A beginning

From left: Ruben Sario, Wong Tuck Wing, Yapp Soon Phin, Lu Kien Chee, Mike Govind, Benedict Teo, Phyllis Yap, Chu Wai Quan, Gwendolen Vu, Joseph Wong, Jewan Singh and David Foo.

Welcome to a blog for all St Mary's secondary form five science alumni of 1980. This is for us.

This blog is also the result of a mini reunion of 12 of us at the Shiok restaurant in 1Borneo on Sept 26.

All the while, we have been keeping in touch via email and personally I was having some difficulty in keeping track of who was saying what at times.

So at the reunion, I told Chu that it would be a good idea for us to have a blog where we could post messages, greetings, pictures, videos and links to other sites which we think the others might be interested in. This is possible as all of us would have the username and password to update and post things in this blog. And we could also comment on the postings, thus one way of keeping in touch with each other.

Since all of us posting stuff, I would suggest that whoever post anything put their names at the bottom so that we'll know who is saying what.

And so here it is, our own blog. For the first posting, I'm posting some pics I took at the reunion that was extra special as Jewan, Ben Teo and Yap Soon Pin took time to come to KK from Miri and Lahad Datu respectively just to be with us. Kudos to them.

Thanks to David Foo, there's not only photos of the event but also a video recording of it as well, it can be viewed here. And Wong Tuck Wing had an interesting Power Point take on the gathering in his email to us.


Here's some more pictures I took at the gathering.


The initial conversation was more focused on everybody catching up with each other. I think Wong Tuck Wing brought the class photo and the conversation drifted to those we have not met for 30 years, the names Chua Pui Bak, Ruel Manluping come to mind.

By the way Ben Teo's red eyes was because of my camera flash and not because he turned into some creature after years or rather decades in Lahad Datu (Sorry Ben, I couldn't resist that ; ) )

And after the unique individual style steamboat dinner, we adjourned to Starbucks where a very animated conversation as we chartered the future political direction of the country. Heh heh.

The gathering winded down at about midnight after we received some glares from the Star Bucks staff one of whom finally told us quite loudly that they had closed for the day.

Hopefully this reunion will lead to more gatherings and in between enable us to keep in touch.

Let's keep the torch of friendship among us alight.

Ruben