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Friday, July 25, 2008 - 03:13 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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We Meet Again

Tis' time for the usually-annual 4O gathering, which garnered 21 attendees this time round - not that many of us pursued studies overseas, after all, with edchong a notable conscientious objector for unknown reasons. occ organized it at Marina Square's Seoul Garden, with an impromptu bridge session at an unused cosy corner at the City Hall MRT station beneath a security camera thrown in:


Not illegal OK (photo credit Alvinny)

There were more varieties of chicken than one could easily shake a chopstick at (Bulgogi, anyone?), and speaking of chopsticks, they really could have enhanced customer satisfaction with longer ones that put hands out of reach of splattering oil - they do have custom tools to lift the hot plate and change the soup bowl, after all. I think I managed to get the hang of cooking chicken by the end of the session, if a lack of diarrhoea is any indication.

Speaking of diarrhoea, NS medic kkok advised never to use that as an excuse to geng, since it is easily verifiable with a gloved finger up where the sun doesn't shine. Headaches remain the best excuse, but being the honest lads we are, I don't think we need to know that.

Resident U of Michigan grad jysw had a lot to say about our alum HCI, where I presume he's been helping out. Particularly funny was an incident he related about a rejected applicant's mother insisting that her son had a hand-timed 11s in the century sprint "recorded by his headmaster", in an effort to get a reconsideration. No dice. (N.B. the first thing that sprang to my mind was this guy, and even he only did a 12.41s run to smash the national 13-and-under record, and to give some perspective the all-time British U-13 record is a comparatively modest 11.86s)

To be fair, entrance to HCI isn't exactly easy (with a PSLE cutoff of about 260), keeping in mind that PSLE scores themselves aren't absolute by far; Interestingly, even getting the maximum possible raw score doesn't guarantee a perfect 300 - for details, refer to the linked article.

We had invited some of our old teachers, but in the end only our trusty math teacher turned up. Shouldn't be difficult to spot here:


With PhotoshopTM, who needs to learn how to sketch?



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