Quintessentially summer

And so with the ending of our attachments, with goodbyes to those leaving, the scholars decided to celebrate with a BBQ... mmm... undercooked meat with carbonized exteriors, a bomb of food poisoning AND cancer in the same package....

Starting the fire...


And what more apt than burning sugar on a stick?

Smiling is uncool...

We did better with the alcohol this time, managed to finish a bottle of Sheridan and a bottle of cognac between the 30 of us... and people started singing oldies like "Take me home, country road"...how few of us (including me) actually knew the lyrics ; man we're getting old...


Posed picture became a candid moment when camerawoman Huili exhorted us to be so, and tripped on the drain while taking the shot...

Farewell all, and good luck for the next half a decade..