The MLSM reunion 2006.12.05 (Tue)

After an extended period of absence due to powerful meditation, three of the MLS boys -> men finally met. And what do they do when MLSM meet. They eat. And boy do they eat. All-you-can-eat Szechuan steamboat with not-so-funny "America" joke from captain to boot. Kuet Foon what's the name of the restaurant again. Second guy from left is a stand-in for one of the MLSM who couldn't make it this time. Sorry, had to block out face due to personal request. For the friend who cannot make it this time, next time we meet at House Of Mao@Novena, OK.
And after the hearty meal, the MLSM did what they always do after a good meal. Karaoke! And boy can they sing. Cantonese, Mandarin, Malay, English, Japanese, Rap, Hip-hop, HK heavenly gods, until screen cannot tahan and said goodbye.
Since no personal request here, the other guy's face is open for all to see. Since he does such a good rendition of BeeGees, we will invite him out again next time.

We Were Nerds (not really)

Time flies and before we know it, the meiling street fab 4 has all turned into grown, mature men, blissfully married and with loving families. Thinking back to our “young and wild” days, we engineering students were not considered the hippest in the campus. Heck, we were even considered as “nerds”, just one step above the thick-glasses, thin-haired mad scientists and professors. There were times when all four of us drool over pretty arts/social science girls that dates only athletes or funky art hunks. We the engineering hunks were hidden behind plain t-shirt & jeans, and buried under tons of lecture notes and assignments. At times we enjoyed couple of cheap and diluted alcohol at the el cheapo Guild’s Club, the only in campus disco in the world, and till now we still fondly remember how leong ko got drunk and danced with a horizontally challenged girl, yet insisted she was a beauty when sober in the next morning.
Anyway, fast forward to the present day, though non of us previous nerds have yet to achieve the success equivalent of Bill Gates, Larry Page or Sergey Brin, nonetheless all four of us were considered successful in our own terms, even in highly competitive society like Singapore, Japan and US. Gone were the days when we survived on Maggie mee before exams, gone were the days where we did not order drinks when eating out, even at hawker center right across the street. And the most important thing is that all four of us have married beautiful trophy wives (none of them former art student), and we have proud children that became our new drives in lives. Hats off especially to foon yeh who were, among us, the first father, as well as the father with the most children.
Congratulations guys, I think we have all done well in life so far. Advice to art girls in colleges…behind the plain jeans and t-shirts and thick glasses, lies great treasures awaiting to be explored…muahahaha…

Definition of Meiling Street (cont)

Part 2
As fate has it, these fabulous 4 (hereforth known as Fab 4), young, handsome and innocent, moved together into a tiny crampy HDB flat in the middle of Merlion's heartland. They rented the 2 bed room flat (in the land of the Merlion, it is called the 3 room flats in order to satisfy everyone's desire/imagination to own bigger places) from a dirty old man (ok, not dirty, just old) for a hefty sum of $1000. Due to their inexperience and innocence, they were conned into living in the pig's den, therefore commence the humble beginning of the MLS Fab 4.

Since there were only 2 bed rooms, there was a difficult decision of who is gonna sleep with who (no, not like that you twat). Anyway, all 4 were satisfied with their roomate and were extremely happy about the brotherhood they formed.

Since they were in their NUS (Nerd University of S) final year, engineering school, the 4 supercool nerds started their day with the rude awakening of alarm clocks (x2 each, 8 in total), followed by hasty dressing into engineering school uniforms (jeans and nerdy T shirt,equip with beat up NUS school files and a school bag pack filled with the necessities - umbrella, CD player/walkman and tissue paper), then the jostling at the bus station (can't remember what was the bus number).

At the school, 2 of the Fab 4 would play with hazardous chemicals while attempting not to blow themselves up, the other two would fiddle with machinaries, while attempting to not to cut their own fingers. At the end of the day, all will be back with a tired body and hungry stomach, and they will dine in at their favourite kopitiam, right across the street from their humble abode, at the 2nd floor of the wet pasar. The golden rule of dining out was never to order drinks since they could always drink freewater at home afterwards.
(to be continue...)

Definition of Meiling Street

Part 1
Meiling Street is a place within an island, located between Pacific and Atlantic ocean. Legend said the island was once roamed by a mythical beast - a white skin amphibian creature, that look like a lion that is 20 meter tall. Some folks claimed this beast can shoot jet of water at its prey from as far as 30 meter away. Some said the creature eyes can shoot laser beam, rivaled only by another legend that wear a red underwear outside its pant.

Back to the origin of Meiling Street. Legend said Meiling Street is a small peaceful area, which has not much history on its own, until that fateful day................4 of them had moved into Meiling Street.

[to be continue]

The Legacy

Dear friends,

This is where you shall put your thoughts and photos so that our legacy can be known forever and ever.

-dav-
for The Meiling Stree Four