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Sweetest Sin tagged L B about schools.
Those schoolboy days of.. time tables, school buses, schoolgirls, textbooks, slide rules, rubbers, school badges, dissecting frogs, hair spot checks, chapel, cramming for exams, Negara-Ku national anthem, Sports days, acne, extra-curricular activities, Pythogoras' theorems, e=mc2, homework, detention, Showaddywaddy, dormitories, bed-sits, thesis, field trips, and so on, and so forth, blah blah blah...
How many schools did I go to?
1 Ho Seng Onn, Canning Garden ~ Kindergarten
Most horrific moments:
• My uncle picking me up on his bicycle daily, and me having to sit on the middle 'bar'. I was terrified. However, I never did pee on him.
• I have lost all photographs from this era!!..
2 St Michael's Inst, Ipoh ~ SMI, PreSchool, Primary, & Secondary
Most memorable & horrific moments:
• Children's Days' goodie bags of sweets & junk.
• The School Dentist From Hell & BCG inoculations.
• The girls from the Convent, and MGS.
• Inter-school Interact Club Debating Champs. A show-off even then.
• School Soccer Captain.
3 Coleraine Academical Inst, N Ireland ~ GCSE, A Levels
Most memorable moments:
• Froze ass off during that first ever Winter!
• Boarding school meals & food fights.
• Discovery of a different breed of girls.
4 University of Ulster - Art & Design, Belfast ~ Ad Dip in Fashion
Most memorable moments:
• Part-time cook in a Chinese take-away, and in an Italian trattoria.
• Wild parties/orgies at the Students Union, and everywhere else.
• First live-in GFs!
5 Royal College of Art, London ~ MA in Fashion
Most memorable moments:
• Hob-knobbing with models, wanna be actresses, arty farty types.
• Winning the International Wool Secretariat design competition and being sentenced to Australia for 3 weeks.
Was I the studious nerd, or the last minute hero?
Last Minute Hero sounds almost gallant, so I'll stick to that, because it was mostly true. I excelled at Last Minutes. If there was a subject called Procrastination, I'd score 100% every time, I am certain. Lots of midnight oil, massage oil, those days, right up to the final Graduation Day at the RCA.
Was I the class 'taiko' (big bully) or the teacher's pet?
It fluctuated from time to time ~ I went through the entire spectrum during my career as a student. I was only a serial teacher's pet at Art classes, and I was a serial 'taiko' when it came to selecting sides for football. All other times, I was probably too busy being a wanker.
What was the biggest rule I broke in school?
Caught red-handed with an inmate from the girls' boarding school nearby, by the House Master in my bedsit dormitory at Coleraine!! 'Gated' for 2 subsequent weekends - no going out of the school compounds, which was a big deal to us back then! No chinese meal from the local Chinese restaurant (there was this cute Hong Kong waitress there).. And I could never forget that look of sheer utter bewilderment on his face, reflected by his torchlight.. It is forever seared into my memory.
Three subjects I enjoyed
English - but I abhorred Bahasa Malaysia!! I devoured Enid's books, and lots of those dog-eared 'adult' pulp fiction circulating in class. Improved my grasp of new specific words and phrases no end.
Art - What is Art but recess? Fun time with finger painting, then the brushes, magic markers, charcoal, chalk, mixed media, and the part-time nude models.
Chemistry - I had no freakin' clue what I was blowing up, but those bunsen burners were so cool! And the whiff of ammonium nitrate!
Three (or seven) teachers that inspired me
1 Std One at SMI, David Loh (I think that's his name). Old school snappy dresser, he will always remind me of the art of behaving like a gentleman.
2 Kindergarten pretty school teacher whom I had this terrific crush on. I wish I can remember who she was, rather than just a pretty blur in my memory. Then again, I might get a shock. Let sleeping dogs lie..
3 Olive Clegg - Head Tutor at Belfast Art & Design, who personified mentor & friend. She was also a bit cranky, and a bit horny.
4 Michael Foo, a bulldog look-a-like, well versed Mathematician who when 'A Beautiful Mind' came out, I thought of immediately, for the insane way he spat out formulae like they were machine gun bullets.
5 Timothy Chee - Artist foremost, and Art Teacher secondary. He of the flared pants, colorful print shirts, wide ties, big sunglasses, long hair, and platform shoes!! Totally against school regulations, but what did he care?!!
6 Eugene Almeida - Scary School Disciplinarian (so scary I almost forgot his first name), & Head Soccer Coach. I was totally indebted to this great man for believing in a punk like me, and for showing what a mess a lesser teacher can do in the same job.
7 Siaw Tak Keong - I cannot leave this brilliant man out. Primary Class teacher in Standard Four, and also Home Tuition teacher. We got along so well we were more like pals. Much, much later on, he remains a family friend.
~ ~ ~
Just one person I am gonna tag for this, and it's the one and only muffin making, apple pie crumbler, candle burner, ex-school prefect, wanna wanna may, or maybe not..
