All you can eat farewell lunch

On the day when the few of us colleagues were treating TW for a farewell dinner (TW earned a scholarship to do a masters in engineering at Stanford), WM sneakily came up to me and said he was also going for studies. That's a modest way of saying that he picked up a scholarship as well and to top if off, he is going to Oxford. But he said he did not wish to publicise the fact he is one of the latest to hop on what I call the F-2-S scheme (Farmer to Scholar) scheme. I realised later the rest of our lunch kakis were all in the loop about it but were all 'sworn' to secrecy. I then realised he told me because the rest of them took the secrecy part too seriously and no one took the initiative to organise a farewell for WM.

The problem was after treating TW to dinner at The Merchant Court, the prospects of another hotel buffet were not optimistic. But how could we neglect our lunch kaki WM who has entertained us continually with his 'chut patterns', for example, claiming to forget to bring along his car keys when deciding who to drive out for lunch, stopping to re-tie shoelaces in the middle of a badminton game when he is losing, and always having a prior appointment when there was a gathering.

So it was our time to get even. We organised a eat-all-you-can but at Pek Kio Food Centre. Was he pleased? Take a look at the photos below but I think he was happy his friends, albeit only four, did not forget him.




As it turned out, WM couldn't eat so much anyway, so we were all very happy.