to our contact list. Happily, we are reconnected with them. On Saturday, 10 March 2018, One by one, we came to the Sukura Buffet (Halal) Restaurant near Yio Chu Kang MRT Station.

Names were called out loudly to express our heartwarming feeling for our friends. We exchanged greetings and chatted casually without a slightest hint to do so as we realized that it was our natural tendency to show our sincerity and openness towards our friends. There were cheerful laughter all around. Food was not our main attraction at all. It was really who we dined with. That explained what friendship was meant to all of us.

Alec Kuok from the then NYLTI was indeed a familiar name we recognized. His appearance among all of us made the occasion more honorable. We thanked Lee Yeow Nee for his initiative to invite Alec Kuok there and our Muslim friends for joining us. Thank you, Fuzari for the speech he made in Mandarin at the Restaurant to please all of us. We wish to extend our thankfulness to Liang Chye and his wife Teo Choon Kiang for initiating that meaningful effort to organize the Reunion.

More importantly, each of us made that effort to come and made the event a successful, meaningful and memorable one. Once again, we wish all of us good health, good luck and happiness in the years ahead.

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