thanks Peter, thanks Teck Koon - Share by Tan Cher Chong

Sharing a note by a former teacher; not that he's no longer one, but my former teacher during my secondary school days... This note is shared on facebookm but just in case it drops into cyber black hole, let me crave its presence down here...

So, without further ado, here we go:
Title: thanks Peter, thanks Teck Koon
Author: Tan Cher Chong
Date: 03 Feb 2010, Wednesday
Time: 11:11pm - i like the numbers i see here, reminds me of.. (:

last nite was another one of those where i felt like perhaps i've done something right. not that i might have had anything to do with them being who they are now, but more because i hv the good fortune of seeing them again, all nice and proper.

peter dropped out, like he said, quietly. he's got his degree and has already secured a job at the IR. he thought that he might have "jitters" meeting me, but actually felt very "at peace" :)

teck koon came in a long-sleeve shirt and dress pants. he is doing accounts now. he also went a big round and today is all decent and pleasant.

we ate at tampines mall and before we said bye bye, peter said that we could go to his friend's place at siglap next time. that place serves food and drinks and we could chill out there. and he said drinking with a teacher would be "cool". how silly :)

these two, i remember. they were in the band. and i think i taught teck koon in class too. he was quiet but mixed with "bad" company. peter often got into trouble. for what, i can't remember.

but all those are not important anymore. peter himself said that it was silly to do those silly things. when a "kid" says that, i think he has come a long way. teck koon said that he wants to study somemore and that he should at least get a degree. how could i not be smiling on my way home?

the funny thing is that they still come back to you :) like with charles, i don't think i've spoken to these two this much when they were in school. and yet, we could sit at a dinner table years later and talked about things that happened years ago.

a very pleasant evening.

i am so happy for the two of you.

thanks Peter, thanks Teck Koon.