Superb Day

It was a superb and fufilling day for me. I spent my morning and early aftn half on trekking, and my evening on a wedding dinner.

Our trekking started off in the heavy rain. The 12 of us were wearing our poncho as we marched along the main road towards the 'entrance' of the catchment area, much to the puzzlement and amusement of the on-lookers and passer-bys.

I learnt from the organiser of this trekking that the Nature Society of Singapore wishes to keep all places of nature protected. As they do not want the public to visit and disturb these places, they have requested that all available maps, GPS plotted or not, to be taken down from the web. Hence, i wun be putting up any maps tat indicate the path/route we took today, although i am very tempted to do so.

Anyway, its quite coincidental that majority of the trekkers today are somehow related to NUS. There was this pair of twin sisters who work in NUS (one from HR, the other is a research assistant). There is also a NUS lecturer from HK. And the organiser of this trek was from NUS too... and of cos so am i. Generally, the trekking today was fairly easy but interesting. Initially, the rain did dampen our mood a little, but soon, we found it very interesting and fun to trek in our poncho in the rain. After the rain stopped, we took off our poncho, and found the jungle atmospheric conditions very cool and nice. It was just like an outdoor air-conditioned env. There were also many interesting sights of wild plants, insects and fishes.

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This evening, i attended the wedding dinner of my new colleague from HP. It took us a few days before we realised tat we used to know each other 9 yrs ago in our jc. She was a pretty 'hot' and popular gal then with several guys chasing her at the same. My sec sch friend finally won her heart, but she got transferred out to another jc after the first 3mths though.

The bridegroom today is also my friend, but not the same sec sch fren i mentioned earlier. He happened to be my bunk mate in the army, and i din even know they were together for the past 6-7 yrs. Its such a small world....... Met up with many familiar faces at the wedding dinner too. Ppl from my work place + ppl from my jc + army. It was as if a gathering for us at tonite's wedding dinner.