SJS 60th Anniversary Dinner - 14th February 2015 in JB

Following is an extract from a facebook posting by Ng Chai Ming. Maybe we should secure a couple of tables? Volunteers?

"SJS 60th anniversary dinner 

on the 14 Feb 2015 at 

Persada Puteri Pacific hotel.

Tickets will be on sale once we have printed them. Price per ticket

not confirm yet but should be around Rm120. 4 tables reserve for

our ex teachers. Will update you guys."

I will update via this page as soon as I receive more information as to how to obtain tickets, etc

Unleashing your Talents

Feeling restless after retirement, planning for your retirement? Have you explored your latent talents? Have you talked about this subject with anyone? 

We have our Hock Meng moderating a forum that is expected to be both fun and informative on this subject.

You will also hear what a psychiatrist have to say about our mental state upon being pushed to retire.

Place is limited. If interested, please register early.

Get-Together on 18th May, Friday in KL

We will have a get-together on 18th May, 2012 (Friday) from 9pm 'onwards'. The 'onwards' was penned by Yusof Hashim. I guess it would well end after midnight.

The venue chosen is:

Uncle Don
Plaza Damas
Sri Hartamas

I have not been there myself. The location map can be found here

Yusof is the main coordinator for this get-together. If you need further details on the venue, you may want to contact him. Otherwise, it is totally informal, and for many of us, it would be the first meeting after leaving St. Joseph's in 1978.

As of today, 13th May, Yusof informed me that 20 of our classmates has confirmed attendance.


And the turnout, in Yusof's text:

Flight J B 78 departed with
Captain Tan Kok Soon
F/Officer Yong Chong Soon
Inflight Mgr Yusof Hashim
Pax List Choo Beng Kong
... Ungku Harun Al-Rashid
Shamsul Jabar
Prof Dr Md Roff Md Noor
Soo Ho Hock Meng
Quah Ban Lee
Norizan Talib
Rosly Shariff
Lim Yong Tong
Md Johari Md Noor
Noormustafa Kamal Yahya
Joseph Pious
Dato Dr Ibrahim Wahid
G.Indran
Logan Sabapathy
Yap Say Woon
 
Someone took some photographs, and these can be found in Facebook. 

We are now planning for the next gathering. Ideas welcome.

 

Dinner at One Utama (Peranakan Restaurant)

Harjinder's in KL for a brief visit. We have, from left to right, Logan, Ungku Harun, Frank Lim Yong Tong, Kok Soon, Beng Kong, Harjinder, YCS, Hock Meng and Say Woon

DEALING WITH INSULT....Lord Buddha

Shared by Mok Kin Hong - more relevant than ever, in this fast paced society:

The Buddha explained how to handle insult and maintain compassion.

One day Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. "You have no right teaching others," he shouted. "You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake."

Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man "Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take it, to whom does the gift belong?"

The man was surprised to be asked such a strange question and answered,  "It would belong to me, because I bought the gift."

The Buddha smiled and said, "That is correct. And it is exactly the same with your anger. If you become angry with me and I do not get insulted, then the anger falls back on you. You are then the only one who becomes unhappy, not me. All you have done is hurt yourself."

"If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger and become loving instead. When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy."

Photographs from the old days

Ng Chai Ming just sent over some photographs which I have uploaded to my web-site. If you want to, you can download any or all of the photographs.

The url: St-Josephs-School, Old Photographs

Thanks, Chai Ming

Re-Union on 4th June @ M Suites Hotel, and thereafter . . .

The event that was attended by 38 classmates and 4 teachers was everything that I wanted. Meeting old friends, re-connecting with some whom we tried to 'track' over all these 33 years, and seeing and interacting with our teachers in a different light. Interestingly, the teachers are all more humorous than I remembered.

Peng Tong and son documented the evening on 'film'. The photographs had been uploaded to facebook - "St Joseph's JB - Class of '78", and Thomas Fann's Gallery

The nostalgia was brought back by the cartoons that Xavier drew (can be found in Life in St Joseph's JB - depicted by Xavier Lim, brought to you by Thomas Fann).

It was a shame that there was just not enough time to catch up with everyone. Maybe that is one of the reason that, many who was there wanted a re-union annually although a couple felt that it would be better if it is held every five years. Give us your feedback. If Peng Tong does not mind, I would like him to take over the organisation of the next re-union, as he had in the past organised quite a few. And Kingsley is the ideal person for us to look up to in terms of venue. Maybe he can work hand in hand with Peng Tong to make the next re-union a much more successful one.

What I really wanted us to ponder on is whether or not we can do something meaningful as a group of 'old boys'.

For your information,

- the classes of '71 & '72 jointly set up a charity fund to take care of the welfare of the needy primary school students, and

- the class of '68 is going to carry out a project to improve the condition of the school field

What does the class of '78 want to do?

You can either leave your comment(s) on this blog or send an email to me - ycs.photo@gmail.com