Profile - Owen Gan

Memories of nsbhs
Lets see…… brandings, king gees, handball (darren clarke and nick radford cleaning everyone up), weird bell times (17 minute recess, 53 minute periods??), bus run, custard tarts, some church in lindfield that thought they were getting kids off the street on friday nites in year 10, but were just giving us a place to get hammered (and to use the leigh Sanders developed laminated fake train pass age IDs – interestingly, I still use fake ids now, but for the exact opp reason…), water bombs, memorable teachers – lynch, weiss, williams, becker (shark wrestler), brown, hilditch, armour (we could start a separate blog on mr armour alone!), mcbride (thanks for the hotel laundry cleaning work experience gig), that lady english teacher that used to say f*ck a lot, bizarre school trip to indonesia in year 11 with simon, jim, cameron and co, morning bus sojourn with jim and wayland, blob and “bad beard”, bennie teh in pyjamas by 5pm, great sports, great atmosphere

Comment on attached photo - last year in ny with mr copland - temp was well into negative numbers - jim spent the day leisurely walking around with a simple long sleeve shirt on whilst I froze with about 7 layers and a ridiculous hat

Life since school
Gotta say, ive enjoyed reading the previous profiles, really interesting - ted's ice hockey in lebanon the stand out! Scary that it took me quite a while to remember what actually happened in the 90s! Well, went to uni after high school – was a commerce degree, so could squeeze lectures into just 2 days and worked various jobs. Lived for holidays and overseas adventures for some years. Kind of a groundhog-week existence for a while (that can happen when you go and finish uni early and aren’t ready for serious work..). Lot of sports (badminton – inc some overseas tours) until knee packed in in 94… Finished a MBA in 97, then got a “proper” job, which started with the set up of a SAP consultancy in Singapore – a three month deal, that has turned into 7 and a half years in Asia! Was involved in the set up of the Siemens IT Services business for the region, more recently was managing some product groups for CA across Asia, before very recently joining a start up Telco software vendor (would have been called a dot-bomb several years back..)
As always seems to be the way when you live overseas – particularly in Asia, you freeze at the age you were when you arrived… which makes me still 27. the personal and emotional life has followed this pattern also. Was engaged when moved up here, but that relationship couldn’t take the change, unfortunately…
Btw - If anyone is passing though Singapore, don’t hesitate to contact me. do have some nsbhs mates here that finished in like 1998!! (see 2 sentences back).

Who is important to me now?
Girlfriend, great group of local and expat mates, family…