A Blessed Gathering

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It's never be an easy thing for people to converge as most people would have diverged priorities and obligations that would hinder them to  attend a gathering. So, the effort  to gather all the friends or ex-classmates together is just a wishful thinking.

But to get some to meet together is definitely a "makan kacang putih" matter.  With this in mind, we had decided to proceed with a buffet lunch gathering at the Hotel Jen, Magazine Road, Penang, on November 10, 2015, when Mooi Eng had expressed a wish to meet up with her ex-classmates during her recent visit to her siblings in Penang.

Mr. Ng Huang Leng is always our patron every time we gather. This time around was no exception. He and his wife had duly accepted our invitation although we had let him down in our last aborted gathering due to poor response of participants.

Mr. Ng had been very closed to us as we were his pioneered batch of students when he started his teaching career. He was a student-friendly teacher. He seldom scolded us so much so that at times we tried to 'pull his leg' and to create jokes out of him.

I remember Mr. Ng had taught us Mathematics in our Form One class. In a lesson of Geometry, Mr. Ng showed us the steps to prove a certain theorem. As a normal practice, at the end of a proof, he would write 'Q.E.D.',the symbol to show that a proof was executed. Mr. Ng would always jokingly tell us that "  the proof was "Quite Easily Done."

Mooi Eng was very pleased to meet up with Mr. Ng as this was the second time she had met him after she left school forty years ago. Both of them had a good  time catching up with each other.

In this gathering I accidentally discovered ' a body language of mine' from a former classmate which I had never realised myself while I was a kid.

Mok Thye Choo(莫泰珠) was my neighbour at the side lane. She told me that she always saw me leaning against my mother whenever she was chatting with others in the neighbourhood. Was I so pampered then? I wonder.

Actually, most of us did not expect to have such a gathering in so short time a notice. We were also surprised to see a good turn up of a total of eighteen people, among them were a few first timers.

This gathering was a blessed one indeed as we could summon the help and cooperation of a few fellow classmates.  We counted ourselves as blessed souls who were able to catch up with one another. Our forefathers had always reminded and cautioned the old folks that " to meet others for another time could be just a luxurious and a far fetching matter." Either you cherish it now or you would have no chance to regret later.