Monday, August 10, 2009

ACS 73/75 Makan2/minum2 at Rock Garden

Snapshots of chee kai's visit on 8 aug at Rock Garden, Robson Height last saturday 8 August.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Hum KeeKuang wrote:
Hi all,
Our long lost bro Charle Wong CheeKai, (school basketballer, swimmer, volleyball player & waterpolo player...wonder where he got time to study) will be arriving in KL on sat morning before hopping back to Ipoh and then presumebly back to Oz.

We will be having a makan2/minum2 @ RockGarden (map attached) at around 8ish pm this Saturday 8 August....nothing fanciful, just a gathering of old frens to makan/minum (can provide satay & non-alchoholic drinks too) and talk cock for those who can make it. As usual RSVP by email or sms would be great.

Cheers...KeeKuang




Friday, May 22, 2009

UM surgeon wins international breast cancer award

Well done ChengHar and most important of all, your contributions to Malaysian women (& men).

NST Online » NewsBreak
2009/05/20
UM surgeon wins international breast cancer award

KUALA LUMPUR, Wed:
Prof Dr Cheng Har Yip, a surgeon with University Malaya Medical Centre, has received an international award for her outstanding work in breast cancer treatment.

She was awarded the UICC (International Union Against Cancer) 2009 Reach to Recovery International Health Professional Award at a conference held in Brisbane, Australia, last week.

She was the only recipient outside Australia to receive the award from the United States based body.

“As much as I am happy to receive it, I also want women in Malaysia to come for screening and early detection of the disease,” she said when met at the 15the UICC Reach to Recovery International Breast Cancer Support Conference in Brisbane.

Dr Yip, a breast surgeon at UMMC, said 1 in 20 Malaysian women would develop breast cancer in their lifetime and Chinese have the highest incidence followed by Indians and Malays.
She also said 1 in 16 women, for both Chinese and Indian, were at risk of getting breast cancer as compared with 1 in 28 Malay women. “The commonest age at which a woman can get the disease is between 40 and 49 years. My greatest concern is Malay women who come in at later stages with larger tumours. Consequently their survival rate is worse than with Chinese and Indian women,” she added.

She said the challenge in Malaysia was to be able to provide a comprehensive service in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

Dr Yip started the breast clinic in UMMC in 1993 and has written over 70 articles on the subject in medical journals.

She is the chairman of the National Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Breast Cancer in Malaysia and is on the Council of the College of Surgeons of Malaysia.

She is an exco member of the Asian Breast Cancer Society, a member of Breast Surgery International and also sits on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Breast Health Global Initiatives Foundation.

“My research interest are in the epidemiology, early detection and management of breast cancer in developing countries,” said Dr Yip, who works closely with breast cancer support groups and non-governmental organisations to promote health awareness and early detection of breast cancer.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

dELicous.....aGAin

A couple of pics for those who could not make it tonite.....missed the dELICOUS assam garoupa. lasagna (plse check spelling...my england not too powderful) and nyonya laksa. Number of names were mentioned kah yew, harban singh, danaraj, shamugan, aminzain, cheekai, yew thye during the table talk as we try to conjure how all of us were like then. Oso nostalgic were other stuffs like shoes with reflective mirrors, interesting teachers and some early female liberators......
# Perumal - can you plse forward this email to danaraj and copy to me. I will be posting this on www.ipohacs.blogspot.com where you can check out some older posts.





Sunday, April 5, 2009

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

Saturday, January 31, 2009

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.....




Sunday, December 28, 2008

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.....