Dear everyone

Well, it's like a wedding really: months of preparation and planning and anticipation, and now it's all over. But I am sure that all of you who attended the UWCSEA Class of 84 20th reunion in Singapore in August 2004 will have taken away many, many happy and funny memories of our weekend together. I for one would not have missed it for the world. Jad has toiled hard to put some fab photos on this website, so do look at them all. And thanks to everyone else who has put their own photos on various websites - if you need links to those, let me know.

The weekend started with a slightly surreal evening at the Fez Bar on Boat Quay - all new since we were at school. It was amazing to meet everyone in such an informal environment, almost like stumbling across all my old friends at the local pub! And in the dim light we were able to convince ourselves and each other that we hadn't changed a bit since school. Of course, the stark truth was revealed when we moved on to Newton Circus for a late-night snack - those poor stall-holders!

Saturday was school day, with a lovely hawker feast at lunchtime followed by a dip in the brand new Olympic-sized pool. The upper school boarders were also in the pool,

monopolising the high diving board, but once they had left our brave boys climbed up there.... and climbed back down just as quickly! In the evening we had a lovely barbeque and met up with some ex-teachers - why is it that they now look rather young? And then it was into the Small Hall (can you believe it's still standing?) for THE DISCO.

Very little had changed: the music was the same, the girls still danced in circles while the boys drank beer and watched - ahhh, memories! And when the father of our 7th
year DJ arrived to collect his boy, he couldn't resist taking over the turntables for another couple of hours - who says our generation has no stamina! Of course, we were sustained by 3 kegs of beer, 10 crates of Corona and 4 bottles of whiskey.....

Not surprisingly therefore, dark glasses were in significant evidence at the Dutch Club on Sunday, where everyone was thrilled to experience a typical Singapore monsoon downpour - torrential rain for three minutes then sunshine. Interscols were perused, and even a rather embarrassing teenage diary made its debut, featuring many of the characters at the reunion.

So now we're all back home and at work, but the photos are coming in and you know what, we do look pretty damn hot and pretty damn happy! It was fantastic to see so many of you again, and to meet your lovely families - who would have thought that you could all con such nice people into marrying you! We missed those of you who weren't there, but plans are already a-foot for a Silver Jubilee Reunion in London in summer 2009, so start saving those pennies and don't book your holidays for that year! Many, many thanks to everyone who was involved in the planning and preparation - personally, I think it was worth every second I spent on it. UWCSEA Class of 84 - you're wonderful!

With love from Sue Grossey


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