here are some highlights from my dinner with my friends last night at Miss Clarity, in random order:
1) My friend met his university senior while we were being seated at the restaurant. He had a long chat with him while the rest of us were looking through the menu. Later as he came back to join us, he told us how grateful he is to that senior. The reason was because of a chair. 
It seems like this senior of my friend bought a chair that belonged to a professor while his study days in the university. And according to my friend, with that chair, the senior graduated summa cum laude during his batch.
The story continues that my friend bought over that chair from his senior, after the senior graduated. Before he bought the chair, my friend has been getting grades 'B's and 'C's in his academic coursework. After buying THE CHAIR, my friend suddenly started to get his strings of 'A's... 
My other friend just quipped to at the end to this story, "See, this is how Asians modestly declare their successes, by attributing it to chairs la..." 
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2) oh, the other friend who quipped later turned to us and asked whether we know what is the minimum amount of money that a reservist has to earn for his monthly income so that the Armed Forces WON'T call him back for reservist. Well, according to rumour, I replied one has to earn about 20K moola per month. My friend was like totally crushed at that amount. The other 2 friends were going on like, "Sure or not? 20K?"
Well, it's hearsay la. But if one is not holding any appointment in a reservist army unit, and is just a plain private or lance-corporal, he will definitely laugh his way all the way to the bank, if the army recalls him for reservist, despite his hefty salary. That is because the armed forces will still have to compensate the reservist for the time spent on reservist training, with the same salary as he is getting in his civilian job.
My friend thought over it, and after a while, quipped, "Must be 20K ah? 15K can or not? even 15K I also a long way off ah, but still it's better than the 20K mark"
To which another friend says, "Yea right, as if they would let you off. But no bad what, if they call you despite the 15K. You'll be the 15 Thousand Dollar Storeman, like the 6-Million Dollar Man**..." We just burst out laughing as this friend did the famous sound effects*** of the 6-Million Dollar Man, and said in a serious tone the following,
" The Fifteen Thousand Dollar Storeman...
Slower...
Older...
More Bo-chup."
3) Oh, it so happened it was my friend's senior's birthday. He was just having dinner with another guy friend. And the friend bought the senior a nice little cake (can finish in 3 mouthfuls kind) with a candle on top 
. Well, we did a rousing birthday song for the birthday boy-o in the cafe itself.
4) oh, we also talked about Monty Python's Film "The Holy Grail". We all decided it is a great movie. We remember with fondness the knights who say "Ni!", and the black knight, and the Holy hand grenade of Antioch. One of the friends can actually recite the litany which the priest blessed the Holy grenade before it was used on the killer bunny...
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* oh, apparently the chair is still in use in the university. My friend never brought that chair home with him. Mystery? Coincidence? You decide...
** ok, the fact that we remembered the 6-Million Dollar Man just goes to reveal how old we are at the dinner table. Apologies to the younger generation who never hear of him.
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071054/
*** you can hear the sound here
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