Aftermath II

It’s been a few weeks since the gathering of my Seconday School classmates.
At that time, close to 20 were ‘found’, and about 16 turned up.
Not too bad.
 
Even though the small gathering was done, some effort was still done to search for the missing people. LOL

Within that same week, a few got added.

Sharifah, Norlinda, Rohimah, Poh Hoon, Julie, Henry, Ephren, Kok Whee. Through Rohimah, Oi Lay and Chui Lin appeared.
Just these already 10 more added! How cool!

 

Some are easy to find, some are hard.
 
I found Kok Whee during one of the nights while taking time off from work to browse.
Have to search through a list of FB people with about the same name.
His picture is not his face, making it harder to find. No good description of where he used to study etc. Have to peek into each person’s timeline and photos, and voila!
Some familiar face of that name.
By the time found him, he just left Singapore back to his workplace in China. Hahaha
 
Then there is this Kok Hwee. Yeah. Similar name as above, but different person. Same same but different.
This guy no FB. Very limited info in Linkedin.
We know he is dentist, and through some grapevine, he is supposed to be in UK.
OK. So I also kaypoh go search a bit.
 
Found a person in UK doing dentistry. Likely to be him. Not sure right, so many people with the same name as him.
Only good thing is, in the dentistry list from NUS, there is only name that match exactly that graduated in 1995. But that’s only in the NUS list. Nothing more.
So managed to find some link where this dentist is working in UK. Wow. Solid eh?
So 1 day, I called the clinic to ask for him.
He was busy, so the receptionist helped to leave him a message.
Cannot tell the receptionist I am Simon Tay, coz my friend Kok Hwee will not know who that is.
Pronounce to the ang mo receptionist also susah, sure cannot understand me 1.
True enough. So have to spell out 1 by 1. I think in the end, she still got problem relaying the message to Kok Hwee.
One good thing though, she took down my email address correctly.
Which is what my friend did. He sent me an email greeting from UK, saying he cannot know from the receptionist who was looking for him.
So from there, slowly got his mobile, and turned him in to the person in charge of the whatsapp

group. Hehehe

 
For each new person that got added into the group, usually he/she will be the star of the day.
People will re-introduce themselves after the hellos.
Some will talk more, some will talk less. Normal.
 
Well, there are still a couple of people not found. About 8-10 I guess.
Can we find all? Hmmmm.
I never know. Never say never … …