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The reminiscence.

I was informed by DeFa that this 1st of May will be the 25th Anniversary of YBF. I have to admit that I was a bit reluctant to go as I wasn’t sure about my off days and all but I guess I made the right choice :)

I was greeted by that same building that once spent a lot of time in. I guess it was the same for everybody. And the very first thing that I noticed is…

Doesn’t he look like our Tan Tho Wei?!?!?!!

Different generation. Same face. Haha. Well, it straight away brought me back to sweet old times. LOL. But I never got to talk to this more ‘in’ version of ThoWei.

A walk around the building revealed this.

Meaning good food after the event! The same old aunties cooking for all the camps and events including Wesak day. It is certainly something to look forward to.

At first I was a bit bored because of the small quantity of people who presented. This is merely 10% of us here! 10% from the 1st YBF camp & members till the current 24th YBF camp members. Anyway, the even kicked off. A speech from the current chairman of Kluang Young Buddhist Fellowship.

And then the very core of YBF, and also at the same time, the founder of this big family.

Like I said, these are merely 10% of this big family. Seriously.

And then we have a talk session, for the older generations to tell us what this is all about 25 years ago, how everything evolves and what YBF meant to them during that time.

Most talk about a lot of stuffs. The odd time of bathing in 3 mins or less. The limit of water usage during YBF camp. The memory of singing the Triple Gem Song, the moments together with friends, to treasure our big family friendship. I particularly like something which was said by one senior that there will never be a gap between us, the older YBF and the younger ones, because we are one big family :)

Well, what I noticed, be in older generations who joined YBF 20 years ago or those who join during the past 10 years, we never shy away from cameras.

SO nice to see people smile. I think I need some smile dose myself.

Later on we have some singing session. And sang some of the all time favorite Buddhist songs. Can’t believe we sang the 4 songs compilation -__-”

Anyway, it was fun! Until seniors beh tahan that the younger generation holding hands and singing happily on the floor. He practically took over and shoo the guitarists to back stage. LOL.

They challenged us for a song vs song situation. The younger vs older YBF thingy. LOL.

Note who is the guitarists now!

And demanded for the very first Buddhist song book which they used 25 years ago!

Some songs were written by the seniors. And the writer itself could not remember how to sing them. Haha.

And a peaceful ‘joint venture’ of the lovelit image song bridging the ‘gap’. Come to think of it. Things didn’t really changed. We do shared the same memory, same song book, and same likings.

Ah wa making the birthday cake for YBF.

And the end, before eating and lots of big family pics!

The ‘older’ generations. Very sensitive word among them by the way. The word old shouldn’t be said often!

And the younger but also old us. 10% of us i guess.

And the current happy YBF. 25% of them i guess.

And our future!

And those all who present.

This is definitely only some of us. Where are all of you? Hopefully the next anniversary will be more happening. With more old friends appearing.

This is how we grew!

Sadhu sadhu sadhu! :)