because, as poach points out, "we don't see each other enough," six of us old rgs 1/10ers (that's poach, cindy, su-lin, xinyi, addy and me) are holding "first thursdays," a monthly dinner (girls only, just like in the old days, silliness and frivolity abound, gossip and secrets and ganging up on each other, and possibly speaking lots of chinese), at a place to be suggested by each person in turn. this means that there will be much parochialism and catty squabbles. already we are being dragged to bedok by the only easterner (but the best food is in the east!) and hougang to eat teochew food by the sole teochew, and a proud henghwa woman has said her ancestral cuisine is what we will have. xinyi and i, devotees of the nel, will choose something on the line (xinyi has already suggested a hokkien restaurant in jalan besar, hem hem.) and the district tenners no doubt want to eat along bukit timah. xinyi has come up with a "roster" and we are also establishing principles about the places we may not propose (over-commercialised chains with average food and tacky decor i.e. thai express, conveyor belt sushi, macs, etc.) the first of these thursday dinners will be nov 2, poach has already pounced on the jealous date and is taking us out to bedok for zichar.

speaking of people i don't see enough, whatever happened to su-lin's plan to see dodgy french-made agatha christie movies? because if that's not happening can we go to the german film festival instead?