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You are invited to the following event: ACS Class of 1981 Annual Get-Together Date: Friday, January 30, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (GMT+0800) Location: NSSU Guild House Suntec Tower 4 Singapore Can you attend this event? Respond Here For more information click here

Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony for the Children of Aids

Now what in the world would that have to do with ACSS class of 81??!! I am sure some of you may ask. Technically speaking ... nothing. In fact, this shud go into a blog entry for ACJS (or ACSJ as it is now called) ... unfortunately ... I do not have a blog for that :(

So to those who were from ACJS, dig up your old memories back to 1977 - a little boy named P George Matthew played the violin with piano accompaniment on Founder's day. Soon after that, he left us and headed to the US.

Today, he is an activist in the area of charity performance in the world of Classical Music. He has been touted as the Bono (U2) or Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats) - remember Band Aid or Live Aid? Songs like Do they know it Christmas/Feed the World! I believe that as time pass on ... he may be in the list of Nobel Prize Winners :D

Well comming up this Monday 12 Jan 2009 he will be conducting Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony in this massive orchestra and choir for the Children of Aids.

So guys ... if you like to know more ... do click on
http://www.mahlerforthechildren.org/

For a photo shot of him and an interview with George (in 2007) is here on the NYMagazine (when he did a concert for the children in Sudan):
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/26039/

Cheers
Alan Fu
PS: George has been in my Facebook friend list for a while now and we have been in touch. I am truly touched by his heart for charity

Drum roll ..... drrrrrrrrrrr ... ka-chiang!

hey guys!

Yup, it was us at Sizzler's and ... I must say ... Wow! Fabian is fast! Posted on this blog well before I managed to compose my thoughts. .... errr then again ... I was never quck at thots :(

Ok then ... the date is set :

30 Jan 2009 - in the Year of the Ox!

I hope that you will ALL take this opportunity to inform your friends of ACSS 81, to check back on this blog regularly for details of the next gathering. :)

So please look to the right and vote on the location that you like to meeet at. We will look into your consideration and make the necessary arrangements and bookings too!

At the time of this blog, out of the 5 who voted, we seem to be a little ahead in the direction of Hooters! Yay! ;-)

ok 60-40 ... the 40% who voted for the conventional ... probably had their wives overlooking their shoulders when they voted. heh heh

So, we are at it again and hope to see many of our friends from China back in Singapore and having a good time meeting up with us again!

Cheers
AF

Here it is - PROOF ! we sat down to plan the 2009 Annual gathering ! YEAH ! We were at the Sizzler@Suntec, and all five had the healthy serving of Salad Bar - no meat ;-)

As the saying goes "stomach healthy, mind healthy" (hmmmm wonder where it came from) .... we had a great discussion and most importantly catching up after 9 MONTHS ! (psst... there's another group of us who meet more regularly - almost monthly).

Not to steal the thunder, Alan will do the honors of announcing the details in the next posts. See ya soon, Fabian

Next gathering?

wow ... it's almost 9 months now since our last meeting. ;-) time enuff for making babies!

so ... how about it? are we keen to meet-up again?

A suggestion was to meet at the end of Nov ... but I'm thinking to better organise it this time ... and target it for CNY 09.

Do let me have yr views and I'll get cracking with Gordon and Wei Siong too.

Cheers
AF

ECHO MAGAZINE - COLLECTION AT OBA OFFICE AT ACS BARKER RD

Dear OBA Members,

With immediate effect, our Echo magazine will be available for collection at the OBA Office at Barker Rd. (located at the administration office on level 2) We will stop mailing copies to your address as given.

We hope to get your understanding in this matter.

Regards,

Bernie

Administrator

ACS OBA

Tel : 6259-7860

PS: btw ... look out for your photos in it ;-)

Echo Magazine Oct 2008!!!

Hey y'all ...

I have done a cut and paste of the "article" on this blog and sent it to Blueskies ;-)

They are the ones who publish the Echo Magazine ... err ... ok ... I din really cut and paste ... but did a bit of editing too.

Well ... the magazine editor further edited the aritcle ... gee! he thinks he can write better then I? How can that be?!!? ... ok ... frankly he does ;-) That's why he's the editor and I'm just the mad ACSian ranting about the night we had in Feb :-D

n e ways ... for those of you with sons in the ACS schools .... be sure to pester them when they get home with the copy of Echo Oct/Nov ... becos all yr photos will be there. And ... for those who don't have kids in ACS ... u should get that via the mail as members of the OBA (and I don't mean the acsoba.net).

So ... look out and have a good one, yah?

cheers
Alan Fu

PS: btw ... if any of our teachears happen to visit this blog ... or cohorts of '81 who are teachers themselves - I wish all of u a Happy Teachers' Day!