Hello & Welcome to OUR BLOG!
Congratulations and a Warm Welcome to the Blog of the Class of '74!
This blog is set up to allow the 'class of 74 to keep in touch with each other from around the world and for us to share with each other snippets of our (wonderful) lives!
Everyone will in due course be sent an email invitation to register as a member of this blog to enable you to be able to post their entries here. A picture is worth a thousand words (or more) but please reduce the size to 640 x 480 or smaller before posting. It would be easier to post and faster for the page(s) to load. I understand that a number of you would be new to 'blogging' and it may take a little while for some of you to get up to speed. But the blogger platform that I had chosen is the easiest and most user friendly. We therefore look forward to your posting(s). If you have any difficulties, please feel free to email me and I can help with the postings. We are all smart monkeys and should be able to master this in no time. Nearing or having passed the half-century mark, we should be able to show those punks and our kids that the uncles and aunties can still swing with the best of 'em! Blogging or being 'cool' is not the exclusive domain of the young! We can kick butts too! But we'd better not!
Anyway I have the 'honour' and priviledge of posting our first entry here as I'd volunteered to set up this blog; as I felt the 'flying' emails were getting a little bit 'unwieldly' and I think that a blog is a more convenient and more organised way to manage the various postings. It is more readily accessible to anyone at anytime with acess to the internet.
So as the song goes - "let's get started in here!"
Cheers and be well!
Francis Ho Khee Ngee
Form 6 Science I or II (I'm not even sure!)
Info on photo : Me on my Folbot Folding Kayak, the 'Cooper' on the Sarawak River '05. I'm most peaceful and happiest when I'm on the waters. If anyone of you wants to try your hand at kayaking or take one of my trips, please do not hesistate to contact me! See you on the waters!
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Hi! Never participate in blogging before except read FH2O's blog a few times in the past. So with a bit of wonder I have signed up this account with Blogger (at long last!). Now that I am in, as a member of Blogger, what is there to keep me from exploring further? Fellow ex-classmates and ex-schoolmates, let us give this our very own blog a try and see if it serves the functions it intends: a group of old friends who suddenly feel that our past is still worth treasuring, who feel that re-living some of our past can bring some completeness (full circle?) to our life's journey and who wish to re-kindle our old friendship. So shall we keep posting in this blog some of the school photos each one of us may have salvaged through the years? I know I have some stashed up somewhere..
As I have said to Geok Lian, it has been almost thirty two years ago when we were last together and in this time, a lot can happen in one's life. Success, failure, joy, sadness you name it.. and we have all changed inwardly and outwardly. From a psychological point of view, it is interesting: this sudden surge of wanting to look up and contact past friends and, yes, talk about laksa, lui cha etc. Anyway, let us see how many from the past will write, even just to say hi and see what this will evolve into.
Geok Lian and those who live in Singapore, you can have authentic laksa and kolomee here, at Bedok. The food store is at Blk 204, Bedok North St 1 and it says on its sign board "Famous Sarawak Kuching Laksa, Kolomee". Set up by a couple from Kuching. Kolomee is air-flown in from Kuching twice a week. The laksa is great but starts with S$4. Kolomee starts with S$3. One can order more expensive helpings. The store has been in existence for almost two years. But call 91627824 to check that it has not run out of kolomee before you go (they did once when my family and I went there). A year later, another Kuching entrepreneur started selling Kuching kolomee at China town, 271 New Bridge Road. Their kolomee is also air-flown in from Kuching..three times a week! I find this store is stingy with its quantity of kolomee (starts with S$3.50 and ends with S$5.00). Nevertheless, it is so popular that it has now one more outlet at China Town (191 New Bridge Rd) and another branch at Killiney Rd, opposite Com-Centre of Somerset. But this food-chain does not sell Kuching Laksa. So you all in Singapore, if you have not heard of these must-go places, do check them out!
Whew! What a long comment on my blog debut.
Edward Tan
Hi
This is my first time blogging too although my kids at home do it and the kids at school do it and Have always told myself I should try it one day so here am I.
Have been reading about all the exciting laksa stalls in Kuching. I've been told that the one at Abell Road is realy sumptuous although I've never had the chance to try it.Would really like to join the gang for breakfast in Kuching but don't think I'll be free at that time to fly in.
