the rubber king, dr chee, the civil servant mr chai and the math/computer wizard, dr the honored for being awarded the distinguished alumni of NU. dr chee is world-known expert in rubber trees, even had a rubber tree decease named after him. mr chai a long-time civil servant was very humble, dr teh did not attend.
this year, the attendees of the function were less, some regular big shots did not turn up. but there's more youngsters joining the committee making paving a broad path for succession.
there's this guy mr loh, some big shot in a car company who bot up the remainder 10 copies of the chinese poem book authored by mr chung, an alumni phd in geography. he stood up in stage and the mc, the affable dr leong threw him a very brunt question: "we want to know why you were kicked out of the school?" he looked a bit tipsy, said in a rough voice, " i was kwai-lan, that's what the discipline master said - GAN NI CHU XIAO. the word xiao, he imitated the intonation of the then discipline master mr yie, it sounded like SPERM.....
mr lim, one of the two oldest alumni stood on the stage to sing his hockkien and cantonese song. he went over to him to greet him. he had already forgotten about last-year's occasion when they were sitting at the same table and talking in his native cantonese sunwei dilect. but he's still very affable and alert.
the two lady singers were good.
the dinner felt like ended a bit early, but it was already approaching 11pm.
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