abc.......those were the days

For those who missed our nite out with WaiHoong....its back to nostalgic ice kacang as after dinner treat since we could not have the durians; the SS2 durian stall was too packed contrary to all the talk about recessions and people spending less. Time has changed though....ice kacang is now is now served in fanciful glass and cost RM2.30 compared to 20 cents back in the seventies....sighhhh those were the days especially the ice-bola kacang that cost only 10 cent per ball. So enjoy all these stuffs while they are still affordable.....

Cheers...kk

ACS 75/73's Rocking Party @ Rock Garden

Good turnup, good catchup and a fun night of coconut water, air swam (is that how it is spelt?), chinese tea, beer, wine and whisky. We have prof yip, fongfatt, chatphui, tuckseng, feichiew, foowah & wife angie, alvin, nyatkeong, keecheong, maysan, wanhon, yours truly and surprise-surprise we have seechun who came later and his first time with the group....welcome..at least we have one more from USB other than OnnKeong . It appeared that our group is growing larger as we get more mature......

Below are some of the pics taken......kind of blurry with my pdaphone camera. Maybe those with better pictures can post or circulate them later.

The gathering place.....Rock Garden of Robson Height

ACS 75/73's favourtie eating and drinking spot in KL

Alvin and FF not talking.....

ChatPhui trying to get Thum WaiSeng....maybe someone can forward this email to him as I do not have his email address. And we have FongFatt, KeeCheong, ChengHar, FooWah, Angie (FW's better half)

TuckSeng and ToongMeng

Alvin opening the 3rd bottle of red wine for the nite and seated ...wanhon, feichiew and nyatkeong

KeeCheong wondering whether it is time to take out his BlackLabel as the wine is fast disappearing.....

Happy MaySan in the centre.....

Long lost comrade who had moved from Ipoh to Kiwi Land then to Crocodile Dundee's country and visiting Malaysia @ the moment

Raj aka Nalliah Rajalingam been back to Malaysia annually for last 3-4 years and it was only through NK that we finally met up with him tonite.......after 34 years. It was a small gathering but the catch-ups was good especially exchange of views of what (we think) is happening globally and expectation of 2009. Some of the ideas were profound but mostly incomprehensible...e.g why the USD is gets stronger as US's economy gets more teruk, talk about the confederation of US, Canada and Mexico and their new currency or why printing of money is not such a bad idea as a way out of recession.

Anyway hope to see Raj more often and trust he and Leona will have a safe trip back to Sydney tomorrow nite. God Bless.....

ACS Reunion Dinner 2008

Leong Oon Keong, Liew Kam Chong, Teh Moon Chong, Perumal, Chan Nyat Keong

YB Lim's family from Hong Kong and USA.

Chan Kok Meng showing off his ACS school badge. Where is his school prefect badge? Perumal is back from afar.

Picture with school teachers: Mrs. Wong Chong Yim and Mr. Lam Poh Wah.

With MGS Primary Headmistress Mdm. Yau Sook Fun. Hum Kee Kuang is on the right.

To the right of Perumal is Daimler and Vivian.

113 year old.......

Was in Ipoh on Saturday night for the 113 anniversary of our alma mater with NK. One of the highlights was the singing of the school song.....and for one moment I thought Mr Chin YK might consider singing the Horley Hall's anthem. There were some 50 tables altogether which work roughly out an average 2 tables per year but then again as usual there are more active exACS for certain years....class of 75/73 was under-represented as I estimated there were less than 10 of us. Class of 1978 seem to be most active and apparently they have collected RM26k for the school during one of their reunions.

Yong Been and families were there and also managed to catch up with Ngan Sing. At our table was OnnKeong, NK, Sook Fun, Mr Lam Poh Wah (an old teacher turned remiser), Moon Chong and his friend Simon, another couple whom I did not catch their names and an old fren whom most of us have not seen for a looooong time. Have a guesss of who he is ....

I am refering to the guy in white....and on the left is Lam Poh Wah.

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Video of Bangsar Gathering

video clip of bangsar gathering

More Pictures of CNY Gathering

This CNY gathering is truly remarkable. Gathered are some whom I have not met since I left ACS in 1976. Perhaps this gathering is the beginning of something bigger next year. Thanks to Kee Kuang for sending out a timely email to meet. Surprisingly most of the people gathered are actually staying in KL now. We shall definitely try harder to gather more classmates who are staying in Ipoh next year. Perhaps more teachers too.