HKU alumni dinner at KLGCC

why would i be at an alumni dinner when i haven't even entered university?
good question.

too bad i don't have an answer.......

well anyway, in case you can't tell, there is a very big disparity in the ages of the alumni gathered here.

in the early days, it seems that hong kong uni had almost 50 percent malaysian students.
and the fees were like 300 ringgit.
and they had butlers, who shined their shoes etc etc etc

but, at one point hong kong uni stopped admitting international students.

only around 1995 did they start taking in malaysian students again.
so there was this old guard, who saw their numbers dwindling, waiting for new alumni to join the club.
which is part of the reason i had a chance to attend the dinner at all.....



the chairman, tan sri samuel kam is 91. graduated in 1938 (i think, can't really remember). kids, history lesson, that's before the second world war. heck, tis before even the third world war....

most of the alumni there have grandkids.
not just grandkids, grandkids that are older than me.
i positively feel like a baby next to them.....

but still they're all as hale and hearty as you could expect them to be.
when that age you reach, look as good as them, you will not.

props to benedict, the secretary (80 years old. wow) for organising such a successful dinner.

oh! the dinner.
food was okay (we were at the takakura japanese restaurant)
standard fare really.

starters was baby octopi.
followed by tempura.
followed by grilled mackerel.
followed by rice, miso soup, ginger stir fried beef.
then dessert was some kind of ice cream wrapped in a pastry.

but there was one waitress i just could not take my eyes off.
she looked so demure in her kimono.......
wow!
hot stuff...
i'm definitely going back just to get her number XD