GESS66 FIRST ANNIVERSARY

GESS66 FIRST ANNIVERSARY

You guys aware that we are already 1 year old? April 15th, that's when we had our first meeting at Novotel Hotel. Congratulations!! We are still here, looking more gorgeous than ever!! It's great knowing that we are in relative good health and spirit. Someone up there is certainly looking after us. As we inch towards our 2nd year, let's make an attempt to locate other classmates/teachers and have they join us. Pictures ... if you have old pixs, don't keep them to yourselves, share them with us, post them on the blog. I am just as guilty, I have pixs, but my excuse is I do not have a scanner, anyone with an old scanner to donate?? School magazines... would be great to view those too if available.

School days, exciting times, poking fun of each other, fixation on teachers (female in particular), observing nature at work. From my e mail archive, I found this gem. Enjoy.

Reminiscing Miss RZ (name changed to protect the innocent)

Kelvin: If you would recall Miss RZ doing her Romeo and Juliet. She always kept her book just beneath her assets when reading to us and we all knew that she was indirectly admiring them. Chor Chye was her pet and he had this tendency of shaking his legs during lessons. Frankie and I used to count the number of times that he shoke his legs before an interval. She once caught us sniggering away while doing our counting and she really came down hard on us. Chin Tak and I used to disagree with her pronunciation of Montague. She always pronounced it as Mon-tague whilst the correct pronumciation should beMon-ta-gue. It really irritated us. Even certain lines rhymed with Mon-ta-gue and she still did not agree.

David: However, there was one incident that really stuck. One fine morning, Miss RZ was teaching Literature in class with her book "beneath her assets"(where else?), when our mathematics genius Tony Lim got everyone excited toward something in the football field. There were these 2 dogs(male & female ofcourse) doing their natural thing in the open field under nice weather and strong breeze. I was very sure if it wasn't for Tony, more than half of minds were somewhere else anyway. This naturally got Miss RZ mad. I could still recall her words.... "if you boys think you can learn from the dogs, don't waste my time here" or something to that effect. Little did she realise that "visual lesson" served all of us well in the latter part of our lives. As someone once said.... A picture paints a thousand words.