Comments on: My Alma Mater – Anglo Chinese Secondary School Part 2 https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/ Writings By a Driving Instructor With 40+ Years Teaching Experience Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:14:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Roselan johar mohamed https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-32933 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:14:48 +0000 http://driving-school.com.my/?p=3873#comment-32933 What do you think?
I joined ACS from MBS Port Swettenham in 1965. The subject of discussion was definitely before my arrival. Nevertheless, ACS has truly exposed me to an age of maturity and discovery to the meaning of friends and friendship.

Yes i remember teacher Sonny Tan, bcos he walks as if he wants to spring to catch something. Tonight only I knew he plays badminton. I also remember teacher Koh yan hoe, K O chandy S P SUbramaniam, Mr and Mrs T O George.
I wonder what happen to teacher Markandu bcos I distinctly remember there was some feeling of infatuation with teacher Verghese. I wonder what happen to them. Did they get married? If anybody knew, pls let me know bcos i sure like to write them a letter.

Of course my favourite teacher was Mrs Nesa Bhupalan who lives across the railway line into Jalan Tepi Sungai. May I wish them well.

For tonight, i think the above will just do for the moment. I wud luv to write more but there are things that cannot wait, like watching golf on ch 815.

Long live ACS and everybody connected with it.
May u live as long as u want, but do not be wanting as long as u live!

Wassalam/roselan
I am now in kota kinabalu.
They say, he who never writes, never receives.

]]> By: Cikgu Yap https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-32882 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:45:15 +0000 http://driving-school.com.my/?p=3873#comment-32882 In reply to Roselan johar mohamed.

I am surprised and delighted hearing from an ex-ACS boy from Sabah. Hearing of MBS stirs up pleasant memories of football games ACS (Pr), played with your school in the 1958 – 60s. I clearly remember MBS being located behind the Balai Bomba. Mr. Lum Kin Tuck was then your headmaster for many, many years.

Permit me to update you your former teachers of our alma mater. I have no news of Mr. Verghese. Mr. Markandu, I understand, left teaching to take up law. Glad you know Koh Yan Hoe, KO Chandy, TO George and SP Subramaniam too. Your favourite teacher, Mrs. N Bhupalan must be retired by now. Bhupalan however rose up to be ACS principal for a short while.

I’m surprised that only now do you know that Mr. Sonny Tan was Malayan 3rd singles player of our Thomas Cup team. As I said, he nearly overcame Ferry Sonnenville of Indonesia in those years. All ACS boys including myself was sure mighty proud of him.

Mr. Lim Kin Tuck, your headmaster, is now in his 90s. He is currently the President of the Senior Citizen’s Club in Jalan Telok Pulai, Klang.

Finally, I am glad ACS, our school, has provided you a lot in terms of friends and friendship. If not busy watching golf, do write to us again.

Take care and good health.

]]> By: Roselan johar mohamed https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-32848 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:26:10 +0000 http://driving-school.com.my/?p=3873#comment-32848 I joined ACS from MBS Port Swettenham in 1965. The subject of discussion was definitely before my arrival. Nevertheless, ACS has truly exposed me to an age of maturity and discovery to the meaning of friends and friendship.

Yes i remember teacher Sonny Tan, bcos he walks as if he wants to spring to catch something. Tonight only I knew he plays badminton. I also remember teacher Koh yan hoe, K O chandy S P SUbramaniam, Mr and Mrs T O George.
I wonder what happen to teacher Markandu bcos I distinctly remember there was some feeling of infatuation with teacher Verghese. I wonder what happen to them. Did they get married? If anybody knew, pls let me know bcos i sure like to write them a letter.

Of course my favourite teacher was Mrs Nesa Bhupalan who lives across the railway line into Jalan Tepi Sungai. May I wish them well.

For tonight, i think the above will just do for the moment. I wud luv to write more but there are things that cannot wait, like watching golf on ch 815.

Long live ACS and everybody connected with it.
May u live as long as u want, but do not be wanting as long as u live!

Wassalam/roselan
I am now in kota kinabalu.
They say, he who never writes, never receives.

]]> By: Cikgu Yap https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19482 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:05:42 +0000 http://driving-school.com.my/?p=3873#comment-19482 In reply to Gobinathan Nair.

Your reminiscences regarding our alma mater’s sports day has indeed brought much sweet memories of our 105-‘s and 60s days. I still remember the activities our friends went about collecting ferns and decorating our tents with buntings and flags. Pupils of all races worked closely together in those days. It was, I believe, “1 Malaysia” at its very best.

It’s surprisingly that even though more than 50 years since gone by, that you are still capable of remembering most of our class mates. You must also still remember Nasrijial, Kamaruddin, Teoh Beng Kuan, Lee Chye Huat (the goalkeeper), Khalid and Victor Yesuratnam, the Ceylonese boy. Not forgetting also Gurdip Sing, better known as Ignatius Dev Anand. Gurdip was unfortunately crippled in one leg.

