Hey Azlul...

Let it be known that I was known as Azlul all throughout my primary and the early part of my secondary school years. Whenever my friends call home, "Hello? Can I speak to Azlul, please?". The standard reply would be,"Azlul yang mana?" There are 7 of us siblings and we all have Azlul as our first name. It is all rather romantic, really - Azlul is the combinaton of my mom and my dad's names - AZizah + zaghLoL. So, the result were ; Azlul Azimah, Azlul Adilah, Azlul Kalilah, Azlul Shkib Arslan, Azlul Wadzihah, Azlul Malihah and Azlul Syakirah Uyainah. It didn't help that the first three girls were one year apart from each other and we all went to the same school. There were a lot.... of confusion during those days...

The reason I brought the whole Azlul thing up is because my primary school friends are planning to have our 20th year reunion this year and we are in the process of gathering as many people from our batch as possible. A little brainstorming and teh tarik session was scheduled at 9pm in Hartamas. I was excited and anticipating the moment coz for most of us it has really been 20 years since we last saw each other. When they first saw me, "Hey Azlul.." were flying all over the place coz they really didn't know me by any other name. It's pretty weird and I kinda needed a little adjusting to. heh heh heh

Well, basically we catched up on things and tried to recall as many names as we could for the reunion. (Most popular names were: H'ng Tien Yao (the most good-looking guy in SSP), Sarah Louise Merbeck, Yasmin Haron, Imran Yaakob, Ahmad Faiz Hashim, Syazrina Sabri..) 9 of us turned up for the meet up and those present were: Aida (one of my best buddies in school, now a lawyer), Nadia(the school babe, now studying in Melbourne), Wan Intan (helps out his hubby's company doing PR work), Johan Arif & gf (he says he is a farmer? - long hair now, looking very macho), Idham (composer, musicy kinda line- still looks like he used to look in Std 6), Rizal Shafie (tight with Idham - sings, the images I have of him before and after just does not jive!), Razlee (I forgot what he's into), Suhazi Reza(Maybank Assurance, was it?) and of course, yours truly. It is really amazing really, some of the people did not change a bit -- exactly like I remembered them 20 years ago and some had really really transformed. More matured, or even changed totally physically. But in some weird way, they didn't change at all. I could still see the Std 6 version of themselves in them. Freaky, eh? Eddie and Jo were telling me that I was a damn strict prefect. Lambat satu minit pun kena ambik nama. Really? I can't for the life of me remember doing that but I can somehow believe that I did. heh heh heh.It doesn't seem like we've left school for 20 years. I can even remember how to sing our school song, damn it!

Sekolah Sri Petaling 

Satukan berbagai bangsa 

Tenaganya digembeling 

Berusahalah untuk nusa 

Wahai murid sekelian 

Bergerak maju sekata 

Agar tercapai impian 

Bergunalah untuk nusa 

Hidup berjasa cogannya 

Mengikut fikiran baru 

Sopan santun pekertinya 

Hasilan usaha guru 

See, told you I still remember it. I have to get these people in the loop; Rizal & Reza Zin, Faiz Hashim, Sarafina, Azamuddin.. Sapa lagi, ek? Lim Shen Yang, R. Murali, Chen Pui Yin, Elissa Soon; where are you guys? Some are already in the loop , eg Nasriah, Rohaila, Suriati, Sadiq, Ida Mariani and Azida. So, we have quite a number within our radar already. 

Well, our next course of action is to set up a yahoo-group and get as many people roped in as possible. Maybe even have a big thingy on nearing the end of the year. (ala-ala prom, gitu..)So, those of you who know of any SSP kids Batch 87, kindly get in touch with Idham aka Eddie or me. We'll get you hooked, ok?

-dillz blogging out-