Farewell Dinner with the LTB TAs

This entry is dedicated to the 6 wonderful TAs that i had for LTB during the first Semester of AY2006-07. As some of you guys know, I was the head TA for Prof Gilbert. These 6 TAs were a wonderful batch of people whom I kept in touch with even after the module. They are non other than Huiyi, Evangeline, Lishan, Vincent, Yiming and Xuanming. I guess we were closer than the other TAs I had for a very simple reason that we had a lot more meetings than the other TAs i had. Apart from the regular Head TA "education" sessions, we had "extra" meetings to settle a video project for having effective meetings as per requested by Prof Gilbert.

Anyway, after informing them that I'll be going for my US exchange, they suggested that we should have an outing before I go. After some coordination via email, we managed to set upon a date for the gathering. As usual, discussions for time and place for a "meeting" in this group of people goes very smoothly with everyone actively throwing out ideas. In the end, we decided on hardrock cafe behind forum. I would like to make a note here that one of the main motivations behind going to hardrock is a voucher that Vincent volunteered to donate. Thus, I would like to hereby sincerely thank VINCENT for donating his $100 hardrock cafe voucher for our humble gathering.

The night went smoothly as we accidentally bumped into each other at Orchard MRT. The only person whom we did not manage to meet at the MRT was Vincent. We then begain to make our way to hardrock on foot. On a side note, we bumped into Michelle Lee (yes the marketing prof) along orchard road while on our way to hardrock cafe. A few of them (who did not know who she was) did not really believed that she's a prof (considering that she was dressed like any other university student shopping along orchard road).

After meeting Vincent (I realised that i mentioned vincent like many many times) at the door, we all proceeded into the cafe. The decor of the place was based on the MTV period (i think) and there was many TVs which played music videos. Guess what? we saw many "retro" MTVs like Geri Haliwell's "Its Raining Men" while we were there... kinda nostalgic. here's some pics:

the jumbo thingy

my main course: macoroni and cheese... damn nice

xuanming's main course... i took this cause i was beside him

Apart from ordering a main course each, we also ordered a jumbo thingy to share (not really that great though). We then chat the night away talking about anything and everything under the sun. The whole affair lasted till around 9+ before we made our way to the NYDC at Wheelock where we continued to chat until like 10+. It was really amazing that we had so much stuff to talk about. As we were each making our ways home, we even stood outside the door of wheelock and chatted for more than 30mins. haha...

I just want to say that I've enjoyed the night quite a lot and it was really great that we could catch up with one another. Seeya guys soon!