Sunday, 2 November 2008
Thanks Siew Kuan, for giving me the permission to use your pictures.
Finally the LGSS's 45th Anniversary Reunion Dinner was here!
I came to know about it when the four of us visited the school on the 5 September.
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I had just came back to Miri on the 2 September and I was excited when Angela asked me on the 4 September if I would go with them to visit our school. She didn't tell me about the 45th Anniversary celebration then. They asked that I stay back for the special occasion. The date fitted into my schedule!
It didn't fit in Catherine's (who was our class and school head prefect) schedule. We missed her this night.
Our dear KK, who is best in gathering the classmates together, emailed on the 21 September 2008:
Hi Folks, First of all, this is not meant to be a disrespect or an insult nor be offensive to those observing the Ramadan.You may have already known or heard about it. Just to inform those with email box and some of whom I had also smsed on the LGSS 45TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION organised by the school.
Please now book your calendar for this event and do spread the news to relevant others.
Time & Date: 7PM sharp Sunday 2nd November 2008.
Venue: EASTWOOD VALLEY GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB (somewhere at the Miri Bypass - that between the Padang Kerbau flyover to Miri Airport)
Ticket Charge per head:RM40.00
Those interested individuals at KL/Singapore/Kuching, etc., are to timely email or sms confirm attendance with Aisah (she had affirmed 3 definites but would furnish the names soon) or me for the ticket reservation, pay to Aisah/me during collect the ticket at the venue.
Attendees from outstation are to advised make their own early online flight booking (MAS or Air Asia) or via travel agents to Miri. Our MASWings " globe trotting " MD Dr. Amin Khan maybe available for request to assist in getting the MAS flight seats under specific dilemma situations.
Though comfortably confident with the current confirmed and not withstanding an interim booking of just 1 table for 10 people, all message recipients in this distribution loop are to let Aisah or yours truly know/updated timely in order to possibly address the booking for adjacent tables - birds of same feather flock together.
Those who had already sms or phone called to me in confirm attendance, where in this email loop do not have to response.
Your timely return confirmation is awaited. If you do so via sms, please do not transmit at odd hours.
Regards,
KK
The evening came! KK and Angela picked me up and passed me my ticket.
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There were a lot of people attending. It was good to see familiar faces again - students from other classes, senior, juniors, and not forgetting the teachers. The best part was meeting our own classmates, some of which had been my classmates since Primary.
Reception
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Pictures of the activites of the school
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Long Time No See - Nee Joon (whom I have not met since we left Form 5), Ahmad, Peggy, Angie, Irene, KK, Sha
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Nee Joon, Angie, Ahmad, Peggy, KK, Jamel & Sha
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A photographer being photographed! Siew Kuan took this shot unaware by her.
The Banquet hall in the Eastwood Club. Incidentally, this was my first visit to the Eastwood Club. I had been invited to join New Year Eve Dinner and other occasion there but didn't join.
I think this is the SMK Lutong Choir. The school was renamed Sekolah Menengah Kerajaan Lutong when the medium of instruction was changed from English to Bahasa Malaysia.
What was disappointing for me was we didn't get to visit with each other much ! There were about 22 of us, and therefore 2 tables. Each table seated 10 persons. Jamel was not seated in either of these 2 tables and that was not very nice. Worst of all these 2 tables were not next to each other!
Talking about reunion. Yes, it was a reunion for all the students that have studied there since its formation in 1963 but it was not much of a reunion for our class. That was what I am disappointed in.
Table 54 where I sat with Peggy, Angela, Nee Joon, Alison (who unfortunately couldn't turn up because she was sick), Mee Kiaw, KK, Siew Ming, Thien Hock and Siew Kuan.
Table 45, were Virginia, JamilaS, Aisah, JamilahB, Bibi, Razak, Hamim, Mohsin, Dancy and Ahmad.
Visiting each other
The night's programme:
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Performance from the SMK Lutong Traditional Dance Club. I didn't pay much attention to what was going on the stage because it was not clear watching from a angle from a far distance.
A notepad - souvenir to take home.
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2 souvenirs on sale: clear (RM4) and golden (RM6)
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A group picture for remembrance. Don't know when we will meet again. Can you see Madam Zaleha (our Bahasa Malaysia teacher)?
4 comments:
It was delightful to see the faces of our former students from Lutong Secondary School. This was not just any old class...it was the first form V class to graduate from LSS. Never in my best dreams did I expect to see so much success amongst you'all. Although Catherine was supposed to visit me in Texas (Hurricane IKE ruined my plans), I will see her in Miri in 2009. After retiring from 30 years of teaching, I will be spending half my time in Houston and the remainder with Molly (my wife and your English teacher) in Miri. I am so very much impressed with your successes.
Jim and Molly Dallas
I am so very impressed and happy because we have a friend like you, Irene. All the pictures are beautiful and don't know when we will be able to be together like this again. I just wish all our other teachers were there, at the 45th Anniversary- SMK Lutong. I do feel the same way as you, Irene, that our tables shouldn't have been so far away. I don't feel good because I couldn't talk, laugh and joke with you all at table 54. Nevertheless we manage to have one good photo together. I think our class was and still is the most special class in LGSS. I hope that we don't wait for another anniversary to meet again. Hope to hear from you all. Jamila Bibi
Thanks Jiim, Molly & Jamila for your remarks. Yes, we are a special - first From V class to graduate from LGSS. We were disappointed that nothing was mentioned about that in the dinner. We are proud to be those students :) You got the point, Jamilah, we shouldn't wait for another anniversary to get together. Who knows what happen to us!
Hai Sai Ting,
I finally recovered from my jetlag. Now I can read you blog. Very interesting. Atleast it keeps me updated. I am disappointed to note that the tables were not next to each other. Anyhow, I certainly missed you guys. I had been looking forward to this sort of gathering. Hopefully we can arrange to organise one just for our class in the near future. I wanted to call you guys on the nite of the dinner but I was in the plane to Memphis. I was visiting Elvis Presley at Graceland. I too expected the reunion to atleast mention our batch being the first group of Form Five. If I were there I wont hesitate to convey my disappointment to the organising committees. However, I still can do that when I collect our photos which I had sent to them prior to my trip to the States. They could have approached ex- students who are now with Shell for some help esp. in doing a clear n proper slides show. Both my brother and sister were disappointed too. Well, there are rooms for improvement in their future reunions. Sai Ting, I have not called Mr. Dallas about my return. I'll call him soon. Perhaps if you do get the chance to speak with him, you can tell him too. I look forward to meet them in Miri in 2009. Hey youknow what! I'll be going to Taiwan 23rd Feb 2009 for a week. I am going with some friends.
Catherine
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