Sunday, May 28, 2006
Meaningful Lunch @ Ciao Ciao Kebab Place
Ciao is, conventionally, what we say at a parting. It feels especially apt that today's lunch was here.
I reckoned that today's lunch at Ciao Ciao was going to be the last eat-out session together as the whole SEP gang. Of course, we choose Ciao Ciao specifically because it holds so many memories for us. It is the place in Sweden where we ate out, the first place we took a group photo in the snow, the place where we patronized the most when we eat out... To me, it's a place which started our group bonding since it was where we have our first dinner chat.
I still remember Don and I were having difficulty finding our way from Delphi to the Centraal; we arrived the latest of all the people at (if I dun remember wrongly) 7.30 pm. It was cold then and the walk around Lund clothed in winter-wear was an amazing experience. Please forgive my ignorant excitment; afterall, it's my first time walking in the street at this low temperature.
Over lunch, Shar told us that Daniel thinks that this SEP gang wouldn't have got together if not for this exchange, i.e. we wouldn't have got to know one another in Singapore. To a large extent, I think it's true. Our personalities, interests and temperaments are so diverse. Furthermore, all of us are from different faculities (except for Don, Grace and Jan who are, together, frm Biz Sch). To know this group of friends is an affinity miracle. And I think it's this diversity that kept this group alive and very interesting. We never seems to run out of topics to talk about (though there is this 7-min of silence which we observed religiously :P).
So at the end of lunch, Grace took out pieces of paper and asked us to write our thoughts about one another. Each piece of paper is labelled with our names and it was passed around for people to write their thoughts on the paper's owner. I did this during JC and, the last time I did this was during YEP: Venture Vietnam 2002. It really gives me a chance to tell someone things which I don't have the courage of telling or, perhaps, I can't find the right timing to tell him/her. Besides being a time for reflection, the written thoughts from my friends abt me are really good momentos. For me to (indirectly) reflect on what I have done right/wrong and for me to remember the company my NUS-Lund Exchange friends have provided during the wonderful times.
I reckoned that today's lunch at Ciao Ciao was going to be the last eat-out session together as the whole SEP gang. Of course, we choose Ciao Ciao specifically because it holds so many memories for us. It is the place in Sweden where we ate out, the first place we took a group photo in the snow, the place where we patronized the most when we eat out... To me, it's a place which started our group bonding since it was where we have our first dinner chat.
I still remember Don and I were having difficulty finding our way from Delphi to the Centraal; we arrived the latest of all the people at (if I dun remember wrongly) 7.30 pm. It was cold then and the walk around Lund clothed in winter-wear was an amazing experience. Please forgive my ignorant excitment; afterall, it's my first time walking in the street at this low temperature.
Over lunch, Shar told us that Daniel thinks that this SEP gang wouldn't have got together if not for this exchange, i.e. we wouldn't have got to know one another in Singapore. To a large extent, I think it's true. Our personalities, interests and temperaments are so diverse. Furthermore, all of us are from different faculities (except for Don, Grace and Jan who are, together, frm Biz Sch). To know this group of friends is an affinity miracle. And I think it's this diversity that kept this group alive and very interesting. We never seems to run out of topics to talk about (though there is this 7-min of silence which we observed religiously :P).
So at the end of lunch, Grace took out pieces of paper and asked us to write our thoughts about one another. Each piece of paper is labelled with our names and it was passed around for people to write their thoughts on the paper's owner. I did this during JC and, the last time I did this was during YEP: Venture Vietnam 2002. It really gives me a chance to tell someone things which I don't have the courage of telling or, perhaps, I can't find the right timing to tell him/her. Besides being a time for reflection, the written thoughts from my friends abt me are really good momentos. For me to (indirectly) reflect on what I have done right/wrong and for me to remember the company my NUS-Lund Exchange friends have provided during the wonderful times.
# posted by William : 9:47 PM
