Chye Liat Re: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences

 



To all OLD friends

Kong Hee Fatt Choy. 

Lets all stay healthy and have safe and happy new Tiger year.

ChyeLiat

Geh Min RE: [ACSians] Here's to Reunion 2030

Dear Menon,

Great joke despite the sexist & ageist overtones.

 Sounds like you haven’t changed much after all this time which brings me to my other point which is to remind you all that 60 is the new 40. Comforting for me & I think the majority of you who are turning 60-sorry, I meant 40- this year.

Happy New Year & all the best,

Geh Min

Sonny Menon RE: [ACSians] Here's to Reunion 2030

To All and Sundry,

I am veryconsistent and have always been. That is my hallmark quite to my detriment at times. As such, I am getting to be 50 now since my birth certificate was mistakenly read to be as such when I applied for my US citizenship. I have therefore received a ten year lease on life. I am not arguing. So let it be.

Besides that, I am fighting fit, as a fiddle so to speak and will be happy to don my judogi and take on judokas on the tatami,and their beckoning. Feel free to conact me.

Best Regards,
Mohan Sonny Menon

Irene: [ACSians] Here's to Reunion 2030

A group of 40-year-old buddies discuss and discuss where they should meet for dinner.

Finally it is agreed that they should meet at the Gausthof zum Lowen
because the waitresses wear low-cut blouses and have nice breasts..

10 years later, at 50, they meet again and once again discuss where they should meet. Finally it is agreed that they should meet at the Gausthof zum Lowen because the food there is very good and so is the wine selection.

10 years later, at 60 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss where to have dinner. Finally it is agreed that they should meet at the Gausthof zum Lowen because they can eat in peace and quiet and the place is smoke free.

10 years later, at 70 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss and discuss where they should meet. Finally it is agreed that they should meet at the Gausthof zum Lowen because the restaurant is wheelchair-accessible and even has an elevator.

10 years later, at 80 years of age, the group meets again and once again discuss where they should meet. Finally, they decide upon the Gausthof zum Lowen because they have never been there before.

Min RE: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences

 

Well said Andrew. It’s a beautiful song  & beautifully sung by the schmoos.

Thanks for the memories & warmest(you need them where you are) regards,

Min

Mark Kan Re: [ACSians] Happy New Year, and Reminiscences - reply

 

my contribution : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKeXkhxiq6I&feature=related

for the lost youth...
this was hope !

alluring, enticing, soothing - the solver of ALL problems of life...
San Francisco is THE Mecca of :
love, free love, mind expanding drugs...
this together with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...
blew me away in our times...
the days of the Cold War...where either side had the power to blow up the world !

many times over !

the days of the "domino theory" !

IF Vietnam falls to communism than the rest of SE Asia is doomed...
hahaha !
and look what happened ?
the Almighty US of A - LOST !

the world still stands as is !

communism imploded on it's own !

think of the loss of lives, the sufferings of Indochina for decades !

still remember the image of the naked, shrieking girl - napalmed ?

OMG ! WOT A LIE it has all turned out to be !

i was invisible then...

juz a seeming hood from Ah Hood Rd...
altho i view me-self a slightly deeper thinker...
when Low Siew Tien, God bless his soul ( is he dead yet ? )
asked me to "get out of his class "...
i went to the front corner of the class to collect my crash helment...
might as well go down to Keok Rd for my favourite wanton mee lah !
the dry version "kon loh" one !  THE BEST in S'pore then !
and a couple of smokes after lah !

nothing much has changed !

hahaha !


incidentally, Scott Mckenzie also wrote one of me all time fav song :
" So what's the difference "
i am tryin to attach here - if i can find it !
i've failed...


so pardon my impaired memory...here's some glimpses of it :


" hey friend wake up ! i'm throwin rocks at your window pane...
  get out of bed, i got something to say...
  so what the difference if we don't go now...
  nobody'll know us in a year or so...

  nobody'll know us for the things we've been thinking...
  so wot's the diffrence if we STAY ? "


so i became a " quitter " in poor Goh Chok Tong's lingo...

his is damned rich no doubt - financially - aren't they ALL now
but poor that he was seat-warming AND
puppeteered from behind by the almighty Lee dynasty !

which is juz my guess...ok ?

no need to go the the ISD for dat !

i have connections there too - of my own !

hahahaha !