A Message from the Website Jaga

Dear friends,

I trust you have enjoyed reconnecting on this site (as well as via other channels) over the past months. It is quite gratifying to see the visitor rate go from around 10+/day in January to 30+/day in Feb to 60+/day in March, and then it shot up to 120+/day since mid April. Interesting to note that this spike coincided with when the ladies started visiting the site (or at least making known to the rest that they were also online). Our all-time high was 173 visitors on 26 April. As several people have noted, the cumulative visit counter shot past 10,000 over a week ago, and is still racing upwards. And we are also approaching the 100th posting.

I do hope you will continue to visit, participate, give feedback & suggestions, and contribute new content for sharing with your friends. And not just the boys ... I'd like to encourage the girls to also send in their news and pictures, old and new ... And tell other formmates and friends about it so the community continues to grow.

Over the past few months, a few of us have been catching up virtually via another channel - Windows Live Messenger (previously known as MSN Messenger). Some of you may be familiar with this application which allows real-time chatting. What is nice about it is that we can have more than two persons chatting. Last night we tried four. I'm going to propose a session on a much larger scale - all the classes of Form 5 (1976) ... and their friends ... meet on a Windows Live Messenger session on a specific date & time in late May. It will be like a virtual cocktail party - lots of guys and gals standing around chatting with each other. It will be very interesting. We might even serve you virtual beer, wine and cheese if you behave yourselves :-)

I can be the central point of contact and will send out the invites in early May. In the meantime, if you are not on Windows Live Messenger, you may want to consider registering (it's free anyway). Then send me the email that you have registered under, and I will add you to my contact list. Or if you are already on Messenger, just add me as one of your contacts . My email, if you don't already know, is jslyong@hotmail.com . And please spread the word to others you know.

April is coming to a close. Happy May Day to any who celebrate it ....
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