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Those schoolboy days of.. time tables, school buses, schoolgirls, textbooks, slide rules, rubbers, school badges, dissecting frogs, hair spot checks, chapel, cramming for exams, Negara-Ku national anthem, Sports days, acne, extra-curricular activities, Pythogoras' theorems, e=mc2, homework, detention, Showaddywaddy, dormitories, bed-sits, thesis, field trips, and so on, and so forth, blah blah blah...
How many schools did I go to?
1 Ho Seng Onn, Canning Garden ~ Kindergarten
Most horrific moments:
• My uncle picking me up on his bicycle daily, and me having to sit on the middle 'bar'. I was terrified. However, I never did pee on him.
• I have lost all photographs from this era!!..
2 St Michael's Inst, Ipoh ~ SMI, PreSchool, Primary, & Secondary
Most memorable & horrific moments:
• Children's Days' goodie bags of sweets & junk.
• The School Dentist From Hell & BCG inoculations.
• The girls from the Convent, and MGS.
• Inter-school Interact Club Debating Champs. A show-off even then.
• School Soccer Captain.
3 Coleraine Academical Inst, N Ireland ~ GCSE, A Levels
Most memorable moments:
• Froze ass off during that first ever Winter!
• Boarding school meals & food fights.
• Discovery of a different breed of girls.
4 University of Ulster - Art & Design, Belfast ~ Ad Dip in Fashion
Most memorable moments:
• Part-time cook in a Chinese take-away, and in an Italian trattoria.
• Wild parties/orgies at the Students Union, and everywhere else.
• First live-in GFs!
5 Royal College of Art, London ~ MA in Fashion
Most memorable moments:
• Hob-knobbing with models, wanna be actresses, arty farty types.
• Winning the International Wool Secretariat design competition and being sentenced to Australia for 3 weeks.
Was I the studious nerd, or the last minute hero?
Last Minute Hero sounds almost gallant, so I'll stick to that, because it was mostly true. I excelled at Last Minutes. If there was a subject called Procrastination, I'd score 100% every time, I am certain. Lots of midnight oil, massage oil, those days, right up to the final Graduation Day at the RCA.
Was I the class 'taiko' (big bully) or the teacher's pet?
It fluctuated from time to time ~ I went through the entire spectrum during my career as a student. I was only a serial teacher's pet at Art classes, and I was a serial 'taiko' when it came to selecting sides for football. All other times, I was probably too busy being a wanker.
What was the biggest rule I broke in school?
Caught red-handed with an inmate from the girls' boarding school nearby, by the House Master in my bedsit dormitory at Coleraine!! 'Gated' for 2 subsequent weekends - no going out of the school compounds, which was a big deal to us back then! No chinese meal from the local Chinese restaurant (there was this cute Hong Kong waitress there).. And I could never forget that look of sheer utter bewilderment on his face, reflected by his torchlight.. It is forever seared into my memory.
Three subjects I enjoyed
English - but I abhorred Bahasa Malaysia!! I devoured Enid's books, and lots of those dog-eared 'adult' pulp fiction circulating in class. Improved my grasp of new specific words and phrases no end.
Art - What is Art but recess? Fun time with finger painting, then the brushes, magic markers, charcoal, chalk, mixed media, and the part-time nude models.
Chemistry - I had no freakin' clue what I was blowing up, but those bunsen burners were so cool! And the whiff of ammonium nitrate!
Three (or seven) teachers that inspired me
1 Std One at SMI, David Loh (I think that's his name). Old school snappy dresser, he will always remind me of the art of behaving like a gentleman.
2 Kindergarten pretty school teacher whom I had this terrific crush on. I wish I can remember who she was, rather than just a pretty blur in my memory. Then again, I might get a shock. Let sleeping dogs lie..
3 Olive Clegg - Head Tutor at Belfast Art & Design, who personified mentor & friend. She was also a bit cranky, and a bit horny.
4 Michael Foo, a bulldog look-a-like, well versed Mathematician who when 'A Beautiful Mind' came out, I thought of immediately, for the insane way he spat out formulae like they were machine gun bullets.
5 Timothy Chee - Artist foremost, and Art Teacher secondary. He of the flared pants, colorful print shirts, wide ties, big sunglasses, long hair, and platform shoes!! Totally against school regulations, but what did he care?!!
6 Eugene Almeida - Scary School Disciplinarian (so scary I almost forgot his first name), & Head Soccer Coach. I was totally indebted to this great man for believing in a punk like me, and for showing what a mess a lesser teacher can do in the same job.
7 Siaw Tak Keong - I cannot leave this brilliant man out. Primary Class teacher in Standard Four, and also Home Tuition teacher. We got along so well we were more like pals. Much, much later on, he remains a family friend.
Just one person I am gonna tag for this, and it's the one and only muffin making, apple pie crumbler, candle burner, ex-school prefect, wanna wanna may, or maybe not..
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