Monday, July 05, 2004
Reunion
Some of our classmates have gathered together to plan for a grand reunion of our schoolboys. After so many years of leaving high school, the old boys are excited. Many of us have not met each other as we worked in different cities. A substantial number of our old boys have also migrated overseas.
While the planning for the reunion is on, there are communications almost daily through telephones, letters and e-mails. I have received so many e-mails that the management of these e-mails need more than a bit of attention. I can safely conclude that the desire to communicate with each other is strong.
To facilitate the communication, I have taken the initiative to set up a communication platform in the form of Yahoo Group. Thanks to the advancement in the information technology, the Yahoo Group can be set up for free. Members only need to register and sign in to read and post messages and photos. I consider this a far better platform than just individual e-mails considering our class are a group of more than 600 peoples.
Some of our boys have responded to my invitation to join the Yahoo Group and signed up. However, for the other, there may be various reasons why they are yet to sign up to join the group. Perhaps, it may be the lack of access to computer Internet, or a lack of confidence in the use of advanced technology. This is likely consider the fact that personal computer was yet to be invented during our high school days. Perhaps it is simply a case of lack of time as they all have other priorities in life. Perhaps I might have misread the enthusiasm.
Needless to say, it is very important to keep ourselves abreast with the advancement in technology, failing which we will be left behind.
The picture below appears in the homepage of our Yahoo Group.
It reads:
“With the passage of time, our happiness, our tears, our ambitions and our purity of childhood are fading into the distance. If you ever have a chance to meet up any of our childhood playmates are you still able to recognize those traces of childhood?
We do not have to remember every bit of happenings during our childhood. However, we are able to stop our rush forward in the fast lane of life occasionally to take a momentarily look backward. It is because, behind us, we have the most sincere laughters, our tears of first love, and our forever friendship.”
While the planning for the reunion is on, there are communications almost daily through telephones, letters and e-mails. I have received so many e-mails that the management of these e-mails need more than a bit of attention. I can safely conclude that the desire to communicate with each other is strong.
To facilitate the communication, I have taken the initiative to set up a communication platform in the form of Yahoo Group. Thanks to the advancement in the information technology, the Yahoo Group can be set up for free. Members only need to register and sign in to read and post messages and photos. I consider this a far better platform than just individual e-mails considering our class are a group of more than 600 peoples.
Some of our boys have responded to my invitation to join the Yahoo Group and signed up. However, for the other, there may be various reasons why they are yet to sign up to join the group. Perhaps, it may be the lack of access to computer Internet, or a lack of confidence in the use of advanced technology. This is likely consider the fact that personal computer was yet to be invented during our high school days. Perhaps it is simply a case of lack of time as they all have other priorities in life. Perhaps I might have misread the enthusiasm.
Needless to say, it is very important to keep ourselves abreast with the advancement in technology, failing which we will be left behind.
The picture below appears in the homepage of our Yahoo Group.
It reads:
“With the passage of time, our happiness, our tears, our ambitions and our purity of childhood are fading into the distance. If you ever have a chance to meet up any of our childhood playmates are you still able to recognize those traces of childhood?
We do not have to remember every bit of happenings during our childhood. However, we are able to stop our rush forward in the fast lane of life occasionally to take a momentarily look backward. It is because, behind us, we have the most sincere laughters, our tears of first love, and our forever friendship.”
