I had dinner with my secondary school sec1 pals last night at heeren's nydc. It was a sending off for Nigel who is enlisting today. It has almost been at least 4yrs since I last saw some of them. Yet nothing has changed much. Nigel was late for the meeting, zhirong though now in the army, looks like X'ho in his dressing. Zhanwei is still the same gold chain necklace, long sleeve tight ah beng shirt with slippers( well he is is a pai kia anyway). Mustaffa, who went cjc with me is still a clown. Well of course we talked about good old dayz but along the way, as i asked' so after O'levels where did blah blah go', i got responds like' oh he went jail for rioting, oh he went jail for beating someone with weapon, oh he died in an illegal motorbike racing, oh he still repeating first year spore poly'. Wow, like Mustaffa who once told me, 'Parry, whenever you doubt yourself, boost ur self esteem by looking at the people around you(secondary school mates)' Well i hope Nigel does ok in the army, hopefully he will learn the value of meeting timings. In NCC land, we used to get knocked down by SAF corporals becoz when everyone falled in to count strength, we would be missing one person. Before you guess correct, yes, from one end of the field you would spot Nigel running out from the toilet with his toothbrush and toothpaste.