TCHS 90th Anniversary

How time flies...I still remember a decade ago, we held our sch's 80th anniversary celebrations and it was grand at that time cos no school could match our publicity and scale in organising such an event. It was termed the 万人宴, so it had a strong showing of students, both old boys and current ones. Never mind the fact that a large number of us Sec.3 students were dragged to perform some chinese dance where we danced with red drums strapped to our breasts and wielded drumsticks with silk cloth on it, or that I had guard duty in the evening for NCC so I kinda missed most of dinner, but it was a big event and most importantly, we got to hang out with our friends plus have a free day off.

Fast forward 10 years to now, we attended the sch's 90th anniversary dinner as old boys over the weekend. It's something we have talked about ever since leaving school. And it was every bit as grand as it was 10 years ago.

Some interesting things happened though. Firstly, as we were seated close to the students section, the waitresses refused to serve us beer! Actually only XM and I managed to get a glass of beer, but the waitress who served us later got reprimanded by another senior waitress. She even threaten to tell the principal....super LOL!! Hello....like we left the sch since 10 years ago le.....do we look like kids?!!?!? Almost wanted to flash our ICs le....

Then there was this song composed specially for this 90th anniversay by Job Tan, oh man......he was our one and only music teacher since sec. 1 and he looks kinda the same....and the song was performed by the choir group and leading the group was.....drum rolls....miss siew, our sec. 4 form teacher!!! When te interview video of her flashed through, my whole table exclaimed with "OMG!!" and the funny part was that it wasn't just us, other students from other tables also had that same expression! Sarcastic clapping....so you could really sense how erm...popular she was...hahaha

Oh and halfway throughout the dinner, we were close to running out of drinks......again....like 10 years ago...don't the caterers ever learn? 10,000 hungry and thirsty boys to cater for....Maybe they ran out of beer too?

And presenting a video when the school song came along....it's kinda amazing how after so many years, I could actually sing the song, just needed a bit of music to get going and all the words suddenly came to mind...Dash and XD were the only guys to seem to remember too....but HH and XM had the super blur expressions on their faces...:p, CW was the one who whipped out his camera handphone first to take the vid, so wang and i followed suit...

Heck, even our table seats were kinda close to where we were during the 80th anniversary right out in the middle of the field. And throughout, we behaved just like boys. Being rowdy, talking cock, talks of 翻桌子 cos the food was bad (it's always bad anw :p), phone porn surfing (cw again la...) etc etc... For a moment there, it felt as if we still 长不大, as if we have never left our days in TCHS. Haha good times good times....

And that is why I really want to thank this group of friends that I have been hanging out with. This really marks a decade since I first met them and I am really glad that all these years, we've stuck together and spent lotsa good and rollin' fun times together. We were the only class from our batch to turn up in force.

Having said that, Dash mentioned to me about the next anniversary. The 100th anniversary would be much grander in scale, and it would be another decade away. But already, we're talking abt it now.

Me: "How will things change? We don't seem to have changed too much!!"
Dash: "Well, for one, maybe next time we would need a much larger table to accomodate everyone? (think abt wife and kids.........)"
Me: "Wows....thinking that far le? (but very true though....10 years down the road)"

Just then we looked at the table beside us. It was actually a table of guys in their early thirties, 9 old boys and 1 lady, definitely one of the guy's wife. The guys all stood up and left to find their former teachers, leaving behind the wife as sentry duty.....Hmmmm.....den after some time, the poor husband has to come back to 陪the wife while the other guys were missing. Oh well.....

Me and Dash: "Nah...think we should just set this event only for the 4D-ians...let's leave the wife and kids out of this...well if we do have one in a decade..."

How time flies....but one thing's for sure....boys will always be boys. You can't change that. :p