Edward, I've tried the kolo mee at China town. Very very expensive and not so authentic. (Nobody from Kuching would eat kolo mee with belacan chilli. what happened to the sliced chillis in cheo cheng). Must try the one at Bedok. GLian, one day we should meet again and have that instead of starbucks latte. Tried the mee pok at Siglap yet?
Hi Deb, coincidentally my wife asked me this afternoon out of the blue if I am keen to go to Bedok tonight to eat the kolomee and kuching laksa. I was sure interested especially when I had just posted my first blog comment on this subject! So we went but alas! kuching laksa was sold out. So we settled for the kolomee. Yes my wife also thinks the Bedok stall is better in turn of price and they do serve sliced chilli in vinegar but you can ask for cheo cheng. We 'ta pau' eight packets home for my two kids and maid. But please go in the morning or early afternoon for the kuching laksa. Better still, call first to find out so you will not be disappointed :-)
Edward
Francis
Thanks for setting this up. I am a real blur. Not sure what I did this morning in some comments table. that one has a restriction to 300 words & have to email to someone. Err.. don't know what I did.
Luckily, i tried to click the link & very happy to see the comments that Edward mentioned.
Edward,I must try this Bedok stall one of these days. it must be near my office. Hah!! I just found from the street directory that that is near the place that we frequently go for lunch. How come i did not know. I shall try one of these lunch time!! thanks for the lead.
Deb & Edward, When shall we meet?? The last time I met up with Deb, you were busy with some seminar.
Geok Lian
I sure would like to meet up with you and Deb. What better place than the Kolomee place at Bedok? I missed out on the Laksa last Saturday when I went there with my wife. This time round we better call first. I shall be busy this weekend though preparing a lecture for our hospital conference on 2 Aug (next Wed). How about 5 Aug (Sat)? Deb and I do not know each other that well I think. So we old friends have a lot to catch up. Bring a few family pics to share?
Hi Ed! Good to see that you're an active participant of this forum/blog. :0)
Hi Ed & GL
I just lurve koko mee and kuching laksa so I went to Bedok to try it out this afternoon at 1 plus. Of course I took your advice and called first. Oh, it was yummy. I bought 2 packets back to school for a couple of friends and they loved it. Smelt so good that some of our colleagues came round to find out what they were eating.
Anyway, I don't mind going for another round. GL, you arrange something?
Hi Deb, glad you have enjoyed the kolomee and kuching laksa as much as my family and I do. Meet you one day and, really, I have not 'met' you properly during school days.. Sorry for the lost opportunity but never too late. Warmly, Edward
P.S To Francis, hi! Glad to be a member. But still not loosen yet. Why is this comment window so tiny?
thedtan - you can drag the bottom right hand corner of the window to whatever size you want. Or click on the Maximise button on the top right to fill up the entire screen! ;)
Francis, cannot do what you said. I am using IE and this may be the reason. So my comment window is still so small. sigh.
Ed, I just tried IE and I can enlarge the window of the comment box without any problem(s) ... unless u mean where one types in the comment. the window box for this is fixed in IE but enlarges with the overall window in FireFox. Why not download FireFox 1.5? It's free and superior in everyways to IE, there's really no reason not to use FireFox! It's much faster and more secure.
Ya lor, Francis, its the little miserable window for typing in the comments that I am complaining of. Its such a narrow strip and I feel claustrophobic in it! mmm will try FireFox 1.5 when I am free to meddle about my internet. :-)
Just been invited to this blogg ... Thanks Edward and Francis - for setting up this blogg . This is great to see/read about old times and catch up with old "fogotten" friends . Looking at the old class photos and comparing with the some of the recent ones , I can still work out most of you ... Just want to say hi to all of you "Class of 74 and 75" .
Hi! Tiong Kiat! Almost missed your message here as it is tucked right at the bottom of the blog, in the earliest posting. Do contribute a posting to announce your presence for all. Nothing is too mundane hor..You can post a snap or two of Auckland and maybe something about your living experiences there. Hope you see this and post something so that we can comment at the top of the Blog and not confine to the bottom here! Ha ha..
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