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upon opening the email, my first thought was: holy crap has it already been ten years?

and yes, it has. It's been 10 years since I left secondary school...

I still hang out with some of my friends from there, but most of my ex-classmates I haven't seen since then, partly because I didnt join the affiliated jc, but decided on the one near my house - walking distance! It was closer to get to school than to get to the bus stop. what a steal!

Anyway, in the email was an announcement of the reunion of the class of 95, back at the old alma mater. Would be fun to go, think a few people are quite interested already.

Meanwhile I was reading this story off Village Voice about sharing food with others.

The writer was dining with some friends when her friend's bf freaked somewhat about sharing food with the others, despite his not enjoying his own dish very much.

Like the writer, I love sharing food, I hate it when everyone orders the same dish and try to negotiate for something different on the table instead. I love variety and it's a great way to try out the rest of the menu.

Whenever my family goes to hawker centres (although that's something we haven't done for a long while now) I tend to let everyone else order things and eat bits off their plates. Sounds horrible I know but I never know what to order and like to see the whole table full of good and different food.

When it comes to western restaurants though, so far havent had any problems with the people I eat with. The recent dinner is a good example, where we each tried something different for the mains and shared pasta and dessert.

I suppose some people don't like to share food because they're afraid of er, catching others' germs? Is that how it goes?

Do you share food?

..... as this entry has continued now until after dinner, I must say that tonight's thunderstorm has drummed up extra biz for the office canteen. It was quite crowded for dinnertime. And a few of my colleagues had never had dinner at the canteen before, in all the years they've been here. Fascinating. Says plenty about the food there, although my mutton murtabak was quite decent.

Listening to Teenage Fanclub's Don't Look Back

Speaking of which, I'm probably gonna get these online.

David Berkeley - After The Wrecking Ships
Beulah - Coast is never clear
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Nicolai Dunger - Tranquil Isolation
Nicolai Dunger - Soul Rush -

As The Guardian said:

Nicolai Dunger sounds like Nick Nolte looks. Beaten down, dishevelled, with last night's Jack Daniels still coursing through his veins and this morning's Marlboros still burning in his throat, his careworn experience jostles with his undefeated optimism.