teachers-students gatherings

we have been meeting on a regular basis for more than 10 years already. this group comprises 4 teachers and more than 10 former students of balestier hill secondary school. cannot remember when we first started to meet. the better halves have been integrated into the group.

the annual get-together would normally be held on the 2nd day of cny, and it was usually hosted by jennifer at lentor avenue. but there had been other venues and other occasions. we had met at jalan bumbong (seck yeong's), serangoon garden(hiang kwang's) and upper thomson (albert koh's).

the last house gathering we had was at my place and that was in november 2005. we had also met outside at food courts, karaoke joints and hotels. once we held it at osim centre at jalan ubi (when these pictures were taken). in oct 2004, we had a makan session at bottletree village.

the other excuse/reason when we will arrange to meet is when mary, who has settled in chicago, comes home to visit. mary, who works for united airlines, comes back at least once in 2 years.
these days, it is getting more difficult to fix a day when all can come together because the nature of work requires quite a number of them to travel, and to travel quite often.

members of this group were not from the same class; neither were they from the same cohort. in fact, one of them, albert poh, was from the chinese stream. the one experience/thing that bound them is that they were all members of the school's outdoor activities club (odac) and they all attended the 10-day bbdm camp organised jointly by balestier, broadrick, dunearn and maju secondary schools.