All in all, it has been wonderful hearing from you after all these years.

Do you still remember Mah Chee Hak, the 100m runner? And our P.E. master Sonny Tan, who was in the Malayan Thomas Cup Team? Mr. Sonny Tan once played against Indonesia’s 1st singles player, Ferry Sonneville and stretched Sonneville to 3 rubber sets at Stadium Negara. Mr. Sonny Tan, did all A.C.S. pupils proud with his fantastic performance!

Take care and God Bless!

]]> By: Gobinathan Nair https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19308 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:29:39 +0000 http://driving-school.com.my/?p=3873#comment-19308 Continuing reminiscences of our bygone sports days.
Those of us who were not good on the sports field got involved in decorating the house tent as there was a trophy for the “Best Decorated House”. We divided ourselves into groups according to our experiences, abilities and talents as we were made up of scouts, boy’s brigade members, artists and those who knew the local terrain.
One group was assigned to explore the “belukar” at the back of the school (it is now a heavily populated residential area) close to the riverside to collect nipah palm fronds and fruits. Another was off to the Banting Road where a few miles after the cemetery the estate began and on the hillocks thrived a huge undergrowth of evergreen fern. All we needed to collect these items were a “parang”, bicycles and a lot of bravery and brawn for one never knew what denizens lurked beneath the foliage.
The last group went off to the stationers to get the paper decorations.
Sports Day was always a Saturday. Friday was a sort of laisser-faire day as not much teaching went on. The house tent put up by the school groundsmen was a uniform skeleton structure with a tarpaulin stretched across the top for protection against the elements- mainly rain. Work went on at a busy pace. In the middle of the frenzied activity, there was time for a few of the members to spy on what the other houses were up to. There was no great planning but everything sort of fell into place as everyone institively knew what to do or what to create from a general verbal plan and by evening the tent was well embellished. Only the finer bits of decorations were left for the next day as rain can cause havoc to crepe paper.
A few of us slept in the tent overnight as there was a chance of sabotage by members of the other houses. The next morning was fine tuning time- for the crepe paper and tinsel decorations to be placed in well thought out vantage points. Tables were arranged for the house athletes and the refreshments for the members of the house were also collected from the Sports Secretary and prepared for distribution during the sports meet.
Some years we won the trophy for the Best Decorated House. Whether we won the trophy or not we all had a wonderful time team spirit, sportsmanship and cooperative learning, working and playing. There was no textbook written then for this sort of human relationship, team building and harmony. I think it was because we did not have politicians and racial politics then. We counted ourselves as ONE –a natural emotion not something drummed into us by textbooks and slogans.
In case you are wondering- some of the classmates I remember are: Pamidi, Md. Chudi, Md. Daud- he drew the mural), Nordin, Suppiah, Krishnan, Thinakaran, Sunder Singh, Jeswant Singh, Teoh Beng Kiong, Khoo Oon Tian,
Fakaruddin, Ramu, Md. Sarib, Koshy, Abraham- a truly multicultural bunch- who sat, ate and played together- each understanding and respecting the others beliefs and traditions even though we did not understand them.
I think we are trying to reinvent the wheel- I hope we can.

]]> By: Cikgu Yap https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19290 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:16:25 +0000 http://driving-school.com.my/?p=3873#comment-19290 In reply to Gobinathan Nair.

Glad to hear from you. Hope that tales about our alma mater has brough back fond memories. “D” house I think is purple.

]]> By: Gobinathan Nair https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19109 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:29:41 +0000 http://driving-school.com.my/?p=3873#comment-19109 Thanks for the wonderful recollection of bygone days at our Alma Mater. I do remember those days with much nostalgia and when I narrate my experiences to my nephews and grand nephews, they are of the opinion that my schooldays were much more interesting and vibrant than what they are experiencing.
I was the secretary of the Goh Hock Huat House (D House- I have forgotten what colour it was) and it was my duty to get our “HOUSE TENT” decorated for the best decorated tent competition. The school gave us $10?= (dollars then) but we went to our house teachers for additional donations which were used to buy a variety of crepe paper, buntings and other decorations from the stationery shops in Klang- the chief of which was Chin Trading in Rembau St.

]]> By: Driving Lessons https://driving-school.com.my/my-memories/my-alma-mater-anglo-chinese-secondary-school-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-13457 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:26:45 +0000 http://driving-school.com.my/?p=3873#comment-13457 Indeed, I definitely enjoyed reading about A.C.S. school. Yes, fun fare were really good in the olden days, now-a-days we only see them in summer, that too at very few places.

]]>